StoryFest

a Celebration of Reading, Writing, 
Ideas, and Community.

StoryFest is returning to The Westport Library, October 20-22, 2023, highlighted by famed writer Neil Gaiman, the prolific and admired author whose work includes American Gods, Coraline, and the graphic novel series The Sandman.

Gaiman will headline opening night on Friday, October 20, in the Library’s Trefz Forum, in conversation with award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. The festival will also include panel discussions on Saturday, October 21, featuring scheduled authors Angie Kim, Gabino Iglesias, Caroline Kepnes, and Josh Malerman, plus many more, with Eric LaRocca performing a staged reading of his new play, Gentle Hacksaw, Saturday evening.

StoryFest 2023 will wrap up Sunday, October 22, with a Halloween-themed children's event with Pinkalicious author Victoria Kann; PitchFest at StoryFest, a special workshop presented by Bloom Writers' Studio; and legendary guitarist Gary Lucas accompanying George Melford’s 1931 Spanish-language Dracula film with a live acoustic and electric guitar score.

The allotment of tickets for the free StoryFest 2023 keynote conversation and Fall 2023 Malloy Lecture in the Arts with author Neil Gaiman has been claimed. We will be livestreaming the talk at at no charge; more information on the livestream will be coming the week of the event. And there will be a limited number of Neil Gaiman-signed books available during StoryFest on Saturday, October 21, and Sunday, October 22.

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Like all good ideas, StoryFest was born in a coffee shop: “Wouldn’t it be cool if we brought back a literary festival to Westport?” That initial seed grew with the help of equally enthusiastic partners and friends. And it was born out of that most basic of library tenets: Access for all.

Now in its sixth year, StoryFest is proud to be the largest literary festival in Connecticut.

Hear from award-winning and debut authors about the books they have coming out this fall.

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