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

Jeanette Winterson


 
In her unique style, Jeanette Winterson cracked open the legendary tale of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to reveal timeless questions: Who should we trust? What makes us happy? Is love the most important thing in the world?
Jung Chang
image © Frankie Julian

Nydia Hetherington


 
Faversham author Nydia Hetherington's new novel reimagines the life of the powerful witch Sycorax before her banishment to the island in William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
 

 
Jon King
image © Denise Bottali
Luke Wright
image © Phil Weedon
Dame Marina Warner
image © Phil Weedon
Maggie Gee talks to Esther Freud and Claire Adam
image © Phil Weedon

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