Chipping Campden Literature Festival writers in order of first appearance include:

William Boyd, Patrick Gale, Michael Arditti, Samantha Harvey, Angela France, Sue Gee, Joanna Ezekiel, Amanda Craig, Adam Foulds, Helen Dunmore, Robert Sackville-West, Barbara Trapido, Jeremy Lewis, Gerard Noel, Philip Gross, Alison Brackenbury, Carole Angier, Justine Cartwright, Angela Thirlwell, Mario Petrucci, Rachel Billington, Claire Tomalin, Georgina Harding, James Runcie, David Whitehouse, Paula Byrne, Alan Rusbridger, Jonathan Bate, John Mullan, Selina Hastings, Edward Skidelsky, George Monbiot, Rick Stroud, Peter J Conradi, Alison Moore, Val Bourne, Peter J Smith, Martin Stannard, Kate Williams, Max Hastings, Helen McCarthy, Miranda Seymour, Peter Lantos, Lisa Appignanesi, David Crystal, James Evans, Tim Butcher, Jane Robinson, Peter Gaunt, Ursula Buchan, Rosamund Bartlett, Shirley Williams, Elizabeth Day, Paul Henry, David Boyd Haycock, Frank Furedi, Richard Overy, Owen
Sheers, Lyndall Gordon, Roma Tearne, Jennifer Worth, Oggy Boytchev, Shaun Attwood, Denis MacShane, Maggie Gee, Jules Pretty, Stephen Jarvis, Peter Stanford, Robert Tombs, Peter Hennessy, Roger McGough, Susan Tomes, Pru Leith, Peter Frankopan, Roger Crowley, Janina Ramirez, Lizzie Ostrom, Dinah Jefferies, Vanessa Nicolson, Anna Keay, Caroline Stanford, Andrew Lownie, Anna Pavord, David Wilkinson, A C Grayling, Roger Scruton, Francis Beckett, Andy Beckett, Stanley Wells, Paul Edmondson, Michael Billington, Hugh Purcell, Jane Corry, Sophie Hannah, George Manginis, Philippe Sands, Andrew Martin, M C Beaton, Annie Gray, Adrian Tinniswood, Federico Varese, Jasvinder Sanghera, Craig Murray, Diana Darke, Mark Billingham,
Richard Holloway, Martyn Percy, Gregory Woods, Catherine Hickley, David Owen, Luke Harding, John Crace, David Randall, Steven Isserlis, John Carey, Rory Clements, Fiona Sampson, Kathryn Harkup, Ronald Hutton, Marion Rankin, Peter Fiennes, Susan Owens, John Sutherland, Caroline
Shelton, Henry Hemming, Laura Purcell, Stuart Turton, Phyllis Richardson, Carol Drinkwater, Harriet Walter, Deborah Cartmell, Peter Hart, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Adrian Tinniswood, Jessica Douglas-Home, Ed Vulliamy, Nadine Akkerman, Paul Willets, Isabella Tree, Melissa Harrison, Henry Porter, Vanessa Berridge, Sophie Ratcliffe, Bella Mackie, Jacqueline Riding, Elisabeth Schimpfossl, Paul Mander, Mike O’Mahony, Timothy Radcliffe, Terry Waite, Peter Sutton, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Gill Bennett, Alan Johnson, Sarah Churchwell, Jenni Murray, Laura Tunbridge, John Holmes, Naoko Abe, Richard Fortey, Peter Marren, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Michael Henderson, Helena Attlee, Caroline Montague, Paul Mason, Ian Dunt,
Sophie Flynn, Claire Nelson, Rachel Clarke, Marina Warner, Lennie Goodings, Helen Taylor, Victoria Preston, Gwen Adshead, Owen Eastwood, Iain MacGregor, Sathnam Sanghera, Dan Hicks, Corinne Fowler, Justine Picardie, Loyd Grossman, Cicely Havely, Clover Stroud, Richard Beard, Robert Verkaik, Tim Brighouse & Mick Waters, Kate Hughes, Alison MacLeod, Lara Feigal, Charlotte Higgins, Simon Potter, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, Duncan Minshull, Sally Bayley, Anna Whitehouse, Thomas Harding, Zoe Playdon, Finn Mackay, Julian Hayes, Patrick Mackie, Rupert Christiansen, Stephen Walsh, Vicki Ambery-Smith, John Goodall, Suleika Dawson, Tom Bullough, Jackie Morris, Nick Wallis, Kit de Waal, Richard Vinen, David Haslam, Gary Gerstle, Guy Shrubsole, Keiron Pim, Anne Youngson, Sally Hayden, Christopher Jamison, Hannah Critchlow, Jane Griffiths, David Hepworth, Jake Fiennes, Sarah Langford, Will Hutton, Paterson Joseph, Farah Karim-Cooper, Dominic Dromgoole.