Ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026, we are thrilled to be launching this year’s Essex Book Festival at Colchester Community Stadium with two masters of football writing - Jonathan Wilson and Simon Kuper. Join us for a highly entertaining and illuminating discussion about the most watched sporting event on the planet.
Multi award-winning and best-selling author, Festival Patron and University of Essex Chancellor, Sarah Perry, will be launching this year’s festival. Talking to our Essex Book Festival Chair, Peter Donaldson, about her highly anticipated new novel, Enlightenment.
Come along and meet the Kinetika team, our flag-makers/bearers, and find out how you and/or an organisation you belong to, can get involved in the epic new nationwide Beach of Dreams 25 project. Then, take part in a special Beach of Dreams creative writing workshop led by Dr James Canton, and the Wild Writing team based in the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Essex.
