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.

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