The Westport Library’s annual literary festival — the largest annual literary festival in Connecticut and one of the biggest in the Northeast, featuring acclaimed author, essayist, and editor Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Difficult Women), best-selling writer Christopher Golden (Hellboy, The House of Last Resort), award-winning author Claire Messud (The Emperor’s Children, This Strange Eventful History), and National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates (Them, Blonde), plus many more.

The event will also feature a special Library tribute to the late Sybil Steinberg, the awarding of the 2024 Westport Prize for Literature, a Saturday evening Masters Storytelling event, and a PitchFest workshop delivered by Bloom Writers’ Studio.

Like all good ideas, StoryFest was born in a coffee shop: “Wouldn’t it be cool if we brought back a literary festival to Westport?” That initial seed grew with the help of equally enthusiastic partners and friends. And it was born out of that most basic of library tenets: Access for all.

Now in its seventh year, StoryFest is proud to be the largest literary festival in Connecticut.

Hear from award-winning and debut authors about the books they have coming out this fall.