2025 Festival Highlights
2025 Program
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Dawn Tripp brings the former first lady to life in her novel Jackie. Fueled by research, Tripp writes from a first-person perspective about Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ many lives, public and private. The Washington Post review called it “an intimate episodic narrative.” Tripp will be joined in conversation by historian Kate Clifford Larson, author of Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter and an upcoming biography of Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
From Breakfast with the Poets at the Congregational Church to The Old South Church, from City Hall to Jabberwocky and the UU Church in between, readings, conversations, and panels will be happening…
Firehouse Center for the Arts, 7 p.m. We’ll celebrate TWENTY YEARS OF THE NEWBURYPORT LITERARY FESTIVAL!
Recordings of our past events are available via our YouTube Channel.
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The Newburyport Literary Association, Inc. was founded in 2005.
Many individuals and organizations share the vision of the Newburyport Literary Festival. The NLF is especially grateful for the generous support of our founding sponsor, the Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation and to all the other businesses and individuals who have made it possible for the festival to take root and flourish.
To help ring in our upcoming 20th festival, please donate $20 (or more) and encourage 20 others to do the same! We’re cooking up special events and programming for our 2025 festival—our 20th(!) year, but we cannot do it without you. Through our GoFundMe 20 for 20 campaign, we aim to raise $20K. Let’s see how far our 20 for 20 can go!
All of our book talks are free to the public. Your generosity provides the crucial funds for our venues, author travel, graphic design, promotion, and more. All of our staff and volunteers are unpaid. So every bit we raise goes directly to running the festival. In other words, you make it happen!
You can also contribute directly via PayPal or by sending a personal check.
Be sure to check out our Donor rewards. As always, we thank you for whatever you contribute. Your support ignites all we do!
