Schedule for the 2025 F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
Saturday, October 18, 2025, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm
Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland
8:30 am: Registration
9:00 am – 10:00 am: Morning Workshops – Block A
“Making Art Out of Orts” ~ Michelle Brafman
“Here at The New Yorker” ~ Margaret Talbot
“Writing Book Reviews” ~ Ron Charles
10:15 am – 11:15 am: Morning Workshops – Block B
“Writing Short” ~ Kim Roberts
“Should You Write a Memoir Before You Die?” ~ Ethelbert Miller
“Point of View” ~ Susan Coll
11:25 am – 11:30 am: Welcome and Introduction
~ Gary Berg-Cross and Ron Charles
11:30 am – 12:30 pm: A Conversation on the Art of Fiction
~ Percival Everett and Madison Smartt Bell
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm: Keynote
“‘. . . or is the book unpopular’: The Great Gatsby at 100”
~ Maureen Corrigan
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Awards Ceremony
Recognition of F. Scott Fitzgerald Scholars
Introduction to Percival Everett ~ Madison Smartt Bell
Presentation of the Annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for
Achievement in American Literature for 2025 to
Percival Everett
Acceptance & Reading ~ Percival Everett
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Book Signing with Percival Everett & Madison Smartt Bell
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm: Bus Tour of Fitzgerald’s Haunts in Rockville