I was in Kerala for the first time this year (twice! for a couple litfests). It was indeed beautiful! I hope you have a lovely stay.
September 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I was in Kerala for the first time this year (twice! for a couple litfests). It was indeed beautiful! I hope you have a lovely stay.
Yes, that’s very much part of it, and the making of new friends I’m describing applies to work as well. Suddenly the Daily Mail and the Telegraph want you to write for them! Suddenly you’re being invited to fancy conferences and litfests in castles! They’re offering you business class flights!
August 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Yes, that’s very much part of it, and the making of new friends I’m describing applies to work as well. Suddenly the Daily Mail and the Telegraph want you to write for them! Suddenly you’re being invited to fancy conferences and litfests in castles! They’re offering you business class flights!
@joannechocolat.bsky.social , would you mind reposting the original post for me please? Always good to get smaller LitFests some extra coverage 🙂 Thanks
May 28, 2026 at 10:18 AM
@joannechocolat.bsky.social , would you mind reposting the original post for me please? Always good to get smaller LitFests some extra coverage 🙂 Thanks
Second Life's annual Fantasy Faire (a benefit for Relay for Life) is on! Guess who's this year's guest of honor at the literary festival? I'll host a workshop, a writing critique group, I'll read from my books, and will be interviewed. Whee!
#RFLSL
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LitFest’s Special Guest: Lori Alden Holuta
This year we have a very special Special Guest – a longterm supporter of the LitFest and a good friend of many of us – Lori Alden Holuta. Lori Alden Holuta Lori Alden Holuta is celebrat…
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April 24, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Second Life's annual Fantasy Faire (a benefit for Relay for Life) is on! Guess who's this year's guest of honor at the literary festival? I'll host a workshop, a writing critique group, I'll read from my books, and will be interviewed. Whee!
#RFLSL
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Feeling incredibly grateful. 🙏
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#penamerica #worldvoicesfestival #newyork #greyhound #areturntoself #nonfiction #softskull #catapult #literaryfestivals #litfests
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Through Foreign Eyes
Two memoirs look at how travel proves a lens for exile, identity, and seeing the world—and oneself—anew.
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April 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Feeling incredibly grateful. 🙏
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Parliament has become redundant due to spread of Internet. All are interested in LitFests, Conclaves, Podcasts, or Dialogues. Good for democracy but open discussion is a casualty. People fear opposing ideas. Instead of examining rival claims the tendency is to ignore like Ostrich #TusarNathMohapatra
March 7, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Parliament has become redundant due to spread of Internet. All are interested in LitFests, Conclaves, Podcasts, or Dialogues. Good for democracy but open discussion is a casualty. People fear opposing ideas. Instead of examining rival claims the tendency is to ignore like Ostrich #TusarNathMohapatra
One of the best things I've read about the Literary Festival crisis in Australia. In Sunday Age. Explores the issues from several perspectives and whether LitFests can be both a safe space and a brave space. Going to be an interesting year for the local writing community #LiteraryFestivals
January 24, 2026 at 9:34 PM
One of the best things I've read about the Literary Festival crisis in Australia. In Sunday Age. Explores the issues from several perspectives and whether LitFests can be both a safe space and a brave space. Going to be an interesting year for the local writing community #LiteraryFestivals
Updates.
- Done my first Keshed interview this morn
- Two LitFests booked
- Two radio appearances booked (on the same day, gotta take it off work, glam or wot? 🤣🤪)
- National newspaper review coming on Monday (hopefully, week after if not)
It's all kicking off, ya gotta love it 💪😎
#GetKeshed
- Done my first Keshed interview this morn
- Two LitFests booked
- Two radio appearances booked (on the same day, gotta take it off work, glam or wot? 🤣🤪)
- National newspaper review coming on Monday (hopefully, week after if not)
It's all kicking off, ya gotta love it 💪😎
#GetKeshed
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Updates.
- Done my first Keshed interview this morn
- Two LitFests booked
- Two radio appearances booked (on the same day, gotta take it off work, glam or wot? 🤣🤪)
- National newspaper review coming on Monday (hopefully, week after if not)
It's all kicking off, ya gotta love it 💪😎
#GetKeshed
- Done my first Keshed interview this morn
- Two LitFests booked
- Two radio appearances booked (on the same day, gotta take it off work, glam or wot? 🤣🤪)
- National newspaper review coming on Monday (hopefully, week after if not)
It's all kicking off, ya gotta love it 💪😎
#GetKeshed
I'm looking for UK queer and women's literature festivals in the UK that would be open to performances and workshops - any good suggestions?
