Touché! A Tournament of Words

by desmond | Jun 2, 2019

A night of mischief, joymaking, and word games to celebrate the launch of Mount Island, the new magazine for rural LGBTQ+ and POC writers and artists! Doors open at 6:30 PM for mingling and a variety of word games until 7:00 PM, when the main event begins: Touché! A...

Laundry

by desmond | Oct 3, 2018

A Brattleboro Literary Festival Special Event Laundry, as a metaphor for the personal narrative writing that women do, is all about the dirt. It’s about coming clean and putting it out in public. Bringing the personal and intimate into a public space is...

Short Stories/Happy Hour

by desmond | Oct 3, 2018

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...

Brattleboro Literary Festival: “True As Steel” by Christina Gibbons & Don McLean

by desmond | Sep 24, 2018

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...