The Nantucket Book Festival will take place from June 15 - 18, 2023.

Please tell us if you plan to attend by clicking the first event and registering!

Registration is free and you do not need to show proof of registration to attend the Festival, but your registration will help us prepare for the weekend and allow us to send you news of updates and changes!

With the 2023 Nantucket Book Festival just around the corner, we need your help to raise the necessary funds. Please send your tax-deductible contribution today by using the donate button below, or by mailing your contribution to P.O. Box 5267, Nantucket, MA 02554.

Please direct your questions to [email protected], and we look forward to seeing you in June!

Schedule

June 15, 2023

1:00pm—1:45pm : Samantha Hunt: The Unwritten Book  - Atheneum Great Hall

Award-winning author Samantha Hunt will talk about her most recent, and first non-fiction, book, The Unwritten Book, an investigation into our relationships with the dead.

2:00pm—2:45pm : Wyn Cooper: Way Out West  - Atheneum Great Hall

Poet and Novelist Wyn Cooper will talk to us about writing a novel as a poet, as we consider both his novel Way Out West, described as a “wild ride through a rough landscape imbued with poetry and pain” and his most recent collection of poetry, Mars Poetica, an exploration of life lived through comprehending both our exterior and interior worlds in attempt to balance an unbalanced world.

3:00pm—3:45pm : Danielle Trussoni with Tim Weed - Atheneum Great Hall

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle-maker is thrust into an ancient mystery in this suspenseful thriller just published this week, The Puzzle Master. Join New York Times best-selling author Danielle Trussoni and Nantucketer Tim Weed, author of A Field Guide to Murder & Fly Fishing, as they put all the puzzle pieces together on this thrilling tome of myth and mystery.

4:00pm—4:45pm : Tiya Miles: The Cherokee Rose - Atheneum Great Hall

National Book Award winner Tiya Miles will talk about her experience spanning the borders of fiction and history in her novel The Cherokee Rose.

9:00pm :  Authors in Bars - Nantucket Hotel Breeze Bar

Join several of this year’s authors in a comfortable after-hours setting, while enjoying your favorite beverage.

Admission is free; cash bar.

Friday June 16, 2023

9:00am—9:45am:  Emma Straub with Tim Ehrenberg: This Time Tomorrow  -  Methodist Church
10:00am—10:45am :  Dolen Perkins-Valdez: Take My Hand  - Methodist Church  
11:00am—11:45am :  Hernan Diaz: Trust  - Methodist Church
12:00pm—12:45pm : Sarah Stodola with Mindy Todd - Methodist Church
2:00pm—2:45pm : Sebastian Junger with Michael Schulder  -  Methodist Church
3:00pm—3:45pm : Jessie Greengrass with Mary Bergman: The High House  - Methodist Church
4:00pm—4:45pm : Tracy Kidder and Dr. James O'Connel with Rob Cocuzzo: Rough Sleepers  - Methodist Church
4:00pm—5:30pm : Nantucket Young Playwrights -  White Heron Theatre
6:30pm—7:30pm : Opening Night Celebration: On Freedom - Unitarian Universalist Meeting House  
7:30pm—10:00pm : White Elephant Brant Point Grill  - Author Dinner, Presented by the White Elephant Hotel

June 17, 2023

Saturday June 17, 2023

9:00am—9:45am : L Stacy Schiff with Nat Philbrick  - Methodist Church
10:00am—10:45am : Ilyon Woo with Mary Haft - Methodist Church  
11:00am—11:45am : Rising Seas, Writing Stories: The Literature of Climate Change - Methodist Church
12:00pm—12:45pm : Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan with Tim Ehrenberg - Methodist Church
2:00pm—2:45pm : Kirk Wallace Johnson with Mindy Todd  - Methodist Church
3:00pm—3:45pm : Imani Perry with Michael Schulder - Methodist Church
4:00pm—4:45pm : Sally Bedell Smith with Mary Haft - Methodist Church
7:00pm—9:00pm : Poetry and Music at the Box - Chicken Box

Sunday June 18, 2023

10:00am—10:45am : Nantucket History: Non-Fiction & Novels  -  Atheneum Great Hall
11:00am—11:45am : Holly Finigan with Jenny Johnson  -  Atheneum Great Hall
12:00pm—12:45pm : Luke Russert with Rob Cocuzzo  -  Atheneum Great Hall
1:00pm—4:00pm :  Cisco Brewers Send-Off - Cisco Brewers

Date: June 15-18, 2023

Location: Various Venues in  Nantucket, MA 02554

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