The next two-day Festival is 10th & 11th October 2025. Exciting one-off events 2024: Elly Griffiths and The Reverend Richard Coles.
The next two-day Festival is 10th & 11th October 2025. Exciting one-off events 2024: Elly Griffiths and The Reverend Richard Coles.
The town of Cranbrook has always embraced tradition and culture with its popular annual Art Show, ‘Apple Fayre’, ‘Nuts in May’ street festival and music festival ‘Cranfest’. Cranbrook Literature Festival celebrates the written word and the town's rich literary heritage with its creative and exciting literature festival.
Cranbrook Literature Festival is a community, not-for-profit event enabling the organisers to provide authors to work with pupils in local schools free of charge.
Festival Information
All events take place in and around the town of Cranbrook. Our town has numerous coffee shops, a hotel, restaurants, micro pub, take away outlets and free parking and there are plenty of pubs and restaurants within a five mile radius of the town.
Festival Competitions: 500 Word Short Story Competition, Book Mark Design Competition more information on these to come.
There will be a bookshop in the Vestry Hall for the duration of our festival.
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About our Organisers
Cranbrook Literature Festival committee comprises the following group of volunteers: Chairman Christine Newman, Vice Chair Rosemary Hill/Alex Betts, Jane Stephen, Andrew Gasson, Jane Evatt and Stefanie Potts
Our Sponsors
The following companies and organisations are generous sponsors of the Cranbrook Literature Festival. Please get in touch with the festival organisers if you would like to be financially involved in future festivals.
Guy Johnson of the Ladham Charitable Trust
Cranbrook Parish Council
KCC Libraries
