Faversham Literary Festival
Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
21 Feb – 2 Mar 2025
Programme here
https://www.favershamliteraryfestival.org
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@jasonchapman.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, picture book maker https://jasonchapman.co.uk/ Shop: https://jasonchapman.bigcartel.com/
@writerjilljohnson.bsky.social
Author DEVIL’S BREATH-BBC Between The Covers book club pick, HELL’S BELLS and BELLA DONNA Pub’d by @bwpublishing. Ngaio Marsh Award double category finalist. Rep'd by Pontas Agency Insta: jilljohnsonwrites Info: http://jilljohnsonwrites.com
@ravedownradio.bsky.social
Weekly show on Future Radio playing shoegaze, alternative and electronic. Every Wednesday at 7pm. https://ravedownradio.co.uk
@ohdobookoff.bsky.social
A lighthearted book podcast hosted by Joe Haddow, where two authors discuss their work and get 3 minutes to pitch a book they absolutely love and think everyone should read!
@grantabooks.bsky.social
Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/.
@jonspurling.bsky.social
Go To War: Football On The Brink In The '80s - out now. The sequel to Get It On: How The '70s Rocked Football. Freelance for 442, WSC, Blizzard.
@nationalbooktokens.bsky.social
A gift beyond words. National Book Tokens and Bookily gift cards can be spent in bookshops and online. https://www.nationalbooktokens.com
@joannadurrant.bsky.social
🎧🎙 Award-winning presenter: Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast (independent - arts/science) | Event host | Podcaster | Broadcaster | Love theatre, history, space 🌐 https://jodurrant.co.uk/ 🌐 https://jodurrantsbeautifuluniverse.libsyn.com/
@francambrian.bsky.social
Welsh, feminist, political, literary, cryptic crossword wannabe, comedy...all of the above (she/her)
@bigthinkpublishing.bsky.social
Publishing house based in the North of England. Let’s Make Some Books! 📚 Bookshop: https://inkbookshop.com Website: https://www.bigthinkingpublishing.com
@saltpublishing.com
WELCOME to Salt, one of the UK’s great independent publishers, established in 1999. Over twenty-six years, we have grown into a daring literary powerhouse, winning scores of awards around the world. Directors: @chrisemery.me & @jenhemery.bsky.social
@slightlyfoxed.bsky.social
The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast. foxedquarterly.com
@anitasethi.bsky.social
🌾writer ✍🏽walker👣 talker🎤 Judge, Orwell Prize 2025 Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for #Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. FRGS. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com
@wildsoundwriting.bsky.social
Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels. Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
@canterburyha.bsky.social
The Canterbury branch of the Historical Association.
@juliewassmer.bsky.social
New to Blue Sky! TV drama writer, author & environmental campaigner. My Whitstable Pearl crime novels are now a recurring 6-part TV drama series starring Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles & Frances Barber.
@bristolshortstory.bsky.social
Annual short story prize housed at the University of Bristol https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk Open for entries until 31 January 2025 with judges Jan Carson, Peace Adzo Medie, and Kate Johnson
@malcolmdixon59.bsky.social
Writer of short stories in The London Magazine, Aesthetica & elsewhere, and (as F.M.A Dixon) the prizewinning Everywhere Street YA novels. Bootle boy. Evertonian.
@doctoroxford.com
Palliative care doctor 🩺 Author (The Story of a Heart, Breathtaking, Dear Life etc) 📚 Co-founder Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝 www.doctoroxford.com
@chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social
25 April- 10 May: live theatre, wine tasting, film, jazz, Literary Lunch, interviews, discussions on history, science, memoir, crime, religion, art, politics, fiction, poetry https://campdenmayfestivals.co.uk/literature/events
@haggytea.bsky.social
✳️Printmaker & artist in Faversham, Kent ✳️Shop - handmadebyhaggy.etsy.com ✳️Print workshop tutor ✳️Available for commissions
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks
@peninternational.bsky.social
Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
@forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social
Welcome to the Foreword Festival – the first literary fringe festival in the UK! Join us for year-round literary events: http://forewordfestival.uk
@mercierpress.bsky.social
Independently Publishing Extraordinary Books since 1944. Cork, Ireland
@jennabutler.bsky.social
Author, writing mentor, editor, off-grid farmer. she/her Revery: A Year of Bees, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail, Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard, and more. GG finalist. www.jennabutler.com
@rozwo.bsky.social
Working hard to avoid feeling old and nothing works better than a good laugh. Love music, books, politics and films.
