- Principal Sponsors
- DSC Limited
- Festival Sponsors
- British Centre for Literary Translation
- Charnwood Arts
- Commonwealth Writers
- Portsmouth City Council
- Hotel Sponsor
- Gallery Hotel
- Festival Partners
- Afghanaid
- Authonomy
- Baithak Records
- Bhopal Medical Appeal
- CompletelyNovel
- Consortium for Street Children
- DIPNET
- DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
- Eleph Designs & Construct
- Foyles
- German Book Office, New Delhi
- Granta
- if: book
- India Media Centre
- Jamnabai Nagrecha Foundation
- Kala Kahani
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Portsmouth Bookfest
- Royal Commonwealth Society
- Room to Read
- Saadhak Books
- Society of Young Publishers
- South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC)
- Stonewall
- Sutra Kitchen
- The Booksellers Association
- The Literary Consultancy
- The Publishers Association
- UK Punjab Heritage Association
- Vaani
- Vayu Naidu Company
- Wasafiri
- We Love This Book
- Wotever World
- Writers’ Centre Norwich
- Young Indian Publishers
- Venue Partners
- British Library
- Chelsea Theatre
- Discover Children’s Centre
- Dishoom Covent Garden
- Embrace Arts
- Free Word Centre
- London Review Bookshop
- National Maritime Museum
- New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth
- Rich Mix
- Royal Vauxhall Tavern
- The Commonwealth Club
- The Nehru Centre
- The Women’s Library
- University of Westminster
- University of East Anglia