Saturday Festival Schedule of Events
PANEL: Department of Disinformation: Propaganda in Life and Literature
Katy Ballroom in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Omékongo Dibinga, Kevin Prufer, Theodore Wheeler, Seth Howes (moderator)
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: Appalachian Stories
Ridgeline in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Idra Novey, Crystal Wilkinson, Kayla Cayasso (moderator)
PANEL: Mission-Driven Bookshops
Big Ragtag at Ragtag Cinema / 10 Hitt St
Featuring: Candace Hulsizer (Black Tea Books), Kris Kleindienst (Left Bank Books), Ymani Wince (Noir Bookshop), Grace Hagen (moderator)
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: Cross-Generational Views of Vietnam
Little Ragtag at Ragtag Cinema / 10 Hitt St
Featuring: Christina Vo and Phong Nguyen (moderator)
PANEL: An Overdue Discussion
Serendipity Salon and Gallery / 1020 E Walnut St., Suite 100
Featuring: Sommer Browning, Margaret Conroy (Executive Director of Daniel Boone Regional Library), Laura Sims, Pete Zambito (moderator)
POETRY: Kazim Ali, Philip Metres, Taylor Byas
Top Ten Wines / 111 S 9th St., #160
PANEL: The Things They Created: Veteran Writers
Katy Ballroom in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Jerri Bell, Dewaine Farria, Matt Gallagher, Brian Turner, Chris Deutsch (moderator)
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: Revealing Our True Past During the Age of the History Wars
Ridgeline in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Anna Colletto, Caleb Gayle, Christopher Leonard (moderator)
PANEL: Saving Throws: The Influence of Roleplaying Games
Big Ragtag at Ragtag Cinema / 10 Hitt St
Featuring: Kazim Ali, Matt Bell, Stephanie Hedge, Sam Edmonds (moderator)
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: Dear Department Chair
Little Ragtag at Ragtag Cinema / 10 Hitt St
Featuring: Stephanie Shonekan, Sheri-Marie Harrison (moderator)
PANEL: Mythwesterners
Serendipity Salon and Gallery / 1020 E Walnut St., Suite 100
Featuring: Erika Bolstad, Taylor Byas, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Tina Casagrand Foss (moderator)
POETRY: Alexandra Teague, Crystal Wilkinson, Jubi Arriola-Headley
Top Ten Wines / 111 S 9th St., #160
PANEL: Love Unbound (or potentially bound, we don't judge)
Katy Ballroom in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Jessica Pryde, Cat Sebastian, Meryl Wilsner, Shane Mullen (moderator)
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: A Mighty Blaze
Ridgeline in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Mark Cecil, Caroline Leavitt, and Mary O’Malley (moderator)
PANEL: The Spectrum of Truth: Graphic History
Big Ragtag at Ragtag Cinema / 10 Hitt St
Featuring: Leela Corman, Pornsak Pichetshote, James Otis Smith, Hayli Cox (moderator)
SPECIAL EVENT: Ballyhoo!
Little Ragtag at Ragtag Cinema / 10 Hitt St
Featuring: Jon Langmead
PANEL: Found in Translation
Serendipity Salon and Gallery / 1020 E Walnut St., Suite 100
Featuring: Philip Metres, Idra Novey, Kevin Prufer, Audrey Dae Bush (moderator)
POETRY: Brian Turner, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Sommer Browning
Top Ten Wines / 111 S 9th St., #160
PANEL: Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: A Literary Response to Gun Violence
Katy Ballroom in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Jerri Bell, Alexandra Teague, Anne Valente, Emily Danker-Feldman (moderator)
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: Race and the American Story
Ridgeline in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Adam Seagrave, Stephanie Shonekan, Faramola Shonekan (moderator)
PANEL: Let's Talk About Sex, Baby
Serendipity Salon and Gallery / 1020 E Walnut St., Suite 100
Featuring: Jubi Arriola-Headley, Taylor Byas, Eliza Smith, Becca Hayes (moderator)
POETRY: Idra Novey, Kevin Prufer, Nisha Atalie
Top Ten Wines / 111 S 9th St., #160
PANEL: Kitchen Traditions Old and New
Katy Ballroom in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
Featuring: Stacey Mei Yan Fong, Hetty Lui McKinnon, Crystal Wilkinson, Jessica Vaughn Martin (moderator)
SPECIAL EVENT: Kewpie Poets Society
Ridgeline in the Broadway Hotel (lower level) / 1111 E Broadway
AUTHOR CONVERSATION: The Past is a Foreign Country (Missouri edition)
Serendipity Salon and Gallery / 1020 E Walnut St., Suite 100
Featuring: Michelle Collins Anderson, Laura McHugh, Heather Bartel (moderator)
Pen Pals: Will Schwalbe and Dani Shapiro
Two authors whose writing both crosses and defies genres, Will Schwalbe (We Should Not Be Friends) and Dani Shapiro (Signal Fires) are fans of each other’s work, and of each other. Come and listen to these two beloved writers talk frankly about books and reading, and the writing life. We can’t think of a better way to conclude the day’s proceedings.
Pen Pals: Christina Baker Kline and Mary Morris
Between them, Mary Morris and Christina Baker Kline have written twenty-eight books, which hardly seems fair, really. There’s not much about the craft of writing that Christina (The Exiles) and Mary (All the Way to the Tigers) don’t know. We’ve dragged these two good friends from their bases in New York City all the way to Missouri to discuss their work and their lives in books.
Pen Pals: Phong Nguyen and Alexander Weinstein
Sometimes literary friendships extend to a supportive professional and creative relationship. Even though their fiction takes different forms and addresses wildly different topics, Phong Nguyen (Bronze Drum) and Alexander Weinstein (Universal Love) share their work with each other at an early stage in the process, offer feedback and advice, and help each other navigate the often perilous journey from blossoming idea to completed manuscript.