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)
Poetry Reading: Janine Joseph, Jenny Molberg, & Jose Faus
Poetry reading with Janine Joseph, Jenny Molberg, & Jose Faus
