The event cost £18 per ticket
Sandgate Literary Festival (previously known as The Little Literary Weekend).
The Festival will run from 16 – 19 October 2025. The Festival, now in its second year, is building on last year’s success by extending the number of talks and author events and including workshops for budding fiction and non-fiction writers. Organised by the Sandgate Society, talks and panels will take place in venues around the village of Sandgate, near Folkestone, and include appearances from Lisa Jewell, Sophie Haydock, Zoe Gilbert and Lucy Caldwell, as well as a murder mystery evening and a talk about social reformer, Elizabeth Fry. There is also a programme of children’s events which are free of charge to attend.
This year the Festival is supported by the Roger De Haan Charitable Trust.
More information from: https://sandgatesociety.com/sandgate-literary-festival-2025/
Tickets available from: [email protected]
Other events include
Thursday 16 October 7pm The Self-Published
Panel event with local self-published authors talking about the challenges and rewards of self-publishing The Royal Norfolk Hotel
Sandgate High Street
(£7.50)
Friday 17 October Interactive events with Daniela Douglas
0–4-year-olds
Sandgate Library
Sandgate High Street
(Free)
Friday 17 October 7.30pm The Art of the Short Story
Panel event discussing this popular genre with Zoe Gilbert, Lucy Caldwell and Adam Marek Masonic Lodge
Gough Road
Sandgate
(£12)
Saturday 18 October 10.00am Interactive event with Daniela Douglas for 4 – 7-year-olds Sandgate Library
(Free)
Saturday 18 October
11.00am Children’s author, Paul Robinson 11.00.a.m. venue TBC (Free)