2014 Festival of Books Guide by Sherry DeBoer

The “Circle of Friends” sculpture in front of the Orpheum Theater in downtown Sioux Falls. Photo (also on front cover) by Christian Begeman.

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Mayor’s Welcome SD Humanities Council Welcome Events Map A Tribute to Children’s and Young Adult Literature

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9 A Tribute to Fiction

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11 A Tribute to Non-Fiction

Sponsored by South Dakota Public Broadcasting

12 A Tribute to Writers’ Support Sponsored by South Dakota Arts Council

13 A Tribute to History and Tribal Writing

Sponsored by Avera and South Dakota Community Foundation

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WELCOME... Greetings from Mayor Mike!

n behalf of the citizens of Sioux Falls, it is a pleasure to welcome you to the 12th Annual South Dakota Festival of Books.

Each year thousands of people attend the festival, and we promise you will find our great city the perfect venue for this family-friendly event. Sioux Falls is a thriving community, and we are honored to share our town with you. During your stay, we invite you to discover what makes this city so great and to meet the people who call Sioux Falls home. Take a walk down the new Downtown River Greenway, visit our bike trails or 75 parks, or spend an afternoon at the Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum of Natural History. We especially invite you to view the Traveling Quilt Exhibit, “Celebrating Children’s Books,” on display at the Siouxland Libraries Main Branch. You’ll have the chance to meet several of the featured authors during the festival.

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IS A YEAR OF FIRSTS, including a first-time dual-state One Book collaboration and a first-time Festival of Books designed specifically for younger audiences. The 2014 South Dakota Festival of Books will bring the usual thought-provoking programs along with these exciting new firsts. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography is the 2014 One Book for both North Dakota and South Dakota, in honor of the 125th anniversary of the two states’ Nov. 2, 1889 entry into the union. The South Dakota Humanities Council has embarked upon an unprecedented collaboration with both states’ governments and quasquicentennial committees to plan joint events commemorating statehood. Headlining author Kathleen Norris, a longtime resident of Lemmon, brings a wealth of knowledge and insightful commentary based on her classic book Dakota. The Festival culminates a 16-city, two-state One Book author tour. While talented children’s/YA authors such as Walter Dean Myers, Sherman Alexie, Mary Casanova and others have shared their wisdom at the Festival of Books, we have never hosted a literary event tailored specifically for children and young adults. That changes with the launch of a Young Readers Festival of Books in Brookings and Sioux Falls. The companion Young Readers One Book South Dakota program features Kate DiCamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane as the inaugural selection. We created this special new event to stop summer reading loss. Partnering with us are the Children’s Museum of South Dakota, the Washington Pavilion, the Siouxland Libraries Main Branch and the Brookings and Sioux Falls school districts. Young Readers and their families will meet DiCamillo, Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, as well as more than a dozen other acclaimed children’s authors and illustrators. DiCamillo will appear at the Children’s Museum and schools in Brookings Sept. 25 before traveling to Sioux Falls Sept. 26 for sessions with students and a keynote lecture in the Washington Pavilion’s Mary W. Sommervold Hall. Concurrent activities for young readers will occur Saturday, Sept. 27 at the Washington Pavilion and Siouxland Libraries. We are also working to expand our veterans’ programming through a series of reading and writing groups. A highlight will be the Festival appearance of Iraq War veteran Phil Klay, author of Redeployment, who will discuss his work and experiences with veterans and civilians alike. Meanwhile, the 2014 Festival of Books will include such talents as former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, nationally renowned mystery authors Karin Slaughter and C.J. Box, bestselling novelists Peter Heller and Diane Johnson, and many more. Visit sdbookfestival.com for info on all authors and events. Follow us on Facebook (facebook.com/sdbookfestival) and Twitter (twitter.com/sdbookfestival), download our Festival of Books app at the iTunes and Android stores, and check out our new blog, “Festival Fodder” (sdbookfestival.com/blog). We will see you in Brookings Sept. 25 and Sioux Falls Sept. 26-28. And plan now to attend next year in Rapid City and Deadwood (Sept. 24-27)!

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Festival of Books Event Locations SIOUX FALLS

AUGUSTANA CAMPUS (2121 S. Summit Ave.) 605-274-4007 • Center for Western Studies Fantle Building

HOLIDAY INN CITY CENTRE (100 W. 8th St.) 605-339-2000 • Cascade • Skyline • Palisades I • Palisades II • Palisades III • Falls Room • Starlite Room

ORPHEUM (315 N. Phillips Ave.) 605-367-4616 • Main Theater • Anne Zabel Studio Theater • Classroom

SIOUXLAND LIBRARY DOWNTOWN (200 N. Dakota Ave.) 605-367-8720 • Meeting Room A • Meeting Room B

WASHINGTON PAVILION (301 S. Main Ave.) 605-367-6000 • Mary W. Sommervold Hall • Belbas Theater • Schulte Room • Classrooms 312/313

FESTIVAL GUIDELINES

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CHILDREN’S/Y.A. A “ONE BOOK” FIRST 2014 marks the first Young Readers South Dakota Festival of Books. It’s also the first time South Dakota Humanities Council has named a Young Readers One Book South Dakota. “Candlewick Press, Kate DiCamillo’s publisher, contacted the Humanities Council with the idea,” says Jennifer Widman, director of the South Dakota Center for the Book. “As we were inviting Kate to come to South Dakota, we learned that she had been named the 2014-2015 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature.” DiCamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is the first Young Readers One Book. Candlewick printed 3,000 special edition copies sponsored by the Sioux Falls Community Foundation and First Bank & Trust in Brookings. “They were excited about us doing this work and wanted to help us get books into the hands of kids,” Widman says. Every third grader in Sioux Falls and Brookings received a copy last spring. “When they’re fourth graders, they’ll have a chance to come to the Young Readers Festival either in Brookings or Sioux Falls and hear from Kate,” Widman says. Additional support provided by S.D. Arts Council.

