Exeter LitFest

March 31 to April 1, 2023

Sat., April 1st, afternoon of local authors

noon-5pm, Exeter Town Hall

Keynote at noon

(free & open to the public)

Full schedule below

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Rabia Chaudry

2023 Keynote Author

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Rabia Chaudry is an attorney, advocate, and author of the New York Times bestselling book Adnan’s Story and Executive Producer of a four-part HBO documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed. Rabia is also co-producer and co-host of the podcasts; The 45th, The Hidden Djinn, Nighty Night, and Undisclosed.

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She will discuss and sign her new book Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat and Family at LitFest. 

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~~ FULL SCHEDULE ~~

2023 Exeter LitFest

Saturday 12 - 5 PM at Exeter Town Hall

 

12-12:45 Downstairs Keynote:

Rabia Chaudry, author of Fatty Fatty Boom Boom & Adnan’s Story.

Followed by book signing 12:45 – 1:30

 

1:00 to 1:45 PM Upstairs:

POETRY READING: Diannely Antigua and Ralph Sneeden, with a tribute to the late Exeter poet, Harvey Shepard. Moderated by Todd Hearon.

 

2:00 to 2:45 PM Downstairs:

Keith O’Brien, author of Paradise Falls:

The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe, in conversation with The Rev. Heidi Carrington Heath.

 

2:00 to 2:45 PM Upstairs:

Arts in Action: Celebrating Poetic Possibilities

Exeter High School teachers Dennis Magliozzi and Kristina Peterson. Listen to a selection of high school students share their slam and spoken word poetry.

Intro by Jack Herney.

 

3:00 to 3:45 PM Downstairs:

Memory and Mystery

Novelists Annie Hartnett, author of Unlikely Animals, and Lara Prescott, author of The Secrets We Kept. Moderated by Katie Henderson Adams.

 

3:00 to 3:45 PM Upstairs:

Preserving Family Histories

with June Fabre, James Nealon, and Tom Tufts. Moderated by Renay Allen.

 

4:00- 4:45 PM Downstairs:

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred.

Moderated by Frances Johnson.

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Plus check out events for kids and teens all day Saturday at the Exeter Public Library!

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~~~ SPEAKEASY~~~​

Friday, March 31,  cocktail-mixer fundraiser w/ live jazz by the Dave Limina Trio

"Exeter Goes Gatsby"

1920's garb highly encouraged

7-9pm, Mila, 1 Franklin St, Exeter

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Local Lodging 

The Inn at the Bandstand

The Hampton Inn

The Exeter Inn

The Fairfield Inn 

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