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

Jon King


 
Post-punk band Gang of Four's Jon King spoke about how music took him from a south London slum and impoverished working-class background to international success in the legendary band, which performed its final tour in 2025.
Tom Gilbey
image FLF

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.
 

 
Sir Bob Geldof
image © Frankie Julian
Simon Armitage
image © Frankie Julian
Shepherd Neame
image © Frankie Julian
Katherine Carter
image © Phil Weedon

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