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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​​​​​​​The 2024 WIT Festival features a special lineup of conversations with outstanding novelists, playwrights, journalists, translators, poets, critics, historians, and essayists, including:

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.

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Special thanks to our partners and sponsors

Epic Sponsor

Cromwell Harbor Foundation

Novel Sponsors

Mary Mott & Gordon Simmering – Jeryl & Steve Oristaglio – Hunter K. Runnette & Mark P. VandenBosch – Randy Grimmett & Allison Smith’s Stonover Farm

Biography Sponsor

Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo

Memoir Sponsors

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

Partners

The Berkshire Eagle
Berkshire Magazine
The Bookstore
Canyon Ranch
Harper’s Magazine
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
The Red Lion Inn

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2024 WIT Literary Festival Committee

Hunter K. Runnette, Committee Chair

Marie Arana
André Bernard
Richard Thompson Ford
Taryn Leavitt
Ann Lombard
Laura Pedersen
Roxana Robinson
Allison Smith
Wendy Strothman