AG Events
Friday, September 27-Sunday, September 29, 2024
Shakespeare & Company, 70 Kemble Street, Lenox, Massachusetts
We’re looking forward to returning to the Berkshires this fall for the third installment of the WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Literary Festival! We hope you can join us September 27-29 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA as we explore the theme The Power of Words: Why Writers Matter.
Seat selection will open on Wednesday, July 10 for sponsors and supporters at the Friend level (Friend Supporter packages are available for $1,500 or $2,500; click the “sponsor” button below for more information.) Giving Society members (donors who have given $1,000 or more this fiscal year) will also be able to purchase tickets on that date. Individual session tickets will start at $15.
Tickets will become available to purchase on Wednesday, July 24 for the general public.
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Jennifer Egan & Joseph O’NeillFriday, September 27, at 1 p.m.
Emily Wilson & Stephen Greenblatt Friday, September 27, at 3:30 p.m.
Tony Kushner & Rachel Maddow Saturday, September 28, at 10 a.m.
Ruth Simmons & Sherrilyn Ifill Saturday, September 28, at 1 p.m.
Cathy Park Hong & Sayed Kashua Saturday, September 28, at 3:30 p.m.
Jamaica Kincaid & Sandra GuzmánSunday, September 29, at 10 a.m.
Ruth Reichl & Monique TruongSunday, September 29, at 1 p.m.
Marie Arana & Luis Alberto UrreaSunday, September 29, at 3:30 p.m.
If you are interested in a partnership or sponsorship opportunity, please contact Deborah Wilson, executive director of the Authors Guild Foundation, at dwilson@authorsguildfoundation.org or Bernard Schwartz, executive producer of literary programming, at bschwartz@authorsguildfoundation.org.
Click here to watch recordings of sessions from past WIT Festivals.
Cromwell Harbor Foundation
Mary Mott & Gordon Simmering – Jeryl & Steve Oristaglio – Hunter K. Runnette & Mark P. VandenBosch – Randy Grimmett & Allison Smith’s Stonover Farm
Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo
Marie Arana & Jonathan Yardley – Patrick Atkinson – Pier Boutin, MD – Marcia Z. Feuer – Walter & Gerry Fiederowicz – Ann & Peter Herbst – Valerie Ann Hyman & Allen I. Hyman, MD – Taryn & Mark Leavitt – Ann & Peter Lombard – October Mountain Financial Advisors – Laura Pedersen – Amy Davidson Sorkin & David Sorkin – Wendy Strothman & John Bishop
The Berkshire EagleBerkshire MagazineThe BookstoreCanyon RanchHarper’s MagazineMahaiwe Performing Arts CenterThe Red Lion Inn
Hunter K. Runnette, Committee Chair
Marie Arana André Bernard Richard Thompson Ford Taryn Leavitt Ann Lombard Laura PedersenRoxana RobinsonAllison Smith Wendy Strothman