Dinner with the Authors, Newburyport Literary Festival, Friday April 23rd

April 23, 2010

When: Friday, April 23rd, 7:30 pm
Where: Nicholson Hall, 7 Harris Street, Newburyport MA

Dinner with the Authors at the 5th Annual Newburyport Literary Festival 2010

A great way to start off the Fifth Annual Newburyport Literary Festival is to attend the Dinner With The Authors on Friday April 23 at 7:30 pm at Nicholson Hall, Newburyport. You can ,ix and mingle with your favorite festival authors!

The festival starts on Friday, April 23rd at the Firehouse Centre for the Arts. The ceremony is followed by our Dinner with the Authors at Nicholson Hall.

Cost: $50 per person

Saturday continues the celebration with a full day of activities from Coffee with the Poets to the closing ceremony. This festival promises to have something for every reader.

About the 5th Annual Newburyport Literary Festival 2010

With a rich literary heritage, the greater Newburyport area has a lot to be excited about. Writers as diverse as John Greenleaf Whittier, John P. Marquand, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Andre Dubus II have called Newburyport home.

Newburyport will once again be welcoming local and national authors and readers alike to celebrate Literature, Readers and Writers at the Fifth Annual Newburyport Literary Festival (NLF), organized by the Newburyport Literary Association, on April 23rd and 24th, 2010 in downtown Newburyport.

Located in Newburyport, Massachusetts, with its rich literary heritage, the Newburyport Literary Festival is a unique opportunity for local and nearby community members to meet with and to hear from well-known authors from every genre in a picturesque setting.

The NLF in 2010 features more than 40 writers of distinguished fiction and non-fiction – including short story writers, children’s authors, biographers, nature writers, critics, screenwriters, poets, novelists, and journalists – who will read and discuss their work in venues throughout Newburyport’s historic downtown

2010 Literary Festival Honoring Late Novelist John P. Marquand
The Newburyport Literary Festival this year is pleased to honor the late John P. Marquand (1893-1960), a Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist and a longtime resident of Newburyport.