Save the date: This year’s Word festival will take place October 23 through 26
Tuesday Night Live
Susan Morrison and Daniel Zalewski on SNL, The New Yorker, and more
July 29, 7 p.m. at Working Loose in Blue Hill — Doors open at 6:45
This was a year for anniversaries: Saturday Night Live turned 50, and The New Yorker celebrated its first century. To mark the occasion, Word and Working Loose, the Blue Hill “concept shop” and art gallery, will host a conversation between two New Yorker editors, one of whom has written the definitive biography of SNL founder Lorne Michaels.
At 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, Susan Morrison, New Yorker articles editor and author of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live, will be interviewed by New Yorker executive editor Daniel Zalewski. The conversation will take place at Working Loose, 49 Main Street, Blue Hill.
Lorne came out in February and instantly became a New York Times bestseller. According to the show-biz periodical Variety, “Readers are treated to the Holy Grail for any journalist hoping to crack the show: a warts-and-all week in the life of SNL, where Morrison gets to see the real process of putting the thing together.”
Before joining The New Yorker, Morrison was editor in chief of the New York Observer and an original editor of SPY magazine. Zalewski was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and Lingua Franca before becoming The New Yorker’s features editor.
Flash in the Pan! Benefit for Word
Monday, August 4, 7:30 pm, Blue Hill town park
Come out to dance the night away and support Word
Flash! in the Pans is a community steel drum band based in Blue Hill. During the summer, Flash! performs outdoor donate-what-you-can benefit concerts for local non-profit organiza ons across Downeast Maine. The lively music celebrates the national instrument of the republic of Trinidad & Tobago and invites everyone of all ages to dance & mingle with friends & neighbors!
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