#brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
Join us October 17-19 in downtown Brattleboro. You can't go wrong with any of these events! We love these books. #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #AriaAber @jessicaanthony.bsky.social @williamboyle.bsky.social @adacalhoun.bsky.social @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social #TimothyCrellin #MarcyDermansky
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We're excited to welcome poet #ColinChanner to the #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival2025. His latest collection, Console, was published in 2023. Martin Espada writes, "⁣Channer’s new poems leap from the page. Their musicality is powerfully insistent, pulsing through every poem." #poetry #Vermont #Poets
August 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We're excited to welcome @carolejoffe.bsky.social to the Festival! Her latest book, After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe but Not Abortion, was co-written w/ David S. Cohen & published in March. Join us October 17-19 in Brattleboro, VT #CaroleJoffe #nonfiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Music lovers! Celebrate two of the greatest songwriters with these fabulous events: On Saturday at 1:00 pm, Sam Sussman will talk about his book Boy From the North Country, a novel based on his real life connection to Bob Dylan…

#samsussman #brattleboro #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
October 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Welcome @henryalford.bsky.social to the 2025 Festival! His latest book, I Dream of Joni, was published in January. Events are FREE and open to the public. Join us in downtown Brattleboro, VT. October 17-19. #HenryAlford #nonfiction #biography #JoniMitchell #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #Vermont
September 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
We're thrilled to welcome the historian, artist, & writer, #NellIrvinPainter, this October! I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays, was published in 2024. She recently won the 2025 Arts & Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. #nonfiction #essays #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
September 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Join Green Writers Press at 118 Elliot Street on Saturday, October 18, at 5 pm for short readings, refreshments, and a celebration of Vermont publishing! This event is FREE and open to the public. Don't miss it! #GreenWritersPress #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Welcome @paullisicky.bsky.social to the Festival! His latest book, Song So Wild and Blue: A Life With the Music of Joni Mitchell, was published in February. All events are FREE & open to the public (Brattleboro, VT. Oct 17-19). Pls see link in bio. #JoniMitchell #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Welcome poet #MartínEspada to the 2025 Festival! Espada's latest collection, Jailbreak of Sparrows, was published in April. Join us Oct 17-19 in downtown Brattleboro. All events are FREE & open to the public. Pls find more details via link in bio. #poetry #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #Vermont
September 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
We're delighted to welcome fiction writer #AllegraHyde to the 2025 Festival! Her latest book, The Last Catastrophe, was published in March 2023. All events are FREE & open to the public. Join us! October 17-19 in downtown Brattleboro, VT. Link in bio. #shortstories #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Toadstool Bookshop is our second bookstore partner for the Festival. Emerson and his amazing crew will be selling books at all of the event venues. Perfect if you'd like to get your copy signed after the event. (Signed books make great gifts!) #ToadstoolBooks #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Help us welcome #StephanieGorton to the 2025 Festival! Her latest book, The Icon & the Idealist was published in November '24 & was shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. Join us Oct 17-19 in Brattleboro, VT. Full schedule on our website. #nonfiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We're delighted to welcome #Vermonter #HelenWhybrow to the 2025 Festival! Her nonfiction book, The Salt Stones, was published in June. Join us for readings and signings in downtown Brattleboro, VT Oct 17-19. Please see the link in bio for more details. #nonfiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Books will be available for purchase. The featured writers include:⠀
#DavidKentYoung⠀
#SteveMinkin⠀
#GreggOrifici⠀
#TerryHauptman⠀
#LouiseRader⠀
#DeborahLeeLuskin⠀ ⠀ ⠀

2. Write Action Open Reading⠀
7-9 PM at 118 Elliot Street⠀ ⠀ ⠀
#WriteAction #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #Vermont
September 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
And on Sunday at 3:30, two writers, @newyorker.com staff writer @henryalford.bsky.social (Songs So Wild and Blue)and award winning writer @paullisicky.bsky.social (I Dream of Joni), celebrate their mutual love of Joni Mitchell. #JoniMitchell #BrattleboroLiteraryFestival2025
October 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Happy Pub Day to @samsussman.bsky.social ! We're excited to announce that he will be joining us @ the 2025 Festival. His debut novel, Boy From the North Country, is out from Penguin Press today. Join us Oct. 17-19 in downtown Brattleboro, VT. Link in bio. #SamSussman #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Welcome #nonfiction writer #ChelseaSteinauer-Scudder to the 2025 Festival! Her book, Mother, Creature, Kin, was published in April. Join us Oct 17-19 in downtown Brattleboro, VT. All events are FREE & open to the public. Schedule on website. Link in bio. #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #Vermont
September 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
We're thrilled to welcome #JonasHassenKhemiri to the Festival! His latest novel, The Sisters, was published in June. Katie Kitamura writes, "The Sisters is a novel of unsurpassed tenderness.” Join us Oct 17-19, Brattleboro, VT. Pls see link in bio. #fiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025 #Vermont
September 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Welcome @williamboyle.bsky.social to the Festival! Boyle's latest novel, Saint of the Narrows Street was published in February. Events are FREE & open to the public. We hope you can join us Oct. 17-19 in downtown Brattleboro, VT. Link in bio. #WilliamBoyle #fiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We're so excited to have #PeterMendelsund joining us for the 2025 Festival! His latest novel, Weepers, was published in June. Events are FREE & open to the public. Join us in downtown Brattleboro, VT. October 17-19. Full schedule on our website. Link in bio. #fiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Welcome novelist #MarcyDermansky to the 2025 Festival! Her latest novel, Hot Air, was published in March. Join us Oct 17-19 in Brattleboro, VT. All events are FREE & open to the public. Full schedule on website. Link in bio. Photo credit: Michael Lionstar. #fiction #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Festival titles will be available plus other fun items. The pop-up bookstore will be open from 9am-4pm on Saturday and Sunday of the Festival. We encourage you to support Wild Book Company both during the Festival and at its home location in Newfane! #WildBookCompany #brattleboroliteraryfestival2025
September 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM