Festival hub

Festival cultural partner

The Weston Library’s Blackwell Hall is to be turned into a festival hub for Oxford Literary Festival again this year and it will include a festival bookshop.

Blackwell's will be selling all the books for this year's festival, helping to turn the hub into the go-to place if you're coming to events.

You'll be able to find out what's going on, buy and read the books and relax and enjoy a coffee and a snack. You can also visit the free Bodleian exhibitions in the Weston Library, Oracles, Omens and Answers, Listen in: How Radio Changed the Home and Magna Carta 1225. 

Blackwell Hall, on Broad Street opposite the Sheldonian Theatre, is the main visitor hall of the Weston Library, part of Bodleian Libraries.

Oxford Literary Festival ticket holders can get 10% off in store at the Bodleian Libraries gift shops. Show your ticket to claim your discount. (Exclusions apply, not to be used in conjunction with any other offers. Ask in store for details.)

Blackwell Hall opening hours

These are the opening hours of the Benugo Café, festival hub and Bodleian exhibitions during the Oxford Literary Festival. 

Saturday 29 March 9am-6pm

Sunday 30 March 9am-4pm

Monday 31 March to Saturday 5 April 9am-6pm

Sunday 6 April 9am-4pm

Festival information desk

The festival information desk will be situated opposite you as you enter Blackwell Hall. Note: there will be no box office in Blackwell Hall this year. Last-minute tickets can be bought at the door of events subject to availability. Card purchases only. Tickets can also be purchased online or by telephone on 0333 666 3366 right up until the last minute before an event.

Café and toilets

The Weston Library café serves a delicious selection of hot and cold drinks, freshly-made soups, salads, sandwiches, cakes and pastries. Toilets are situated next to the café.

Free talks

Korky Paul, Winnie and Wilbur, Saturday 5 April, 2pm-3pm. Bestselling illustrator Korky Paul brings Winnie and Wilbur to life with live drawing, lots of audience participation, Q&As, sound effects and a special reading of Winnie and Wilbur’s latest story Winnie’s Witchy Bedtime. Age 4+. No booking required, just turn up on the day.