2026 Festival News

Local Writers Can Apply to Read at Provincetown Book Festival — Deadline for Submission: July 31

The 2026 Provincetown Book Festival will feature a curated reading by local authors at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 27. This event, dubbed “Reading Local,” will be curated by Dennis Minsky, himself a well-known local writer, whose new book, Little Sister Sand: Finding the Wild in Provincetown, will be published July 1, 2026, by Shawmut Peninsula Press. An accomplished naturalist, Minsky is also a columnist for the Provincetown Independent. A selection of his columns entitled Peculiar and Superior: A Year-Rounder in Provincetown was published by the Provincetown Independent in 2025.

Dennis Minsky will review submissions from local Cape Cod and regional writers, and will select five writers to read at the opening program of the Provincetown Book Festival. The reading may include poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction.

Writers who are interested in submitting their work for “Reading Local” should send no more than three pages of prose or three poems, with a brief introduction and bio, to Nan Cinnater at the Provincetown Library (ncinnater@clamsnet.org). Deadline for submissions is July 31. The list of readers will be announced on September 1.

A weekend of free events for readers, writers, and book lovers of all kinds, the 2026 Provincetown Book Festival takes place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, September 25–27. Featured authors include Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, Hannah Lillith Assadi, and Provincetown residents Christopher Castellani and Russ Lopez. All events are held at the Provincetown Public Library.

The Provincetown Book Festival is sponsored in part by the Friends of the Provincetown Library, the Provincetown Tourism Fund, the Massachusetts Center for the Book and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.