Watershed Rye

10/14/2025

Watershed Feedback Please

Thank you for attending Watershed Literary Festival. Whether you made it to one event or many, we would like to hear from you as we begin to think about the next festival in 2027. This survey takes only a few minutes to finish. It will be one of the easiest things on your to-do list today! Watershed...

10/12/2025

We need your help! We have already started to think about the next festival, and we need your feedback. Please fill out the Google form below (all attendees, authors, moderators and volunteers are invited to complete this). Help us make Watershed 2027 another special weekend in Westchester.

We hope our participants and attendees will complete this survey to help us shape the next Watershed Literary Festival in 2027.

10/07/2025

Watershed Feedback Please

Thank you to our 2025 Festival Sponsors. Your generosity made this possible. watershedrye.com

09/12/2025

09/11/2025

✨ Big ideas, small pens, and even bigger imaginations! Our tweens are turning words into magic at the Watershed Rye Festival's Tween Writing Workshop. 📚🌊

09/10/2025

Fact, Fiction, and everything in between! ✨ 📚
Saturday, September 27 brings an amazing lineup of authors ready to share their voices, journeys and books.
Come for one, stay for all- you won’t want to miss a single session!

TIME CORRECTION: Memoir is from 12-1 pm. Please register online at watershedrye.com.

09/07/2025

What's the story with Watershed Literary Festival, you ask? Kim Berns has the answer!

Our recent podcast with Kimberly M. R. Berns and The Rye Record is now on our Watershed website. Next time you are not sure what to listen to on a walk or drive, visit our media page below. Next you can visit the Events page to register for events, and then we'll see you in three weeks. Simple.

Watershed Literary Festival is September 26-28 in Rye, NY. We have a very full lineup with something for everyone. Share/tag/spread the word. See you there!

Link to the podcast here:

09/05/2025

Kick off the Watershed Literary Festival with a night of creativity, community, and bites! Writes share original nonfiction essays inspired by this years theme: Waterworks. The possibilities of stories are endless!

📆Friday, September 26
⏱️ 6-8PM
📍Rye, NY
📝 Writers- want to share your work? Submit your essay (max 700 words) to [email protected] with the subject line waterworks by September 10.

08/28/2025

Join us for an unforgettable afternoon with Betsy Lerner at the Watershed Literary Festival! 📚

08/21/2025

Books, writers & big ideas all in one place? YES please! The Watershed Literary Festival is bringing 3 days of authors, panels and workshops to Rye, NY! E

08/17/2025

Mark your calendars! Join us for Rye’s Literary Festival! Featuring these debut novelists and more!

08/05/2025

Save the Date and Call for Submissions

Thank you to our 2023 Festival Sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring this year's festival, please visit watershedrye.com/donate