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Author, Ambassador and Award Winner

ATE DICAMILLO wants to remind us of the joy of reading. The children’s author and current Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature is traveling the nation on the platform that “Stories Connect Us” by either showing us the outside world or some insight into ourselves. DiCamillo also encourages sharing stories with each other, “because reading together changes everyone involved.” This year, South Dakotans connected through DiCamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, chosen as the first Young Readers One Book South Dakota. The Miraculous Journey tells of Edward, a haughty china rabbit owned by 10-year-old Abilene. “A dear friend gave me a very large rabbit doll as a gift,” DiCamillo says. “I had a dream about the rabbit under water, lost and hoping to be found.” Edward’s fate is similar. He is tossed overboard the RMS Queen Mary while Abilene’s family is on vacation, then travels from one unusual situation to the next, experiencing personal transformation in the process. “There’s much more room for the impossible becoming possible when you write for kids than when you write for adults,” DiCamillo says. “I hope readers finish the book and feel like they have been on a journey, too.”

Her tales often tenderly include serious themes, and The Miraculous Journey is no different. Edward experiences loneliness and heartbreak as he loses friends, gets buried under garbage and observes death and abuse. But DiCamillo doesn’t think about themes when writing. “I think about telling the story as well and truthfully as I can,” she says. “What happens in a story often surprises me.” But, DiCamillo says, “When you write for kids, you are duty-bound to end with hope.” DiCamillo didn’t star t as a children’s author, but as a writer of short stories for adults. “I soon discovered that writing novels for young readers was where I needed to be,” DiCamillo says. Her first novel, Because of WinnDixie, won a Newbery Honor and became a feature-length film. The Tiger Rising, her second novel, was a National Book Award Finalist. Her third, The Tale of Despereaux, won a Newbery Medal and became an animated film. Her latest novel, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, was a 2013 Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner, Newbery Medal winner and Common Sense Media’s Best Book of the Year. And The Miraculous Journey is set to be a feature-length film directed by Robert Zemeckis. DiCamillo lives in Minneapolis where, before she’s done anything else, she writes two pages a day.

FIC TION Crime, Murder and Charity

ARIN SLAUGHTER remove to look at how things used to published her f i r st be and perhaps understand how much, novel, Blindsighted, in and sometimes how little, things have 2001. It won the Crime changed.” Writers’ Association’s Slaughter’s story also touches on the D a g g e r Aw a r d fo r idea that the pressure on women filling “Best Thriller Debut” for that year, and traditional male roles didn’t come only launched a career that has been a criti- from men. “Other women could be just cal and commercial success. as awful, if not more so,” said SlaughSlaughter is known ter. “According to for the six novels of records, one of the her Grant County colmost common calls lection, set in the ficto Atlanta precincts tional community of du r i ng t he 1970s Heartsdale, Georgia, was women reportand an eight-book seing that they’d just ries featuring special seen another womagents Will Trent and a n s t e a l i ng a p o Faith Mitchell of the lice car. It never ocG eorg ia Bu reau of curred to them that Investigation. a woman could acCrime/thriller novtually be a police ofel aficionados are in it ficer. They assumed for the hunt, the proit was more likely cess of ferreting out that she would be and bringing to justice the bad guy. It a car thief.” should be no surprise that their authors Slaug hter has are also fans of the genre. “Lately I’ve used her success been reading a lot of historical fiction,” to launch Save The said Slaughter, “[but that] isn’t to say Libraries, a project that I don’t love thriller writers. Lisa that works to build Gardner, Lee Child, Michael Connelsuppor t for comly, Mo Hayder, Denise Mina, Gillian mu n it y librar ies. Flynn … the list goes on.” “Like many authors, I owe my career There is more than murder and may- to the librarians who gave me great hem to the stories, however. “One of books to read,” said Slaughter. “When the many reasons I love reading crime I was a child, my mother would drop fiction is because there are so many us off at the library every Saturday, great novels that use crime to explore where, under threat of death if we got social themes,” said Slaughter. into any trouble, we would quietly peSlaughter does that in her newest ruse the shelves to our hearts’ content.” novel, Cop Town, which follows a pair Slaughter has appeared at STL funof female officers in Atlanta searching draising events from Boston to Sefor a cop-killer. “The issues I wanted attle, and raises additional dollars by to talk about — racism, sexism, in- selling a Kindle version of her origicome inequality, discrimination, hir- nal short story, “A Thorn in My Side,” ing quotas — are all still very sensi- and donating the proceeds to the tive topics, but couching them in a organization. 1970s setting gives the reader some

WAR AND THE SOLDIER’S SOUL Few authors are more qualified to write a collection of short stories on America’s 21st century wars than Phil Klay, whose book Redeployment has been called, “The best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls,” by the New York Times. Klay served in Iraq’s Anbar Province as a public relations officer from January 2007 to February 2008. His stories seek to understand what happened in the Middle East and how it affects returning soldiers, a task made more difficult by the war’s distance from many Americans. “We have an all-volunteer Army that is a very small percentage of the population, so there’s naturally going to be a certain disconnect,” Klay says. “It’s pretty easy, even for a veteran, to go about your daily life as if there’s no war going on, because it doesn’t impact you in a tangible way.” While in Sioux Falls, Klay plans to lead veterans in writing workshops. “The divide between the civilian and military worlds has consequences in terms of how we think about war and ultimately how we act as a country, so it’s vital that those who have been to war work through what that experience meant and try to communicate,” he says.

