Oct 22

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Earth Book, by Todd Parr

Oct 22

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Tech Talk: Beta Readers

Oct 22

9:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Novels of GLVWG: Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, in Performance

Oct 23

10:00 am - 10:30 am

The I’m Not Scared Book, by Todd Parr

Oct 23

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Lehigh Valley Literary Magazine: All Day Meet & Greet plus Review Opportunity!

Oct 23

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Wingman: Dr Zeno’s Flashmob

Oct 23

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

“Meanwhile in the Middle of Eternity” Author Read-aloud and Meet & Greet

Oct 23

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

The Goodbye Book, by Todd Parr

Oct 23

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Robert Repino and The War With No Name, in conversation with Steve Wiggins.

Oct 23

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Angel Ackerman reads “Manipulations”

Oct 23

4:00 pm - 6:30 pm

The Unbearables: Poetry Readings

Oct 24

11:00 am - 11:30 am

The Thankful Book, by Todd Parr

Oct 24

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Bluebeard: Fractured Fable

Oct 24

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Poet Arhm Choi Wild, in conversation with Veda King Blanchard

Oct 24

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Meet Floyd Cooper: Interview with Melba Tolliver

Oct 24

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Stories from the Anthology, presented by Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group

Oct 24

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Meet the Author: Elizabeth Helen Rose, interviewed by Dianna Sinovic

Oct 21

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Gallery Talk: Easton Nights, with photographer Peter Ydeen

Free

Oct 21

Featured 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Reading: Benjamin Franklin’s The Natural Rights of Man Speech

Free

Oct 21

7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Big Easy Easton Brass Kickoff Concert & Mini-Parade

Free

Oct 21

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Reading: Lehigh Valley Poetry Group

Free

Oct 22

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group Author Anthology Reading, Meet and Greet Tables

Free

Oct 22

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Floyd Cooper Memorial Children’s Story Hour: MAX AND THE TAG-ALONG MOON

Free

Oct 22

11:00 am - 11:30 am

The Three Little Pigs, Puppet Show, with Yippee Skippy Puppet Theater

Free

Oct 22

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Children’s Halloween Book Reading and Book Signing, with author Blair Thornburgh,SKULLS!

Free

Oct 22

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Ice Cream Truck outside Fidelity Bank on Centre Square

Free

Oct 22

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Drag Queen Story Hour, with Eileen O’Brennan

Free

Oct 22

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Easton: City of Resources, with Photographer Bruce Fackenthal

Free

Oct 22

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Reading: Mother Stories, with Dr. Bonnie Winfield, Students of Lafayette College, and The Journey Home

Free

Oct 22

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Games: DEVOUR Card Game Demo and Science on a Sphere

Free

Oct 22

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Panel: Banned Books, with Easton Book Festival Board Members and Eileen O’Brennan

Free

Oct 22

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Meet & Greet Authors of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group

Oct 22

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Cindy Williams Newsome Chasing Baseball for Life and Other Adventures

Free

Oct 22

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Prince Garrett Storyhour with author Jannie Pilgram

Oct 22

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Poetry Reading: E.Lynn Alexander Find Me in the Iris

Free

Oct 22

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Poetry Reading: Nancy Scott

Free

Oct 22

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Poetry Reading: Darrell Parry Twists: Gathered Ephemera

Free

Oct 22

6:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Poetry Reading: Rebecca Reynolds

Free

Oct 22

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Panel Discussion: Sex in the Text: Making Love Between the Pages

Free

Oct 23

11:00 am - 11:30 am

Floyd Cooper Memorial Children’s Story Hour: Ruth and The Green Book, with Andy Laties and Puppets

Free

Oct 23

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Panel Discussion: Why Antisemitism? Lafayette College Students Reflect on the Writings of Dara Horn

Free

Oct 23

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Poetry Reading: Limn the Mask, with Danielle Notaro

Free

Oct 23

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Panel Discussion: Speculative Writing, with Robert Repino, Andrew Uzendoski, and Steve Wiggins

Free

Oct 23

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Live in Concert: Singer-Songwriter Dayna Kurtz, with Robert Maché

Free

Oct 24

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Virtual Short Story Panel: with Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group

Free

Oct 24

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Virtual Author Interview: Our Lady of Birth Control Sabrina Jones in conversation with Paula Hewitt Amram

Oct 24

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Author Interview: UnMasking the Mask with Arne Zaslove & Erminio Pinque — Interviewed by Rebecca Migdal

Free

Oct 24

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Virtual Video: Words in the Ward Film Collage

Free

Oct 24

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Virtual Author Discussion: Dialogues with Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group, with Dianna Sinovic & Phil Giunta

Oct 25

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Story Hour with Cats: Prince Garrett , with author Jannie Pilgrim

Free

Oct 25

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Virtual: Anatomy of a Novel, with Thomas Lubben

Free

Oct 25

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Open Mic:Poetry on the Square, hosted by Darrell Parry

Free

Oct 25

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Virtual Interview: Author Karen Lillis

Oct 25

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Virtual: Author Dialogues with Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group: Rachel Thompson & Thomas Lubben

Free

Oct 26

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Virtual: Everything You Know About Fairytales Is Wrong with Christopher Ochs

Oct 26

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Reading: Author Deborah Mortimer, Zorah and the Very Big Question

Free

Oct 26

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Virtual Author Dialogue: with Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group members Judy England-McCarthy and Janice Rodgers.

