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

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.
John Higgs talks to David Whitehouse
image © Phil Weedon

Beans on Toast


 
An evening of songs and anecdotes from festival legend Beans on Toast. His latest book Wild Folk People Honest is funny and full of soul; a book about connection, creativity and the beautiful mess of being alive.
 

 
Simon Armitage
image © Frankie Julian
Anna James
image © Phil Weedon
Jamie Smart draw along
image © Phil Weedon
Lynchian!
image Simon Cole

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