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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
Rabia Chaudry
2023 Keynote Author
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.
She will discuss and sign her new book Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat and Family at LitFest.
~~ 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.
Plus check out events for kids and teens all day Saturday at the Exeter Public Library!
~~~ 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
In Exeter right now? Take a Literary Walking Tour!
(self-paced with the IZI app)
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