2026 Festival

Join us from September 15-18, 2026 on Yale's campus for performances, readings, panels, film screenings, and more. All events are free and open to the public!

Events

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SepSeptember2026

  1. Food Truck Welcome

    College Street Tent

  2. Windham-Campbell Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Yiyun Li

    Yale Center for British Art, Lecture Hall

  3. Morning Wake Up

    College Street Tent

  4. Poetry and Songwriting

    College Street Tent

  5. Science and Fiction

    College Street Tent

  6. The Father of the Man: The Last Author Portrait Sitting with Cormac McCarthy

    College Street Tent

  7. The Velvets and the Underground 1960-1970

    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

  8. Brother and Sister (2022): Film Screening

    Humanities Quadrangle, L02

  9. Day of the Slave: A Carnival Conversation

    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

  10. Staged Readings of Drama Works

    Yale University Art Gallery, Main Entrance

  11. Morning Wake Up

    College Street Tent

  12. Reading and Writing Lives

    College Street Tent

  13. A Pop-Up Cosmography of the New Haven Green: A Walking Workshop

    College Street Tent

  14. Reading and Writing Places

    College Street Tent

  15. Staging South Asia

    College Street Tent

  16. Writing Climates

    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

  17. Staging Zora Neale Hurston

    Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Mezzanine

  18. Prize Recipient Readings

    Yale University Art Gallery, York Street Entrance