Welcome to Bookville !

Our Bookville Festival 2022 is now over. Thank you to everyone who contributed to its success and to everyone who took part in our events.

We look forward to bringing you news of our 7th consecutive annual Bookville Festival in autumn 2023. Details to follow in July...

The 2022 Festival featured 34 of the best contemporary children’s authors and illustrators from the UK and Ireland, with seven from Kilkenny.

​We were excited to once again bring live events to our Kilkenny fans, for schools and the general public, as well as the hugely popular Bookville Festival book, online videos and a Bookville exhibition.

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​We look forward to bringing you Bookville 2023 in the October. Meanwhile here is a short video of the Bookville Festival 2022 - enjoy!​

Thank you to everyone who has supported the Bookville Festival over the last six years. Here is a flavour of school children enjoying Bookville in previous years...

And here are videos of Bookville events in previous years...

Bookville is brought to you by Kilkenny Arts Office and Kilkenny Library Service supported by the Creative Ireland programme.  
This festival would not exist without our audiences and the support that you give to the festival.
We hope that Bookville  2022 will inspire children of all ages to become critical thinkers with curious minds.