Call for event proposals for the Tahoe Literary Festival: Deadline July 29, 2024

The Tahoe Literary Festival, happening for the first time this October 11 & 12, 2024, is for you.

Maybe you attended the Sierra Poetry Festival in Nevada City over these past 8 years. Maybe you enjoy a Wednesday evening in the summer listening to poetry at the Tahoe Backyard while sipping Bear Belly Brews. Maybe you browse the shelves at Word After Word in downtown Truckee on a weekly basis. Or you've participated in any of the other open mics, library workshops, Community of Writers Conferences in Olympic Valley (celebrating 50 years of summer workshops!) or Writers in the Woods readings. 

Maybe you have a writing group you meet with for inspiration? Maybe you publish your work? Maybe you write in private?

Do you love to read? Do you read to your children? Do you visit the library for books to listen to? Are you part of a book club that meets once a month to celebrate reading (and food) and the community and the empathy that literature evokes?

Literature, reading and writing, allow us to develop our compassion for people we don't know, for people we may not even be able to imagine. In an interview with Marilynne Robinson in The New York Review of Books, Nov. 19, 2015, Barack Obama said:

When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I’ve learned I think I’ve learned from novels. It has to do with empathy. It has to do with being comfortable with the notion that the world is complicated and full of grays, but there’s still truth there to be found, and that you have to strive for that and work for that. And the notion that it’s possible to connect with some[one] else even though they’re very different from you.

The Tahoe Literary Festival is a two day event happening in various wonderful venues in Tahoe City on October 11 and 12, 2024. Through author readings, workshops, panels, music, open mic, and other offerings, the festival will gather our talented local community of writers and readers to celebrate the theme of "spirit of place" through the art of language in its many forms.

Call for submissions: We are calling on  all writers, poets, songwriters, editors, and community groups to please submit your ideas for panels, workshops, book talks, readings, or masterclasses by July 29. The festival theme is "Spirit of Place."

The Tahoe Literary Festival is being presented by Tahoe Guide and The Seasoned Sage. Festival sponsors are Tahoe City Downtown Association, Wildbound PR, Tangled Roots Writing, Yoga Room Tahoe, Gatekeeper’s Museum, SNOW Museum and Tahoe Wine Collective. 

 

Festival events will be held at Yoga Room Tahoe, Gatekeeper’s Museum, SNOW Museum and Tahoe Wine Collective, with more venues to be announced.

 

All events will be offered for free to local high school and college students to attend, and several scholarships will be available. Festival tickets will be available soon. 

 

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of the inaugural Tahoe Literary Festival, becoming a lodging partner, or participating as a moderator or presenter, please email Katherine Hill at kat@tahoelitfest.com or Priya Hutner at priya@tahoelitfest.com.