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

Joanne Harris


 
Joanne Harris spoke to Daniel Hahn about her latest book Vianne, the prequel to her novel Chocolat, which sold 35 million copies worldwide.

image © Phil Weedon

Jenny Eclair


 
Jenny Eclair took a riotous trip down memory lane — from drama school, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery and waitressing, to being the first woman to win the Perrier Award, becoming a mother, author, 'grumpy old woman', podcaster and nana. With Siân Pattenden.
 

 
Simon Armitage
image © Phil Weedon
Andrew Lownie
image Rosie Johnston
Andy Capon
image © Phil Weedon
Rob Biddulph
image Simon Cole

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