festival 2026

Welcome to the Hastings Book Festival

 

Hastings is one of the country’s most creative small towns, hosting an enviable array of events
all year round, taking in the international chess congress, the World Crazy Golf Championships, 
Hastings International Piano Competition, Pirate Day, the Bottle Alley Art Market – rumoured to be
the longest outdoor art market in the country – the month long visual arts joyarama that is the
Coastal Currents Festival and Hastings Fat Tuesday Festival, our celebration of all things Mardi Gras, to namecheck just a few.

 

Hastings Book Festival is proud to be part of this awesome community of artists, musicians,
wordsmiths, foodies, makers and do-ers, and we hope you are as excited by this year’s programme
as we have been putting it all together.

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