7:00pm MDT
Victory and Courage En Pointe
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Clinical Assistant Professor, SLHOS, The University of Montana
Caroline Patterson has published Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, as well as two children's book on the natural world. Her literary fiction has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Southwest Review, Epoch, and Seventeen. Her nonfiction has been published in Newsday,Outside, Southwest...
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11:00am MDT
Montana Mystery, Suspense and Thrill
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Christine Carbo is the author of Mortal Fall and The Wild Inside. After earning a pilot’s license, pursuing various adventures in Norway, and working a brief stint as a flight attendant, she got an MA in English and linguistics and taught college-level writing, linguistics...
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Award-winning journalist Gwen Florio has covered stories ranging from the shooting at Columbine High School and the Oklahoma City bombing trials, to the glitz of the Miss America pageant and the more practical Miss Navajo contest, whose participants slaughter and cook a sheep. She’s...
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Keith McCafferty is the survival and outdoor skills editor of Field & Stream andthe author of The Royal Wulff Murders, The Gray Ghost Murders, Dead Man’sFancy, Crazy Mountain Kiss, which won the Western Writers of America 2016Spur Award for Best Western Contemporary Novel, and...
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Friday September 23, 2016 11:00am - 12:15pm MDT
Zootown Brew
121 W Broadway St, Missoula, MT 59802
4:00pm MDT
Electricity, Boxing and Survivors
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Master of Fine Arts Candidate, University of Montana
A fourth-generation Montanan, Chad Dundas earned his MFA from the University of Montana-Missoula in 2006. His short fiction has appeared in the Beloit Fiction Journal, Sycamore Review, Sou’Wester, and Thuglit. Since 2001, he’s worked as a sportswriter for national outlets...
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Matt Pavelich was born on the Flathead Indian Reservation and raised there, for the most part, on a ranch in Lonepine. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop where he was a teaching/writing fellow and also a Michener Fellow. His first collection of short fiction won the Montana...
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Virginia Reeves is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. Her debut novel, Work Like Any Other, has been published internationally and translated into several languages. Her short fiction has appeared in The Common and The Baltimore...
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9:00am MDT
Daredevils, Lunatics, Fire
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Speakers 
Jessica Barksdale’s fourteenth novel, The Burning Hour, was published by Urban Farmhouse Press in April 2016. A Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee, her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Waccamaw Journal, Salt Hill Journal, Little...
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Megan McNamer’s debut novel Children and Lunatics (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) won the Big Moose Prize. Her second novel, Home Everywhere, was published by Black Lawrence Press in 2018. Her work has appeared in Salon, Sports Illustrated, The Sun, Tropic Magazine (of The...
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Shawn Vestal’s debut novel,
Daredevils, was published in spring 2016 by Penguin Press. Liesl Schillinger called the novel "breathtaking and brash," and wrote: "Vestal sends his characters soaring across the gulf that separates the identity that confines them and the identity they would choose, letting them land roughly b...
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11:00am MDT
James Lee Burke
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James Lee Burke, a rare winner of two Edgar Awards, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels and two collections of short stories. He lives in Missoula, Montana.
2:00pm MDT
Vibrant Lives and Crossroads
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Speakers 
Glen Chamberlain has received the Pushcart Prize for the best writing in America’s small presses, the first Gilcrease Prize for fiction, and the Rona Jaffe Award for both fiction and creative nonfiction. The Rona Jaffe Foundation named her “one of the most promising women writers...
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Publisher, Educe Press
Matthew R. K. Haynes earned his M.A. in Fiction and M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Boise State University. His first novel, Moving Towards Home, was published in 1999. His newest novella, Friday, was published in 2015. He was been a finalist for the Faulkner Award in Nonfiction...
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Samuel Ligon is the author of two novels—Among the Dead and Dreaming and Safe in Heaven Dead—and two collections of stories, Wonderland, illustrated by Stephen Knezovich, and Drift and Swerve. He is co-editor, with Kate Lebo, of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence...
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