Amherst’s 8th annual LitFest took place on February 23-26, 2023 and included Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als; MacArthur Fellowship winner Valeria Luiselli; and 2022 National Book Award finalists Meghan O’Rourke and Ingrid Rojas Contreras, among others. See highlights of the festival below.
In this session, Valeria Luiselli and Jennifer Acker engage in a conversation about the fiction writing process. Watch more videos from LitFest 2023.
At her Litfest 2023 craft talk, the poet Victoria Chang shared works by Ross Gay and Terry Tempest Williams — then had the students create their own verse. In real time.
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In February 2023, Amherst College’s 8th annual LitFest brought writers and readers together for three days of conversations and readings that celebrated literature.
Novelists Viet Thanh Nguyen and Katie Kitamura talked to students about creating characters, time frame, language, and more.
LitFest is sponsored by the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College, The Common magazine and The Emily Dickinson Museum and is made possible by the generous support of the Croxton Lecture Fund, established in 1988 by William M. Croxton ’36 in memory of his parents, Ruth L. and Hugh W. Croxton. Income from this fund is to be used to educate Amherst students and to bring attention to the College by virtue of the renown of speakers underwritten by the fund.