Mar 16, 2018 - Middle & High School Poetry Slam and High School Short Story Competition Prizegiving. The Sanctuary a
Wednesday March 14, 2018 Pre-Festival Events 6:30 pm Tasting Sample a range of fine artisanal wines at Amanti Vino. Free event. 30 Church St. Montclair
7:30 pm Screening Little Children, starring Patrick Wilson, based on the book by Tom Perrotta. Tickets $10 Montclair Film 505 Bloomfield Ave.
Thursday March 15, 2018
6:30 - 9:00 pm Find Your Voice! Middle & High School Poetry Slam and High School Short Story Competition Prizegiving. The Sanctuary at First Congregational Church
Friday March 16, 2018
At Montclair State University Communications Center 3:30 - 4:30 pm 6:30 - 8:30 pm Equipment for Living: An Evening with Meg Wolitzer. On Poetry and Pop 6:30 pm Meet the author. Music. Poet and critic 7:30 pm Meg Wolitzer discusses Michael Robbins talks her latest novel, The Female with Warren Zanes Persuasion, with her about how art can editor Sarah McGrath. help us make sense -or Tickets $30 Talk & book nonsense- of the world. $50 Reception, talk & book
Sunday March 18, 5:00 - 6:00 pm The Sanctuary at First Congregational Church Devotion (Why I Write). Patti Smith talks, reads from her latest book and performs with Lenny Kaye. Tickets $35 with book. All events with no ticket price are FREE Festival VIP Pass: $190 for all ticketed events
Saturday March 17, 2018
(workshops priced separately)
The YA Room Montclair Public Library
The Auditorium Montclair Public Library 11:00 am 12:00 pm
12:15 pm 1:15 pm
1:30 pm 2:30 pm
2:45 pm 3:45 pm
4:00 pm 5:00 pm
5.15 pm 6:15 pm
The Sanctuary First Congregational Church
The Guild Room First Congregational Church
Letters to Secretary DeVos. Why We Write. Nancy Star Writing without Boundaries. Laura Nicosia, Rebecca Writers from Matheny Medical & discusses the writing life with Goldstein, Leslie Wilson and Educational Center’s Arts Access Miranda Beverly-Whittemore, Masiel Rodriquez-Vars on the Marcy Dermansky, Jillian Program share their work. current educational landscape. Medoff, & Jonathan Santlofer.
Irish Women: Revolution, Romance and “The Troubles.” Elizabeth Brewer Redwine, Lucy McDiarmid, Belinda McKeon, & Colette Bryce.
Going Rogue: Alternative Ways Engage, Rage or Both? Christina Baker Kline, D.T. to Get Into Print. Min Jin Lee, Max, Garth Risk Hallberg, & Cartoonists Emily Flake, R. Sikoryak, Lauren Weinstein Kem Joy Ukwu, Ananda Lima, Matthew Thomas reveal How to & Kevin Pyle respond to Trump. Teka Lark, & Brea Tremblay. Write One True Sentence.
Quirky. Dan Hurley discusses the science behind success with innovation expert Melissa Schilling.
Joshua Zeitz talks about his new book, Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House with Leslie Wilson.
Popular children’s author Bruce Coville reveals the story behind the story of his bestselling book The Monster’s Ring.
Min Jin Lee, Dagmara Dominczyk, Nicole Dennis Benn, & Wena Poon consider the immigrant experience in fiction with Kate Tuttle.
Megan Abbott, Samantha Hunt, & Alice Elliott Dark uncover The Dark Side of the Short Story.
Alternate Side. Laura & Jim Nicosia speak Anna Quindlen in Conversation with Alex London, Sarah Beth about her latest novel Durst, Yvonne Ventresca, & with Deborah Davis. Josiah Bancroft about reinventTickets $40 with book. ing the Sci-Fi/Fantasty Genre. How to Get Published, Ghana Imani Hylton hosts a Writing the Lives of Rock Icons Survive & Thrive as a Working panel on Art as Activism with with Joe Hagan, David Yaffe, Writer with Christina Baker poets Pamela Hughes, Warren Zanes, Deborah Davis, Kline, Nicholas Delbanco, Tanya Manning-Yarde, & Thad Ziolkowski. & Reagan Arthur. Tickets $30 Teka Lark, & Elijah Brown. Jonathan Alter considers Bestselling NJ author Trump’s War with the Media Dara Horn talks with Ken with David Cay Johnston, Schlager about her latest Andrew Rosenthal, Robert novel, Eternal Life. George, & Eric Boehlert.
Jaclyn Friedman, Yasemin Halfway There Reading Series Besen-Cassino, & Susan introduces Nancy Burke, Dani Dominus discuss Women, Sex, Fleischer, Carole Stone, John Power and the #MeToo Move- J. Trause, & Kristen Witucki. ment with Patricia Matthew. “They Can’t Kill Us All.” Puliter Prize winner Wesley Lowery discusses his account of the Black Lives Matter movement with Jason Williams. Pitchapalooza! Pitch your book idea & get feedback from The Book Doctors and literary agents Susan Weinberg, Erika Turner, & Victoria Skurnick.
Saturday March 17, Evening First Congregational Church
6:30 - 7:30 pm The Sanctuary Sex, Schools, & Suburbia: Tom Perrotta and Patrick Wilson talk fiction, film & TV with Dagmara Dominczyk. Tickets $35 with book 7:30 - 9:00 pm The Guild Room Festival Party Eat, drink, meet the authors and celebrate all things books! Tickets $35 Buy both together for $50
Montclair Literary Festival benefits Succeed2gether, which works towards closing the achievement gap with after-school tutoring and education enrichment. Please support our work!
Children’s Program Saturday March 17, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm Writing Workshops Sunday March 18, 10:00 am - 2:30 pm See ffllyers/website for details
SUCCEED2GETHER.ORG For details & tickets
