The 2024 Charleston Literary Festival will take place November 1 – 10, featuring a wide variety of noted authors, thinkers, and speakers. SC Humanities supported this program with a Major Grant.
The Charleston Literary Festival was founded in 2017 as a result of an Anglo-American collaboration between the historic Charleston Library Society in the US and the Charleston Trust in the UK – the former rural meeting place of the renowned Bloomsbury Group of writers, artists and intellectuals. The Charleston Literary Festival is now an independent, not-for-profit 501(c)3 enterprise which retains a strong transatlantic dimension. Since its first appearance in 2017, the Festival has established a reputation for presenting exceptional speakers from diverse backgrounds in intimate contexts: Pulitzer, Booker and Nobel prize-winners and authors regularly cited in books-of-the-year lists.
The 2024 Charleston Literary Festival has a stellar lineup of speakers and programs, including Andre Aciman, Nikki Giovanni, Rachel Kushner, Catherine Lacey, Attica Locke, Claire Messud, Paul Murray, Jayne Anne Phillips, Colm Tóibín, Ilyon Woo, and many others. The full schedule of speakers and events is available on the website: https://www.charlestonliteraryfestival.com.
For the upcoming festival, SC Humanities grant funds are specifically supporting the festival’s “strategic access initiatives,” including the third annual Charleston READS! community session. The 2024 Charleston READS! book is Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo, which won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for biography. The event will take place on Sunday, November 10 at 4:00 p.m. Other access initiatives include discounted tickets for students, a young writers award, an adult fellowship prize, and a digital access initiative to offer live-streamed events and edited videos of sessions on YouTube for free.
The Charleston Literary Festival specializes in high-quality events that create perspective-altering conversations with world-renowned authors and thinkers. Charleston Literary Festival’s distinctive international ethos offers attendees the opportunity to engage with renowned authors in unique settings and to contribute to conversations around outstanding books and ideas. Learn more: https://www.charlestonliteraryfestival.com/.
The mission of SC Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Established in 1973, this 501(c)3 organization is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state. It presents and supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos, and other humanities-based experiences that directly or indirectly reach more than 250,000 citizens annually. South Carolina Humanities receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as corporate, foundation and individual donors. The National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
