The 2021 Schedule is Here!

We’re proud to present the schedule for this year’s festival!

Perhaps fittingly for these times, everything is back to front right now. Usually we spend months announcing all our authors and then everything happens over the course of one weekend. This year we’re telling you about everything all at once, and then you have three months of world-class literary events to look forward to. And the keynote, which usually kicks everything off, will instead bring things to a close. It features the same guests who were scheduled to come in 2020, Pulitzer Prize winners Tracy K. Smith and Jericho Brown. To say that we can’t wait is something of an understatement!

So, have a look, and start making plans! You can click through for details on each panel and the speakers. You can also look at the whole roster of speakers here. Generally speaking events will be taking place every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. CST, although there are a few exceptions to this rule. We don’t yet have the links to register for all these events, but they will be coming soon.

Our first event is next Tuesday, January 19. Fittingly, it features four fabulous writers who have contributed to a wonderful anthology of writing about the pandemic. More details here.

We’re very proud of the amazing authors and poets who will be attending Unbound this year, and we look forward to seeing you online!