We hold a wide variety of events including:
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Evenings with an Author at one of our partnering English-language cultural centers
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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 France
Events
Upcoming events
October, 2027
10 am-5 pm
Angers
Angers Literary Festival:
Dualities
At our third festival, we will dive into the topic of dualities.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
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. There will be a reception and book signing afterward.
We the People:
American Immigrants
in Literature
Past events
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.
2025
Angers Literary Festival:
Possible Futures
A memoir writing workshop at the English-language Library in Angers with Michelle Crowell
A teen writing workshop at Saint Benoît with Amy Plum
Kristina Kearns and Amy Plum in conversation with Michelle Crowell on the future of publishing
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 cities
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