@londonmudlark.bsky.social
Found in the Thames by mudlark Lara Maiklem, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and bestselling author. NEW BOOK OUT NOW: https://bit.ly/3WqTsyu
@bullaunpress.bsky.social
New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation. #artscouncilsupported
@chuckdalldorf.bsky.social
NOTES FROM THE GREEN MAN River Rock Books https://www.riverrockbooks.com ISBN 979-8-35092-850-1
@lifeisafestival.bsky.social
Marketing Translator & Copywriter Festival Reviewer & Travel Blogger 💚 Festivals, travel, live music, books, cultural events, animals, architecture, photography, positive things Glasgow, Scotland 🏴 🇪🇺 My blog: https://lifeisafestival.wordpress.com/
@bowieodyssey.bsky.social
News/events listings for the Bowie Odyssey book series by Simon Goddard Published by Omnibus Press ⚡ omnibuspress.com Agent ⚡ kevin@thenorthlitagency.com Press ⚡ millen.brownewens@wisemusic.com
@thefavershamspire.bsky.social
The Spire is a satirical community magazine for the semi-imaginary town of Faversham. Often accurate, seldom true...
@alexpreston.bsky.social
Novelist: Winchelsea, In Love and War, This Bleeding City. Words in Observer, FT and Harper’s.
@ariadnereviews.bsky.social
I write recaps and reviews about British reality TV over at https://ariadnereviews.com/
@comiccontext.bsky.social
Panels from #comics - out of context. That makes them funnier...sometimes. Your home for #ComicsOutofContextAfterDark and #HalJordanRuinsEverything.
@sue-the-silkewoman.bsky.social
Demonstrating, teaching & making insanely time consuming historic silkwork. Decorative woven & braided textiles and trimmings for museums, historic sites & people. Basically making tiny holes in silk because I can…
@alan2210.bsky.social
"To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job" ― Douglas Adams “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
@wildtwin.bsky.social
Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer. Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books) Wild Twin was published by Little Toller on 18th Sept
@jennyhope.bsky.social
Writer, poet, presenter, workshop facilitator. Wild Boar forthcoming from V. Press in 2025. YA novel in progress. I like exploring the liminal sense of time and place within nature, and the joy in the here and now.
@aliavolzzz.bsky.social
Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
@janeandersonwritet.bsky.social
Historical Fiction Author. The Girl Who Fled the Picture & The Paintress. The Orchid Hunters Daughter will arrive in 2025. Dogs. Books. Founder and Organiser Edinburgh Writers Forum & Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival Website:https://jane-anderson.co.uk
@scribblerrob.bsky.social
Independent author. Unsung Unsaid has now sold 775 copies. My next novel, about an alternative comedian and set mostly in the 1980s will be out later this year. Rep @myself https://www.rob-chapman.com
@boundlessbookshops.bsky.social
Bookseller-exclusive news, proofs and POS from Unbound and Neem Tree Press, imprints of Boundless Publishing Group 📚 @unboundsocials.bsky.social @neemtreepress.bsky.social @boundlesslit.bsky.social
@aliskjones.bsky.social
Teacher, photographer, poet. I write a nature haiku every day as an act of creativity. All photos taken on walks around where I live. Interested in fairytales, folklore, ecology, liminal places, and the more than human. Two published pamphlets.
@abigailottley.bsky.social
Writes poetry & short fiction. Latest is new collection ‘Out of Eden’. Pushcart and Best of Net nominated. 2024: Plaza Prose Poem 2nd, Patricia Eschen Award 3rd, won Metro poem Comp. Twice winner of Wildfire 150. Loves books,dogs, & crafting.
@poetrysociety.bsky.social
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social. poetrysociety.org.uk linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
@dislaney.bsky.social
Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. Books at Valley Press.
@kevharrison.bsky.social
40-something British writer of horror and dark fiction, living in Lisbon, Portugal with his better half & three cat overlords. Love travel, food, rock & metal music, and running. This is Horror. He/Him Find out more at https://kevharrisonfiction.com