Welcome to Succeed2gether's Montclair Literary Festival 2020!

Kicking off our day of FREE online events is a Fiction discussion about Dark Matters: Outsider Female Narrators.

Mona Awad (Bunny, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl), Lauren Acampora (The Paper Wasp, The Wonder Garden) and Laura Sims (Looker) consider their female characters’ tendencies toward loneliness, obsession, delusion, and, ultimately, violence. Why are these characters and “outsider” female narrators increasingly popular, and does this mark a significant shift in representations of women in literature? Moderated by Laurie Lico Albanese, author of Stolen Beauty.

All authors appear for free and the best way to thank and support them is by buying their books!

All books can be purchased from Festival partner Watchung Booksellers.

Succeed2gether’s fourth annual Montclair Literary Festival was scheduled for March 25 to 29, 2020. Due to the current health crisis, Festival Day is now taking place online on Saturday September 12, 2020. See all of the talks by following us on Crowdcast or visiting our website events page here.

The festival is a fundraiser for Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education and opportunity gaps in Essex County, NJ. You can read more about Succeed2gether and the festival at www.succeed2gether.org. Please donate via Paypal here.

The festival organizing committee wishes to thank event partners Succeed2gether staff, Montclair Public Library, First Congregational Church, and Watchung Booksellers, and festival sponsors Rao's, Montclair State University, West of Hudson Realty Group, and community members.

Fiction: Dark Matters – Outsider Female Narrators