Past Years - 2024 Events | Wisconsin Book Festival

Quartette: Four Women in Jazz

1/31/24 - 10:30am - 1/31/24 - 11:30am

Maxine Gordon

Stories from the Lives of Maxine Sullivan, Velma Middleton, Melba Liston, and Shirley Scott

Martyr!

2/14/24 - 6:00pm - 2/14/24 - 7:00pm

Kaveh Akbar

Michelle Wildgen

A look at how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others

Splinters

2/27/24 - 7:00pm - 2/27/24 - 8:00pm

Leslie Jamison

Rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.

True North

2/28/24 - 7:00pm - 2/28/24 - 8:00pm

Andrew J. Graff

Nickolas Butler

Wisconsin’s Northwoods could be the fresh start this marriage needs.

An Immense World

3/7/24 - 7:00pm - 3/7/24 - 8:00pm

Ed Yong

Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery.

Middle Distance

3/11/24 - 7:00pm - 3/11/24 - 8:00pm

Mylo Choy

The subtle powers of running, especially those who are transgender or nonbinary

Birding to Change the World

3/12/24 - 7:00pm - 3/12/24 - 8:00pm

Trish O'Kane

An uplifting memoir, a professor & activist shares what birds can teach us about life

Tough Broad

3/13/24 - 7:00pm - 3/13/24 - 8:00pm

Caroline Paul

How outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age

2024 UW Fiction MFA Graduates Reading

3/18/24 - 7:00pm - 3/18/24 - 8:00pm

Aeron Parks, Jackie Chalgin, Nitya Gupta, Phoebe Kranefuss, R.E. Hawley, and Robert Sorrell Bynum

Creative Writing MFA Graduates Fiction Reading graphic

Purified

3/19/24 - 7:00pm - 3/19/24 - 8:00pm

Peter Annin

How recycled sewage is transforming our water

Be A Revolution

4/2/24 - 7:00pm - 4/2/24 - 8:00pm

Ijeoma Oluo

Dr. Sagashus Levingston

How everyday people are fighting oppression and changing the world - and how you can too

SCHOOL VISIT: Be a Revolution

4/3/24 - 10:00am - 4/3/24 - 11:00am

Ijeoma Oluo

How everyday people are fighting oppression and changing the world - and how you can too

The Dane County Farmers’ Market Cookbook

4/4/24 - 7:00pm - 4/4/24 - 8:00pm

Terese Allen

Local foods, global flavors

Friends of UW-Madison Libraries Book Sale

4/10/24 - 4:00pm - 4/13/24 - 4:00pm

Friends of UW Libraries

Books for sale are donated by University of Wisconsin faculty, staff, students, and residents

Poetry Reading

4/10/24 - 7:00pm - 4/10/24 - 8:00pm

Joshua Burton

Patrycja Humienik

Sadia Hassan

Celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading featuring deeply moving words from three poets

Lost Children Archive

4/15/24 - 7:00pm - 4/15/24 - 8:00pm

Valeria Luiselli

Paola Hernández

An artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip

Lunch For Libraries - Tommy Orange

4/23/24 - 12:00pm - 4/23/24 - 2:00pm

Tommy Orange

Aaron Bird Bear

Featuring award-winning author, Tommy Orange

Not Your Mother's Romance Writers

4/24/24 - 6:00pm - 4/24/24 - 7:00pm

Alexander, Bradley, and Lau will discuss what makes a great romance.

Not Your Mother's Romance Writers Event Flyer

2024 Wisconsin Institute For Creative Writing Fellows Reading

4/24/24 - 7:00pm - 4/24/24 - 8:00pm

Presented in partnership with the UW-Madison Program in Creative Writing

Table For Two

4/30/24 - 7:00pm - 4/30/24 - 8:00pm

Amor Towles

Christina Clancy

Stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood

Creative Writing Awards Ceremony

5/2/24 - 7:00pm - 5/2/24 - 8:00pm

Jessica Tanck

The 2024 undergraduate and graduate creative writing awards ceremony.

Lessons For Survival

5/8/24 - 7:00pm - 5/8/24 - 8:00pm

Emily Raboteau

Erika Meitner

A perspective from a mother raising children in the midst of protracted crises & existential threats

SCHOOL VISIT: A Maleta Full of Treasures

5/9/24 - 10:00am - 5/9/24 - 11:00am

Natalia Sylvester

A warm, gentle ode to the people and places that make us who we are even if we haven’t met them yet

Real Americans

5/14/24 - 7:00pm - 5/14/24 - 8:00pm

Rachel Khong

Ada Zhang

What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?