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Montana Festival of
the Book
October 23-25, 2008,
Missoula
Winter reading in Montana (photo: Vicki
Sherouse)
The
Humanities Montana
Festival of the Book website is in winter hibernation. The 2008 edition of
the Festival is now scheduled for October 23-25, 2008, in Missoula. But
you can see what the 2007 edition of the Festival was like by following
the links here and on associated pages. Remember, they all refer to
2007.
We'll update the site when the snow is gone.
2007 Schedule! Click Here!
2007 Bookfest Pix!
Click Here!
2007 Bookfest Links:
About,
Yesteryear's Reading in Montana,
Partners/Sponsors/Exhibitors,
Schedule,
Ticket Information,
Participants,
Missoula,
Other
Bookfests
2007 poster by Joanna
Yardley
The 2007 Montana
Festival of the Book--September 13-15 in Missoula--will feature scores
of the region’s writers in a variety of readings, panels, exhibits,
demonstrations, signings, workshops, entertainments, receptions, and
other events. More than 6,000 visitors from across the state, the
nation, and Europe are expected to attend. The Festival is presented by
Humanities Montana, in association with numerous other national, state
and local organizations and businesses.
As in years past, the
Montana Festival of the Book will feature some of the most important
voices of the West, including award-winning authors James Lee Burke,
William Kittredge, Deirdre McNamer, Ron Carlson, Larry Watson, Mary
Clearman Blew, Pete Fromm, Aryn Kyle, Christy Leskovar, Kat Martin, Guy
Vanderhaeghe, Kevin Canty, Alyson Hagy, and many others.
Featured events
include:
·
A
Thursday evening Define-a-Thon with master of ceremonies Steve
Kleinedler, editor of the American Heritage dictionaries and featuring
celebrity teams of “definers.”
·
Several events celebrating the 2007 One Book Montana selection,
The
Last Crossing, including a session with the author Guy Vanderhaeghe
·
A
celebration of the publication of a new poetry anthology, Poems
Across the Big Sky, featuring many of the book’s contributors
·
A staged
reading of The Story of Mary MacLane, adapted by Joan Melcher,
with the Montana Festival of the Book Players
·
Friday
night’s traditional author’s reception and silent auction. Come mingle
with your favorite authors, and get some great literary memorabilia
while you do!
·
Panels on
fiction of the old and new west, the short story, Shakespeare, and non
fiction, writing and publishing workshops for children and adults, book
appraisals, exhibits, and much, much more.
The Montana Festival of
the Book is open to the public and almost all of the more than fifty
events are free of charge. Venues in downtown Missoula include the Wilma
Theatre, the Holiday Inn Parkside, the Missoula Art Museum, the Missoula
Public Library, and other locations.
Montana Festival of the Book, pp. 626-627
Montana has long been
recognized for its rich literary life. From authors such as A. B.
Guthrie, Norman MacLean, Mildred Walker, Dorothy Johnson, D’Arcy
McNickle, and Richard Hugo, through contemporary writers like William
Kittredge, Ivan Doig, Richard Ford, James Welch, Mary Clearman Blew,
Rick Bass, Thomas McGuane, James Lee Burke, and many others, writers
from Montana and its neighboring states have had an important influence
on American literature and our understanding of the Western experience.
The Montana Festival of the Book will celebrate the northern Rockies
literary landscape.
The Montana Festival of the Book has become the state’s largest-ever
literary celebration. Major 2007 Festival sponsors already include the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the
Arts, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Montana Arts Council, and
The Missoulian.
For more information on the Montana Festival of
the Book, contact Kim Anderson, Festival Coordinator,
kim.anderson@umontana.edu, or Mark
Sherouse, Executive Director, Humanities Montana/Montana Center for the
Book, 243-6022 (in Montana 800-624-6001),
mark.sherouse@umontana.edu. The Montana
Festival of the Book website is at
www.bookfest-mt.org.
Humanities Montana is
an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the
intellectual, cultural, and civic life of Montana and its residents. An
affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Humanities
Montana's grants, Speakers Bureau, reading and discussion and other
programs have served Montanans since 1972. The Montana Center for the
Book, a program of Humanities Montana, is Montana’s affiliate of the
national Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
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