List Your Fair or Show Free on Meet Me at the Fair

Listing your event on Meet Me at the Fair is free. It takes a few minutes, and you can hand most of the work to us.

This post covers why it's worth doing, the ways to send us your events, and how we can pick up your events automatically.

Why list your event with us

People who go to fairs use the site to plan their weekends. We list fairs, festivals, craft shows, markets and expos across all six New England states. Right now that's 328 upcoming events.

Vendors use it to find shows. Our directory holds more than 13,000 vendor businesses. If you take vendors, your listing can carry your application link, booth fees and deadline, so makers can find you and apply.

Your event goes out by email every week. Each Monday we send vendors a list of shows that are taking applications. Each week we also send fair-goers a guide to what's on that weekend. Listed events are eligible for both.

Your listing stays accurate. Event details that come from you beat anything we find on the web. When you send updates, we use them.

It costs nothing. There are no paid tiers. Every listing is free.

Ways to send us your events

Pick whichever is easiest for you.

Email us. Send a link, a flyer or a schedule to submit@meetmeatthefair.com. We'll enter it for you. One event or a whole season is fine.

Use the form. No account needed. Suggest an event. We review every listing before it goes live.

Manage your own events. Claim your organization's page, then add and edit events yourself. See how to claim your organization.

Upload a spreadsheet. Running a whole season of shows? Once you've claimed your page, download our template from your promoter portal, fill it in and upload it. You see every row before anything is saved. You can also email the spreadsheet to submit@meetmeatthefair.com.

Send events from your own system. Your website or ticketing system can send events to us directly. Create a key in your promoter portal, then see the developer guide.

Write from your organization's email. When you email us from your organization's own address, we can confirm it's really you. Updates you send that way fill in missing details right away. Changes to dates, the event name or the venue get a quick check by us first.

Let us pick up your events automatically

If you already post your events somewhere online, you may not need to send us anything again. We can read your calendar on a schedule and pick up new events as you post them.

What we can read:

A calendar on your website built with The Events Calendar for WordPress. Many fairs and museums already use it.
Any iCal (.ics) calendar link. That includes the public calendar address of a shared Google or Outlook calendar.
Event pages that carry standard event markup (schema.org). Many website builders add this for you.

How to set it up. Email submit@meetmeatthefair.com from your organization's address and tell us where your calendar is. For a Google or Outlook calendar, paste its public calendar address into the email.

How we confirm it's yours. We only read a calendar that lives on your own website, or one you send us from your organization's email. Nobody else can sign your events up.

What happens next:

We check your calendar several times a day.
A new event on your calendar is reviewed by a person before it goes live. We don't publish anything blind.
Events you already have listed with us stay linked to your calendar, so we notice when something changes.
If your calendar and our listing disagree, we don't change your listing on our own. We check it first.
We pick only the public events. A members-only meeting or a private rental on the same calendar stays off the site.

You can stop it any time. Write to us and we'll stop reading your calendar. Your listings stay up.

Q: Does it cost anything to list my event?

No. Listing is free, and there are no paid or featured options.

Q: Do I need an account?

No. You can email us or use the form without one. An account, through claiming your organization, lets you edit your own events.

Q: Will you change my listing without asking me?

Not on key details. If your calendar or another source disagrees with what we show, we check before changing your dates, name or venue.

Q: What details help most?

Exact dates and hours, the address, admission, a link to your own event page, and a photo. If you take vendors, tell us how to apply and the deadline.

Questions? Write to hello@meetmeatthefair.com.

Last updated: November 2026