Brattleboro Literary Festival

The 23rd annual Brattleboro Literary Festival was held from October 18 to October 20 in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. The festival featured readings, panels, and author conversations. Participating writers included poets Sharon Dolin, Jessica Fisher, Kevin Goodan, Pablo Medina, January Gill O’Neil, Susan Rich, Leslie Sainz, Neil Shepard, and Heather Treseler; fiction writers M.T. Anderson, Marie-Helene Bertino, Amy Jo Burns, Mark Cecil, Juliet Grames, Tania James, Zain Khalid, Samuel Kọ́láwọlé, Amitava Kumar, Sigrid Nunez, Julia Phillips, Roxana Robinson, Adelle Waldman, and Tyriek White; and nonfiction writers Sunil Amrith, Emmeline Clein, Matthew F. Delmont, Natalie Dykstra, Brad Fox, Gary Gulman, Harold Holzer, James Marcus, Jeffrey Rosen, Anna Shechtman, and Lyn Slater. All festival events were free and open to the public; seating was provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit the website for more information.

Accessibility accommodations include elevators in all multilevel event spaces; accessible sidewalks, pathways, and doorways; accessible bathrooms with grab bars; accessible parking; accessible festival venues; and assistive listening devices. E-mail Brattleboro Literary Festival staff at info@brattleborolitfest.org for additional accessibility details.