Welcome to the Newburyport Literary Festival!
We are a vibrant community of readers and writers who come together each year to bask in the love of reading. A celebration of literature, from fiction to poetry to non-fiction and biography, the festival features author readings, panel discussions, and book signings held in venues across historic Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Why a Newburyport Literary Festival…
Vicki Hendrickson, Chair of the Newburyport Literary Festival, asks you to mark your calendar for the 2025 event…
April 25 to 27, 2025.
With a rich literary heritage, the greater Newburyport area has a lot to be excited about. Writers as diverse as John Greenleaf Whittier, John P. Marquand, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Andre Dubus II have called Newburyport home.
This effort is made possible through the generosity of our founding sponsors:
- Institution for Savings and Newburyport Bank
The Board of the Newburyport Literary Association
- Vicki Hendrickson, Chair
- Nate Allard
- Mary Barlow
- Kevin Bourque
- Paula Breger
- Grace Connolly
- Steve Deguglielmo
- Scott Eaton
- Jill Gross
- Nana Kennedy
- Dorothy LaFrance
- Meg Mitchell Moore
- Elizabeth Welch
Steering Committee
- Mary Barlow
- Kate Bolick
- Paula Breger
- Linda Carpino
- Nancy Crochiere
- Bethany Groff Dorau
- Jill Gross
- Hannah Harlow
- Leslie Hendrickson
- Nana Kennedy
- Molli Wentworth King
- Laura Kopinski
- Meg Mitchell Moore
- Zara Raab
- Martha Mercer Ribeiro
- Priscilla Turner Spada
- Alli Tervo
- Sandra Thaxter
- Paulette Turco
- Skye Wentworth
- Betsy Westendorf
- Ghlee Woodworth