diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 4ea9dfff8a2b..af3fa23f2882 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -125,6 +125,15 @@
   codegen's "needs backticks" rule accepted `$` because it was copied from the
   SQL side, where Postgres does allow it in an identifier. (@prql-bot, #6322)
 
+- `prqlc watch` no longer exits when a `.prql` file in the watched tree fails to
+  compile. The initial pass aborted on the first error, so the command never
+  reached the watch loop — precisely the state watch mode exists to iterate out
+  of. Both the initial pass and the watch loop now print the failing path
+  alongside the error and carry on. The loop previously discarded every error it
+  hit, so a failure that produces no compiler diagnostic — an unwritable `.sql`
+  output path, say — left the watcher running silently and writing nothing.
+  (@prql-bot, #6313)
+
 **Documentation**:
 
 - The `prql-java` README now documents the actual API. It advertised a
diff --git a/prqlc/prqlc/src/cli/watch.rs b/prqlc/prqlc/src/cli/watch.rs
index 773428b19ab2..a829750d36a7 100644
--- a/prqlc/prqlc/src/cli/watch.rs
+++ b/prqlc/prqlc/src/cli/watch.rs
@@ -41,12 +41,26 @@ pub fn run(command: &mut WatchArgs) -> Result<()> {
 
 fn find_and_compile(path: &Path, opt: &prqlc::Options) -> Result<()> {
     for entry in WalkDir::new(path) {
-        compile_path(entry?.path(), opt)?;
+        compile_path_reporting_errors(entry?.path(), opt);
     }
 
     Ok(())
 }
 
+/// Compile `path`, printing any error rather than propagating it.
+///
+/// A file that doesn't compile is the ordinary starting state for `watch`, and
+/// the one it exists to iterate out of, so neither the initial pass nor the
+/// watch loop stops for one. `compile_path` prints the compiler's own
+/// diagnostics, but it also returns errors it hasn't printed — an unwritable
+/// `.sql` path, say — which would otherwise leave the watcher silently
+/// producing nothing.
+fn compile_path_reporting_errors(path: &Path, opt: &prqlc::Options) {
+    if let Err(error) = compile_path(path, opt) {
+        println!("{}: {error}", path.display());
+    }
+}
+
 fn watch_and_compile(path: &Path, opt: &prqlc::Options) -> Result<()> {
     let cwd = std::env::current_dir().ok();
 
@@ -77,7 +91,7 @@ fn watch_and_compile(path: &Path, opt: &prqlc::Options) -> Result<()> {
                             &path
                         };
 
-                        let _ignore = compile_path(relative_path, opt);
+                        compile_path_reporting_errors(relative_path, opt);
                     }
                 }
 
@@ -134,3 +148,32 @@ fn compile_path(path: &Path, opt: &prqlc::Options) -> Result<()> {
 
     Ok(())
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use std::fs;
+
+    use tempfile::TempDir;
+
+    use super::*;
+
+    /// A file that fails to compile used to abort the initial pass, so
+    /// `prqlc watch` exited before printing "Watching path" — the one state
+    /// watch mode exists to iterate out of. The other files must still compile,
+    /// and the walk must reach the end.
+    #[test]
+    fn initial_compile_continues_past_a_failing_file() {
+        let dir = TempDir::new().unwrap();
+        // Two good files, since `WalkDir` doesn't order entries: whichever
+        // side of the failing file the walk puts them on, both must compile.
+        fs::write(dir.path().join("a_good.prql"), "from tracks\n").unwrap();
+        fs::write(dir.path().join("b_bad.prql"), "from tracks | filter\n").unwrap();
+        fs::write(dir.path().join("c_good.prql"), "from albums\n").unwrap();
+
+        find_and_compile(dir.path(), &prqlc::Options::default()).unwrap();
+
+        assert!(dir.path().join("a_good.sql").is_file());
+        assert!(dir.path().join("c_good.sql").is_file());
+        assert!(!dir.path().join("b_bad.sql").exists());
+    }
+}