BEACON, NY

June 13 2026
Beacon Litfest

PAST EVENTS AT VENUES INCLUDING

Bookstores: Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY) · Books Are Magic (Brooklyn, NY) · Liz's Book Bar (Brooklyn, NY) · Strand Bookstore ​(New York, NY) · ​McNally Jackson (New York, NY) · Trident Booksellers (Boston, MA) · Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA) · ​R.J. Julia (Madison, CT) · Kinderhook Books (Kinderhook, NY) · ​Watchung Booksellers (Montclair, NJ) · Words Bookstore (Maplewood, NJ) · Gramercy Books (Bexley, OH) · ​Left Bank Books (St. Louis, MO) · Square Books (Oxford, MS) · Lemuria Books (Jackson, MS) · Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA) · Third Place Books (Seattle, WA) · Green Apple Books on the Park (San Francisco, CA) · Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA) · Kepler's Books (Menlo Park, CA) · Skylight Books (Los Angeles, CA) · ​Magic City Books (Tulsa, OK) · Literati (Ann Arbor, MI) · Barnes & Noble (Edin, MN) · ​Powell's (Portland, OR) · Interabang Books (Dallas, TX) · ​Parnassus (Nashville, TN) · Books & Books (Coral Gables, FL) · Politics & Prose (Washington, DC) · ​Shakespeare & Co Rittenhouse (Philadelphia, PA) · Riverstone Bookstore (Pittsburgh, PA) · Exile in Bookville (Chicago, IL)

Libraries: New York Public Library (New York, NY) · Brooklyn Public Library (Brooklyn, NY) · Goshen Public Library & Historical Society (Goshen, NY) · Port Washington Public Library (Port Washington, NY) · Harrison Public Library (Harrison, NY) · East Hampton Library (East Hampton, NY) · ​Newport Beach Public Library (Newport Beach, MA) · Sturgis Library (Barnstable, MA) · Darien Public Library (Darien, CT) · Westport Library (Westport, CT) · Montclair Public Library (Montclair, NJ) · Manville Public Library (Manville, NJ) · Mountain Lakes Public Library (Mountain Lakes, NJ) · Princeton Public Library (Princeton, NJ) · Highland Park Public Library (Highland Park, IL) · St. Louis County Library (St. Louis, MO) · Broward Public Library Foundation (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

Schools: New York University (New York, NY) ·  Barnard College (New York, NY) ·  The New School (New York, NY) · St. Joseph's University (Brooklyn, NY) · ​Westminster School (Simsbury, CT) · Ethel Walker School (Simsbury, CT) · Montclair High School (Montclair, NJ) · Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) · Williams College (Williamstown, MA) · Randolph College (Lynchburg, VA) · Berea College (Berea, KY) · Auburn University (Auburn, AL) · University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) · University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Organizations: The Writer's Center (Washington, DC) · Center for Fiction (Brooklyn, NY) · Blue Stoop (Philadelphia, PA) · ​Catapult (New York, NY) · Irish Arts Center (New York, NY) · ​Cosmopolitan Club (New York, NY) · National Arts Club (New York, NY) · Montclair Golf Club (Montclair, NJ) · Women's Club of Glen Ridge (Glen Ridge, NJ) · ​Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL) · StoryStudio (Chicago, IL) · Appalshop (Whitesburg, KY) · Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, MA) · Wellesley College Club (Wellesley, MA) · Les Bleus Literary Salon (New York, NY) · Brickell Avenue Literary Society (Miami, FL) · Public Library Association (Columbus, OH) · Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (Olympia, WA) · Hedgebrook (Seattla, WA) · Hugo House (Seattle, WA) · ​Carl-Schurz-Haus (Breisgau, Germany)

Festivals: Brooklyn Book Festival (Brooklyn, NY) ·  Southampton Writers Conference (Southampton, NY) · Sun Valley Writers' Conference (Sun Valley, ID) · Portland Book Festival (Portland, OR) · Harbor Springs Festival of the Book (Harbor Springs, MI) · Literary Sojourn (Steamboat Springs, CO) · ​Provincetown Book Festival (Provincetown, MA) · Brattleboro Literary Festival (Brattleboro, VT) · Montclair Literary Festival (Montclair, NJ) ·  Albany Book Festival (Albany, NY) · 1455 Summer Literary Festival (Winchester, VA) · Mississippi Book Festival (Jackson, MS) · Tucson Festival of Books (Tucson, AZ) · AJC Decatur Book Festival (Decatur, GA) · Texas Book Festival (Austin, TX) · Miami Book Fair (Miami, FL) · Pordenonelegge (Pordenone, Italy) · Crossing Border Festival (The Hague, Netherlands) · Perth Festival (Perth, WA, Australia) · Adelaide Writers' Week (Adelaide, SA, Australia)