Past Years - 2016 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

Run for Literacy 2016

10/23/16 - 10:30am

Support the Literacy Network's effort to support adults in Dane County to learn literacy skills.

10/23/16 - 12:00pm

Reese shares her latest book of poetry that wrestles with the long shadow of Flannery O'Connor

10/23/16 - 12:00pm

Shailor discusses his new book on the first years of The Shakespeare Prison Project

10/23/16 - 12:00pm

Trubek argues that the decline of handwriting in daily life does not signal civilization's decline.

10/23/16 - 1:30pm

Charlaine Harris presents the latest novel in the Aurora Teagarden mystery series

10/23/16 - 2:00pm

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists chronicle the story of Nic Volker.

11/1/16 - 7:00pm

In partnership with Go Big Read, Wisconsin Book Festival presents Matthew Desmond for Evicted

11/9/16 - 7:00pm

Eileen Myles discusses her 1994 novel and latest book of poetry

11/12/16 - 1:00pm

During our author slam, seven local authors will each present and sign books afterwards.

11/19/16 - 4:00pm

Pioneering biography of geek and gaming culture's mythic icon, Gary Gygax, and Dungeons & Dragons