Literary Festival 2022
Chiddingstone Castle is delighted to announce the Literary Festival is back with live, in-person events this Spring, returning to its regular slot over the first May Bank Holiday weekend Saturday 30th April – Tuesday 3rd May 2022.
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Saturday 30th April
6.30pm-8.30pm – Join us for our Festival Drinks Party at Stonewall Park, Chiddingstone Hoath by kind invitation of Rupert and Catherine Fleming.
An opportunity to meet some of our authors over a glass of wine, enjoy delicious canapés, with a chance to stroll through the beautiful gardens when the bluebells and rhododendrons are at their best.
Sunday 1st & Monday 2nd May
10.30am-6.00pm – Our Literary Festival Programme kicks off with two very special family events on Sunday, followed by a packed series of talks from a wide variety of acclaimed authors - all to be announced soon.
Book into several and make a day of it, tour the Castle’s collections (at no additional cost), explore, visit the tea room and picnic in the grounds between events.
Tuesday 3rd May
10.00am-3.05pm – Our popular Schools Day.
Our fantastic programme of children’s authors and performers is live and open for booking.
We are also running a Short Story Competition for children aged 7-9 and 10-13 with wonderful prizes – deadline for entries is 18th March.
Dates for your diary
Saturday 26th February - Programme goes live for browsing
Friday 4th March - 24hr window for Priority Booking
Saturday 5th March - Tickets on general release
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Friends of the Festival
Welcome to our 2022 Friends of the Festival scheme which enables you to support our efforts with a donation. This will help us to ensure the literary festival grows and develops in future years, allowing us to strengthen our outreach programme for local schools and helping to spread the love of books and reading to all parts of our community. If you are a UK taxpayer you can Gift Aid your donation. In the same manner as crowdfunding, each donation level releases additional benefits.
If you would like to be involved in our 2022 Literary Festival please get in touch to discuss the opportunities available.
Artistic Director and Programming: Victoria Henderson literaryfestival@chiddingstonecastle.org.uk
Sponsorship enquiries: Lisa Prifti festivalsponsors@chiddingstonecastle.org.uk
Schools enquiries: Sarah Haythorn haythorncloud@icloud.com
General enquiries: adminsupport@chiddingstonecastle.org.uk
Lit Fest Fringe 2021
Chiddingstone Castle was thrilled to host a series of live, in-person events in the Castle gardens during July, August and September 2021. If you would like to hear the author talks from our ‘small but spectacular’ line-up you can listen to the podcasts via the buttons below.