Events, festivals,
workshops, and more.

We hold a wide variety of events across Western France
Evenings with an Author at one of our partnering English-language cultural centers
The Angers Literary Festival
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Kids' storytime and teen writing workshops
In-person and virtual meet-ups for writers living across Western France

Thursday, November 19 · 10 – 11 am
online
Meet up for writers in Western France
Meet other writers living in the west of France.
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We are going to discuss the question: What story are you working on that you aren't sure how to tell yet?

October 2027 · 10 am – 5 pm
Salons Curnonsky · Angers
Angers Literary Festival: Dualities
At our third festival, we will dive into the topic of dualities.
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Jennifer K. Dick will open the day with her poetry. Paige McLanahan and Dana Thomas will be in conversation with Julia Webster Ayuso on fast and slow travel and fashion, respectively. Robin Allison Davis will speak on her experience of health and illness and how she grappled with cancer shortly after moving to France.
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And we will hear not just from established writers but emerging writers, too, from the American University of Paris MFA in creative writing program and the literary collective Paris Lit Up about the joys and challenges they face as they seek to launch their literary careers.
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The day will be led by Gerald Richards, who has spent the past three decades leading and supporting creative writing and literacy nonprofits across the United States and Europe.
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The 2027 Angers Literary Festival is made possible by the generous support of the de Groot Foundation. We will announce more speakers soon. Stay tuned!
October 2026: We the People: Immigrants in American Literature
Author and poet Yara Zgheib was in conversation with Hilary Hodge about her novel No Land to Light On, her experience as an author in the United States and how it shaped the book, American immigrant writers who have influenced her work, and more.
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This special event was part of the Institute franco-américain's ongoing programming cycle, "We the peoples", about immigration and diversity in the U.S.
September 2026: Adapting The Sympathizer into a graphic novel
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and French graphic novelist Antoine Ozanam were in conversation with Barbara Diggs about the newly released graphic novel Le Sympathisant, adapted from Nguyen's acclaimed novel The Sympathizer.
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They discussed the creative process of adapting a literary novel into a graphic work; how memory, identity, and politics take on new dimensions through visual storytelling; what is gained and what is inevitably omitted in the art of adaptation; and why the novel's exploration of the Vietnam War and its legacy continues to be so resonant today.
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This event was held in partnership with the English language library in Angers.
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The full photo gallery is here.Â
Writers Across Western France, July 2026

Twelve writers from Nantes, Angers, Rennes, Finistère, Saumur, Chinon, and beyond met for a virtual coffee to compare notes on what it's like to be an English-speaking writer in France. Â
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To join our next meet-up of writers across Western France, send us a note.
Past festivalsÂ
Our past two literary festivals shone a spotlight on the wonderful English-language library in Angers. The 2023 festival was funded by the U.S. Embassy and Consulate in France, and the 2025 festival was funded by the de Groot Foundation, which will also fund the 2027 festival.Â
























