Past Years - 2020 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

Our Time Is Now

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

Stacey Abrams

A blueprint to end voter suppression, empower our citizens, and take back our country.

The Lightness

6/22/20 - 7:00pm - 6/22/20 - 8:00pm

Emily Temple

Chloe Benjamin

A stylish and suspenseful meditation on adolescent desire, friendship, and the female body.

The Second Home

6/29/20 - 7:00pm - 6/29/20 - 8:00pm

Christina Clancy

Second homes, second families, and second chances.

Point of View and Voice: Writing Seminar

6/30/20 - 10:30am

Susanna Daniel

Michelle Wildgen

How to inhabit your character and look at how voice drives a story independently of plot.

Setting: Writing Seminar

6/30/20 - 10:30am

Susanna Daniel

Michelle Wildgen

Setting is more than landscape!

Building Character: Writing Seminar

6/30/20 - 11:00am

Susanna Daniel

Michelle Wildgen

How to take the skills you already have and use them to create a person on the page

The Yellow House

7/14/20 - 7:00pm - 7/14/20 - 8:00pm

Sarah Broom

Lisa Lucas

The story of her family’s yellow camelback shotgun house set against the canvas of national history.

In Praise of Walking & The Nature Fix

7/23/20 - 7:00pm - 7/23/20 - 8:00pm

Shane O'Mara

Florence Williams

Two leading scientists investigate our interactions with the natural world.

Demagogue

7/29/20 - 6:00pm - 7/29/20 - 7:00pm

Larry Tye

When the subcommittee doors slammed shut, Chairman McCarthy came unhinged.

Transcendent Kingdom

9/17/20 - 7:00pm - 9/17/20 - 8:00pm

Yaa Gyasi

A powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

You're Fired

9/21/20 - 6:00pm - 9/21/20 - 7:00pm

Paul Begala

The handbook everyone must read in the ramp up to the 2020 election

Starling Days & Deluge

9/22/20 - 7:00pm - 9/22/20 - 8:00pm

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Leila Chatti

Wisconsin Wednesdays featuring UW Alumnae, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and Leila Chatti

Coming Out, Moving Forward

9/23/20 - 7:00pm - 9/23/20 - 8:00pm

Richard Wagner

The second volume in R. Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking work on gay history in Wisconsin

On Corruption in America

9/29/20 - 7:00pm - 9/29/20 - 8:00pm

Sarah Chayes

A major, unflinching book that looks at America, exploring our dangerous networks of corruption

She Will Rise

10/1/20 - 7:00pm - 10/1/20 - 8:00pm

Katie Hill

A guide for women to topple entrenched power structures that prevent them from achieving equality.

Jack

10/2/20 - 7:00pm - 10/2/20 - 8:00pm

Robinson returns to the world of Gilead and its beloved characters.

Jack - Marilynne Robinson - 10/02/2020 - 7:00pm

Sid Meier's Memoir!

10/5/20 - 7:00pm - 10/5/20 - 8:00pm

Sid Meier

Game by game, Meier discusses his inspirations and narrates the genesis of ideas through development

The Son of Good Fortune & We Ride Upon Sticks

10/6/20 - 7:00pm - 10/6/20 - 8:00pm

Quan Barry

Anthony Doerr

Lysley Tenorio

Three former UW-Madison Writing Fellows, discuss their latest works in a wide-ranging conversation.

Indigenous Poetics

10/12/20 - 7:00pm - 10/12/20 - 8:00pm

Kimberly Blaeser

Santee Frazier

Angie Trudell Vasquez

Joaquin Zihuatanejo

A celebration of Indigenous People's Day with a gathering of poetic voices.

All Adults Here

10/15/20 - 4:00pm - 10/15/20 - 5:00pm

Emma Straub

A deeply satisfying story of things that follow us into adulthood, whether we like them to or not.

The King of Confidence

10/15/20 - 5:30pm - 10/15/20 - 6:30pm

Miles Harvey

The riveting story of the most infamous American con man you’ve never heard of: James Strang

Make Me Rain

10/15/20 - 7:00pm - 10/15/20 - 8:00pm

Nikki Giovanni

Kiese Laymon

Stirring, provocative, and resonant, the poems in Make Me Rain pierce the heart and nourish the soul

Miracle Creek & Such a Fun Age

10/15/20 - 8:30pm - 10/15/20 - 9:30pm

Angie Kim

Kiley Reid

Angie Kim and Kiley Reid will appear live on Crowdcast to discuss their debut novels

Eden Mine & Ruthie Fear

10/16/20 - 4:00pm - 10/16/20 - 5:00pm

S.M. Hulse

Maxim Loskutoff

S.M. Hulse and Maxim Loskutoff discuss their novels Eden Mine and Ruthie Fear