Free

Oct 27

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Virtual: Where Do Authors Get Their Ideas, with Rachel Thompson

Free

Oct 27

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Virtual Meeting: Diverse VoicesBook Club with special guest author Emerald Garner

Free

Oct 27

8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Virtual Panel Discussion: The Day of the Dead in the Works of Latinx Authors– a Words on a Wire Podcast Episode in the Making, Hosted by Daniel Chacon

Free

Oct 27

10:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Author PanelThe Work Behind the Words: with Greater Lehigh Valley Writer’s Group (GLVWG)

Free

Oct 28

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Author Speak: Lehigh Valley Ghosts,with Katherine Ramsland

Free

Oct 28

6:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Grand Launch of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group Permanent Bookshelf!

Free

Oct 28

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Big Nazo Creature Parade with Big Easy Easton Brass during Easton Out Loud 

Free

Oct 28

7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

World War 3 Illustrated Magazine Artist Slideshows: Seth Tobocman, Kevin Pyle, Fly, Rebecca Migdal, Jenny Gonzalez-Blitz, Terry Tapp

Free

Oct 29

9:00 am - 11:00 am

Kids Art Workshop: Floating Painted Cardboard Cut-Outs, with Big Nazo

Free

Oct 29

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group Author Reading and Tables

Free

Oct 29

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Reading: Mermaids Fast Asleep, with author Robin Riding

Free

Oct 29

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Writing Graphic Novels with Victoria Jamieson, author of When Stars Are Scattered

Free

Oct 29

11:00 am - 11:30 am

The Frog Prince, with Yippee Skippy Puppets

Free

Oct 29

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Reading and Author Talk: The Bookmark with Author Anne Supsic

Free

Oct 29

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Kids Reading: Mummy Makers of Egypt with artist Tamara Bower

Oct 29

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

Tucker and Zoey Adventures with Christian Bensing and Timothy Feather

Free

Oct 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Arts Program: Bonnie Winfield’s Book Making Workshop

Free

Oct 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Author Talk: Exploring the Hymnal with author Professor Christopher Phillips

Oct 29

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Meet and Greet: Young Adult Author Cyn Balog

Oct 29

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm

Story Hour: Author CK Gregory Reads Mr. Sunnyside

Oct 29

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Author Talk: CHAZAN Unfiltered, with Graphic Novelist Erminio Pinque

Oct 29

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Daedal Doodle with artist Victor Stabin

Free

Oct 29

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

“Path Lit by Lightning” Jim Thorpe Panel Discussion

Free

Oct 29

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Workshop: Zine Life,with Maryann Riker

Free

Oct 29

2:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Film Screening: Fantastic Fungi & Host Defense’s Mushroom-Fest with Sampling

Free

Oct 29

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Art WorkshopFloating Painted Cardboard Cut-Out with Big Nazo

Oct 29

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Tasting Pennsylvania Recipe Sampling with Carrie Havranek

Oct 29

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Panel Discussion: Trials of Mumia Abu Jamal, moderated by Melba Tolliver

Free

Oct 29

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

DEVOUR Card Game Demo with David Mazure

Free

Oct 29

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Author Talk: Sean Ford Only Skin Presentation

Free

Oct 29

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

An Exaltation of Poets & IF Museum Fall Exhibition

Free

Oct 30

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Floyd Cooper Storytime with Puppets A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette

Free

Oct 30

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

CHAZAN! Unfiltered: Erminio Pinque

Oct 30

12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Easton Small Press Expo

Free

Oct 30

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Author Readings: Pink Trees Press Group, the Unbearables

Free

Oct 30

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Big Nazo and YOU Join the Halloween Parade

Free

Oct 16

October 16, 2023 @ 9:00 am - October 20, 2023 @ 4:00 pm EDT

Easton Book Festival Brings Authors into the Schools

Oct 17

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Meet Levine Querido Children’s Authors J.E. Thomas and Rashin Kheiriyeh

Oct 17

7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

VIRTUAL: Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales

Oct 17

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

VIRTUAL: Words in the Ward Open Mic: Virtual Book Festival Edition

Oct 18

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

VIRTUAL: How to Resist Amazon and Why & How to Protect Bookstores and Why

Oct 18

8:30 pm - 9:30 pm

VIRTUAL: How Memoirs Heal the Social Fabric: Panel Discussion

Oct 19

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

VIRTUAL: Biblical Reception in Folklores of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas: Panel Discussion