POETRY ANALYZING A LIFE Mary K. Stillwell admires Ted Kooser’s use of metaphor. “It just blows me away,” Stillwell says. “The reason we return again and again to his work is that we continue to be rewarded.” She celebrates this admiration through The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser (2013), a biography and analysis of his work. Stillwell, like Kooser, is a Nebraska native and poet. She first discovered his work in the 1970s and met him as a graduate student in the 1990s. Stillwell wrote parts of her dissertation about Kooser, and when he was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2004, she decided to write a book. Her initial focus was analytical, but that shifted when she couldn’t find in-depth information about Kooser. Subsequent interviews proved invaluable to the biography and to Maps & Destinations (2014), Stillwell’s collection that followed. “The Kooser book spans Ted’s whole life, so I wanted to take a look at my whole life in terms of the poetry I’d written and how it reflects the content of my life,” Stillwell says.

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Darkness and Light

HE JOB OF A writer in a post-Holocaust world, but that is to illuminate the hu- doesn’t mean we have reckoned with man condition,” says what happened in those camps.” Patrick Hicks, “and the Hicks had f requent nightmares Holocaust is a story of wh ile w r it i ng T he Commandant. what we are capable of “Auschwitz and Treblinka seep into doing to each other.” Hicks is known your mind, and I don’t think a person to South Dakotans is the same after as a poet and prospending time fessor of writing in these places,” at Augustana ColHicks says. lege in Sioux Falls. W h i l e h e e xH i s f i r s t n ovel , plored the evils of The Commandant slaughter, he also of Lubizec, was rep e n n e d h i s l a tleased last spring. est poetry collecIt tells the stor y tion, Adoptable. of Com mandant “I had t he good Hans-Peter Guth, sense early on to a family man and realize I needed mass executioner a counterbalance of Operation Reto my work with inhard, the Nazi plan to murder Polish t h e H o l o c a u s t ,” Jews during World War II. Hicks says. “I Hicks’ interest in the Holocaust could only vengrew from a class he taught at Auture so far into gustana, where many bright students the darkness behadn’t heard of Operation Reinhard. fore I needed to Hicks studied the Holocaust on three retreat back into separate trips to Poland, visiting Austhe light.” chwitz, Treblinka and other lesserThe poems in known death camps. “ [Treblinka] Adoptable focus murdered nearly one million innocent o n H i c k s’ s o n , souls, making it second only to Ausadopted from Kochwitz as a factory of annihilation,” r e a . “ It’s a b out Hicks says. He explains in an author’s life, hope, grace and the goodness of note that because nearly all the prison- loving each other,” Hicks says. The ers were killed in Treblinka, a fiction- collection explores the connections alized accounting is the only way to between home and away, blood and tell their stories. Lubizec, the camp in belonging, and what it means to be his story, never actually existed, but a family. “ [The Commandant and easily could have. Adoptable] represent a yin and yang to “When I thought about the things I me. Darkness and light,” Hicks says. could write about, really, there is no “Writing about my son allowed me to story more important than the Holo- put on the armor of light and venture caust,” Hicks says. “I hope readers back into the horror of genocide.” learn more about Operation Reinhard Hicks’ first collection of short stoand also pause to consider the darker ries, The Collector of Names, will be chambers of our being. We may live released in February 2015.

NON-FIC TION COOKING UP CULTURE

A Wild Idea

A N O’BR I E N fel l i n Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a love with the Northern Difficult Land, O’Brien’s newest book, Black Hills while on a is Buffalo on a grand scale. He and his road trip with his par- family now raise grass-fed, free-roaments in the 1950s. “My ing buffalo in the Cheyenne River valfirst vision of the north- ley, but the Wild Idea Buffalo Co. difern Great Plains was a romantic little ference only begins there. kid’s dream of cowboys, horses and Most meat comes to market by way of sunsets,” he wrote in Buffalo for the a factory-type processing plant. Wild Broken Heart. “But it stuck with me.” Idea’s animals are dispatched in a pasO’Brien spent 18 years as a wildlife ture, with traditional Lakota prayers of biologist. His experiences honed his thanksgiving. They are quartered on understanding of man’s impact on the the spot in a refrigerated semi-trailer land and its creatures, and informed under the eye of a USDA inspector. Fiboth his writing and what has become nal processing takes place in the comhis life’s work. pany’s Rapid City plant. In 1978 O’Brien took over a small Wild Idea weaves the company’s stoMeade County ranch and started to live ry with the grit and joy of family life, his “little kid’s” dream. Raising cattle lyrical descriptions of the land and woron the Broken Heart Ranch turned out ries about rainfall and loan payments. to be a break-even proposition at best, “It is easy to recall the early days of but O’Brien’s dissatisfaction was with writing and ranching [on the Broken more than just the economics of his Heart] with nostalgia,” said O’Brien. situation. The nutritious native grass- “But those days were pretty lonely and es that thrived in this region’s unfor- the bacon was cut frighteningly thin.” giving climate were almost completeBetween running the business and ly gone. Though he worked to restore an occasional teaching job, “there them, O’Brien knew that substituting [does] seem to be less time to write,” cattle for the buffalo which evolved and said O’Brien. “But, in fact, there has thrived here for millennia had played never been enough time to write. It a major role in the land’s degradation. has always been a question of getting Buffalo For The Broken Heart, pub- up earlier and working toward writing lished in 2001, told of O’Brien’s quest smarter and more efficiently. There are to restore a sliver of the Great Plains’ a million reasons why we can’t write. ecosystem by returning buffalo to it, The trick is to find a reason why we and how doing so renewed his own must write. If a writer can be dissuaded sense of purpose. — he probably will be.”

Amy Thielen describes, preserves and celebrates Midwestern cooking through 200 recipes in The New Midwestern Table. “It uses a lot of home grown ingredients,” Thielen says. “Many people in this area have gardens or access to gardens. Many hunt, fish or gather from the woods or fields. It’s nice to know that there are these pockets of the U.S. that haven’t homogenized yet.” Thielen grew up in the Midwest and later spent a summer in a primitive cabin in the northern Minnesota woods. Once winter hit, Thielen and her nowhusband moved to New York City, where she cooked professionally for 10 years. When her son was born, they returned to the Midwest to raise their family. A slower pace allowed time to write, and Thielen had plenty of ideas. Some recipes come from her church and community cookbook collection. Many are German or Scandinavian – like kalvdans, a vitamin-packed pudding from cow’s colostrum – and many she created herself. All were painstakingly tested in Thielen’s idyllic cabin, now the setting for her Food Network series, Heartland Table.

