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Cozy Fest 2025: The Comfiest Literary Festival

Grab your favourite jammies and a mug of hot tea and tune in to this year’s Cozy Fest, the comfiest on-demand book festival you’ll ever attend. Seventeen authors join us in their snuggliest apparel to read selections from their books: binge the readings all at once on our YouTube channel, or check back in each day right here to take in a daily reading or two. There are no rules here!

Read on to see this year’s fantastic Cozy Fest lineup.

Cozy Fest: The return of the all-virtual, on-demand literary festival (that you can attend in your jammies), only on All Lit Up

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What is Cozy Fest?

Only the world’s comfiest literary festival! In its fourth year, Cozy Fest is now something of a holiday tradition at All Lit Up as we reject the hustle and bustle of December with some literary calm.

Our on-demand literary festival is perfect for you to catch a literary reading in the middle of holiday errands, snuggled up on the sofa.

Seventeen readers join us from beside their fireplaces in cozy sweaters and pjs to read passages from their books that spark hope, resilience, kindness, and comfort.

The readings will be available on demand on our YouTube channel, and we encourage you to take them in at whatever pace suits you best. Or, come back here every day for features on our reading authors and their books (keep scrolling for the full Cozy Fest schedule).

How can I participate?

In addition to catching this year’s readings, you can chat about Cozy Fest on social media with the hashtag #ALUcozyfest, and shop the featured books in our Cozy Fest shop.

Who is reading?

Here’s a day-by-day schedule of our featured authors and their books:

December 2: Dina Del Bucchia + You’re Gonna Love This (Talonbooks) | feature
& James Cairns + In Crisis, On Crisis (Wolsak & Wynn) | feature

December 3: Catherine Hunter + Seeing You Home (Signature Editions) | feature
& Coltrane Seesequasis + The Threads of Time (Kegedonce Press) | feature

December 4: Manahil Bandukwala + Heliotropia (Brick Books) | feature
& Kim Fahner + The Pollination Field (Turnstone Press) | feature

December 5: Melanie Schnell + The Chorus Beneath Our Feet (Radiant Press) | feature
& Cary Fagan + A Fast Horse Never Brings Good News (Book*hug Press) | feature

December 8: David Giuliano + The Upending of Wendall Forbes (Latitude 46 Publishing) | feature
& Nadia Ragbar + The Pugilist and the Sailor (Invisible Publishing) | feature

December 9: Lucy E.M. Black + A Quilting of Scars (Now or Never) | feature
& Monique Polak + Christmas Weekend (Linda Leith Publishing) | feature

December 10: Vanessa Westermann + Shudder Pup (Cormorant Books) | feature
& Alison Acheson + Blue Hours (Freehand Books) | feature

December 11: Lynda Williams + The Beauty and the Hell of It & Other Stories (Guernica Editions) | feature
& Jaik Josephson + Queer Country Crossroads (Caitlin Press) | feature

December 12: Philipp Schott+ Heal the Beasts (ECW Press) | feature

Stay tuned for this 2025 edition of All Lit Up’s Cozy Fest, until December 12.

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