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The 28th annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
See https://fitzgeraldfestival.com/shortstorycontest/Short
to submit a Story to our Contest
The Main Day for our 2025 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival with
honoree Percival Everett Winner of the 2024 National Book Award and the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, awarded by the American Library Association for Fiction for James
and special guest, Madison Smartt Bell will held be on
SaturdayOct. 18th, 2025.
The Festival will be held at the Montgomery College
51 Mannakee St, Rockville, MD, 20850
The theme of this year's festival is:
"Writing the Hard Stories"
Our Keynote Speaker is Maureen Corrigan
She will talk about:
“‘ . . . or is the book unpopular’: The Great Gatsby at 100”
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival was established in 1996 to celebrate the centenary of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birth, in Rockville, Maryland, the city where Fitzgerald, his wife, and his daughter are buried. The Festival seeks to honor the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and those of prominent American literary artists and to support, encourage, and assist aspiring and emerging writers and students interested in the literary arts. Originally a one-day event, the Festival now includes programs on three or four days. The F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival is co-sponsored by the City of Rockville and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Inc.
2023
FESTIVAL OVERVIEW
The main day of the 2023 annual Literary Festival with Honoree Jonathan Franzen was held Oct. 21, 2021 Main
at Montgomery College Theater Arts Building
CONTACT US
F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference, Inc.
Rockville City Hall
111 Maryland Avenue
Rockville, MD 20850
If you have questions and/or want to leave a message call: 240-389-2636