Past Years - 2018 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

The Immortalists

1/17/18 - 7:00pm - 1/17/18 - 8:00pm

Chloe Benjamin

If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?

Eternal Life

1/31/18 - 7:00pm - 1/31/18 - 8:00pm

Dara Horn

A novel that explores what it might mean to live forever.

Bright Dead Things

2/1/18 - 7:00pm - 2/1/18 - 8:00pm

Ada Limón

The latest poems from National Book Award Finalist, Ada Limón

The Philosopher's Flight

2/19/18 - 6:00pm - 2/19/18 - 7:00pm

Tom Miller

A fantastical reimagining of American history and a beautifully composed coming-of-age tale.

American Philosophy: A Love Story

3/6/18 - 7:00pm - 3/6/18 - 8:00pm

John Kaag

The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around.

The Gender Effect

3/12/18 - 7:00pm - 3/12/18 - 8:00pm

Kathryn Moeller

UW Professor, Kathryn Moeller, discusses her exploration of women and girls in the new world economy

UW Fiction MFA Graduates Reading

3/19/18 - 7:00pm - 3/19/18 - 8:00pm

A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in fiction.

UW Fiction MFA Graduates Reading - - 03/19/2018 - 7:00pm

Core Samples From The World

3/22/18 - 6:00pm - 3/22/18 - 7:00pm

Forrest Gander

New poems from one of our most formally restless poets.

2018 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading

4/5/18 - 7:00pm - 4/5/18 - 9:00pm

Poetry and fiction from the 2017-18 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows

2018 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows Reading - - 04/05/2018 - 7:00pm

Gold Fame Citrus

4/12/18 - 7:00pm - 4/12/18 - 8:00pm

Claire Vaye Watkins

Unrelenting drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape.

Clean

4/13/18 - 12:00pm - 4/13/18 - 1:00pm

David Sheff

A powerful rethinking of the greatest public health challenge of our time.

Sleeping Giant

4/18/18 - 7:00pm - 4/18/18 - 8:00pm

Tamara Draut

How a newly energized working class is far along in the process of changing America for the better.

UW Fiction MFA Graduates Reading

4/19/18 - 7:00pm - 4/19/18 - 8:00pm

A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in fiction

UW Fiction MFA Graduates Reading - - 04/19/2018 - 7:00pm

When

4/26/18 - 12:00pm - 4/26/18 - 1:00pm

Dan Pink

Unlock the scientific secrets to good timing to help you flourish at work, at school, and at home.

When

4/26/18 - 7:00pm

Dan Pink

A public event with Dan Pink about he scientific secrets to good timing.

The Intellectual in Public Life

4/27/18 - 7:00pm - 4/27/18 - 8:00pm

Alexander Star

What is the role of intellectual expertise and debate in public life?

Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

5/3/18 - 7:00pm - 5/3/18 - 8:00pm

Carrie Lorig

The 2018 undergraduate and graduate creative writing awards ceremony, featuring poet Carrie Lorig

Somos Latinas: Voices of Wisconsin Latina Activists

5/19/18 - 1:00pm - 5/19/18 - 2:00pm

Andrea-Teresa Arenas & Eloisa Gómez

Celebrate the progress of this important oral history project!

So You Want To Talk About Race

6/20/18 - 7:00pm - 6/20/18 - 8:00pm

Ijeoma Oluo

A book for people of all colors and backgrounds.

Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead

6/23/18 - 7:00pm - 6/23/18 - 8:00pm

Cecile Richards

Lauren Peterson

Richards presents a timely and important message: To make change, you have to make trouble.

Pieces of Her

8/30/18 - 7:00pm - 8/30/18 - 8:00pm

Karin Slaughter

Can you ever truly escape your past?

Between Gravity and What Cheer

9/7/18 - 7:00pm - 9/7/18 - 8:00pm

Barry Phipps

Iowa-based photographs of abstract shapes and colors, artful signs, and the occasional resident.

Love, InshAllah

9/21/18 - 7:00pm - 9/21/18 - 8:00pm

Nura Maznavi

Romance, dating, sex and - Muslim women? 25 American Muslim writers sweep aside stereotypes.

Collected Works of Meg Medina

9/24/18 - 7:00pm - 9/24/18 - 8:00pm

Meg Medina

A Latina writer of books for kids of all ages.