This event has ended. Visit the official site or create your own event on Sched.

Montana Book Festival

Download a printable program here or use Sched to print your individual plan!

7:00pm MDT

Tell Us Something - Fork in the Road The Wilma Theatre

1:00pm MDT

Is self-publishing for you? Tips and techniques to help you decide Fact & Fiction Bookstore

2:30pm MDT

Fiction with a Heart Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

4:00pm MDT

Literary Agent Pitch Session Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Ceremony Honoring Debra Magpie Earling Payne Family Native American Center

6:00pm MDT

Big Sky Film Institute Screening: OBIT The Crystal Theatre

6:30pm MDT

Book Release Party: Body of Water, Mind of Music, Bar of Cocktails Montgomery Distillery

8:30pm MDT

HALA: A Reading of Her Own Pulitzer Series Event The Crystal Theatre

10:00am MDT

Make it New! The Art of Book and Page Alteration: A Workshop with Nance Van Winckel Missoula Art Museum TextCraft Exhibit Fact & Fiction Bookstore

10:30am MDT

Tiny Tales Missoula Public Library - Large Meeting Room

12:00pm MDT

Printing Demonstration Missoula Art Museum

12:30pm MDT

Contemporary Ekphrasis: A Poetry Workshop with Jeff Alessandrelli and Michael Earl Craig Missoula Public Library - Large Meeting Room

1:00pm MDT

Noteworthy Open House Noteworthy Paper & Press

2:00pm MDT

Tracking the Wild Coomba Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Leslie Van Stavern Millar: Montana Peepshow Stories Missoula Art Museum Layered Story Selling - Creating Content That Transcends Age and Medium Fact & Fiction Bookstore

3:00pm MDT

From Arrest to Arete: Risk Your Life or Risk Losing It Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

3:30pm MDT

Sunken Book Treasure Montgomery Distillery

4:00pm MDT

Building a Literary Organization Without All the Bull$* Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre Fact & Fiction Bookstore Poetic Hybridity Radius Gallery

5:00pm MDT

Exhibiting Artist Lecture with Courtney Blazon Missoula Art Museum

5:30pm MDT

Words With Wings Reading Fact & Fiction Bookstore Helena Showcase: Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

7:00pm MDT

Victory and Courage En Pointe Fact & Fiction Bookstore Sexy Beasts Part 2: Erotic Fan-Fiction Radius Gallery

9:00pm MDT

Pie & Whiskey The Union Club

9:00am MDT

Outside In: Fresh Eyes on the American West Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Trails and Mountain Goats: A Stoneydale Press Presentation Fact & Fiction Bookstore Writers in Residence: Teaching Artists Zootown Brew Verde Que Te Quiero Verde: Poems after Federico Garcia Lorca Radius Gallery The Book’s Journey: Editing from Both Sides of the Desk Jeannette Rankin Peace Center Women Who Pitch: A Workshop with Stephanie Land and Leigh Stein UM Liberal Arts Building - Room 337 Authors School Visits TBA

10:30am MDT

Storytime & Craft: Donna Love Missoula Public Library - Dragon Rug Area Tiny Tales Missoula Public Library - Large Meeting Room

11:00am MDT

Montana Mystery, Suspense and Thrill Zootown Brew The Convergence of the Real and Unreal E3 Convergence Gallery Beyond Brokeback: Writing Rural Queer Identities Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Brains Over Brawn: Small Talk About Big Games Radius Gallery Poetry of Place, Class and Legacy Dana Gallery - Collector's West Unearthing Paradise: Montana Writers in Defense of Yellowstone Dana Gallery - Main

12:00pm MDT

Printing Demonstration Missoula Art Museum

12:30pm MDT

Bookfest Art Walk Radius Gallery

1:00pm MDT

Proxies: Essays Near Knowing Montgomery Distillery Call Me Ishmael: A Fiction Workshop with Rachel Harper UM Liberal Arts Building - Room 337

2:00pm MDT

Approaches to Spiritual Inquiry Dana Gallery - Collector's West Delicious Words: Writing about Food E3 Convergence Gallery Birds Are People, Too: Humor in the Avian World Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Fairy Tales and Beyond: Kate Bernheimer and Lily Hoang Dana Gallery - Main Writing the World: An International Lens Clyde Coffee Revision and the Poetic Process Fact & Fiction Bookstore

3:30pm MDT

Young Adult Writers Workshop: Jake Halpern Missoula Public Library - Large Meeting Room

4:00pm MDT

Reading with Danez Smith E3 Convergence Gallery Healing through Native and native Western Voices Dana Gallery - Main Big Skies, Little Stories: Place in Flash Fiction Dana Gallery - Collector's West The Art of Nonfiction Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore Writing Off the Grid: Wilderness Writing Residencies Boone and Crockett Club Electricity, Boxing and Survivors Fact & Fiction Bookstore

5:00pm MDT

Author's Reception: A Writer and Readers Party Submittable

6:00pm MDT

Whizpops: Storytelling through Music Missoula Public Library - Dragon Rug Area Graphic Novels Missoula Public Library - Boardroom

7:00pm MDT

Keynote Reading The Wilma Theatre

9:00pm MDT

Literary Death Match The Wilma Theatre

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

9:30am MDT

Self-publishing Children's Books Fact & Fiction Bookstore Camo Queen and Divorce Style Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

11:00am MDT

The Rail: What was Really Doin' in the 60's Bronx Green Ribbon Books Writing Through Disability Fact & Fiction Bookstore UM Press Presents Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

12:00pm MDT

Regional MFA Brunch Montgomery Distillery

12:30pm MDT

Mining your dreams: Two self-published approaches Fact & Fiction Bookstore Crafting dangerous characters Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

1:30pm MDT

The Big Montana Story: Kickoff Party Montgomery Distillery

2:00pm MDT

Montana's Many Sides: Curiosities, Film and the Red Light District Fact & Fiction Bookstore Writing and Publishing YA Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

2:30pm MDT

Eden and Alaska: Experts of the Wild Le Petite Outre

3:30pm MDT

How to Write A Novel in 30 Days: Systems and Social Support to Get it Done! Fact & Fiction Bookstore Infinite Summer... Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore

6:30pm MDT

Second Wind The Badlander