From October 23-25 2008, the NH Writers' Project celebrated their 20th anniversary by hosting the first ever Portsmouth Literary Festival. RiverRun Bookstore was one of the partners, and had a blast working with the nonprofit organization on an important cultural event. RiverRun featured nationally know authors Brenda Wineapple, Hannah Tinti, and Joe Hill; and local authors participated in panels all around town. The festival was the first of five festivals to take place around the Granite State over the next five years.
Photos were taken by the talented Sofia Piel.
Historian J. Dennis Robinson mingles with Literary Idol Judge James Patrick Kelly and Ink Chronicle Panelist Bob Begiebing at RiverRun's Writers' Happy Hour.
Julie Baker, Robert Begiebing, Martha Carlson-Bradley, and J. Dennis Robinson at the panel discussion Ink Chronicles: History Across Genre.
Brenda Wineapple gives a talk on White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson at RiverRun Bookstore.
Maxine Kumin gives a reading during the Poetry, People, and Place: Creating Poetic Consciousness panel at South Church.
Senator Martha Fuller Clark commends the NH Writers' Project at the headliner event with Tom Perrotta.
