Literary Boston

Your Guide to the Boston Literary Community

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Local Literary News

What’s going on in the Boston literary community

  • Lovestruck Books Awarded Best of Boston

  • MAAH Stone Book Awards Announces Long List

  • Parkside Bookshop Summer Reading Challenge

  • Ploughshares Summer Edition is Now Out

  • 826 Boston Announces New Senior Director of Advancement

  • Shirley Jackson Awards Announced

  • Headliners Announced for Night of 1,000 Stories

  • Longfellow Summer Arts Festival Returns July and August

  • Shakespeare on the Common Return July 22–August 9

  • Minuteman Library Crawl August 3–8

  • Boston Poetry Marathon Returns Aug. 8–9

  • Sinners & Stardust Returns August 14–16

  • 6th Annual Ifeanyi Menkiti Memorial Reading Aug. 27

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Features

Features
Beyond BookTok: Boston's Booksellers and Librarians on the Front Lines of Community Engagement
Beyond BookTok: Boston's Booksellers and Librarians on the Front Lines of Community Engagement

When it comes to connecting readers to books, tracking trends, and building community every day, the local booksellers and librarians are the ones we should be listening to.

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The Literary Salons of Boston’s Past — and Why I’m Starting a New One
The Literary Salons of Boston’s Past — and Why I’m Starting a New One

Boston has always been a city of literary conversation. Its history of literary salons offers a model for a different kind of literary event — one built not just on listening, but on conversation.

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TBR and the Importance of Writing Conferences
TBR and the Importance of Writing Conferences

When writing can feel increasingly solitary, the TBR Conference reminded us of why craft, business, and in-person literary community still matter.

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New books by Boston Authors

New Books by Boston Authors
The Forest Becomes Her
The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby: Inside a Billionaire Family's Quest to Craft a Christian Nation
Eleven Kinds of Blue
What Remains of You
Names Have Been Changed
Cocked and Boozy: An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution
The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
Westerly
Ripple Effects: And Other Stories
Artifacts
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Boston-Area Readings and Events

A complete list of local literary events, collected from over 140 local event websites.

Local Readings & Events
Petrichor Bookstore Pop-Up
Reading Romance Boston Book Club
Queer Reads Book Club
Angela Pelster
Dave Wedge
Lizzie Buehler
Laura Garden
Literature Junkies Book Club
Ian MacKenzie
Danielle Jones, Deborah Leipziger, and Clay Ventre
Fiction Book Club
2026 NorthBeast Regional Poetry Slam & Festival
Radhika Singh
Diana Arterian and Marina Omar
Jeza Belle
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Boston Literary History

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Boston Literary History Tours

This season’s tours:

Ink & Cobblestones: A Walk Through Boston’s Literary Past

Crimson Quills: The Literary History of Harvard Square


Revolutionary Words: A Literary Walk Through the Writings that Inspired Independence

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Summer 2026

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Fall 2026 | Registration Now Open!

Boston Classics, a foundational introduction to the city’s literary past, starts Sept. 9.

Boston Gothic, a seasonal exploration of the dark side of Boston's literary past, starts Oct. 1.

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Since 2012, Literary Boston has helped people discover, learn about, and participate in Boston’s literary community through original reporting, community news, an events calendar, resources, local authors coverage, tours, classes, and more.

The Boston literary community is vibrant, diverse, and has great roots. We desire to be a resource to writers and readers, providing the information and tools necessary to know what great readings to go to, what workshops to attend, what books to read, where to pick up a new novel, and more — the go-to spot for all things literary in Boston!