Past Years - 2023 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

Love Released Again

2/19/23 - 2:00pm - 2/19/23 - 3:00pm

Fabu

Sherry Lucille

Catrina Sparkman

Book Launch of new works by authors Fabu, Sherry Lucille, and Catrina J. Sparkman.

Broken

3/15/23 - 7:00pm - 3/15/23 - 8:00pm

Dr. Evelyn Alsultany

The promise of Muslim inclusion, deferring systemic change until and through the next crisis

2023 UW Poetry MFA Graduates Reading

3/20/23 - 7:00pm - 3/20/23 - 8:00pm

A reading from the graduating MFA cohort in poetry.

UW-Creative Writing MFA Graduates Poetry Reading

I Have Some Questions for You

3/22/23 - 7:00pm - 3/22/23 - 8:00pm

Rebecca Makkai

A literary feminist boarding school murder mystery you didn’t know you needed.

Photo of novel, I Have Some Questions for You

I Want To Tell You

3/30/23 - 7:00pm - 3/30/23 - 8:00pm

Jesse Lee Kercheval

Crossing through the bewildering territory of grief

Above Ground

4/3/23 - 7:00pm - 4/3/23 - 8:00pm

Clint Smith

A breathtaking collection that follows Smith's first award-winning book of poetry, Counting Descent.

The Book of More Delights

4/5/23 - 7:00pm - 4/5/23 - 8:00pm

Ross Gay

An intimate and electrifying collection of essays

Crying in H Mart

4/7/23 - 7:00pm

Michelle Zauner

Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely with all

Bootstrapped

4/11/23 - 7:00pm - 4/11/23 - 8:00pm

Alissa Quart

Shannon Henry Kleiber

How we can shed an American obsession...

Things I Wish I Told My Mother

4/12/23 - 7:00pm - 4/12/23 - 8:00pm

Sue Patterson

James Patterson

A mother and daughter unpack a lifetime's secrets while on vacation in Paris.

A Fever in the Heartland

4/13/23 - 7:00pm - 4/13/23 - 8:00pm

Timothy Egan

A tale of testimony finally brought the Klan to their knees

Lunch for Libraries - Emily St. John Mandel

4/17/23 - 12:00pm

Emily St. John Mandel

A novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.

There There

4/24/23 - 7:00pm - 4/24/23 - 8:00pm

Tommy Orange

A painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with sacrifice and heroism.

The Tradition

4/27/23 - 7:00pm - 4/27/23 - 8:00pm

Jericho Brown

The lyrics move through elegy and memory with a breathless cadence

2023 Wisconsin Institute For Creative Writing Fellows Reading

5/2/23 - 7:00pm - 5/2/23 - 8:00pm

Poetry and fiction from the 2021-22 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellows

Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

5/4/23 - 7:00pm - 5/4/23 - 8:00pm

Sarah Thankam Mathews

The 2023 undergraduate and graduate creative writing awards ceremony.

Breathe and Count Back From Ten

5/11/23 - 10:00am - 5/11/23 - 11:00am

Natalia Sylvester

A young girl decides it’s time to seize control of her life and her body

What Happened to Rachel Riley?

5/17/23 - 10:00am - 5/17/23 - 11:00am

Claire Swinarski

If you’re going to ask a complicated question, you better be prepared for the answer

PURE COLOUR

5/20/23 - 5:00pm - 5/20/23 - 6:30pm

Sheila Heti

Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty.

CANCELED: Quietly Hostile

5/21/23 - 2:00pm - 5/21/23 - 3:00pm

Samantha Irby

Lindy West

Relatable, poignant, and uproarious, once again, Irby is the tonic we all need to get by.

Turtle Boy

5/25/23 - 10:00am

Evan Wolkenstein

Seventh grade is not going well for Will Levine

Pageboy

6/12/23 - 7:00pm - 6/12/23 - 8:00pm

Elliot Page

The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno shares his truth

A Girl Can Build Anything

9/9/23 - 10:00am - 9/9/23 - 11:00am

Pat Zietlow Miller

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Keisha Morris

A brilliant, inclusive ode to self-expression of girl power

I Have Something To Tell You

9/13/23 - 1:00pm

Chasten Buttigieg

With honesty, courage, and warmth, Chasten relays his experience and embracing his identity