Fox Cities Book Festival: Connecting writers and readers across our diverse communities.

Please join members of The Mill: A Place for Writers for our annual celebration of the best in local fiction and poetry. Since 2013, The Mill has recognized the work of Appleton-based authors. Novelist Steven Polansky will judge fiction entries, and current Wisconsin Poet Laureate

Please join us for a discussion with author Kao Kalia Yang. To register for this event; click HERE. The NEA Big Read: Fox Cities Reads 2020 selection is The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir  is

Please join us for a discussion with author Kao Kalia Yang. To register for this event; click HERE. The NEA Big Read: Fox Cities Reads 2020 selection is The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang. The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir  is

In his second groundbreaking volume on gay history, R. Richard Wagner outlines the challenges that LGBT Wisconsinites faced in their efforts to right past oppressions and secure equality in the post-Stonewall period between 1969 and 2000.

A fun, laid back hour discussing all things thriller, with authors Jennifer Hillier, Andrea Bartz, and E.A. Aymar.

You wrote a book - now what? Should you query, find an agent, self-publish? Publishing has and continues to change. I’ll share the essentials I’ve learned as a new author.

Matthew Graham is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Geography of Home (Galileo Press, 2018). His work has earned numerous national, regional and local honors and awards, including a Pushcart Prize, an Academy of American Poets Award, two grants from the

Abayomi Animashaun’s poems are travelogues of an inner country that is shaped and informed by Animashaun’s Nigerian roots, his journeys through America, and his identity as a black immigrant. As an immigrant poet from Nigeria, Abayomi Animashaun has lived in the United States for over

Ruth Awad reads from her award-winning collection Set to Music a Wildfire. Ruth Awad is an award-winning Lebanese-American poet whose debut poetry collection Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press 2017) won the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award

Poet Cathryn Cofell will read from and talk about the poems in Stick Figure with Skirt. Winner of the 2019 Main Street Rag Poetry Book award, Stick Figure with Skirt explores the theme of work from the complicated perspective of a woman/mother/wife/ caretaker wrestling with

Join Cadwell Turnbull as he reads from his science fiction novel, THE LESSON. This will be followed with a Q&A session.

Join us for an Evening with Stephen Graham Jones, author of the new horror novel THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS.

How do you flesh out a character to the point where they can drive the story? In this talk, we will discuss tips and tricks for writing characters that feel real. Time permitting, we will have a brief writing exercise, so come with pen and paper ready!

Meet author Jen Waite.

In the search for a secret that had drowned over half a century ago, Natalie found more than she could begin to imagine.

Each author’s journey to publication is unique. Lora Hyler will share conventional paths and how she fast forwarded to become a published author after a public declaration in Writer’s Digest.

Luke Geddes reads from his novel HEART OF JUNK (published by Simon & Schuster in January) and talks about how growing up in the fox cities influenced his writing career

How do writers negotiate the line between fact and fiction? Using her own novels as examples, Janie Chang explains when facts matter in historical fiction and they don’t.

Get to know Christopher “Tuffer” Kunz, the novelist. Learn about his writing process, his unsuccessful experience with traditional publishing, and his decision to publish his three novels and a book of essays in the five months before his death in June of this year.