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

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.
Volunteers
image © Phil Weedon

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?
 

 
Michael Morpurgo
image © Phil Weedon
Michael Pederson
image © Phil Weedon
Ian McEwan
image © Phil Weedon
Rob Biddulph
image © Phil Weedon

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