Writers’ Support BE AN INTERACTIVE AUTHOR Becoming a successful author in the 21st century requires interaction with your audience, says Lynn Wiese Sneyd, founder of LWS Literary Services. “Authors need to engage in social media marketing, at least to some extent,” she says. “Creating a website, writing a regular blog and posting on social media networks like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads will help authors and their books begin to get recognition.” Sneyd is the co-author with H. Alan Day of The Horse Lover, Day’s memoir of creating a sprawling horse ranch in south central South Dakota. The project began when Day presented his manuscript to Sneyd in 2002. “I submitted it to some agents and publishers, who hemmed and hawed, but ultimately rejected it,” she says. “One day, in a moment of frustration, I suggested we rewrite it together. And that’s what we did.” But writing the book is only the beginning. “Most writers don’t have a realistic view of publicity and the time and persistence it takes,” she says. “An author really needs to give the publicity and marketing effort a good year, or even longer.”

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The Dos and Don’ts of Publishing

OU — YES, YOU — sitting at the kitchen table in the middle of South Dakota can become a published author. That’s because we live in a golden age of self-publishing, where your first book is no more than a few mouse clicks away. But for those who want to follow the traditional path of drafting query letters, writing and refining proposals, and writing and rewriting sample chapters, The Book Doctors are here to help. Husband and wife writing team Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry have decades of experience helping writers and have co-written The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published. They’ll share their insight during a Pitchapalooza event at the Festival. Those who buy a copy of their Guide ($16.99) will get the chance to brief ly pitch a book and get feedback. The winner will be introduced to an appropriate agent or publisher. Two common shortcomings among authors are failing to identify their audience and neglecting research. “At one of our writing workshops, a woman said, ‘I want to write the definitive book on pregnancy and giving birth,’” Sterry says. “I asked if she’d ever heard of What to Expect When You’re Expecting. No, she hadn’t. Well, that’s the definitive book on pregnancy and giving birth. Writers do this all the time. They want to write a book that’s already been written.” Once you’ve found your focus, it can take at least 18 months of polishing a proposal before a publishing house offers a contract. One author approached Sterry with the idea of writing a book

about men who played professional football before the creation of the National Football League. “He sent me an interview he’d done with an old player and a pitch that was just not good,” Sterry says. “He didn’t know what a pitch was, or where it would fit.” They worked together for a year and a half before Sterry thought the proposal was ready. Two weeks later the author got a deal from the University of Nebraska Press. But many writers are not willing to put in the work. “A lot of people we tell this to we never hear from again,” Sterry says. “The chasm between desire and action is gigantic. Are you actually going to work to make your desire come to fruition? Often not, but he was such a hard worker.” At the same time, technological advances have led to what Eckstut calls a tsunami of self-publishing, ideal for people who want to write memoirs for their families. “Anyone who wants to publish should be able to do so,” Eckstut says. “It’s never a bad thing to have written a book because it helps the next thing you want to write.”

HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING

Plights and Perks of Rurality

T’S BEEN 20 Y EA RS si nce Kathleen Norris published Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, but the universal themes about small towns and rural life that helped get it printed remain largely uncha nged. “O ne of t he big rea son s it even got published is because one of my editors said, ‘You described my small town in New Hamps h i r e p e r fe c t ly,’” Norris says. Dakota is the 2014 One Book selection of both the Nor th Dakota and South Dakota humanities cou ncils. As each state celebrates 125 years of statehood, Nor ris’s book has once again ignited conversations about the plights and perks of rural living. Norris began the book in the 1970s when she moved from New York City to her grandparents’ house in Lemmon. She began writing poems about the people and places of Perk ins County. “I always loved the land out here, and this was the first time I was trying to write about it,” Norris says. “The farm economy was booming, so some young people were moving back and trying to make a go of it. Then about 10 years later the farm crisis hit, and that just became too big for my poems, so I turned to prose.” The chapters in Dakota explore the idiosyncrasies of small-town life. “We are all interrelated in a small town, whether or not we’re related by blood,” she writes. “We know without thinking about it who owns what car; inhabitants of a town as small as a monastery learn to recognize each other’s

footsteps in the hall.” In “The Holy Use of Gossip,” she writes that, “allowing yourself to be a subject of gossip is one of the sacrifices you make, living in a small town. And the pain caused by the loose talk of ignorant people is undeniable.” Later, Norris wonders how a person can tell the truth in a small town. “In the isolated, insular small-town and r u ral environ ment, t r uth itself can be come an outside authority, like the economic and political forces we profess independence from, or the state and federal laws we so casu ally brea k when they don’t fit our needs.” Reaction to the book could have been harsh, but No r r i s’s n eig h bors largely welcomed it. “I was still living in Lemmon and nobody was making a big deal of things,” she says. “To them I was still the same person, so that was a great help, because a lot of things were happening. But I still was grounded in Lemmon.” She says she received hundreds of letters after Dakota was published. Today they are housed in the archives at South Dakota State University. One handwritten letter came from George McGovern. “That’s something you never expect when you write a book,” she says. “You’re thinking, ‘I need to meet this deadline and who’s going to want to read this?’ I was so grateful because this was nothing I expected.”

THE DAKOTAS SHARE “ONE BOOK” Since 2003, the South Dakota Humanities Council’s One Book South Dakota program has encouraged readers across the state to enjoy and discuss the same book throughout the year. This year’s One Book, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography by Kathleen Norris, was chosen in honor of South Dakota and North Dakota’s quasquicentennial. “North Dakota doesn’t always do a One Book program, but this year they decided to celebrate with us,” says Jennifer Widman, director of the South Dakota Center for the Book. Three thousand copies of Dakota were printed with the South Dakota and North Dakota 125th anniversary logos and distributed to libraries, museums and historical societies. “This is our largest giveaway to date,” Widman says. “Avera and the South Dakota Community Foundation were both excited about Kathleen coming to the state, so they helped sponsor the special edition printing through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,” Widman says. Norris conducted a 16-city tour, with special joint state events. At the Festival of Books, she will take part in a keynote panel on Saturday evening and a brunch on Sunday morning.

