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

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Faversham Literary Festival is an independent, not-for-profit annual event

Ian McEwan


 
To close this year's festival, the masterful Ian McEwan spoke about his new novel, What We Can Know.
Sir Ben Okri
image © Phil Weedon

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.
 

 
Simon Armitage
image © Frankie Julian
Claire Adam
image © Phil Weedon
Paul Vallely & Bob Geldof
image © Phil Weedon
Jeanette Winterson
image © Phil Weedon

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