Brighton Book Festival

18/06/2026

Join us on Sunday (June 21st) at 11.30am for our Big Read event with and

Join us and receive a free book of Smallie (or audiobook if you’d rather listen), and let’s read together!

18/06/2026

We've just released extra tickets for this evening's event.
Join us at JAWDANCE for an evening of poetry and spoken word.

17/06/2026

Independent festivals like ours only exist because people like you choose to support us.

If you've enjoyed Brighton Book Festival before, believe in what we do, or simply want a brilliant Saturday surrounded by people, books and ideas, then we'd love your support.

Help us sell 75 passes by Friday (June 19th) to secure the future of the festival for another year ...

Thank you.

17/06/2026

We've released some last minute tickets for tonight's event.
Come and kick off Brighton Book Festival 2026 with us!

15/06/2026

We're so excited to have Eden McKenzie-Goddard with us.
Join us for Brighton Book Festival 2026!

15/06/2026

Help us to break even by selling 75 Day Passes by Friday (June 19). This will allow us to make this year's festival the best it can be!
If you haven't got your tickets yet then now's your chance, please share and let us know if you're coming in the comments ...

14/06/2026

How can love pave the way for a poetics of resistance?

Join Dr. Mona Manjot Dhaliwal for a workshop that explores themes of freedom, beauty and hope inspired by bell hook’s seminal book, All about Love.

In this workshop, we will examine an eclectic array of poems from bell hooks to Mona Arshi to Emily Dickinson while exploring poetic techniques and qualities of resistance.
This friendly, relaxed workshop will offer an opportunity to delve into the transformational qualities of love, and how it relates to resistance through an insistence on freedom and expressions of hopeful imaginaries. Come and engage in rich conversations, meet new and old friends and craft two poems.

All About Love: The Poetics of Resistance! Friday 19th June 6:30pm How can love pave the way for a poetics of resistance? Join Dr. Mona Manjot Dhaliwal for a workshop that explores themes of freedom, beauty and hope inspired by bell hook’s seminal book, All about Love. In this workshop, we will ex...

13/06/2026

We can't wait to welcome back our festival ambassador, Dorothy Koomson.
Join us at Brighton Book Festival 2026!

12/06/2026

You’re invited to our Drop Everything And Read bookclub!
This is a completely free event with a book where we’ll all be reading Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard.

Head to brightonbookfestival.co.uk and get your tickets!