Once again, for the annual 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival, and in celebration of Pittsfield's literary history, The Mastheads has asked 10 local writers across disciplines (poets, novelists, pastors, journalists…) to each read one short piece by a historic Berkshire author alongside one short piece of their own.

Readers include Peter Bergman, Cassandra Cleghorn, Akilah Edgerton, Hannah Fries, Frances Jones-Sneed, Brendan Mathews, Matthew Zanoni Müller, Chris Parkinson, Reverend Charles E. Pratt, and Hannah Van Sickle, and represented historic authors include James Weldon Johnson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, and more.

Admission is free. Food, drinks, books, and Mastheads swag will be available for purchase.