https://exeternh.zoom.us/webin... - April 1st Keynote - zoom webinar with Q&A - live on TV + Social Media
https://exeternh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIldO6trT8iEtdQViX-3kN3zH6T87lVzwbR - April 2nd Double-Shot Zoom Party - zoom meeting with everyone on audio/video - NOT live on TV/social media but will upload later
https://exeternh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__CLmhIeeQw2lB-J6idSSVA - April 3rd Susan Cole Ross event -- zoom webinar with Q&A - live on TV + social media
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EXETER__Exeter LitFest, which celebrates the literary community in and around Exeter, will take place virtually this year from April 1 to 3. The featured guest will be Exeter native Victoria Arlen.
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Arlen, current television personality for ESPN and former American Paralympic swimmer, is the author of “Locked In: The Will to Survive and the Resolve to Life.” Her book tells the miraculous story of her recovery after falling into a mysterious vegetative state at age eleven. It relates how she overcame the odds, learned to walk again, competed on Dancing with the Stars, and is now living a full life.
This year’s virtual festival will take the form of video events. During most of these events, guests will be able to interact live with the authors.
The event will kick off on Thursday, April 1 at 7 p.m. with a conversation between Victoria Arlen and local journalist and podcaster Lara Bricker. Guests will be able to submit questions via chat and email during this event.
Friday’s festivities will begin with a discussion about publishing by Exeter authors Alex Myers and Lisa Bunker. Myers is the author of three books: “Continental Divide,” “The Story of Silence,” and “Revolutionary,” which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. Bunker is the author of two books for young readers, “Felix Yz” and “Zenobia July.”
Later Friday, guests can settle in for a discussion entitled "Crime: Fact vs. Fiction," featuring Renay Allen, the author of a trilogy of mysteries set in Exeter, and Lara Bricker, author of the true crime book “Lie After Lie.”
Saturday’s events include a children’s story time from the Exeter Public Library at 9 a.m., followed by a discussion at 11 a.m. with Susan Cole Ross, an Exeter native and author of “Sliding Home: Two Teachers Head for the Mountains to Teach Our Kids for a Year”.
Exeter LitFest is a 501C-3 non-profit organization with the goal of hosting an annual literary event. The inaugural festival, in April of 2019, included a keynote by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, as well as events with Joe Hill, Brendan Dubois, and NH Teen Poet Laureate Cate Dixon. The second annual event was postponed indefinitely in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Exeter Lit Fest’s mission is “To leverage our wealth of local literary treasure, in an environmentally sustainable way, to connect both residents and tourists to the diverse literary voices and places of greater Exeter, NH for the benefit of children and adults, the local arts community, and local businesses.”
For more information, visit www.exeterlitfest.com .