Brimscombe Mill Book Fest

We’re bringing award winning authors to Stroud to share their amazing stories with children and families in our community at the first ever Brimscombe Mill Kids Book Fest.

Date: 9th - 10th October 2026
Time: Various times/events available
Location: Brimscombe Mill, Stroud

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2026 has been designated the National Year of Reading and we’re joining a UK-wide campaign led by the National Literacy Trust to help more people rediscover the joy of reading and make it part of their everyday lives.

As with all our events our tickets are available on a paid and free basis.

Friday's Lineup:

Saturday's Lineup:

Competition:
Join in with our design your own book cover competition with Tom Percival with book voucher prizes.

As part of the festival we are also launching our book cover competition throughout the month of September. We would love children to use their creativity and imagination to design a book cover. Award winning author Tom Percival has set four different plot synopsis for our book titled ‘In Time’. Children can pick one and design a book cover- the more crazy the better!

Tom will be picking two winners in each category and each will receive a book voucher for Yellow Lighted Bookshop. Tom will be annoucing the winners at a special book festival launch party on Thursday 8th dinner.

Deadlines for submissions are 1st October. Click the button below to download the competition sheet or come by Brimscombe Mill and pick one up.

Click here to download the competition sheet