The Saint Paul Almanac Literary Festival involves writers in the Twin Cities who have been published in the Saint Paul Almanac. The readings take place in different Saint Paul venues to make them as accessible as possible.

Each reading features readers along many lines of genre, gender, writing background and history, ethnicity, and age, so that each event is a celebration of the multi-faceted talent we have in Saint Paul and draws an audience of multiple ethnicities, ages, and genre interest to create cross exposure for the writers involved.