Charleston to Charleston Literary Festival

The Festival begins on November 6 and runs until November 15. The first festival, in 2017, was founded as a result of a collaboration between two like-minded organizations, both bearing the name of Charleston: The Charleston Trust in Sussex England, which was home to the celebrated Bloomsbury Group of artists, writers and thinkers and hosts one of the most long-standing and renowned literary festivals in the UK; and the Charleston Library Society in South Carolina, the oldest cultural organization in the American South.

This is an except from the Society’s website:

The Festival is now a standalone nonprofit organization dedicated to the arts and humanities. Famed for its Southern hospitality and showcasing beautiful venues in the historic city of Charleston, the Festival’s mission is to foster the unifying potential of literature, art and the civil exchange of humanitarian ideas. In a short space of time, it has established a reputation as one of the most inviting and prestigious literary festivals in the States.  

The first event is November 6, at 11:00 a.m. Emma Donoghue will discuss her book The Pull of the Stars. a book set in a Dublin, Ireland maternity ward in 1918 during the Great Flu. Not all of the featured books are about pandemics, of course. Two books featured on my blog will be discussed–Hamnet and The Vanishing Half. Interesting programs about nature and the environment are also on the line-up. To see more about the speakers and dates, visit

http://www.charlestontocharleston.com/schedule