Ubud Writers and Readers Festival ( UWRF ) is an annual literary festival held at Ubud , Bali in Indonesia . It is organized by the not-for-profit foundation '' Yayasan Mudra Swari Saraswati '' . The festival was first conceived of by Janet DeNeefe , Co-founder of the Foundation , as a healing project in response to the first 2002 Bali bombings . It was first held in 2003 as part of an effort to help revive tourism , the island ’s main economic lifeline , after terrorist bombings devastated the island ’s Kuta district a year earlier . The festival is usually in October each year
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Ubud Writers and Readers Festival