Many thanks to all the artists, authors, exhibitors, moderators, organizers, participants, sponsors, and volunteers who made the 2015 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books such a success! Hope we see you all again next year!
The full program for the 2015 Festival of Books is now available! Check out all that this year’s Festival has to offer! Please note that the program is subject to change. Download the pdf
NOTE: This offer is no longer valid. The Festival has partnered with Books & Company in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin to enable attendees to purchase books by presenting authors in advance of the Festival. With our two…
In recent years I’ve gone back to read some classic fiction that I was first asked to read in high school, 30 years ago, books like The House on Mango Street, The Great Gatsby, and…
I could never name just a few books that have changed my life. Reading in general has made that difference, as I come from a working class family that includes many immigrants. My paternal grandparents…
New to the Festival of Books this year! Come watch “live art” being made by local artists Trevor Huskey and Arthur Mohagen! Saturday, November 7, from 9 am to 3 pm Trevor Huskey creates intricate…
When I was about eight years old I owned several collections of poetry for children. I still remember many of the poems I read then, and though I rarely can remember where I put my…
When I was 18 years old, the author Ray Bradbury wrote to me. I’d told him that I wanted to be a writer more than anything else in the world, and while I was already…
As a child, I learned the small words first – the ones that were easiest to enunciate and that encompassed my life experience: Mama, Papa, food. As I grew, so did the words and the…
Save the date for the 2015 Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books! Friday, November 6, & Saturday, November 7, 2015
