Event
CT Lit Fest 2025
Mark your calendar for Saturday, October 18, for the next Connecticut Literary Festival!
CT Lit Fest is a fall book festival co-presented by Real Art Ways. A literary hub under one roof, at the center of Connecticut. A day for writers, poets, teachers, students, and readers to discover and connect with new voices. Events run throughout the day. Admission is free.
The Fest takes over our five galleries for readings, talks, performances, and an interactive typewriter installation. There will be a book fair to showcase publishers, journals, writing programs, and other arts organizations. Full program, appearances, and updates are announced here.
Organizations interested in exhibiting at the book fair can follow these instructions. Space will be limited. Sponsorships are also available.
The conversation with Robert Dowling will be recorded for WNPR / Connecticut Public’s s Where We Live and moderated by Catherine Shen.
Food trucks that will be onsite during the event are: East West Grille & Salt & Pepper Catering Food Truck
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This event is made possible with generosity and support from: CT Humanities’ CT Center for the Book, Yale Writers’ Workshop, and Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens.
River Bend Bookshop will be onsite selling books by all confirmed authors.
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Donations
To readers, writers, artists, and literary enthusiasts of Connecticut and beyond: We invite you to support the CT Lit Fest and to grow our state’s literary community. Your generous donation will not only help us to provide the best possible showcase for our state’s writers, thinkers, and presses, but it will also allow us to keep the festival accessible to all with free admission.
Your donation is essential to our success. If you choose to make your tax-deductible donation anonymously, your name and giving amount will be kept private. Thank you.
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