Audiences can join in the theatre Podcast with Richard Herring at Bilston Town Hall, or the Arena Theatre's Wolves Lit Fest Open Mic Hubs are providing safe places for people to perform regardless of previous experience.
There is also a range of performances that look at war, Indian heritage and how women are perceived in industry.
Bantock House will play host to 'Ian Douglas: Travelling Tales' and 'Crispin Ridge: A Message from the Sea by Charles Dickens', while Wolf Fringe Room presents 'Alex McSherry: The Tanner's Tale', as well as 'Carol Caffrey: Music for Dogs', at the Lych Gate Tavern.
'Dr Dolittle' is running at the Grand Theatre and Central Youth Theatre will be presenting 'The Rebel Against Injustice' at City Archives, Molineux Hotel Building.
The festival will also see the launch of a new and exciting heritage project, 'Nritya: Collecting the Story of Indian Dance in the Black Country 1960-2000', created by Jai Jashn Dance, who in December received a National Lottery grant of £30,500.
Supported through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), Nritya explores the heritage of Indian dance (classical and traditional) in the Midlands. Over the next year, Wolverhampton Art Gallery will be collecting and documenting the largely unwritten and unrecorded story of Indian dance, focusing especially on the Black Country between 1960-2000 for an exhibition and a festival weekend of Indian dance at the Art Gallery and Arena Theatre in early summer 2020.
Anyone interested in helping with interviews and making contact with individuals who have memories to share for the archive should please contact Jai Jashn Dance on jaijpdc@hotmail.co.uk.
City of Wolverhampton Council Cabinet Member for City Economy, Councillor John Reynolds, said: "Theatre and live performance are a vital part of storytelling, and we are delighted to have a range of workshops to enhance and develop these key skills, as well as performances that will enable people to enjoy this year's literature festival.
"I am also delighted that Jai Jashn Dance has been awarded funding and has chosen the festival to launch Nritya, which all are welcome to."
For more information visit Wolverhampton Literature Festival, call 0870 320 7000 or #WolvesLitFest.