The Montana Book Festival strives to foster interest in literature for people of all ages,
perpetuate a sense of literary community, and provide a vibrant, compelling forum
for the literary arts that celebrates diversity.

Friday, September 13

9:30am
Wake Up With Poetry: Friday
Alexandra Teague • KMA Sullivan • Hastings Hensel
Aboutness: A Workshop for Novelists and Memoirists
Sandra Scofield

10:00am
Freelance Writing with Purpose: Having Something to Say
Chelsea Agro

10:30am
Poets with Finishing Line Press
Jessica Jones • Susan Kay Anderson • Virginia Barrett

11:00am
Unlocking Montana's Indigenous History
Lauri Travis • Carl Davis
Tiffany Midge presents Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's
Tiffany Midge

11:15am
Where the Magic Happens: Revision and the Creative Process
CMarie Fuhrman

11:30am
Tributary: A Willow Springs Reading
Melissa Kwasny • Erin Pringle • Alexandra Teague • Kim Barnes • Laura Read

12:00pm
Comics, Zines and Graphic Novels: Bringing Art and Writing Together
ladypajama • Josh Quick • Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
Freestone Boulder Happy Hour
Brian Laidlaw

1:00pm
The Book Review: Where Writers, Critics, and Readers Unite
Melissa Kwasny • Tami Haaland • Rick Newby • Austin Grant Bennett
From the Author's Pen: A 16-year Correspondence with A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Alex Sakariassen • Amy Sakariassen
Telling the Story of Immigration
Nina Murray • Sophia Shalmiyev • Raki Kopernik
Natural Perspectives: Four Writers, Four Different Approaches to Writing the Natural World
Chris La Tray • Heather Durham • Heather Hansman • Antonia Malchik
A Conversation with James Lee Burke
James Lee Burke • Gwen Florio

1:30pm
Kings of Conservation: Public Lands and the Men Who Started It All
Keith Edward Aune • John Clayton • John Taliaferro
Finessing the Memoir
Clare Wood • Melanie Calahan

2:00pm
Curating the New Voices of the West
KMA Sullivan • Sydney Bollinger • Bill Carty • Jodi Varon • Bryn Agnew • David Axelrod • Keetje Kuipers
Corner of Space and Time: The Evolution of the Collaborative Process in Bringing the Eddies Club Portraits to Publication
Jean Belangie-Nye • Ben Ferencz
Celebrate Queer Voices
Heidi Harrison • Erin Pringle • Wendy Oleson • Gary Eldon Peter

3:00pm
Poet's Panel: Is This Surreal or For Real?
Jeff Alessandrelli • Adrian Kien • Michael Earl Craig • Hajara Quinn
Recipe Writing as Storytelling: Braiding Instruction and Narrative While Serving Your Audience
Sara Bir • Greg Patent • Seabring Davis • Leslie Budewitz
Johanna Stoberock presents Pigs: A Novel
Johanna Stoberock
Celebrate the Best in Short Stories
Jacob Appel • Maxim Loskutoff • Terese Svoboda

3:15pm
A Poet, a Clown, and a Comic Walk into a Bar: A Crash Course in Writing Funny Poems
Tiffany Midge

3:30pm
Overcoming or Not: Facing Life's Challenges Head On
Rebecca Clarren • Carrie Laben • Kathryn Trueblood

4:00pm
Montana the Muse
Chris Warren • Gwen Florio • Rosella Mosteller
Writing for the Young Adult
Danielle Carriere • Gwendolyn Nix

5:00pm
Montana Book Festival and Norman Maclean Festival Author Cocktail Party

7:00pm
We Leave the Flowers Where They Are: Book Launch Party


Saturday, September 14

9:00am
Wake Up With Poetry: Saturday
Charles Kell • Jen Karetnick • Geri Doran • Paul Lobo Portugés • Bill Carty

10:00am
Friends of Library Collectibles Sale
Exhibitor Fair

10:30am
Writing for the Ages
Dorothy Patent • Beverly Chin • Douglas Emlen
Wise Men, Wise Words
Robert Pack • Roger Dunsmore

