Indie Lit Festival

24-26 September 2026

Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts, the Allegany County Library System, the Lewis J. Ort Library, Savage Mountain Punk Arts, Frostburg Parks & Rec, and Mountain City Traditional Arts will host the 20th annual Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival (Indie Lit).

This event celebrates the writers, publishers, and readers of small press and independent publishing. If you read and/or write, this event is for you!

Participants and presenters are joining us from places far afield. Come along, too!

Thursday 9/24:

Poetry Slam at Clatter (15 S. Broadway), 7 PM. This event is sponsored by Savage Mountain Punk Arts

Friday 9/25:
Indie Lit Kickoff Reading, 7 PM

Saturday 9/26:

Readings, Workshops, and Panels in City Place (14 S. Water St), Mountain City Traditional Arts (25 E. Main St.) and the Frostburg Public Library (65 E. Main St.), 11-5

Small + Indie Press / Writer + Artist Book Fair,

City Place, 14 S. Water St., Saturday 11-5

Open Mic Hosted by Chuck Joy at Clatter, 6 PM-?

Friday's reading and all of the Saturday events are free and open to the public.

THANK YOU! Last year’s fest was been made possible by the generosity of Gerry LaFemina, Mercedes LaFemina, SMPA, Mary Wolodkin, Kalan McCann, Jonathan Felton and the folk at Clatter, Jennifer Porter and the booksellers at Main Street Books, Renee Warnick Mason, Caitlin Molter and the Allegany County Library System, The Lewis J. Ort Library, Kara Rogers-Thomas and Mountain City Traditional Arts, Brian Vought, Frostburg Parks & Rec., the Allegany Arts Council, the City of Frostburg, the Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences, and the FSU Department of Communication and Literature

Keep an eye out for updates and spotlights on folk who will be with us in our Facebook group and on other social media.