Spring Writes

Literary Festival

100 Writers
40 Literary Events
May to September

2025 Spring Writes Literary Festival

The Community Arts Partnership is proud to present our 17th ANNUAL SPRING WRITES FESTIVAL featuring over 100 local and regional writers in over 40 literary themed live and Zoom events (panels, reading workshops, performances, and happenings).

Check out our Live Event page (23 events from May 7 to 11!) and Zoom event page (7 events from May 15 to 22). 8 workshops continue from July through September.

You’ll find registration links (only one form to fill out for all live events and separate forms for each Zoom event.)

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!

Images: Left to Right: (Panel) / (Books) / Winniebell Xinyu Zong / (Audience) / Valerie Sykes / Cory Brown / Sorayya Khan / nicole v. basta / Janie E. Bibbie / Erica Steinhagen

Sincere thanks to our supporters and sponsors

The Spring Writes Literary Festival is made possible with support from:

Please support our sponsors. We couldn’t do this without them!

Thank you to our Media Sponsors!

Festival History

The COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIP OF TOMPKINS COUNTY (CAP) organized the first Spring Writes Festival in 2009 in collaboration with the New York State Council on the Arts to shine a light on the abundance of literary talent in our region and to bring writers and audiences together. It has grown from 12 events with 25 artists that first year to over 40 events with over 110 artists!