to 10 January. The main theme of this edition was "films as the new literature". It had about 50 sessions, featuring more than 100 speakers. Some of the notable speakers include economist Lord Meghnad Desai, Malayalam poet K. Satchidanandan, film director Sriram Raghavan, scriptwriter Varun Grover and Anjum Rajabali. Fourth edition The GLF launched its fourth edition in 2016. The festival was inaugurated by Om Prakash Kohli, former governor of Gujarat. The event was held 5 days from 14 to 18 December at Kanoria Centre, Ahmedabad. It had sessions in Gujarati, Hindi, and in Urdu languages. The event had about 10 workshops and 80 sessions. The festival invited around 200 speakers, including Ritesh Shah, Juhi Chaturvedi, Jay Vasavada. Fifth edition The fifth edition of the festival was released in 2018 at Kanoria Centre, Hutheesing Gallery, and Gujarat University for 5 days: 3 to 7 January. It also launched the Children Literature Festival under its umbrella. This edition arranged workshops on subjects ranging from television writing to storytelling, and staged various plays. GLF Award was launched in the recognition of excellence in writing books, films, digital, editing, translation, designing, proofreading. Sixth edition The sixth edition was released in 2018 for the first time in Vadodara. It was held at Alembic Premises, Vadodara for 3 days: 2 to 4 February, featuring 75 sessions. It was sponsored by the Alembic Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Seventh edition The seventh edition of the festival was held again at Vadodara from 18 to 20, January 2019, which locally came to known as Alembic Gujarat Literature Festival. Along with the regular events, it launched for the first time 'Indian Screenwriting Festival', inviting a number of writers, lyricists, directors from Bollywood. The festival also launched 'Fountainhead' for non-Gujarati languages, featuring sessions in Hindi, English and Marathi languages. Some of the notable speakers were Bhavani Iyer, Sriram Raghavan, Ishita Moitra, Hardik Mehta, Anjum Rajabali, Pushpesh Pant, Rajdeep Sardesai, Divya Prakash Dubey, Sagarika Ghose, and Kanishk Seth. Some of the Gujarati speakers were Madhu Rye, Saumya Joshi, Jay Vasavada, Kaajal Oza Vaidya, Dhruv Bhatt, and Raam Mori. Eighth edition GLF launched its eight edition in 2019 for five days; 18 December to 22 December. The festival was held at Gujarat University campus, and had six simultaneous events under its umbrella including an Indian Screenwriters' Festival, BizLitFest, ArtFest, Tabariya (for children), Gujarati Sahitya Mahotsav, Fountainhead (non-Gujarati literature sessions), and a food festival, in