Welcome to the Newburyport Literary Festival!

We are a vibrant community of readers and writers who come together each year to bask in the love of reading. A celebration of literature, from fiction to poetry to non-fiction and biography, the festival features author readings, panel discussions, and book signings held in venues across historic Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Schedule of Events:

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Opening Night Ceremony: Considering the Kennedys, a Conversation With Dawn Tripp and Kate Clifford Larson

Just when you thought you'd read enough about Jackie O, author Dawn Tripp brings the former first lady to life in her novel Jackie. Fueled by research, Tripp writes from a first-person perspective about Jackie Kennedy Onassis' many lives, public and private, in "an intimate episodic narrative," according to The Washington Post. Tripp will be joined in conversation by historian Kate Clifford Larson, author of Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter and an upcoming biography of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, Jackie's sister-in-law and Bobby Kennedy's wife.

Presenter: Dawn Tripp
Moderator: Kate Clifford Larson

7:30 pm: Join Us for Supper With the Authors!

Tickets $25 at the door or order online (below) and there will be a cash bar.