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I found this while playing with Google Reader this morning.  I'd probably go to something like this, although only looking at Fantasy and Sci-fi.

Barley said he wanted to take "a more strongly editorial approach" to the book festival, creating themed strands in the programme that reflect the way that the world is seen by writers. By way of example, he said, a feminism strand might be constructed around the 40th anniversary of the publication of The Female Eunuch next year.
The festival must, he said, steer clear of "looking like a publisher's catalogue" with authors invited simply because they have published a book that year.

 The final line of that quote thereIs what makes this so potentially promising, because they'd invite people WORTH reading, and not just anyone who'd made a book in the last year.  Link is here.