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PRESENTERS AVI

ing business and lives in the Black Hills.

Avi worked as a playwright and librarian before he began writing books for young people. Since 1970 he has published 70 books, including the 2003 Newbery Medal-winner, Crispin: The Cross of Lead. His most recent books are historical fiction: The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and Sophia’s War: A Revolutionary War Tale.

Malcolm Brooks draws on his childhood in the foothills of the California Sierras, with Gold Rush and Native American artifacts around every corner, and his current residence in Montana for his first novel, Painted Horses, out in August. In it, he sends a dauntless young woman on a heroic quest and sings a love song to the horseman’s vanishing way of life.

HARRY BLISS

CHRIS BROWNE

Harry Bliss is an internationally syndicated cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker magazine and a successful children’s book illustrator. His first book for young readers, A Fine, Fine School by Newbery Award-winning author Sharon Creech, was a New York Times bestseller. He also created the pictures for Diary of a Worm, Diary of a Spider and Diary of a Fly by Doreen Cronin.

JOSEPH BOTTUM Joseph Bottum is one of the nation’s most widely published writers. A contributing editor to the Weekly Standard, he holds a Ph.D. in medieval philosophy and lives in the Black Hills. His recent books include the sociological study An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America and the South Dakota memoir The Christmas Plains.

C.J. BOX Wyoming resident C.J. Box is the New York Times bestselling author of 18 mystery novels, including 2013’s Breaking Point and The Highway. Box’s experiences as a ranch hand, surveyor, fishing guide, newspaper reporter and co-owner of an international tourism marketing firm help inform his stories.

SANDRA BRANNAN Noah’s Rainy Day is the fourth installment in Sandra Brannan’s series centered on the intelligent, gutsy Liv Bergen, a woman who embodies the spirit of South Dakota. Much like her fictional character, Brannan has spent her career in the min14 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

MALCOLM BROOKS

Chris Browne is a born cartoonist. His father, Dik Browne, created the comic strips Hi and Lois and Hägar the Horrible. Chris Browne contributed to Hägar from its beginning in 1972 and took it over upon his father’s death. Browne co-authored Hägar the Horrible’s Very Nearly Complete Viking Handbook. His first children’s book, The Monster Who Ate the State, is just out.

JOSEPH BRUCHAC Joseph Bruchac has written over 120 books, often reflecting his American Indian (Abenaki) ancestry and the Adirondacks of New York where he lives in the home where his grandparents raised him. His newest work includes a picture book, Rabbit’s Snow Dance, a bilingual poetry collection, Nisnol Siboal/ Two Rivers, and the YA post-apocalyptic novel Killer of Enemies.

SHARON CHMIELARZ A native of Mobridge, Sharon Chmielarz has published eight books of poetry whose subjects include women, the Dakotas and Nannerl Mozart, a biography which was made into an opera. Her latest book is Love from the Yellowstone Trail.

TOM CLAVIN Tom Clavin has written 16 books, including 2014’s The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend, written with Bob Drury. For 15 years Clavin covered sports, business

and entertainment for a variety of publications. He was editor-in-chief of The Independent weekly newspaper chain for 10 years and is now the investigative features correspondent for Manhattan Magazine.

ELIZABETH COOK-LYNN A member of the Crow Creek Sioux tribe, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn was raised in a family of tribal politicians and scholars. An editor, essayist, poet, novelist and academic, she is one of the nation’s leading voices on tribal issues. Cook-Lynn is professor emerita of English and Native American Studies at Eastern Washington University. Her latest book, That Guy Wolf Dancing, was released in August.

H. ALAN DAY H. Alan Day grew up on a 200,000-acre cattle ranch straddling the high deserts of southern Arizona and New Mexico. He managed the ranch for 40 years, receiving numerous awards for land stewardship, and shared his experiences in the New York Times best-seller Lazy B, coauthored with his sister, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Day’s latest book, The Horse Lover, tells the story of his South Dakota ranch, a sanctuary for unadoptable wild horses.

PETE DEXTER Winner of the 1988 National Book Award for his novel Paris Trout, Pete Dexter began his working life at a U.S. Post Office in New Orleans. He wrote for newspapers, including the Philadelphia Daily News and the Sacramento Bee, and compiled many of his columns into the book Paper Trails. Dexter splits time between Washington state and a house in the desert so remote that there is no postal service.

KATE DICAMILLO Kate DiCamillo’s books have earned the Newbery Medal (Flora & Ulysses and The Tale of Despereaux), the Newbery Honor (Because of Winn-Dixie), the Boston Globe Horn Book Award (The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane) and the Theodor Geisel Medal and Honor (Blink and Gollie and Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride). She is the 2014-2015 National Am-

bassador for Young People’s Literature.

LANE DOLLY Lane Dolly served in the administrations of President Ronald Reagan and South Dakota Governors George S. Mickelson and Walter Dale Miller before a master’s degree in public policy led her to history and genealogy. Dolly’s research about an ancestor who was a missionary to the Cherokees became her first historical novel, A Distant Call: The Fateful Choices of Hattie Sheldon.

BOB DRURY Men’s Health contributing editor and chief military correspondent Bob Drury has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Bosnia, Northern Ireland and Darfur, among other sites. He is also the author, co-author or editor of nine nonfiction books, most recently The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend, written with Tom Clavin.

