The main Margate Bookie 2026 weekend kicks off two weeks today at Turner Contemporary

“The stories told about women like me are wrong,” says Maya Jordan, author of Chopsy. “More than that, the stories told about working class lives are damaging, and they hurt us.”

Rebecca Perry on her writing process, Booker Prize nomination, inspirations and more.

Kit Proudfoot discusses how he breaks out of writers block ahead of his comedy writing workshop at Margate Bookie.

See her at this year’s Margate Bookie on 17 October

Bex Glendining on the inspiration for their graphic novel On Starlit Shores and what to expect from their workshop at Margate Bookie

Ahead of her Wire Your Life workshop at this year’s Margate Bookie, Nicola Wren discusses her work and what to expect from the session

Hear from big name authors and take part in practical writing workshops this October. Speakers include Rebecca Perry, Gemma Cairney, Bex Glendining, Sylvia Patterson and Maya Jordan.

For this year’s Children’s Bookie, we asked children from four local primary schools to design a badge that will be given away to attendees of the festival.