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Star cars at the Festival, photo by Max O'Neill
Jackie Oliver and Sam Hancock by Chloe Knight
Tony Southgate with Mark Cole, photo by Chloe Knight

Motoring Literary & Art Festival

Motoring Literary & Art Festival date confirmed: British Motor Museum, 20-21 September 2025.

We are delighted to be holding our second Motoring Literary Festival, on September 20 and 21, 2025. Launched at Silverstone in 2023, the first one was a great success and we had fabulous feedback. Not surprisingly, we learnt a great deal and will be applying those lessons to the Festival in 2025.

The venue will be the British Motor Museum which we consider to be ideal. It is in the middle of the country, a handful of minutes away from the M40 (Junction 12). The museum is comprehensive and superb, and the facilities should work very well for our requirements.

The initial plan is to have a minimum of two theatres and eight sessions per day. We will also have a selection of leading artists and publishers exhibiting their work.

​Below, to give you a taster, are some details of our inaugural 2023 event. We are working on the 2025 programme and look forward to announcing our speakers shortly. If you have not already, please sign up to our newsletter so we can keep you informed.

 

Camel Trophy Land Rover, photo Chloe Knight

The display of Star Cars was described by many as stunning. With the high intensity lighting, the pit garages took on the appearance of a photographic studio.

The core aspect of the Festival was the theatre sessions. Many said to me they wished they could have attended them all, and I agree 100%. Those I did attend were absolutely brilliant. As I said several times in my closing comments and thanks to the speakers, ‘This was exactly what I had in mind for this event’.

The sessions were informative, great fun, revelationary and, sometimes, a tad controversial. Often our speakers took one behind the scenes and revealed the true story behind a car design, a race team or a driver’s success, or lack of it.

‘Thank you’ to all those who joined us.

Philip Porter

Visit the Motoring Literary & Art Festival website

Organiser: Porter Press International, Hilltop Farm, Knighton-on-Teme, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8LY, United Kingdom

Enquiries: Louise Gibbs, louise@porterpress.co.uk

PR and media image enquiries: Abigail Humphries, abigail@porterpress.co.uk

Gary Anderson with Lee McKenzie and Philip Porter, photo by Gary Harman
BRM panel, photo by Gary Harman
Artist Aran La, by Chloe Knight
BRM V16, photo by Arjun Nair
Star Car, by Arjun Nair