JENNIFER DUMKE Jennifer Dumke began her career in Sioux Falls as a TV news reporter and photographer, then began writing for print. With her husband, Brad, she produced a documentary on architect Wallace L. Dow. After the 2013 release of W.L. Dow, Architect, Dumke wrote a companion book, W.L. Dow: The Architect Who Shaped Sioux Falls.

TONY EARLEY Tony Earley was named one of the 20 best writers of his generation by Granta in 1996 and The New Yorker in 1999. He is the author of five books, including Mr. Tall: A Novella and Stories, out in August. He lives in Nashville, where he is the Samuel Milton Fleming Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

ARIELLE ECKSTUT AND DAVID HENRY STERRY The Book Doctors, Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, dedicate themselves to helping authors get published. They are co-authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It … 15

PRESENTERS Successfully. Eckstut has written seven books and amassed 18 years of experience at The Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. Sterry is the best-selling author of 12 books from YA fiction to reference.

RICHARD W. ETULAIN Richard W. Etulain has written or edited more than 50 books, including Stegner: Conversations on History and Literature and Re-imagining the Modern American West. He is professor emeritus of history and former director of the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico. His The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane is due out this fall.

DAVID ALLAN EVANS South Dakota Poet Laureate David Allan Evans was born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bush Artist Foundation, and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar to China. He has published eight collections of poems, most recently The Carnival, The Life.

MARCIA CALHOUN FORECKI Kansas City native Marcia Calhoun Forecki’s work includes Speak to Me, a non-fiction account of her son’s deafness; Better Than Magic, a YA novel; Hurricane Blues, a story collection; and Blood of the White Bear, a novel. Her story “Gift of the Spanish Lady” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

RACHAEL HANEL Rachael Hanel lives and writes near Mankato, Minnesota. A former newspaper reporter and editor, she teaches mass media at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is the author of over 20 nonfiction books for children, including several “You Choose” interactive history adventure stories. We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter is her first book for adults.

MARY WOSTER HAUG At the heart of Mary Woster Haug’s memoir Daughters of the Grasslands: Through the Looking Glass of Korea are stories of 16 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

spirituality, mothers and daughters, and knowing oneself through becoming a stranger. The book weaves South Dakota stories with the author’s experience of living in Daejeon, South Korea, as an exchange professor. Haug taught English at South Dakota State University for 30 years.

PETER HELLER Peter Heller is an acclaimed adventure writer who has worked as a logger, fisherman, kayak instructor, construction worker and river guide. His adventures led to four works of nonfiction, including the award-winning Kook. His first novel, The Dog Stars, became an international bestseller, and his second, The Painter, was published in May.

PATRICK HICKS Patrick Hicks, writer-in-residence at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, may be best known as a poet. However, he shows his versatility with his first novel, The Commandant of Lubizec, and a story collection, The Collector of Names, coming soon. His latest poetry collection, Adoptable, is out now.

DIANE JOHNSON Diane Johnson has published a travel guide, two essay collections, two biographies and 10 novels, including Persian Nights and Le Divorce, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1997 and produced as a movie in 2003. In collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, she adapted Stephen King’s novel The Shining for the screen. Johnson’s latest book, Flyover Lives, is a memoir of her Midwestern roots, including childhood summers in Sioux Falls.

REBECCA L. JOHNSON While researching her science books for young people, Sioux Falls resident Rebecca L. Johnson has joined expeditions to Antarctica, gone scuba diving with marine biologists on the Great Barrier Reef, descended into the ocean’s abyss aboard the Johnson-Sea-Link submersible and tracked endangered parrots on New Zealand’s Little Barrier Island. Her

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PRESENTERS most recent book is When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses.

SAM KEAN As a child, Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers, so maybe it’s natural that he became a science writer. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Disappearing Spoon and The Violinist’s Thumb, as well as a new book, The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons. Kean grew up in Sioux Falls and now lives in Washington, D.C.

DICK KETTLEWELL Dick Kettlewell is an award-winning photojournalist and nature photographer. While working at the Rapid City Journal, he created a photo column entitled “The Spring Creek Chronicles,” using the changing seasons as a backdrop and featuring stories and images of the region’s wildlife and landscapes. Kettlewell’s latest book, Pronghorn Babies!, is a children’s book about a day in the life of a pronghorn or antelope fawn.

PHIL KLAY A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Phil Klay served in Iraq’s Anbar Province from January 2007 to February 2008 and then earned his MFA from Hunter College. His first book is Redeployment, a short story collection that takes readers to the front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Klay’s writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Granta, Newsweek and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012.

TED KOOSER Two-time U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser is the author of 11 full-length collections of poetry, including Delights and Shadows, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. As Poet Laureate, he started the American Life in Poetry project. Kooser’s honors include two NEA fellowships in poetry, the Pushcart Prize, the Stanley Kunitz Prize and The James Boatwright Prize.

MARILYN KRATZ In 50 years as a freelance writer, Marilyn Kratz has published more than 650 18 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

stories, poems, articles and newspaper columns for readers of all ages. Her play, “A Christmas to Remember,” was produced in Yankton in 2012, and she was named South Dakota Council of Teachers of English Author of the Year for 2014. Her latest book is Feed Sack Dresses and Wild Plum Jam.

JON LAUCK Attorney, historian and senior advisor and counsel to South Dakota Sen. John Thune, Jon Lauck is the author of The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History, as well as three previous books on Midwestern political and economic history and the coauthor and coeditor of a collection of essays on South Dakota’s political culture.

KEVIN LOCKE Kevin Locke is a hoop dancer, indigenous flute player, cultural ambassador, recording artist and educator. From his Lakota and Anishinabe relatives and elders, he received training in the values, traditions and language of his native culture. Locke has recorded 12 albums of music and stories, most recently The First Flute, Open Circle, Keepers of the Dream and Dream Catcher.

STEW MAGNUSON Stew Magnuson is managing editor of National Defense Magazine in Washington D.C. His non-fiction books include The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Wounded Knee 1973: Still Bleeding. His latest work is The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas.

