Save the date: This year’s Word festival will take place October 23 through 26
Thanks to everyone who joined us for Word 2024!
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Many thanks to the delicious sponsors donating to the
Taste of the Blue Hill Peninsula
benefit reception
Aragosta Barncastle
The Blue Hill Coop The Blue Hill Wine Shop
Brooklin Candy Company
The Brooklin Inn Bucklyn Coffee
El El Frijoles Hannaford Supermarket
Marlintini’s Bar & Grill Morning Moon Café
Siam Sky
Every October, Word brings together readers, writers, and tellers of tales to celebrate the written and spoken word—fiction and non-fiction, children’s literature, poetry, drama, nonfiction, storytelling and more. The festival takes place in Blue Hill, Maine where a literary tradition of great thinkers and artists extends over two hundred years and includes Jonathan Fisher, Mary Ellen Chase, and E.B. White to name a few. Many writers continue to call the Blue Hill peninsula home as does a large community of passionate readers. To celebrate this rich heritage, Word presents three days of author appearances featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling authors, as well as local luminaries, a poetry showcase, writing workshops, panel discussions, school events, and spoken word performances to sold out crowds.
Past speakers include Jonathan Lethem, Jennifer Egan, Lily King, Phuc Tran, Joe Hill, A.O. Scott, Susan Choi, Monica Wood, Kerri Arsenault, and Stuart Kestenbaum.
Word is made possible by the generous support of many community businesses and partner organizations as well as individual donors and volunteers. We are deeply grateful to our fiscal sponsor, Blue Hill Community Development, and to all sponsors and supporters of Blue Hill’s literary festival. Partners include WERU-FM, the Blue Hill Public Library, and Blue Hill Books.
Contact Us
word.bluehill@gmail.com
facebook.com/Word.BlueHill/
Word is a non-profit organization with fiscal sponsorship from Blue Hill Community Development