Taipei Literature Festival The Taipei Literature Festival is a yearly spring festival that began in 2008 and has been expanding in scale since 2011. The festival brings together many long-standing and deep-rooted arts and cultural organizations in Taipei to hold joint lectures, reading tours, exhibitions, book fairs, film screenings and events with international Chinese-language writers. This wide offering of creative literary events, tightly focused on feelings and memories of the city of Taipei, helps to make literature more accessible to all.