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#queerwriters
#Womenwriters
#litfests
January 6, 2026 at 11:25 AM
I'm looking for UK queer and women's literature festivals in the UK that would be open to performances and workshops - any good suggestions?
#queerwriters
#Womenwriters
#litfests
#queerwriters
#Womenwriters
#litfests
A friend just sent me this from the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world…
#litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition
Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world…
#litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A friend just sent me this from the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world…
#litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition
Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world…
#litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition
Authors to give talks at the Allingham Arts Festival, the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Festival and the Frances Brown Literary Festival.
Colmcille Press authors to guest at Donegal Litfests
Autumn is becoming the season for literature in Donegal and we're delighted to say that our authors will be giving readings and lectures at the county's three keynote festivals over the next couple of...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Authors to give talks at the Allingham Arts Festival, the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Festival and the Frances Brown Literary Festival.
”Hers are poems of the abyss, its irresistibility, its absurdity, its gooey splendor…”
Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
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Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
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Slugs, Swedish poetry, Mel Allen's New England, lots of litfests
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September 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
”Hers are poems of the abyss, its irresistibility, its absurdity, its gooey splendor…”
Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
open.substack.com/pub/ninamacl...
Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
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Yes, I just got informed that litfests are riddled with 'looney-left groupthink'. Responded by making comments about genre. I hope Bendigo can continue
August 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Yes, I just got informed that litfests are riddled with 'looney-left groupthink'. Responded by making comments about genre. I hope Bendigo can continue
Earlier this month, had the privilege of attending & speaking at #DibrugarhUniversity's Int'l LitFest. Not the best-known of India's many litfests, but should be better known - sylvan location, great weather & AQI, bright-eyed univ students 😊
I know, I know; I am *always* late to these posts!! ...
I know, I know; I am *always* late to these posts!! ...
February 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Earlier this month, had the privilege of attending & speaking at #DibrugarhUniversity's Int'l LitFest. Not the best-known of India's many litfests, but should be better known - sylvan location, great weather & AQI, bright-eyed univ students 😊
I know, I know; I am *always* late to these posts!! ...
I know, I know; I am *always* late to these posts!! ...
I can't work out what LN is trying to say in para 3 from your grab. It is 'society's only moral voice is found in litfests'? Or is it 'litfests are the cradles of precisely the same Bad Protest which is killing litfests'? Either way = 'not even wrong', obviously.
February 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I can't work out what LN is trying to say in para 3 from your grab. It is 'society's only moral voice is found in litfests'? Or is it 'litfests are the cradles of precisely the same Bad Protest which is killing litfests'? Either way = 'not even wrong', obviously.
And having had one two litfests ago, I can attest to the height of this bar
February 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
And having had one two litfests ago, I can attest to the height of this bar
The Kerala Literature Festival is one among many such events taking place across Southasia – ideas hubs and cultural melting pots that provide a meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, booklovers, activists – and children.
Local flavour, global dialogue: Amidst a season of ‘litfests’ across Southasia, a view from Kerala - Sapan News
The Kerala Literature Festival is one among many such events taking place across Southasia – ideas hubs and cultural melting pots that provide a meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, booklove...
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February 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The Kerala Literature Festival is one among many such events taking place across Southasia – ideas hubs and cultural melting pots that provide a meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, booklovers, activists – and children.
The Joy of Lit Fests and Indie Publishing! Full story: pod.link/1707027844 #litfests #indiepublishing #books #horror #punk #diy #queer #leftist #weirdpunkbooks #mn #samrichard #1000 @sammytotep.bsky.social @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Joy of Lit Fests and Indie Publishing! Full story: pod.link/1707027844 #litfests #indiepublishing #books #horror #punk #diy #queer #leftist #weirdpunkbooks #mn #samrichard #1000 @sammytotep.bsky.social @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
UK readers (and writers): which are your favourite Litfests, and why? I’m pondering coming over for book stuff this summer but have no clue about the bookfest scene these days. Thoughts? Links? 📚💙
January 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
UK readers (and writers): which are your favourite Litfests, and why? I’m pondering coming over for book stuff this summer but have no clue about the bookfest scene these days. Thoughts? Links? 📚💙
A Literary Autograph from a time before Litfests.
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January 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
A Literary Autograph from a time before Litfests.
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God, I love this! https://x.com/litfests/status/895808173319180288/photo/1
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December 13, 2024 at 3:37 PM
God, I love this! https://x.com/litfests/status/895808173319180288/photo/1
The latest The Horror fiction Daily!Thanks to @katekrake @litfests @isitohbi #writing #horror
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December 11, 2024 at 7:46 AM
The latest The Horror fiction Daily!Thanks to @katekrake @litfests @isitohbi #writing #horror
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