Colm Tóibín with Bilal Qureshi at Charleston Literary Festival

2025 Speaker Sneak Peek…

Find below 17 of the 40+ world-class authors who will take the stage at Dock Street Theatre in November. We will release the FULL list of speakers in early September along with the program, schedule, and individual tickets.

  • Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben Gone Before Goodbye

    Reese Witherspoon & Harlan Coben

  • Kevin Sack Mother Emanuel with Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

    Kevin Sack

    with Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

  • Joyce Carol Oates Fox

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • Max Boot Reagan

    Max Boot

  • 'Twist' by Colum McCann

    Colum McCann

  • 'To Save and To Destroy: Writing as an Other' by Viet Thanh Nguyen

    Viet Thanh Nguyen

  • 'Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me' by Glory Edim

    Glory Edim

  • 'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf, Michael Cunningham

    Michael Cunningham

  • 'Audition' by Katie Kamura

    Katie Kitamura

  • 'Jump and Find Joy' by Hoda Kotb

    Hoda Kotb

  • Bill McKibben

  • 'Dear Writer' by Maggie Smith

    Maggie Smith

  • 'Flesh' by David Szalay

    David Szalay

  • "Will There Ever Be Another You" by Patricia Lockwood

    Patricia Lockwood

  • "Dark Renaissance" by Stephen Greenblatt

    Stephen Greenblatt

  • 'Mothers and Sons' by Adam Haslett

    Adam Haslett

  • "The Doorman" by Chris Pavone

    Chris Pavone

  • 'Good Girl' by Aria Aber

    Aria Aber