The Literary Cocktail Hour is an fun, informal monthly event featuring a pair (or more) of speakers in an entertaining, illuminating virtual event that opens with cocktails! Literary Cocktail Hour—The Book of Form And Emptiness On Friday, December 10, The Brattleboro Literary Festival concludes its 20th anniversary year with a very special Literary Cocktail Hour […]
William Mundell (1912-1997) is one of Vermont’s finest native-born poets. He lived his entire life in South Newfane, unusually combining his career as a poet with work as a carpenter, stone mason, and State highway foreman. He served on the town selectboard, as an auditor, and justice of the peace, and was also editor of […]
Mason Goes Mushrooming This first-of-its kind foraging story from Melany Kahn and Ellen Korbonski, Mason Goes Mushrooming takes us on a woodland treasure hunt. Join Melany Kahn for an interactive kid -friendly activities about mushrooms. Examine and identify real local mushrooms. Grab provided materials to make your own wooden, paper or model mushrooms to take home. […]
Maria Scrivan is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning syndicated cartoonist, and speaker based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Her laugh-out-loud comic, Half Full, appears daily in newspapers nationwide and on gocomics.com. Maria licenses her work for greeting cards, and her cartoons have appeared in MAD Magazine, Parade, and many other publications. Nat Enough, her debut graphic […]
Sofi Thanhauser teaches in the writing department at Pratt Institute. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, MacDowell, and Ucross Foundation. Her writing has appeared in Vox, The Guardian, Observer Magazine, and Dame among other publications. Her new book is Worn: A People's History of Clothing. She lives in Brooklyn.
David Sipress was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from Williams College in 1968 and went on to study Russian History in the Department of Soviet Studies at Harvard University. He left Harvard before completing his degree to pursue a career as a cartoonist and has been staff cartoonist since 1998 for […]
Ellyn Gaydos received an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University. Her work has received the Richard J. Margolis Award for nonfiction writers of social justice journalism, and appeared in The Texas Review, Columbia Journal, and Ninth Letter, where she received the 2017 award for creative nonfiction. She is the author of a new memoir, Pig […]
Kathryn Davis is the author of eight novels, including The Silk Road and Duplex. She has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her new book is Aurelia, Aurelia a memoir. Davis won the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 2006 […]
Albert Samaha is an investigative journalist and inequality editor at BuzzFeed News and author of Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, the Village Voice, San Francisco Weekly, and the Riverfront Times, among other outlets. A Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient, he is also the author of Never […]
Jordan Salama’s work has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, National Geographic, and Scientific American. His book, Every Day the River Changes, was a Kirkus Best Book of the Year. A 2019 graduate of Princeton University, he lives in New York. Ben Shattuck, a former Teaching-Writing Fellow and graduate of the Iowa Writers’ […]
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of six books, including his new book, The Other Side of Prospect: A Story of Violence, Injustice, and the American City. His book, The Fly Swatter, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and another, In The Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, was named one of […]
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the collection of poems Machete and the new memoir Let Me Count the Ways, as well as the poetry collections Patient Zero and A Larger Country. He is co-editor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology, Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine, and translator of The Heights of […]
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