Exeter LitFest Hosts January Storytelling Fundraiser

EXETER__Tickets are now available for A Midwinter Night’s Dream, an evening of storytelling and snacks to benefit the Exeter LitFest.

The January 16 event will be held at the Word Barn in Exeter from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Featured storytellers include Barbara Rimkunas, Pat Spalding, Debbie Kane, Rob Richards, Jack Herney and Molly Simmons. Their first-person winter themed stories will be similar to the style heard in the Moth.

The Exeter LitFest, held for the first time in 2019, recently received approval as a 501c-3 non-profit organization with the intention of making the festival an annual event. January’s event will benefit the newly formed non-profit to help offset costs of the Second Annual Exeter LitFest slated for April 3 and 4 of 2020. The inaugural festival in April of 2019 included a keynote by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, as well as events with Joe Hill, Brendan Dubois, and NH Teen Poet Laureate Cate Dixon.

Tickets to January’s event are $20/person and can be purchased online at https://portsmouthnhtickets.com/events/a-midwinter-nights-dream-1-16-2020.

In the event of inclement weather, the event will be postponed to January 30 at the same time. Tickets include snacks. Beer and wine will be available by donation. The stories will begin at 7 p.m. with time for post-show mingling with the storytellers from 8:30 p.m. until 9 p.m.

The Exeter LitFest’s mission is “To leverage our wealth of local literary treasure, in an environmentally sustainable way, to connect both residents and tourists to the diverse literary voices and places of greater Exeter, NH for the benefit of children and adults, the local arts community, and local businesses.”