Concord Festival of Authors

Mark your calendars now - the 2023 Concord Festival of Authors is right around the corner! This year's celebration will feature Keynote Speaker @jdeleonwriter, gallery talks, a live storytelling event, and a whole lot more. concordfestivalofauthors.org

Finish your whirlwind of a festival in the pool with a children’s event! On 10/31 at 1:30, join @CFPL_Updates and @ConcordRec at the Beede Swim and Fitness Center for a storytime and swim! Register for this free event: concordrec.myrec.com/info/activitie… #CFA2022 #ConcordMA

Tonight at 7, @kateflora will moderate our annual Mystery Panel at @CFPL_Updates. Join Edwin Hill, @edithmaxwell, and Carolyn Marie Wilkins for an evening of intrigue, detection, and elucidation. @ConcordLibrary #CFA2022 #CFA30th #ConcordFest #ConcordMA

Sign up for tomorrow’s virtual poetry panel, Poetry of Witness, Family Life, The Perils of our Times, featuring Emily Carlson, Max Heinegg, and David O’Connell. Sunday, 10/30, at 3 pm. Learn more and register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/poetry-panel-2… #CFA2022 #CFA30 #ConcordFest #ConcordMA

Tomorrow, 10/30, at 1 pm, E.B. Bartels and Tom McNeely will share insights into writing collections. Join them in person @CFPL_Updates. Visit our website to learn more and sign up: concordfestivalofauthors.org/writing-collec… #CFA2022 #CFA30 #ConcordFest #ConcordMA

Tonight! Join Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Matteson & screenwriter Scott Halvorsen at Orchard House at 7. They will discuss the process of turning a book into a movie. Learn more & register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/orchard-house-… #CFA2022 #CFA30 #ConcordFest #ConcordMA @LouisaMayAlcott

Concord’s @rajanilarocca, author of many books for children and young adults, will be honored as the 2022 Leslie Riedel Memorial Lecture Series presenter and award winner. Join us today at 3pm in person at @CFPL_Updates or online. Learn more and register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/leslie-riedel-…

Join us at 10:15 (today, 10:29) at the Fowler Branch of the @CFPL_Updates for a talk from @BarefootBooks author, @sheetalsheth! She will read and discuss her picture book, Making Happy. Learn more and register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/barefoot-books… #CFA2022 #CFA30 #ConcordFest #ConcordMA

Thank you to @BelmontHill history teacher Juliette Zener, founder & co-president of @robbinshouseMaria Madison and @robbinshouse Programming Director Nikki Turpin for their talk on the bequeathal of a slave bell. Be sure to visit TRH this weekend (their last open of the season!)

Join us at Trinitarian Congregational Church on 10/27 for Concord & Carlisle: Our Communities through a DEI Lens, a panel discussion featuring author Lily Geismer, presented by The League of Women Voters and Carlisle Adult Education. Learn more & register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/concord-carlis…

Register now for a virtual conversation about the Silent Spring Revolution with Brinkley, presented by the @TheWaldenWoods on Wednesday, 10/26 at 7 pm. Visit our website to learn more and sign up: concordfestivalofauthors.org/events #ConcordMA #CFA30th #ConcordFest #CFA2022

Sign up for Be Well Be Here‘s Family Narratives Writing Workshop, led by author Lynne Reeves Griffin, on 10/26 at 4 at the @CFPL_Updates. Visit our website to register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/family-narrati… #ConcordMA #CFA30th #ConcordFest #CFA2022

Thanks, @SyTheAuthor, for a wonderful talk on Saturday for the @ThoreauSociety! #ConcordMA #CFA30th #ConcordFest #CFA2022

On 10/25 at 8:30, Be Well Be Here & the @ConcordLibrary present Iranian Women & the Quest for Equality: an online convo with @MarjanKamali, celebrated author & 2022 Harvard Iranian Gala honoree. Register for the zoom link: ow.ly/UwFr50Ljtof #ConcordMA #CFA30th #CFA2022

Join Margot Anne Kelley, author of Foodtopia: Communities in Pursuit of Peace, Love & Homegrown Food, at @DebsNattyG's on 10/25, at 7 pm. She traces the line from utopian back-to-the-earth pioneers like Thoreau to today's millennial back-to-landers. concordfestivalofauthors.org/debras-natural…

Celebrate debut authors DeMisty Bellinger, Kate Dike Blair, and Namrata Patel on Monday 10/24 at 7 pm at @CFPL_Updates! Visit our website to learn more and register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/cfa-2022-debut…. #ConcordMA #CFA30th #ConcordFest #CFA2022

Young and new adults, are you ready to time travel? Sign up for this afternoon’s 1 pm writing workshop at @CFPL_Updates with teen librarian and author Cary Stough: concordfestivalofauthors.org/teen-writing-w… #ConcordMA #CFA30th #ConcordFest #CFA2022

We had a full house for our keynote speaker! Thanks to all who joined celebrated author Dr. Alan Lightman at @concordlibrary for his discussion of literary life in Concord and his thought-provoking book, Probable Impossibilities. #ConcordMA #CFA30th #ConcordFest #CFA2022

The evening event with @YungPueblo is full. Consider joining the afternoon presentation of this year's Concord Young Writers Award from Be Well Be Here and @ConcordCarlisle. Learn more and register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/concord-young-… #ConcordMA #CFA30th #ConcordFest #CFA2022 @CFPL_Updates

Calling young authors! Join @CFPL_Updatesteen librarian and author Cary Stough for a writing workshop, "Writing is Time Travel." Learn more and register: concordfestivalofauthors.org/teen-writing-w… #ConcordMA #CFA30th #ConcordFest #CFA2022