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Sonja’s List May, 2025
This is your spot to find in-person and virtual author appearances presented by independent bookstores in Southeast Wisconsin Sonja’s List Named in Honor of Sonja J. Maas
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Sonja’s List April, 2025
This is your spot to find in-person and virtual author appearances presented by independent bookstores in Southeast Wisconsin Sonja’s List Named in Honor of Sonja J. Maas
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Sonja’s List March, 2025
This is your spot to find in-person and virtual author appearances presented by independent bookstores in Southeast Wisconsin Sonja’s List Named in Honor of Sonja J. Maas
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Sonja’s List January, 2025
This is your spot to find in-person and virtual author appearances presented by independent bookstores in Southeast Wisconsin Sonja’s List Named in Honor of Sonja J. Maas
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Sonja’s List February, 2025
This is your spot to find in-person and virtual author appearances presented by independent bookstores in Southeast Wisconsin Sonja’s List Named in Honor of Sonja J. Maas
2024 Festival of Books
Remembering Lillian Boese
Join us on Friday, November 8 to remember Lillian Boese and celebrate her contributions to the Waukesha Community.
2024 Festival of Books
New Writing Contest for College Students Named in Honor of Lillian Boese
The 2024 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books will offer a new writing contest for college students this fall named for the late Lillian Boese who was a key force in the Festival’s fifteen year history. The Lillian Boese Award for Writing Excellence will include competitions in essays, fiction and poetry, Read more…
2024 Festival of Books
High School Senior Entered the Festival of Books Writing Contest 3 Times and WON!
Here’s why she does it “The Book Festival Writing Contest gave me a passageway to understand myself through my writing, taught me how to write more professionally, and helped my grades as well,” says Waukesha West Senior Harper Pugh. When she attended Les Paul Middle School, she won the Festival’s Read more…
2024 Festival of Books
The 2024 Lillian Boese Award for Writing Excellence
The 2024 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books is offering a writing contest for college students this fall named for the late Lillian Boese who was a key force in the Festival’s fifteen year history. The Lillian Boese Award for Writing Excellence will include competition in essays, fiction and poetry, and Read more…
2024 Festival of Books
Can America’s Public Schools and Colleges be Fixed?
April 10, 7:00 pm UWM at Waukesha, 1500 N. University Drive, WaukeshaLunt-Fontanne Theatre “Can America’s Public Schools and Colleges be Fixed?“ Perspectives from Former U.S. Secretaries of Education and authors, Arne Duncan and Margaret Spellings. Hosted by UWM at Waukesha and sponsored by the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Read more…