Press Center
Welcome to the Charleston Literary Festival Press Center!
This page includes press information for the year-round initiatives of Charleston Literary Festival. You will find press releases, 2025 speaker images, 2024 festival scenes, and links to brand logos and past festival recordings. To stay in the know, sign up for our newsletter below!
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Press Releases
July 7, 2025
Charleston Literary Festival Cato Fellowship Prize returns for its second year
June 23, 2025
An Evening with Reese Witherspoon & Harlan Coben
June 11, 2025
Sneak Peak of 2025 lineup
About Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival is a ten-day boutique literary festival with an international edge that takes place every November in Charleston, South Carolina. With an emphasis on world-class literary programming, Charleston Literary Festival is unparalleled in the United States as a center of literary excavation, innovation, and celebration in a powerfully evocative historic location. Previous speakers include: Claire Keegan, Walter Isaacson, George Saunders, Adam Gopnik, James Shapiro, Patrick Radden Keefe, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Ben Okri, Colm Tóibin, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Photos and Graphics
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2025 Speaker Images with Book Covers




















2025 Social Media Posts