03/15/2026
“What other literary event can pack this much star power into a town with fewer residents than a Brooklyn block?”
CHRONOGRAM
In 1895, the narrator of The Time Machine sits at a dinner table listening to an improbable claim: that time is simply another dimension, one we might travel through as easily as space. His guests laugh—politely, nervously. But the idea lingers. A few decades later, in A Wrinkle in Time, a mysterious guide folds a piece of fabric and explains that instead of crossing the universe, you might simply step across it. A wrinkle. A shortcut.
Writers have been bending time ever since. In Octavia Butler's Kindred, a woman is suddenly pulled from 1970s Los Angeles into the brutal realities of the antebellum South. In Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Billy Pilgrim becomes “unstuck in time,” drifting through the moments of his life like pages shuffled out of order.
Each story asks the same question: What if time didn’t behave the way we expect?
This year’s Deep Water Literary Festival theme is TIME SHIFT.
Because “what if?” is not an innocent question. It’s the novelist’s favourite toy, taking us backwards and forwards—but almost always rooted in present concerns.
The festival is, in part, a place to argue, to provoke, to sharpen each other’s attention.
First up: the Spring Fundraise
Saturday, March 28 — No King’s Day
Before the festival begins, we’re gathering the community together for a special evening to help underwrite the work ahead.
It promises to be an extraordinary night: community, conversation, and an auction that includes truly wild experiences—like a one-on-one recorded conversation with Jad Abumrad on a topic of your choosing: love, failure, curiosity, grief, obsession. Join us at 7pm for some fizz and a program and poster reveal, as well early bidding on our auction, culminating in a performance by Becky Ann Baker and Kazzrie Jaxen. Then dancing from 8.30 til late. Help underwrite the work. Art is part of the fight too!
MORE INFO & TICKETS HERE (https://givebutter.com/c/deep-water-literary-fest-spring2026-fundraiser-and-auction)
Please join the Memoiring community, founded by local writer Melisse Gelula, for a mini workshop and Q+A with Mike Albo, author of the new audio-only memoir Hologram Boyfriends: S*x, Love, and Overconnection. Mike is the author of four books, was one of The Moth's original hosts, and currently has the Town & Country magazine cover story about actor Sandra Bernhard.
March 25, 6:30-7:30pm ET (RSVP (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qfNin8LdQH61Vg4c-VYZNw #/registration) to the Zoom)
Melisse and Mike will be discussing how to write about dating, s*x, and relationships (while your parents are still alive), and deciding how vulnerable to be in your writing in general. They'll also be dedicating 30 minutes to your questions about any reading or writing or audiobook questions you have. Visit Memoiring on Substack (https://memoiring.substack.com/p/more-s*xy-memoirs-please) for more information.
RSVP here (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/qfNin8LdQH61Vg4c-VYZNw #/registration) to attend this Zoom event.... Buy the memoir (https://read.macmillan.com/hologram-boyfriends-audio-original-9781250393821/) !
Deep Water Literary Festival Has a YouTube Channel
Find a selection of our festival conversations, recorded live at last year's festival, on our YouTube Channel, including On Becoming with Susan Choi, Geoff Dyer, and Douglas Stuart (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpTe61mg3iM) ; The Alchemy of Adaptation with Lynn Nottage, Marlon James, and Lisa Kron (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHEDJ1E1C6c&t=1s) ; Elsewhere People with André Aciman, Alejandro Heredia, Madeleine Thien, and Emily Greenhouse (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od1q9mxeTFc&t=2s) ; and Ordinary Rebels with Rebecca Donner, Peter Pomerantsev, and Suzanne Cope (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYEumMmygjM) . Subscribe to our channel here (https://www.youtube.com/) .
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