12:15 pm to 1:15 pm, November 4, 2023
IMPORTANCE OF PLACE
Alison Townsend, Tom Montgomery Fate, and Robert Miltner
Room N125
Often, the place in which a book is set becomes a character itself. Three authors discuss how specific places affected their work.
AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FROM PAST TO PRESENT
Bryan Cherry and Camille E. Davis
Room N127
How have historical African American experiences affected the present? Three writers talk about how the past has affected their present.
Please Note: Mary Elise Antoine was originally scheduled to be on this panel but will be unable to attend.
WOMEN WRITING WOMEN
Carol Dunbar, Maggie Ginsberg, and Marisa Rae Dondlinger
Room N129
Three authors, who feature strong women characters in their work, discuss bringing their own experience of womanhood to the page.
CONVERSATIONS WITH MEG KISSINGER AND PHILIP CHARD
Meg Kissinger and Philip Chard
Now in Room N133
Philip Chard, well-known therapist and columnist, discusses journalist Meg Kissinger’s new book, While You Were Out, with the author.
ALLWRITERS WORKSHOP
WRITING FICTION FROM FACT
Karen Cutler Drechtrah, Joyce Gardner Hurd, and Mel Sobolewski
Room N140
The novels by these three writers are all written from real-life experiences. The writers will discuss their decisions to fictionalize true experiences and how they did it.
COOKBOOK STAGE
DEHYDRATING FOOD
Jeanette Hurt
In the Hub
Author Jeanette Hurt discusses her new book, Dehydrating: Simple Techniques and Over 170 Recipes for Creating and Using Dehydrated Foods, and gives a cooking demonstration.
EXHIBIT OF BARBARA MINER’S PHOTOGRAPHS
Barbara Miner
In the Library
Barbara Miner discusses her latest photo exhibit on industrial Milwaukee. Come view the photos and listen as the photographer describes the inspiration behind them.