Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Highland Park Literary Festival (HP LitFest) announced today that Mark Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and a former investigative reporter, will be the featured speaker of this year’s community keynote event on February 20, 2025, in the Highland Park High School Auditorium. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 7 p.m. Admission is free.The HP LitFest Committee would like to thank La Fiesta de la Seis Banderas for generously supporting its mission for the past 24 years, enabling the organization to achieve prominence as a community literary festival. 

HP LitFest was founded in 1995 by parents and Highland Park High School (HPHS) faculty members who mutually desired to create a program to provide literary enrichment and spark the interest and imagination of high school students.  HP LitFest has since grown into a highly anticipated series of events for students and community members, culminating in a two-day festival.  HP LitFest remains committed to its mission of inspiring and encouraging students, the local community, and the greater Dallas area to celebrate language in all its written and spoken forms.  In the past several years, HP LitFest has proudly expanded its programming from the high school into every HPISD school.