littoral | event coverage

Day One in Pictures

All photos on this page by Ashley Kamen.

Attendees begin to arrive at registration.

Daniel Menaker and Billy Collins arrive at the San Carlos on registration day.

Our fantastic volunteers helping out registrants at check-in.

Books & Books features “Thousand Words” by Curt Richter.

The fantastic staff from Books and Books @ The Studios of Key West at their pop-up shop in the San Carlos’ José Martí room.

Executive Director Arlo Haskell with his bundle of smiles.

Web designer Lindsay Malboeuf and program coordinator Freya Hendrickson hard at work in the San Carlos library.

Our venue, the San Carlos Institute in Key West.

Gretchen Mills models our Revealing Power T!

Lovely Patrons: Matthew Helmerich, Janet Hinkle, and Jeffrey Harwell.

Scholarship recipient Adeline Oka.

Volunteer extraordinaire Zain Aslam.

Board Presiden Diane Shelby welcomes the crowd.

Robert A. Caro takes the stage.

Robert A. Caro delivers the John Hersey Memorial Address.

Attendees, including Teacher & Librarian scholarship winner JC Moya.

Patrons Jono and Jenny Helmerich smile for the camera.

Dan Simpson and Melody Cooper make it all sound great.

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Key West Literary Seminar welcomes readers and writers to this subtropical island city. Our flagship program is the annual Seminar, a four-day event that explores a unique literary theme each January, where readers from around the world enjoy presentations by some of the best writers of our time. In our Writers’ Workshop Program, also in January, writers of all levels meet in small groups with esteemed faculty to share their work and explore the craft of writing. A Scholarship Program reduces fees for teachers and librarians and recognizes the work of outstanding emerging writers. Exclusive recordings from the Seminar spanning thirty years are available in the Audio Archive, while our online journal, Littoral, features news, essays, photographs, and other resources that document Key West’s rich literary history.

A diversity of life thrives in the littoral zone — a thin strip of coastline between high and low watermarks. As the operating metaphor for our online journal, it refers to that part of Key West routinely overrun by the tide of literature and to the rich life of letters in this island city. Here you’ll find event coverage from our team of writers and photographers; news and updates about upcoming opportunities; and rare images from historic collections, interviews, and all manner of report from Key West’s life of letters.