This year's launch also comprises our popular Local Author Fair - open from 10.30AM - 4PM in Chatham Library.

Come and meet local authors and stock up on your Christmas shopping for bookish friends.

Then from 1PM, it’s our official launch! Come and hear more about what’s on this year, and hear poetry and song from our new Patron multi-award winning poet, Maggie Harris, with musical accompaniment from Ty Watling.

About Maggie Harris -

Maggie Harris is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist. Originally from Guyana, South America, she re-located to Kent after 10 years in Wales. She attended Kent University as a mature student, achieving a BA and MA, and started her career performing, running workshops and teaching creative writing. She has worked for Kent Arts & Libraries, represented Kent in Europe and was International Teaching Fellow at Southampton University. Her most recent collection I Sing To The…