Welcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020!

Our fifth FREE online event is a conversation about reading, writing, and the role of libraries. Please note this event has been pre-recorded so the Q&A function is disabled.

Montclair Public Library Director Peter Coyl talks with Newark Librarian Maisy Card about her electric family saga, These Ghosts are Family, and about how being a librarian impacted her as a writer. They are joined by Leah Price, founder and director of the Rutgers Initiative for the Book and author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Books, to consider the importance of reading and the role of libraries, how they create readers and writers, and our shared responsibility for the history and future of reading.

All authors appear for free and the best way to thank and support them is by buying their books!

All books can be purchased from Festival partner Watchung Booksellers.

Succeed2gether’s fourth annual Montclair Literary Festival was scheduled for March 25 to 29, 2020. Due to the current health crisis, Festival Day is now taking place online on Saturday September 12, 2020. See all of the talks by following us on Crowdcast or visiting our website events page here.

The festival is a fundraiser for Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education and opportunity gaps in Essex County, NJ. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org. Please donate via Paypal here.

The festival organizing committee wishes to thank event partners Succeed2gether staff, Montclair Public Library, First Congregational Church, and Watchung Booksellers, and festival sponsors Rao's, Montclair State University, West of Hudson Realty Group, and community members.

The Future of Reading