The 21st annual Brattleboro Literary Festival was held online and in person in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont, from October 13 to October 16. The festival featured readings, panels, and special events. Participants included poets Andrea Cohen,...
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The 2023 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival will be held from June 21 to June 24 at the historic Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as readings and...
read more Event Date: June 21, 2023
Application Deadline: June 15, 2023
The 25th annual Get Lit! Festival was held online and in person from April 20 to April 23 at various venues in and around Spokane, Washington. The festival featured readings, craft classes, and panel discussions for poets, fiction writers, and...
read moreThe 2022 Kentucky Book Festival, presented by Kentucky Humanities, was held October 27 and October 29 in Lexington, Kentucky. The festival included a ticketed luncheon with fiction and nonfiction writer Geraldine Brooks and biographer and...
read moreThe Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2023 Lit Fest will be held from June 9 to June 16 at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop headquarters in Denver, as well as online. The festival features weekend and weeklong workshops, craft seminars, salons,...
read more Event Date: June 9, 2023
The 2023 Orcas Island Lit Fest will be held from June 2 to June 3 at the Orcas Center in Eastsound, Washington. The festival features panel discussions, book signings, author interviews, readings, and live music for poetry, fiction, and creative...
read more Event Date: June 2, 2023
Application Deadline: Rolling Admissions
The 2022 Portland Book Festival, hosted by Literary Arts, was held November 5 at the Portland Art Museum, Portland’5 Centers for the Arts, and surrounding venues. A new addition to the festival, the Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover, was held...
read moreThe Renaissance House Residency Program offered an activist writers festival from September 17 to September 19 for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Participation in the festival may have been ...
read moreThe 2023 Sarah Lawrence College Poetry Festival was held from April 21 to April 23 on the campus of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, located 30 minutes by train from New York City. The festival featured workshops, readings, panel...
read moreThe 2022 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word was held from October 14 to October 16 at the War Memorial Plaza and the Nashville Public Library in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Sponsored by Humanities Tennessee, the...
read moreThe 2022 Texas Book Festival was held from November 5 to November 6 in downtown Austin. The festival featured panels and discussions with more than 250 authors and hosted nearly 100 exhibitors. Participating writers included poet, fiction writer...
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