Programs
Brattleboro Lit Fest Literary Cocktail Hour
- An informal monthly event featuring speakers in an entertaining, illuminating online gathering inspired by a lively cocktail hour! All events FREE via Zoom.
- Friday, December 11 @ 5 p.m. ET. Our last event of 2026 features the Vermont-set historical novel How Long a Shadow, by Cheryl A. Ossola (🇮🇹!!)
- Please register here or use the QR code below!
For past Literary Cocktail Hours, please visit our YouTube Channel.
Words Trail
From Abenaki petroglyphs and the first known African American poet Lucy Terry Prince, to Nobel Laureates like Saul Bellow, Jody Williams, and Rudyard Kipling, these surprising, artistic, community-created audio stories link places to people to create a unique Vermont experience exploring America’s most storied small town!
This project was launched with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and we are proud to be a partner; to celebrate the rich history of words in the town of Brattleboro.
Listen to these audio stories by visiting Brattleboro Words.
Or download the Brattleboro Words app for your mobile device and take an audio driving tour!
Also in conjunction with the Brattleboro Words Trail is the book Print Town: Brattleboro’s Legacy of Words. With concise history and brilliant photographs, it is a compendium of Brattleboro’s printing, publishing, and literary history from the 1700’s to the present. Available at area bookstores and libraries.