Thank you all for a wonderful 24th annual festival. A very special thanks to our authors and donors! And we have the best audiences in the world!

The 25th annual festival will take place October 16-18, 2026.

All 2025 festival events were recorded and are available on YouTube!  Subscribe free to the BLF You Tube channel here.

The Literary Festival Virtual Cocktail Hour, Friday, July 10, at 5:00 pm(ET) will host Roosevelt scholar Michael Cullinane to discuss his new book, Theodore Roosevelt and the Tennis Cabinet. FREE and open to the public. To register click here.