2024 Spring Writes
Literary Festival
May 2nd to 5th: Live events in downtown Ithaca:
May 11th to 18th: Zoom events
through September: live and Zoom workshops continue
The 16th annual Spring Writes Literary Festival will feature over 100 local and regional writers, in over 40 literary themed events. 20 live panels, readings, workshops, performances and happenings will take place in downtown Ithaca locations from Thursday, May 2nd to Sunday, May 5th with Zoom events from May 11th to the 18th. Writing workshops, both Zoom and live continue through September.
The Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County. CAP organized the first Festival in 2009 in collaboration with the New York State Council on the Arts to shine a light on the abundance of literary talent in our region and to bring writers and audiences together. It has grown from 12 events that first year to 40 events in recent years.
Events include panels, readings, performances, happenings, and workshops that can be of interest to established or emerging writers, and/or the literary-loving general public.
Admission is free to the general public. (Some events with community partners may have a cover fee.)
Find this past year's Spring Writes event recordings along with a list of the 110 participating artists.
The 2024 lineup will be on this site by April 1st.
Free and Open to the Public
Registration is required. Come back on April 1st to register for events!
NYSCA, and Poets & Writers
The Spring Writes Literary Festival is made possible with support from Poets and Writers and Tompkins County Tourism.
Thank you to all our sponsors, media sponosrs and funders
If you love what we do, please consider donating to this event!
Funds help pay the writers.