The Brattleboro Literary Festival kicks off this year's 4-day event with a reprise of the play "True As Steel," a play about the life and times of Royall Tyler, the most important Vermont writer of the Federalist era. In 1991 to commemorate the Vermont statehood Bicentennial, Christina Gibbons and Don McLean co-wrote "True as Steel," […]
Join 2018 Festival authors Stefan Merrill Block, Kate Greathead, and Noy Holland, along with special guests Michael Preston and Matthew Dicks for improvisational storytelling based on Synapsis, a new storytelling prompt and game from Storymatic Studios (Brian Mooney and Vaune Trachtman)
Here’s how it works: The storytellers will draw cards from the Synapsis box. The cards prompt them to write one sentence. Then they answer questions about the story that sentence comes from— and as they improvise their answers, they begin to discover the story, setting, and characters. Audience participation welcome!
A Little Box of Yes is kind of like if you crossed “Selected Shorts” with “Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me” and The Moth.
Brattleboro Literary Festival events at 118 Elliot, Saturday Oct. 13 - Sunday Oct. 14 Saturday, October 13 10:00 am – 11:15 am Stefan Merrill Block & Teddy Wayne 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Ryan Walsh 12:45 pm – 2:00 pm Kate Greathead & Joan Silber 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm Tom Sleigh & Alia Malek […]
A Brattleboro Literary Festival Special Event Short story readings, hosted by Tim Weed. In a short story, each paragraph, sentence, and word is more important than they would be inside a large novel. Short stories are precise with their delivery, they must capture the attention of the reader quickly, and tell a full tale from […]
