Fleet Street Festival of Words
DATES & TIMES
12 - 16 May 202612.00 am
Fleet Street Quarter’s Festival of Words
FLEET STREET FESTIVAL OF WORDS 2026
Sponsored by Landsec and MYO
THE AGE OF WISDOM AND FOOLISHNESS
Fleet Street Quarter’s Festival of Words returns from 12th -16th May 2026, bringing five days of enlightening and transformative conversations to this historic western side of the City of London. Featuring an array of authors, journalists and thinkers across multiple genres, the Festival of Words once again celebrates Fleet Street Quarter as the place where stories have always been born.
The theme this year takes inspiration from the famous opening lines of Charles Dickens’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness’.
Join us across 40 events as we examine and celebrate what drives our own Age of Wisdom and Foolishness, the ideas right or wrong that challenge what has gone before and seek to predict what will come next.
DATES & TIMES
12 - 16 May 202612.00 am


