LINKS:
Other Literary Festivals/events that may be of interest:
Birmingham Literature Festival (www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org)
Cheltenham Poetry Festival (www.cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk)
The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival (www.cheltenhamfestivals.com)
Chipping Campden Literature Festival (www.campdenlitfest.co.uk)
Chipping Norton Literary Festival (www.chiplitfest.com)
Everybody’s Reading Festival Leicester (www.everybodysreading.co.uk)
Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival (www.hulitfest.com)
Ledbury Poetry Festival (www.poetry-festival.co.uk)
Lowdham Book Festival, Nottinghamshire (www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk)
FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival (www.oxfordliteraryfestival.org)
Stratford Literary Festival (www.stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk)
Stroud Short Stories (www.johnhollandwrites.com)
Tamworth Lit Fest (https://tamlitfest.wordpress.com)
VERVE (A Birmingham Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word) (www.vervepoetryfestival.com)
Warwick Words History Festival (www.warwickwords.co.uk)
Winchcombe Festival of Music and Arts (www.winchcombefestival.co.uk)
Worcestershire LitFest & Fringe (https://worcslitfest.co.uk)
Other useful links:
Alliance of Independent Authors (www.allianceindependentauthors.org)
Black Pear Press, Worcester (www.facebook.com/black-pear-press)
The British Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (www.britishscbwi.org)
The Crime Writers Association (www.thecwa.co.uk)
LoveReading (expert recommendations made by people with a passion for books) (www.lovereading.co.uk)
LoveReading4Kids (finding books children want to read and authors that excite them (www.lovereading4kids.co.uk) 
National Association of Writing Groups (NAWG) (www.nawg.co.uk)
The Romantic Novelists Association (www.rna-uk.org)
Sleepopolis Bedtime Stories for Kids (http://sleepopolis.com/education/bedtime-stories-for-kids)
Society for Story telling (www.sfs.org.uk)
SuperSummary – an in-depth crime and mystery resource guide (www.supersummary.com/crime-mystery-guide/)