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Montana Book Festival

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9:00am MDT

Capturing Civil War History Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom A Non-Narrative, Non-Poetry?: Multimedia Forms and the Poetics of "Place" in the West Holiday Inn - Boardroom The Natural World Memoir: Discoveries of Self and Other in the Wild Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom C Our Words: Young Poets Read Holiday Inn - Gallatin-Jefferson Daredevils, Lunatics, Fire Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom D A Conversation With Anne Hillerman Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom B Layers of Landscape: A Poetry Workshop with Joe Wilkins Holiday Inn - Madison

10:00am MDT

2nd Annual Imagine Fest Imagine Nation Brewing

11:00am MDT

Creating Dynamic Characters Missoula Public Library - Large Meeting Room Storytime & Craft: Toni Marie LaGree Missoula Public Library - Dragon Rug Area The Allure of Traveling: With and Without Books Holiday Inn - Boardroom A Montanamericana Journey Holiday Inn - Gallatin-Jefferson Birthing the Sasquatch and Other Tales from the Den: Authors + Agent Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom D Home: A Four-Letter Word Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom A Animal Instincts Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom C James Lee Burke Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom B The Fundamentals of Pop-up Book Making: A Workshop with Simon Arizpe Holiday Inn

12:30pm MDT

Hair of the Dog The Union Club Bookfest Art Walk Radius Gallery The Author Luncheon with Paula McLain The Top Hat Lounge Book'n It - Fun Run Missoula Public Library

1:00pm MDT

Time as Technique: A Fiction Workshop with Virginia Reeves Holiday Inn - Madison Literary Agent Pitch Session Holiday Inn - Yellowstone

2:00pm MDT

Rejection Open Mic Holiday Inn Music + Story with Cowboy Andy and the Salamanders Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Twisted History Missoula Public Library - Large Meeting Room Insight from Montana Publishers Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom A Mothers Who Write Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom C Exploring Race Through Creative Writing Holiday Inn - Gallatin-Jefferson Robert Michael Pyle Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom B I Can't Stop Looking at the Sky: A Journey in Eleven Dispatches Holiday Inn - Boardroom Vibrant Lives and Crossroads Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom D

4:00pm MDT

The Power of Voice: Susan Adrian & Blythe Woolston Missoula Public Library - Large Meeting Room Exploring Gender in Poetry and Prose Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom C Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Biomimicry: Writing Wondrous Natural Phenomena Holiday Inn - Glacier Men Reading Women: Montana Writers and the Women Authors Who Inspire Them Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom A 4 Inland Northwest Presses Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom D Folly, Scavengers and Men in Pain Holiday Inn - Garden City Ballroom B University of Montana Campus Literary Magazine Reading, hosted by the Mansfield Library Holiday Inn - Gallatin-Jefferson

5:30pm MDT

MBF Contest Winners Celebration + Reading Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Salvage and The Way Summer Ends: A Lost Horse Press Book Launch Fact & Fiction Bookstore Hatch: Art + Text Radius Gallery

7:30pm MDT

Poetry Slam The Top Hat Lounge Gala Reading with Maile Meloy, Shobha Rao and Leigh Stein The Wilma Theatre

9:00pm MDT

CutBank Afterparty Le Petite Outre