festival 2025
12-21 September
Welcome to the Hastings Book Festival 2025, which runs from the 12th to 21st September at the Observer Building and other venues across the town centre.
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.
To find out more about what’s on when, and where, and to book your tickets, go to our events page.
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