Monroeville Literary Festival 2025

Monroeville has been the location for some of Alabama’s most celebrated writers and scholars as they led discussion sessions, readings and workshops on themes ranging from Literary Gumbo to Murder, Mystery and Mayhem and everything in between. Since the inaugural event in 1998, writers and scholars participating in the event have included Fannie Flagg, Rick Bragg, Kathryn Tucker Windham, Mark Childress, Cynthia Tucker, Carolyn Haines, Winston Groom, Sena Jeter Naslund, Brad Watson, Daniel Wallace, Mary Ward Brown, Warren St. John, Sue Brannan Walker, Wayne Greenhaw, George Plimpton, Tom Franklin, Sonny Brewer, Gin Phillips, Michelle Richmond, John Hafner, Watt Key, Ace Atkins, Yaa Gyasi, Lauren Denton, Sean “Sean of the South” Dietrich, Irene Latham, Joshilyn Jackson, Patti Callahan Henry and dozens more.

 A highlight of past events, the presentations of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer and the Truman Capote Prize for Alabama’s Distinguished Writer of Literary Non-Fiction or the Short Story will both continue as a part of the festival.