Late to the Search Party

Steven Espada Dawson, Nate Marshall, Paul Tran

7:00pm - 8:00pm
is an ode to the families that inspire and confound us all.

2025 Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

Mandy Moe Pwint Tu

7:00pm - 8:00pm
The 2025 undergraduate and graduate creative writing awards ceremony.

Recording Available

Medicine River

Mary Annette Pember

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A stark portrait of the legacy of acculturation that has affected generations of Native communities.

Recording Available

Lunch for Libraries - Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese, Rebecca Makkai

12:00pm - 1:00pm
An unforgettable and stunning epic of love, faith, and medicine.

SCHOOL VISIT: Perspectives and Poetry with Marcie R. Rendon

Marcie R. Rendon

9:15am - 11:15am
brings the voices and teachings of her ancestors forward into the new Millennium.

2025 Wisconsin Institute For Creative Writing Fellows Reading

Adams Adeosun, Jackie Chalghin, Audrey Gradzewicz, Michael Kaplan, Winniebell Xinyu Zong

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Poetry and fiction from the 2024-25 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows.

Recording Available

Long Island

Colm Tóibín

7:00pm
A gorgeous story about a woman thrashing against the constraints of fate.

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

Cho Nam-joo, Eunsil Oh

7:00pm - 8:00pm
follows one woman’s psychic deterioration in the face of rampant misogyny.

Drawing on the Past: Jewish Graphic Narratives with Sol Brager

Solomon Brager, Erika Meitner

7:00pm - 8:00pm
is an analog inkwash comic about situating family Holocaust history.

Recording Available

SCHOOL VISIT: A Day of Poetry with Nate Marshall

Nate Marshall

10:00am - 11:00am
Nate Marshall will visit two Madison Metropolitan School District high schools.

Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

Dean Spade, Fawzy Qamar

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A manifesto for how to combat cultural scripts and take our relationships into our own hands.

Recording Available

SCHOOL VISIT: Dear You, Dream Big!

Baptiste Paul

6:00pm - 7:00pm
A powerful, lyrical anthem of Black pride celebrating Black creativity, leadership, and innovation.

Funny Because It's True

Christine Wenc

7:00pm - 8:00pm
How a group of young misfits from flyover country unintentionally created a cultural phenomenon.

SCHOOL VISIT - Valiant Vel: Vel Phillips and the fight for fairness and equality

Jerrianne Hayslett, Aaron Boyd

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Provides a thorough look at an activist who dedicated her life to making the world a better place.

Show Don't Tell

Curtis Sittenfeld, Susanna Daniel

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A funny, fiercely intelligent collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and artistic ambition

Recording Available

The Good Mother Myth

Nancy Reddy, Jessica Calarco

7:00pm - 8:00pm
pulls back the curtain on the flawed social science behind our understanding of a "good" mom.

Recording Available

Creative Writing MFA Graduates Poetry Reading

Patrycja Humienik, Maryhilda Obasiota Ibe, Iqra Khan, juj e. lepe, Jonny Teklit, Andrew Chi Keong Yim

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A reading from the graduating UW-Madison MFA cohort in poetry.

Recording Available

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

7:00pm - 8:00pm
Maps the passage of time through daily entries, thoughtful questions & beautiful original sketches.

Recording Available

The Dark Mirror

Samantha Shannon

7:00pm - 8:00pm
the highly anticipated fifth novel in Samantha Shannon bestselling Bone Season series.

Recording Available

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Eve L. Ewing, Kai Pyle

7:00pm - 8:00pm
An eye-opening look at how American schools helped build and reinforce racial inequality

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Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America

Bernadette Atuahene

6:30pm
Puts a face on the pain of racist policies that have impoverished America's democracy

K-Drama School

Grace Jung

7:00pm - 8:00pm
offers a groundbreaking exploration into this singular form of entertainment.

Recording Available

A Forty Year Kiss

Nickolas Butler, Laura Anne Bird

7:00pm - 8:00pm
A small-town story about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, 40 years after their divorce.

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SCHOOL VISIT: Into the Wind, Above the Clouds

Diane Endres-Ballweg

11:00am - 12:00pm
Becoming a pilot taught Ballweg about the limitless beauty of life from the skies.

The Snowbirds

Christina Clancy, Chloe Benjamin

7:00pm
An honest story of what it takes to commit to someone for a lifetime.

Recording Available