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
Ian McEwan
image © Phil Weedon

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.
 

 
Rob Biddulph
image © Phil Weedon
Andy Capon
image © Phil Weedon
Charlie Higson and Jim Moir
image © Phil Weedon
Robert Macfarlane
image © Phil Weedon

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