2024 Salem Literary Festival Registration

The 2024 Salem Lit Fest is September 4-8.

Sign up for as many sessions as you like!

Wednesday, September 4—Online only
7:00 p.m. In Conversation: Geraldine Brooks and Brunonia Barry

Thursday, September 5—Online only
7:00 p.m. Found in Translation with Jennifer Croft and Hannah Weber, moderated by Diane Stern

Friday, September 6—In person
6–8:00 p.m. Enduring Hawthorne performances @ House of the Seven Gables
Separate Registration Required—click here!

Saturday, September 7—In person
Children’s Lit Fest*—Community Life Center, 401 Bridge Street, 10:00 a.m. – noon
    Sensory Friendly Story Time 10:00–10:20 a.m.—CLC, Room 201 (2nd floor)
    Story Time 10:30 – 11:30 a.m.; Crafts, snacks & book signings 11:30–noon—CLC Great Room
      *Self-guided Story Walk in the Peabody Essex Museum's Ropes Mansion garden with Rocket Ship, Solo Trip will be open from September 5 – 8.

Young Adult Sessions—Salem State University, Berry Library, 4 College Drive, 2:30-5:00 p.m.

General Sessions—Salem Five Community Room, 210 Essex Street, 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
    Evening Session at Gulu Gulu Café, 247 Essex Street, 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, September 8—Online only
10:00 a.m. Writing Lives Touched by Prison
Andre Dubus III, Caroline Leavitt, and Jean Trounstine

Sunday, September 8—In person
@ Salem Academy Charter School (SACS), 45 Congress Street

1:30 p.m. Susan Solomon, Solvable: How We Healed the Earth and How We Can Do It Again

3:00 p.m. One Book, One Salem—Master, Slave, Husband, Wife
In conversation: Ilyon Woo and Dr. Elizabeth Herbin-Triant