Cranbrook Literature Festival, established in 2016, is a two-day, biennial event to promote the joy of the written word to children and adults across the Weald of Kent. We are a not-for-profit organisation run totally by volunteers. Our Festival programme offers a great mix of authors and poets, both well known and up-and-coming, plus writing competitions, creative writing workshops and a well-stocked pop-up bookshop. We are proud to finance the cost of visits by children’s authors to local schools from festival revenue. 

The National Literacy Trust published a report in 2020 which indicates that author visits to schools have a positive effect on children and young people’s reading and writing skills and aids their enjoyment and confidence in both. School budgets don’t always stretch to visiting authors or writing workshops and this is where Cranbrook Literature Festival can help.