Welcome!
Every October, Word brings together readers, writers, and tellers of tales to celebrate the written and spoken word—fiction and non-fiction, children’s literature, poetry, drama, nonfiction, storytelling and more. The festival takes place in Blue Hill, Maine where a literary tradition of great thinkers and artists extends over two hundred years and includes Jonathan Fisher, Mary Ellen Chase, and E.B. White to name a few. Many writers continue to call the Blue Hill peninsula home as does a large community of passionate readers. To celebrate this rich heritage, Word presents three days of author readings, a poetry crawl, writing workshops, panel discussions, school events, and spoken word performances to sold out crowds. Come join us and spread the Word!
Word 2018 was funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Word 2017 was funded in part by a grant from the Hancock County Fund of the Maine Community Foundation.