90 talks, readings and book events
Get ready to get lost in the literary labyrinth of East Sussex this November, where words and wonder await around every corner.
Bettany Hughes Uncovering Ancient Egypt
11 Nov 2026
De La Warr Pavilion (Bexhill-on-Sea)
Beyond Text Innovative Poetry Festival
10 Nov 2026 – 12 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Citizens Advice
4 Nov 2026 – 7 Jul 2027
Whitstable Umbrella Community Support centre
Courses
11 Nov 2026 – 13 Jun 2027
Depot (Lewes)
Forced Entertainment: In Conversation - Artistic Director Tim Etchells & Dr Sara Jane Bailes
11 Nov 2026
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (Brighton)
Halloween Season
26 Oct 2026 – 11 Nov 2026
Depot (Lewes)
House Tours
11 Nov 2026 – 22 Nov 2026
Charleston (Lewes)
Join The Lounge Library
11 Nov 2026
Alcampo Lounge (Brighton)
Last-minute dates
7 Nov 2026 – 11 Jul 2027
Pelham House (Lewes)
Life Writing
5 Nov 2026 – 3 Dec 2026
Charleston (Lewes)
Miriam's Full English LIVE
11 Nov 2026 – 5 Dec 2026
Theatre Royal Brighton
Comic Club
12 Nov 2026 – 8 Apr 2027
The Horsebridge Arts Centre (Whitstable)
Festival History
12 Nov 2026 – 22 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Folkestone Book Festival 2026
12 Nov 2026 – 22 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Ghosted at Preston Manor? Tell us about it.
12 Nov 2026 – 30 Nov 2026
Royal Pavilion (Brighton)
Tim Etchells & Dr Sara Jane Bailes in conversation
12 Nov 2026
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (Brighton)
Bingo For Better
13 Nov 2026
The Alexander Centre (Faversham)
Jarred McGinnis & Nell Stevens: Who Do You Think You Are?
13 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Jarred McGinnis: The Art of Writing Together
13 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Jem Calder: The Debut Everyone is Talking About
13 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Philippa Perry: When Psychology Meets Murder
13 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture
13 Nov 2026
Charleston (Lewes)
Christine Dawood: A Journey to the Titanic
14 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Dominic Gregory: Courage, Crisis & the Kent Coast
14 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Drag Bingo with Delilah Tickles and Anita Wee
14 Nov 2026
The Alexander Centre (Faversham)
Ian McEwan: What We Can Know
14 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Juliet Sargeant: The Hidden Foundations of Life
14 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
OH WHAT A FEELING!!! QUIZZES ARE BACK BABY!!!
14 Nov 2026 – 28 Nov 2026
Signalman (Brighton)
Paul Sinton-Hewitt: The parkrun Revolution
14 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Saturdays
14 Nov 2026 – 28 Nov 2026
Revolution Brighton
The Fisher Social Club
14 Nov 2026 – 24 May 2027
Whitstable Umbrella Community Support centre
The Reminiscence Book
14 Nov 2026 – 28 Nov 2026
The Alexander Centre (Faversham)
AL Kennedy: Mercy and Memory
15 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Esther Ghey: Raising Children in the Digital Age
15 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Felicity Cloake & Claire Cohen: Dogs and Dinners
15 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Murderous Minds with Emma Kenny
15 Nov 2026 – 17 Jun 2027
Theatre Royal Brighton
Poorna Bell & Helen Thorn: Reinvention, Rage & Reclamation
15 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
PUBS FOR THE PEOPLE (FREE!)
15 Nov 2026
Caroline of Brunswick (Brighton)
Sajid Javid: The Making of Modern Britain
15 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Tours of the Duke of York's
15 Nov 2026 – 6 Dec 2026
Duke of York's Picturehouse (Brighton)
Beck, Brian - On the Records : 80 Musicians on Beloved and Overlooked Albums
16 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Cory Doctorow: The Internet Is Broken. Now What?
