BRATTLEBORO Literary FESTIVAL
Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts is
honored to host author events
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Join us for author events featuring Chard deNiord/Carlene Kucharczyk, Tiana Clark/Rachel Trousdale, Colin Channer/Martin Espada, and Albert Abonado/Dzvinia Orlowsky.
All free and open to the public
2024 Author Event in the Gallery
The Brattleboro Literary Festival is a three-day annual festival founded in 2002. The festival has grown from year to year to become one of the region’s most significant annual events, drawing more tourists, more sponsors and has presented over 900 authors, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Women’s Prize, Newbery Medal and Caldecott Medal, among others. Saul Bellow appeared at the very first festival in 2002…it was to be his last public appearance. He was a part-time resident of the area. Past festivals have featured authors such as Julia Alvarez, Russell Banks, Saul Bellow, Ken Burns, Teju Cole, Anthony Doerr, Mark Doty, Joseph Ellis, Julia Glass, John Irving, Tracy Kidder, Paul Krugman, Min Jin Lee, Ada Limón, Colum McCann, Claire Messud, Dinaw Mengestu, Paul Muldoon, Sigrid Nunez, Grace Paley, Gregory Pardlo, Tom Perrotta, Robert Pinsky, Richard Russo, Dani Shapiro, Elizabeth Strout, Isabel Wilkerson, and many, many more.
A complete list of the authors participating in 2025
The 2025 Brattleboro Literary Festival will take place October 17-19, 2025
Join us for 3 days of author events featuring Ocean Vuong, Adam Higginbotham, Alison Espach, Adam Haslett, Harry Bliss, Tiya Miles, Nell Painter, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Peter Mendelsund, Martín Espada, Ada Calhoun, Tiana Clark, Aria Aber, Heather Clark…more than forty award-winning and emerging writers.
All events are free and open to the public
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