Carol Feingold/Correspondent
Book lovers, never fear. COVID-19 won’t defeat the 16th annual Newburyport Literary Festival (NLF), which will take place as a live, online streaming event Friday, April 23 to Sunday, April 25.
To bring this year’s events to the public, the festival will once again partner with A Mighty Blaze, a social media initiative created by authors Jenna Blum and Caroline Leavitt to help promote other authors’ new books during the continued pandemic,
While everyone will miss the joy and excitement of the in-person festival, organizers are taking advantage of the online format to feature authors from Newburyport and around the world, from “Bel Canto” author Ann Patchett, who will participate from her home in Tennessee, and Kim Johnson, who will ring in from Oregon, to British mystery writers Ruth Ware, Elly Griffiths and Dorothy Koomson, who will all join from the UK.