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Montana Book Festival

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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 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

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

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

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

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

10:00am MDT

2nd Annual Imagine Fest Imagine Nation Brewing

11:00am MDT

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

2:00pm MDT

Rejection Open Mic Holiday Inn 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

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

Gala Reading with Maile Meloy, Shobha Rao and Leigh Stein The Wilma Theatre