SONIA MANZANO Sonia Manzano has touched the lives of millions since the early 1970s as Maria on the television series Sesame Street. She won 15 Emmy Awards for television writing before turning to books. Manzano has written two picture books, No Dogs Allowed and A Box Full of Kittens. Her first YA novel, The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, was acclaimed by Kirkus as a “stunning debut.”

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PRESENTERS JILL MCCORKLE

KATHLEEN NORRIS

Jill McCorkle’s first two novels, The Cheer Leader and July 7th, were published on the same day in 1984. Since then she has published three other novels, including 2013’s Life After Life, and four story collections. McCorkle currently teaches in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University, the Bennington College Writing Seminars and the Sewanee Summer Writers Program.

Kathleen Norris is the author of New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk, Amazing Grace, and The Virgin of Bennington, as well as Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, the 2014 North and South Dakota One Book. Dakota draws on her experiences in Lemmon, South Dakota, including her involvement with the local Presbyterian church and a nearby Benedictine abbey. Norris lives in Hawaii and travels to the mainland regularly to lecture and teach.

JOHN E. MILLER

Dan O’Brien is a wildlife biologist, falconer and rancher, as well as the author of six novels and four books of nonfiction. His Buffalo for the Broken Heart was the 2009 One Book South Dakota. A sequel, Wild Idea, is out this September. O’Brien is a two-time winner of the National Endowment for the Arts individual artist’s grant, a two-time winner of the Western Heritage Award and a 2001 recipient of the Bush Creative Arts Fellowship.

Writer and historian John E. Miller taught for almost three decades at South Dakota State University. He is the author of seven books, including Looking for History on Highway 14 and three volumes on Laura Ingalls Wilder. His most recent books are Small-Town Dreams: Stories of Midwestern Boys Who Shaped America and First We Imagine: 22 South Dakotans Talk About Creativity.

DAN O’BRIEN

MATTHEW C. MOEN

LYNWOOD E. OYOS

Matthew C. Moen is dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of South Dakota. He published six academic books before straying into the world of humorous cat tales with Dumb Bunnies and Expecting Cats. Moen plans to share a portion of the proceeds of the sale of his book with local humane societies.

Lynwood E. Oyos, professor emeritus of history at Augustana College in Sioux Falls, has spent his life studying, teaching and writing about South Dakota history. His latest book, Reveille for Sioux Falls, argues that a military technical school and air base changed Sioux Falls after World War II as much as the railroads did in the 19th century.

DONALD F. MONTILEAUX Donald F. Montileaux has rekindled ledger art with a collection of striking images that capture Lakota life. He has illustrated and written numerous books, including 2014’s Tasunka, a retelling of the horse legend in English and Lakota.

S.D. NELSON An enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, S.D. Nelson is the author/illustrator of numerous children’s books, including Digging a Hole to Heaven, Black Elk’s Vision and Buffalo Bird Girl. Nelson works with acrylic paint, which he brushes, sponges, splatters and sprays to create a contemporary interpretation of traditional Lakota images. 20 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

RON PARSONS Ron Parsons is the author of The Sense of Touch, a collection of short stories set in the Midwest that earned a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. His stories have been featured in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Storyville App, The Briar Cliff Review, Flyway and The Onion. He lives in Sioux Falls.

JEAN L.S. PATRICK When Jean L.S. Patrick was 8 years old, she wanted to play baseball for the Chicago Cubs and write books for kids. Although she didn’t accomplish her first dream, she achieved the second with

The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth, the true story of Jackie Mitchell. Her latest book, Four Famous Faces, brings to life the animals of the Badlands and Black Hills.

JIM REESE Jim Reese is an associate professor of English, director of the Great Plains Writers’ Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton, and editor-in-chief of PADDLEFISH. Since 2008, Reese has been an artist-inresidence with the National Endowment for the Arts’ interagency initiative with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. His latest poetry collection is 2014’s Really Happy.

TOM ROBERTS Tom Roberts is a longtime resident of Sioux Falls and supporter of the Children’s Home Society. He and his wife, Tammy, have raised nearly $1 million for CHS through three books and a CD of stories, The Home Collection. In 2014 Roberts launches his first book for adults, Return to the Farm: A Christmas Journey.

ARTHUR RUSCH Arthur Rusch spent 22 years practicing law in Vermillion, including four terms as state’s attorney. In 1994 he was appointed a circuit judge, and in 1995 he became the presiding judge of the First Judicial Circuit, a position he held until retiring in 2011. Rusch’s first book, County Capitols: The Courthouses of South Dakota, will be released this fall.

KARIN SLAUGHTER Atlanta resident Karin Slaughter is the author of crime novels, including the Grant County series. She has been the No. 1 bestselling author in five countries and has sold more than 30 million books worldwide. Her most recent mystery, out this year, is Cop Town.

VIRGINIA DRIVING HAWK SNEVE Born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, Virginia Driving Hawk

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PRESENTERS Sneve has Sioux and Ponca heritage. Sneve’s many books include The Trickster and the Troll, When Thunders Spoke and Lana’s Lakota Moons. Her most recent books are The Christmas Coat and Standing Bear of the Ponca.

LYNN WIESE SNEYD Lynn Wiese Sneyd founded LWS Literary Services, an agency specializing in book publicity, ghostwriting, editing, query letters and book proposals. She is the author of Holistic Parenting and co-author of Healthy Solutions, winner of the Arizona Book Award. Wiese Sneyd’s articles, essays and poetry have appeared in several publications. She lives with her husband in Tucson, Arizona.

MATTHEW SPECKTOR Matthew Specktor is the author of three books, including American Dream Machine and That Summertime Sound, as well as an examination of the movie The Sting. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, GQ and The Paris Review. A senior editor and founding member of The Los Angeles Review of Books, he is adapting American Dream Machine into a cable series on Showtime.

