Photos from 2026 festival now on view!

Thank you to everyone who came to and took part in our 2026 festival!

More than 80 events across 10 days in various venues around Faversham

Our next festival will take place Feb 2027. Sign up to our newsletter for announcements about future events.

Faversham Literary Festival is an independent, not-for-profit annual event

Dame Marina Warner


 
Dame Marina Warner spoke to Daniel Hahn about her latest work Sanctuary
Rachel Parris
image © Phil Weedon

Robert Macfarlane


 
Bestselling nature writer Robert Macfarlane took us on a deeply personal, political and provocative journey, inviting us to radically reimagine both rivers and life itself.
 

 
Root Veg Hero
image Susan Tingle
Jung Chang
image © Frankie Julian
Donna Ashworth
image © Phil Weedon
Gavin Esler Mark Kermode
image Nicola Gall

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