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The schedule, with full session descriptions, is now available.

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INSPIRING READERS OF ALL AGES

CELEBRATING THE CULTURE OF BOOKS

Festival Details

A BEAUTIFUL PART OF THE WORLD

@kennedytarrell likes to write and illustrate dark comedies, overt therapy analogies, and general spooky stuff. Aside from that, they work as a story artist and animation writer, across studios such as Walt Disney Animation Studios, Netflix, Cartoon

We are so excited for this year’s festival! Now that we are only a month away it’s time to start picking out your merch!
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@RichBenjamin is a cultural anthropologist and the author of Searching for Whitopia. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere, and he’s appeared as a commentator on MSNBC and CNN. His work has received suppo

The Festival is sold out but there are opportunities to attend the following four events throughout the weekend without registration. Listed below are workshops (sign-up required due to space limitations), children's programming, poetry readings, and

Karen Russell is the author of six fiction books, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised

@rebstead Stead is a New York Times best-selling author of middle-grade novels, including When You Reach Me, Liar & Spy, The List of Things That Will Not Change, and The Lost Library. In 2025, her debut picture book, Anything (illustrated by Grac

The 2025 SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE is now available! The schedule with full session descriptions will be posted on our website by August 22!
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Laura Poppick is a Maine-based science and environmental journalist whose stories have appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, National Geographic, and elsewhere. She has been listed as a finalist for the National Association of Science

@maggie_stiefvater is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver trilogy, The Raven Cycle, and The Scorpio Races, among dozens of other YA fantasy novels. Her latest books are The Listeners, her adult debut, and a graphic novel adaptation o

@mattdiffee has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 1999. His work has also appeared in Time, The Huffington Post, The Believer, and Texas Monthly. He is the editor of three volumes of The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw a

What book are you currently reading? What book is your favorite? Our finished stack is really starting to stack up!
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Gregg Hurwitz is the author of the New York Times best-selling Orphan X novels. Critically acclaimed, his novels have been international bestsellers, graced top ten lists, and published in thirty-three languages. Additionally, he’s sold scripts

Matthew Rohrer is the author of eleven books of poems, most recently ARMY OF GIANTS, published by Wave Books. He is the recipient of a Hopwood Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Believer Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry

Jeff Chu is an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large at Travel+Leisure. He is the author of Does Jesus Really Love Me? and the co-author, with the late Rachel Held Evans, of The New York Times bestseller Wholehearted Faith. Chu is a former Tim

Registration and every ticketed event EXCEPT our Saturday night cookbook event (Less than 50 tickets remaining) is SOLD OUT!
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Nikki Erlick is the author of The Measure, an instant New York Times bestseller, a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and a “Read with Jenna” Book Club Pick on The TODAY Show. The Measure has been translated into 24 languages worldwide. Erli

Rosanne Parry is the author of the best-selling Voice of the Wilderness novels and nonfiction picture books. She grew up in Oregon, loving the wild places and fabulous libraries that surrounded her. Parry sells books at Annie Blooms and writes in a t

Daniel Nayeri, an Iranian refugee who immigrated to Oklahoma, is an award-winning author who has captivated readers with his poignant memoir Everything Sad Is Untrue (Printz Award Winner) and the epic adventure The Many Assassinations of Samir, the S