11:30am
The Fractured American Dream in Fiction
Erin Pringle • James Charlesworth • Susan Bernhard • Rebecca Clarren • Emily Strelow
Floating Bridge Press 25th Year Showcase
Laura Read • Kate Peterson • Rena Priest • Maya Jewell Zeller • Michael Schmeltzer

12:00pm
Great Montana Read Celebrates Nonfiction
Robert Stubblefield • Judy Blunt • Sarah Aronson • Kim Anderson
Mixed: Navigating the Kaleidoscope of Identity
Danielle Cooney • Shonda Buchanan • Nicole Zelniker

12:15pm
Shann Ray Reading and Performance

12:30pm
Lives Revealed through Music and Poetry
Gregory Spatz • Amy Ratto Parks • Heidi Harrison

1:00pm
Empowering Women Through Storytelling and Memoir
Victoria Emmons • Sara Stout
Publishing in Montana
Daniel Rice • Chris La Tray • Mara Panich • Mark Gibbons

1:30pm
Beyond Fly Fishing and Bear Wrestling: New Versions and Visions of the West
Jeremy N. Smith • Melissa Stephenson • Heather Cahoon
Glowing Up: Coming of Age in Modern Fiction
Susan Bernhard • Simeon Mills • Justin Olson

2:00pm
Making Poetry, Making Friends
Casey Charles • Kate Kingston • Robin Scofield • Jamie Ross • Lisken Van Pelt Dus
Magic, Myth and Secrets in Fiction
AM Scott • Cody T Luff • Gregory Spatz • C.C. Alick
A Lynx House Press Reading
Melissa Kwasny • Rick Robbins • John Keeble • Christopher Howell

2:30pm
Writing on the New Genre Frontier
Raki Kopernik • Carol Buchanan
Poetry of Parenthood in a Changing World
Maya Jewell Zeller • Rob Schlegel • Heather Cahoon • Laura Read • Geffrey Davis • Keetje Kuipers

3:00pm
Montana Center for the Book Prize
Samantha Dwyer
Walking, Writing, and Wellness: How Movement Inspires Creativity and Emotional Stability
Chris La Tray • Antonia Malchik • Anne Helen Petersen • Kathleen McLaughlin • Sara Bir

3:30pm
History Informs the Story
L.J. Martin • Sharma Shields • Eric Scott Fischl • Sherry Jones
What's Love Got To Do With It?
Virginia Reeves • Danica Winters • Kat Martin • Christy Stillwell
Writing Montana History
Brenda Wahler • Ken Robison • Ednor Therriault • Brian D'Ambrosio
Songwriting Workshop
Brian Laidlaw

4:00pm
Gather Round
Samantha Dwyer • Kim Anderson

5:00pm
Butte, Montana in the 20th Century
Marc C Johnson • Janelle M. Olberding

6:00pm
Stephanie Land presents Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay and a Mother's Will to Survive
Debra Magpie Earling • Stephanie Land

7:00pm
"A Very Special Episode Of:" Erotic Fan Fiction
Jeremy N. Smith • Sheri Boggs • Sarah Aswell • Charley Macorn • Tiffany Midge • Mara Panich


Sunday, September 15

11:00am
Two New Books, Two Very Different Creatures
Dorothy Patent
Confronting Past Selves in Memoir
Shonda Buchanan • Loring Walawander • Dorothy Rice • Judith Sara Gelt

12:00pm
Sustainable Farming in Rural Montana
Bob Quinn
Bear in the Bathtub
Kathleen Dent, Alli DePuy, Mike Sawaya

12:30pm
Women in Montana Fiction
Bettie Lennett Denny • Lise McClendon • Megan McNamer

1:00pm
Drag Queen Story Hour
Miss Gay Big Sky 2019 Vanilla Waiffer Valhallan

2:00pm
Crime in the Hinterlands
Lise McClendon • Allen Morris Jones

2:30pm
Brian Laidlaw Poetry Reading and Performance
Brian Laidlaw

3:00pm
How the West Was Woman
Adrian Jawort • Melissa Stephenson • Emily Withnall • CMarie Fuhrman

3:30pm
Missoula Writers Who Work on Mainstreet
Sarah Aronson • Jolene Brink • Chris La Tray • Jenny Montgomery • Karin Schalm • Phil Schaefer

6:00pm
CutBank Reading Series