We hold a wide variety of events including:
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Evenings with an Author at one of our partnering English-language cultural centersÂ
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the Angers Literary Festival
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kids' storytime and teen writing workshops
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 in-person and virtual meet ups for writers living across Western FranceÂ
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Events
Upcoming events
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October, 2027
10 am-5 pm
Angers
Angers Literary Festival:Â
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.Â
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And we will hear not just from established writers but emerging writers, too, and 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. Â
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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!Â
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Thursday October 8, 2026
6:30-8:30 pm
Institute franco-américain Rennes
Author Yara Zgheib will be in conversation with Hilary Hodge about her novelÂ
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.Â
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This special event will be in English and is a part of the Institute franco-américain's ongoing programming cycle, "We the peoples", about immigration and diversity in the U.S. The conversation will be followed by a reception and book signing.
We the People:
American Immigrants
in Literature
Monday Spetember 28, 2026
6:30-8:30 pm
Musée des Beaux-Arts Â
Angers
AdaptingÂ
The Sympathizer into a graphic novel
Join Pultizer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen and French graphic novelist Antoine Ozanam in conversation with Barbara Diggs about the newly released graphic novel Le Sympathisant, adapted from Nguyen's acclaimed novel The Sympathizer.Â
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They will discuss 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.Â
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The conversation will be followed by a reception and book signing.
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Space is limited so we recommend registering as soon as possible.
Past eventsÂ
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
2025
Angers Literary Festival:
Possible FuturesÂ
A memoir writing workshop at the English-language Library in Angers with Michelle CrowellÂ
A teen writing workshop at Saint Benoît with Amy Plum
Kristina Kearns and Amy Plum in conversation with Michelle Crowell on the future of publishingÂ
Barbara Diggs and Anita Caref in conversation on the future of history
Amanda Bankert and Ginette Law in conversation on the future of food
Daniel Levin Becker in conversation with Kathryn Frost on the future of indivisible citiesÂ
A book signing with our bookseller partner Le Mot de La Faim
2023
Innaugural Angers Literary Festival
Audrey Chapuis on the ever-changing landscape of libraries
Jake Lamar in conversation with
Ashley Rose Coyne
Amanda Dennis and Kate Gavino in conversation with Michelle Ryan
Lindsey Tramuta and Ajiri Aki in conversation with Phoebe Marshall-Raimbeau
A book signing with our bookseller partner
Le Mot de La Faim
