6 ways to make Greenbelt a place of connection
A guest blog from our sponsor, Christian Connection Most festivals are built around a stage. Greenbelt is built around the spaces between them. A place of imagination, connection and unexpected...
G-Books 2026: Book yourself in now
Each year at the festival a bookshop is born out of the earth. We call it G-Books, but it's actually run for us by the good folks at St Andrews Bookshop. For the last few years, they've put in...
Site Decor – Art Install – SPECIAL PROJECTS Handbook
As a member of the Site Decor – Art Install – Special Projects Team you are responsible for reading this Handbook On the following pages there is some key information for you. But also a list of...
Martín Espada
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His latest book of poems is called Jailbreak of Sparrows (2025). His previous...
David Herd
David Herd is a poet, critic and co-organiser of the project Refugee Tales. His critical history, Writing Against Expulsion was shortlisted for the 2024 MSA Book Prize and is now out in paperback...
Talks For Ukraine
Maria Romanenko is a Ukrainian journalist and co-founder of All For Ukraine. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Hromadske International, she is the only Ukrainian recipient of the Prime Minister's...
Patrick Gale
Patrick Gale is the author of eighteen novels and many short stories. He is a keen cellist, gardener, beekeeper and patron of the Charles Causley Trust, and the Penzance LitFest, a trustee of the...
Katharine Harris
Company Secretary Katharine trained as a Solicitor, is currently a Welfare Rights worker, and came to the role of Company Secretary via volunteering in the Greenbelt Finance team. She likes cats,...
Greenbelt Takes A Breather in 2027
Since announcing that we'll be leaving Boughton after our one final Greenbelt there this summer, we've been scouring the land for a new home for the festival we love. That search over the last...
Jo In The Water
Jo in the Water follows a passionate sea swimmer turned reluctant activist, Exmouth-based Jo Bateman, as she takes on one of the UK's biggest water companies in a David-and-Goliath battle to...
Tom Crowther
Thomas Ward Crowther is a British ecologist, focussed on understanding the forces that shape biodiversity at a global scale. He is the Founding Scientific Chair of the BRANCH institute, an...
Handmade Future
The UK premier screening of the award-winning feature documentary, Handmade Future, followed by a Q+A with the director, Kirsten Dickerson, and UK featured slow fashion designer Celia...
With a little help from our friends
It's that time of year when we can share which wonderful organisations we're partnering with for our final festival at Boughton House. We're grateful to each and every one of our partners for...
2026 Poster
Michael Malay
Michael Malay is a teacher and writer based in Bristol. He spent his early years in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving to Australia with his family at the age of ten. He is the author of Late Light,...