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
Simon Armitage
image © Frankie Julian

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.
 

 
Siân Pattenden and Jenny Eclair
image © Phil Weedon
Natalie Haynes
image © Phil Weedon
Sir Bob Geldof
image © Phil Weedon
Hollie McNish
image © Phil Weedon

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