16 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Dr Eleanor Drage: The Fight for a Better AI Future
16 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Friedman, Glen E. - We've Got A Bigger Problem Now : The Dead Kennedys Photographs
16 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Glen E. Friedman - We've Got A Bigger Problem Now : The Dead Kennedys Photographs
16 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Iain MacGregor: How War Changed the World
16 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
London Writers’ Salon: Find Your Voice, Build Your Practice
16 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
POETS PALACE BRIGHTON
16 Nov 2026
Daltons (Brighton)
Seed Talks - The Dark Origins of Christmas: Demons
16 Nov 2026 – 2 Dec 2026
Brighthelm Centre (Brighton)
Seed Talks - The Retelling of Greek Mythology: Fro
16 Nov 2026 – 16 Dec 2026
Brighthelm Centre (Brighton)
It's a Real Job Fair - Evening Youth Event
17 Nov 2026
'The Forum' Live Music Venue (Tunbridge Wells)
Linda Smith Lecture: Jo Caulfield
17 Nov 2026
Gulbenkian Arts Centre (Canterbury)
Rebecca Beattie: Winter, Witchcraft & Creative Renewal
17 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Alison Weir: Secrets, Queens and Tudor Power
18 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Autumn Light: Creative Photography
18 Nov 2026 – 9 Dec 2026
Depot (Lewes)
Hazel Sheffield: Landscapes of Belonging
18 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Holzer, David - Lou Reed: Metal Machine Mystic
18 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Revell, Irene, Aio Frei & Franziska Koch - Scores for Meeting Otherwise
18 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Siri Hustvedt: Life After Paul Auster
18 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Ventura, Maud - Make Me Famous (Nomad Edition) : A Novel
18 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
DMX - The Gospel According to DMX
19 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
Folkestone Voices
19 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Sarah Perry: What Makes a Life Extraordinary?
19 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Selina Barker: How to Start Your Own Podcast
19 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Harriet Tyce: Guilty Until Proven Innocent
20 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Jeremy Clarke
20 Nov 2026
The Alexander Centre (Faversham)
Serena Kutchinsky and Carol Woolton: The Lost Fabergé Egg
20 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Tessa Hadley: The Books That Changed My Life
20 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Tessa Hadley: Turning Ordinary Lives into Fiction
20 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
The Medway Prison Hulks – Transporting Faversham’s Exiles
20 Nov 2026
The Alexander Centre (Faversham)
Astrid Goldsmith and Wendy Holden: The Holocaust and the Next Generation
21 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Ben Okri & Rosemary Clunie: The True Artist Breaks Out of Jail
21 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Bill McGuire: The Future of Humanity
21 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Dan Schreiber – This Changes Everything
21 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
Designer and Maker Fair 2026
21 Nov 2026 – 22 Nov 2026
Charleston (Lewes)
Marina Wheeler: Beyond Brexit – What Comes Next
21 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Robert Peston: The Political Thriller of the Future
21 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
The Night Sky Show
21 Nov 2026 – 14 Feb 2027
Theatre Royal Brighton
Alasdair Gill: Knives, Spoons and Survival
22 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Caitlin O’Ryan: At What Point
22 Nov 2026 – 25 Nov 2026
Komedia Brighton
Festival Finale: Billy Childish
22 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Robin Yassin-Kassab: Syria After Assad
22 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Saara El-Arifi & Naomi Ishiguro: The Future of Fantasy
22 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Sara Wheeler: The Many Lives of Jan Morris
22 Nov 2026
Quarterhouse (Folkestone)
Whitstable Coastal Art
22 Nov 2026
Whitstable Umbrella Community Support centre
An Evening with Sir Chris Hoy
23 Nov 2026
Theatre Royal Brighton
The Book Club Social
23 Nov 2026 – 14 Dec 2026
Rockwater Hove
Davies, Paul - Quantum 2.0
26 Nov 2026
Resident Music (Brighton)
War is Interested In You: The Threat of World War Three, with Gideon Rachman
26 Nov 2026
Theatre Royal Brighton
CHERRYBOMB BINGO!!
27 Nov 2026 – 18 Dec 2026
Signalman (Brighton)
