About The Festival
A meeting point, not a spectacle.
From 25–27 September 2026, the Jinja International Poetry Festival returns to Jinja Jungle — three days of readings, music and conversation on our stretch of the Nile.
The festival is still young, and it feels like it: less a big literary event, more a gathering of people who care about poetry and language. Writers, musicians and audiences share the same lawns for a weekend — reading their own work, listening to others, talking between sessions, staying up for the music that carries into the evening.
There's a poetic appropriateness to holding it here, close to where the Nile begins.
