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Vermont Authors

Vermont has a rich history of amazing authors who have lived and written in Vermont. Same quite famous (Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Howard Frank Mosher, David Budbill, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), others not quite that famous, and those just starting out. Our writers tell readers about tradition, history, nature, and food. They write mysteries, draw cartoons, write and illustrate children’s books. Fiction and fact. VAP wants to continue the tradition of nurturing writers and letting the world know about their work, and our little state. Here are just a few of the many authors in Vermont . . . get to a bookstore and discover them all.

If you can’t get to your favorite bookstore, or order from them online, try bookshop.org. Bookshop.org donates back to bookstores to support them during hard times. In fact, your favorite bookshop may be part of bookshop. You can read about it here at this link.

The Vermont Authors Project has been working in partnership with VT Dept. of Marketing & Tourism to explore and deploy opportunities between Vermont authors writing about Vermont, Vermont’s many local libraries, 20 local bookstores, and literary festivals and institutions. Vermont has one of the highest concentrations of writers and bookstores per capita in the country and cultural tourism is fast becoming a driver of visits to Vermont.
Here are some of the links we have developed together:

https://www.Vermontvacation.com/stay-and-play/discover-more/arts-and-culture

https://www.Vermontvacation.com/stay-and-play/trip-ideas/arts-and-heritage

A Vermont Literary Sampler

Literary Fiction
Robin MacArthur, Half Wild: Stories; Heart Spring Mountain
Bill McKibben, Radio Free Vermont
Bill Schubart, The Lamoille Stories I & II; Panhead, Lila and Theron, The Priest
Chris Bohjalian, Midwives; The Sleepwalker
Archer Mayor, Joe Gunther Detective Series
Howard Frank Mosher, Where the River Flows North
Castle Freeman, The Devil

Non-fiction
Joe Citro, Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries; Vermont Odditorium
Christopher S. Wren, Those Turbulent Sons of Freedom
Evelyn Grace Geer, The Lepine Girls of Mud City
Peter Shea, The New Atlas of Vermont Trout Ponds
Bill Mares and Todd Haire (w/ Jeff Danziger), Making Beer
Emily Bernard, Black is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine

Cookbooks
Andrea Chesman, 250 Treasured Country Desserts; Serving Up the Harvest
Tracey Medeiros, The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook

Photography
Peter Miller, Vanishing Vermonters; A Lifetime of Vermont People
Richard Brown, Last of the Hill Farms

Children’s & Young Adult
Katherine Paterson, The Same Stuff as Stars
Julia Alvarez, Return to Sender
Lindsey Stoddard, Just Like Jackie
Mary Azarian, Tuttle’s Red Barn
Jesse Haas, Sugaring; Bramble and Maggie Poetry
Ellen Bryant Voigt, Headwaters
Daniel Lusk, Lake Studies

Graphic Novels
Rachel Lindsay, Rx
Alison Bechdel, Fun Home

What is VAP?

A non-profit organization created to help professional and emerging Vermont authors in the rapidly changing worlds of publishing, distribution, rights, marketing, digital formats and social media through dialogue and education. Our aim is to help authors understand the book trade, what goes into making a book professionally, and how to effectively and realistically market their books with libraries, bookstores, book clubs, and events.

In this time of pandemic crisis, we will do what we can to help our authors and bookstores through our forum and newsletter to share ideas and opportunities, and to promote our authors and bookstores through outreach to the public.

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