Schedule
The 2024 SCHEDULE-AT-A-GLANCE is now available! Scroll down to view and print.
The FULL SESSION DESCRIPTIONS are also available below.
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Jenny Jackson and Peter Heller during the 2023 Keynote Conversation at the Harbor Springs Performing Arts Center.
Instructions for Print:
The Schedule-at-a-Glance is meant to be viewed as a bi-fold mini booklet. For the best viewing results, follow these instructions on printing and folding your Schedule.
Print on 8.5”x11” paper, landscape orientation, scale at 100%, double-sided on the “short-edge” setting.
Once printed, fold the paper in half, along the faint dotted line so “Thursday” and “Friday” are on the front outside cover.
Open the mini-booklet to see “Saturday.” The back outside cover will show “Sunday.”
See the photos below for an example of a printed and folded Schedule-at-a-Glance.
Keynote Presentation with Elliot Ackerman with guest host Benjamin Busch
Eliot Ackerman, National Book Award Finalist, former White House Fellow and Silver Star, Bronze Star of Valor and Purple Heart decorated Marine, will discuss his latest work of nonfiction, Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning, with guest host Benjamin Busch. Tickets available here.
The Working Creative Life
Presenters: Jeff Gordinier, Juliet Grames, Steven Rowley, Julie Schumacher
Moderator: Ellen Shanman
Anyone who has endeavored to make a living as an author knows full well that this does not mean giving up the day job. Those day jobs include just about anything you could imagine, but how does one balance the two careers? Our presenters have and have held positions as journalists, editors, a screenwriter and a professor, and are well-equipped to offer insight into how their working lives influence and impact their creative lives, specifically their featured works. Come for an equal dose of reality and inspiration!
Smart Suspense
Presenters: Angie Kim, Jennifer Mathieu, Deborah Goodrich Royce, Tim Wynne-Jones
Moderator: Karen Nemecek
Many readers can recall the first time they cracked open a book that kept them awake, flashlight in hand, flipping pages until the wee hours of the morning. The book was likely one filled with twists and turns, cliff hangers, and a mystery that kept the reader guessing. Too often, we began to find these stories predictable and in need of original plots, experimental narrative structures, and believably-flawed characters. The authors that rise to the occasion are those who craft intelligent suspense novels that do not succumb to the tropes and cliches of the genre, yet still manage to keep us up well after bedtime.
The Many Ways We Play with Words
Presenters: James Geary, Mary Norris, Cathleen Schine
Moderator: Dianna Behl
Whether you’re that person who silently corrects everyone’s grammar, or the one whose grammar needs correcting, you won’t want to miss this clever romp through rhetoric, etymology and wordplay! Don’t worry if you don’t know your em-dash from your en-dash, the proper way to use a semicolon, or the definition of a gerund, as our presenters are smart enough to know we can’t all be grammar snobs. They package their love of language in stories that connect the entire spectrum of readers—from technophile to luddite.
Lunch with Andrea Nguyen
Join Andrea Nguyen, cookbook author, for lunch and conversation about her book, Vietnamese Food Any Day. The lunch menu will come from Andrea’s cookbook. This is an advanced purchase ticketed event. A cookbook will be gifted to each ticket holder.
Seating begins at 11:30 a.m. Food service begins at 11:45 a.m.
Tickets available here.
Moderator: Matt Bugera
Friday Soup & Stories
A come-and-go lunch and author reading. Drop in anytime to listen or purchase soup (My Sister's Bake Shop), bread (Crooked Tree Breadworks), and dessert (Tom's Mom's Cookies). Beginning at 11:00 a.m., every 15 minutes different authors will be reading brief selections from their works. Tickets available here until midnight on Tuesday, September 24. A few ticket may be available at the door, but if you would like to purchase a ticket, you need to do so by September 24th.
Friday authors in order of appearance:
James Geary
Juliet Grames
Cathleen Schine
Mary Norris
Chanelle Benz
Ben Fountain
Angie Kim
Steven Rowley
Tea Obreht