RAYNOR Winn, a best-selling author, is set to headline this year's Weston Lit Fest.

Raynor is best known for her Sunday Times' bestsellers: The Salt Path, The Wild Silence and Landlines.

The four-day festival, which is presented by Super Culture, will start on October 5 and be held at various venues across town. The much-anticipated event is produced in partnership with Weston Town Council and The Write Box.

The theme for this year's festival is Words on the Edge: Bookish adventures across land, sea and identity.

Fiona Matthews, creative director at Super Culture, said: “Weston Lit Fest bursts onto the landscape with a fresh programme of story-related events and activities that includes walks, rowing boats and literary encounters with swimming and the British seaside."

Cllr Catherine Gibbons said: “Our coastal landscape provides the perfect backdrop for the Lit Fest, which not only celebrates local landmarks and community but also takes you on a literary journey far and wide."

Visit the Super Culture website to see a full list of what's on offer.

Here's what's on offer

 

Myths & Monsters exhibition

Attendees are invited to see the Myths & Monsters exhibition at Weston Museum. This features over 70 original artworks from some of the town's best-loved children's stories by 17 children's book illustrators.

This includes The Gruffalo, illustrated by Axel Scheffler.

Author meet

The festival finale on Sunday will take place at The Grand Pier, where you will have the chance to join Raynor Winn, Madeleine Bunting and Jenny Landreth.

Raynor will be interviewed by Dr Lesel Dawson, associate professor in Literature and Culture at the University of Bristol. They will focus on Landlines, which maps a healing walking journey of 1000 miles from north-west Scotland to Cornwall.

Ella Foote, the editor of Outdoor Swimming magazine, will be in conversation with fellow writer-swimmers Freya Bromley, Jenny Landreth and Catherine Joy White to discuss Why Women Swim.

Madeleine Bunting, an author and former associate editor of The Guardian, will take the audience on a vivid journey around England’s great seaside resorts in The Seaside: England’s Love Affair.

She will be in conversation with Tamsin Badcoe, senior lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol.