
The 2013 New Voices Festival featured an original composition by Ithaca College music student, Ian Wiese. Ian's composed a score around three poems by NV writer, Robin Ekiss. The event was so successful that we have invited Ian to compose for the 2014 festival, working with poems by Valzhyna Mort.


A collage by Kyra Skye (B.A. Writing & Audio Production 2020)
A visual, musical artifact inspired by the literature of the seven authors at the 2020 Ithaca College New Voices Literary Festival. It confronts and begins to make sense of our current situation in quarantine, and what it means to tie together the fragmented pieces of our lives.

Hear short readings from all seven of our authors! Featuring CJ Hauser, Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers, Brendan Mathews, Jonathan Spector, Nomi Stone, Andre Perry and Alexandra Chang.

Hear from our seven authors on how this time of pandemic is influencing their writing! Feating CJ Hauser, Alexandra Chang, Andre Perry, Brendan Mathews, Jonathan Spector, Nomi Stone, and Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers. Moderated by Jordan Gallant.

The premiere of the Musical Collage "Torn & Taped Together" produced and composed by Kyra Skye (they/them), drawing from excerpts from our seven authors (CJ Hauser, Alexandra Chang, Andre Perry, Jonathan Spector, Nomi Stone, Elizabeth Lindsay Rogers, Brendan Mathews).

Come kick off the 2022 New Voices Festival with the Short Short, an event where our seven authors read selections from their works for seven minutes each.

Jenn Shapland ("My Autobiography of Carson McCullers"), Alexandra Kleeman ("Something New Under the Sun"), Liza Birkenmeier ("Dr. Ride's American Beach House), and Lauren Oyler ("Fake Accounts") in conversation, moderated by Student Director Amulya Rvitej Bachala.


A creative performance, conceived by Artistic Director Ioanna Vargianiti.

Mona Awad ("Bunny," "All's Well"), Maya Phillips ("Erou," "NERD: Adventures in Fandom From This Universe to the Multiverse"), and Gina Nutt ("Wilderness Champion," "Night Rooms") read selections from their work at the 2022 New Voices Literary Festival.

Maya Phillips ("NERD: Adventures in Fandom From the Universe to the Multiverse," "Erou"), Lauren Oyler ("Who Thought This Was a Good Idea," "Fake Accounts"), and Jenn Shapland ("My Autobiography of Carson McCullers") in conversation, moderated by Professor Jacob White.

Gina Nutt ("Night Rooms"), Alexandra Kleeman ("Something New Under the Sun"), Liza Birkenmeier ("Dr. Ride's American Beach House"), and Mona Awad ("All's Well") in conversation, moderated by Professor Kasia Bartoszynska.

Lauren Oyler ("Who Thought This Was a Good Idea," "Fake Accounts"), Jenn Shapland ("My Autobiography of Carson McCullers"), and Alexandra Kleeman ("You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine," "Something New Under the Sun") read selections from their work at the 2022 New Voices Literary Festival.