LISA JEWELL HEADLINES 2025 SANDGATE LITERARY FESTIVAL

Best-selling novelist, Lisa Jewell, will be the headline author on Saturday October 18th at the 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]

The Sandgate Literary Festival Schedule includes:

Thursday 16 October 2pm    Alison Stockham Workshop

How To Write A Psychological Thriller    Old Fire Station, Sandgate High Street

(£18.00 per ticket)

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)