LARRY WATSON Larry Watson is the author of 10 novels, including Montana 1948, American Boy and Let Him Go, and the chapbook of poetry Leaving Dakota. Montana 1948 was nominated for the first IMPAC Dublin international literary prize. Watson teaches writing and literature at Marquette University.

GWEN NELL WESTERMAN Gwen Nell Westerman lives near the village sites of her Dakota ancestors in Minnesota. Professor of English and director of Humanities at Minnesota State University, Mankato, she is co-author of Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota, a history of the Dakota people’s connection to their homelands. Her newest book is Follow the Blackbirds, a Dakota/English poetry collection.

MARY K. STILLWELL

DAWN WINK

Nebraskan Mary K. Stillwell earned her Ph.D. in plains literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser and her chapbook of poems, Fallen Angels, appeared in 2013. Maps & Destinations: New and Selected Poems followed in 2014.

Dawn Wink is a writer and educator who explores the beauty and tensions of language, culture and place. She is an associate professor of teacher education at Santa Fe Community College and the co-author of Teaching Passionately: What’s Love Got to Do With It? Her novel, Meadowlark, is set in South Dakota and was inspired by her great-grandmother.

AMY THIELEN Amy Thielen is the author of The New Midwestern Table, the host of Heartland Table on Food Network and a James Beard Award-winning food writer. She lived and cooked professionally in New York City for 10 years before returning home to northern Minnesota in 2008 to focus on Midwestern cooking and eating.

DAVID VOLK

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State Treasurer and eight years as Secretary of Commerce and Regulation. Volk’s military experience led him to write My Grandpa’s War for young readers. He has also co-written four children’s books with Mark Meierhenry, including Mystery of the Pheasants.

Mitchell native David Volk graduated from Northern State University, then served in Vietnam and was awarded the Bronze Star. He served five terms as

ASHLEY WOLFF The author of over 60 children’s books, including Baby Bear Sees Blue and the Miss Bindergarten series, Ashley Wolff is a native of Middlebury, Vermont. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and did graphic design for newspapers before becoming a fulltime author/illustrator. She also paints murals throughout the San Francisco Bay area, where she lives and teaches.

Young Readers South Dakota Festival of Books Thursday, Sept. 25, Children’s Museum of South Dakota, Brookings; Friday-Saturday, Sept. 26-27, Washington Pavilion and Siouxland Public Libraries, Sioux Falls Headlined by Kate DiCamillo, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and author of the 2014 Young Readers One Book South Dakota, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. FEATURED PERFORMER Kevin Locke FEATURED AUTHORS Avi Harry Bliss* Chris Browne Joseph Bruchac* Kate DiCamillo* Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Rebecca L. Johnson Marilyn Kratz Sonia Manzano Donald Montileaux S.D. Nelson Jean Patrick Tom Roberts David Volk Ashley Wolff* *These Young Readers Festival authors are featured on the “Celebrating Children’s Books” Traveling Quilt Exhibit, on display through October 1 at the Siouxland Libraries Main Branch.

Thursday, Sept. 25

Children’s Museum of South Dakota, Brookings Level 1 Cafe Coteau

Party on One

10 – 10:50 am

The Monster That Ate the State (Chris Browne)

11 – 11:50 am

Umpire in a Skirt (Marilyn Kratz)

12:30 – 1:20 pm

The Monster That Ate the State (Chris Browne)

1:30 – 2:20 pm

Umpire in a Skirt (Marilyn Kratz)

2:30 – 3:30 pm

Art Studio

The Little Lost Sock and Other Stories (Tom Roberts)

Storytelling (Joseph Bruchac & Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve)

To schedule a class visit to the Young Readers Festival in Brookings, call Kati Hanson, Director of Guest Services for the Children’s Museum of South Dakota, (605) 692-6700. For general inquiries about the Young Readers Festival in Brookings and Sioux Falls, call Jennifer Widman, Director of the South Dakota Center for the Book, (605) 688-5715. 24 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

THURSDAY, Sept. 25

Children’s Museum of South Dakota, Brookings Level 2 Prairie Play

Storytelling (Joseph Bruchac)

Community Room Art Studio (Creative Kidoodles) Readings and Drawing Demonstrations (Ashley Wolff)

"Mistakes Are Good" Drawing Demonstration (Harry Bliss)

Exhibit Space (Here Today, Gone Tomorrow)

Classroom 201

Classroom 202 (Science)

Workshop: The Hoop of Life (Kevin Locke)

"I Am a Man": Standing Bear of the Ponca (Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve)

Are Zombies Real? (Rebecca L. Johnson)

Mysteries in the Outdoors (David Volk)

Could You Carve the Mountain? (Jean Patrick)

Tasunka (Donald Mon- Turning Real Life tileaux) into Fiction (Sonia Manzano)

Illustrating with Authenticity: Views of Native American Art (S.D. Nelson)

Storytelling (Joseph Bruchac)

"Mistakes Are Good" Drawing Demonstration (Harry Bliss)

From Reading to Writing (Avi)

"I Am a Man": Standing Bear of the Ponca (Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve)

What Lives Deep in the Sea? (Rebecca L. Johnson)

Painted Horses and Symbols of the Lakota (S.D. Nelson)

Workshop: The Hoop of Life (Kevin Locke)

My Grandpa's War (David Volk)

Great Places, Great (Animal) Faces (Jean Patrick)

Readings and Drawing Demonstrations (Ashley Wolff)

Tasunka (Donald Montileaux)

Times and presenters are subject to change. Check the Festival Survivor’s Guide (available at the Exhibitor’s Hall information booth or online at www.sdbookfestival.com) for updates. To purchase tickets for meals and workshops, please visit www.sdbookfestival.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Children’s Museum of South Dakota in Brookings, Young Readers Keynote Celebration – Stories Connect Us – Kate DiCamillo and Kevin Locke demonstrate

the power of stories through words, music and dance. A book signing with all Young Readers Festival authors follows.

7:30 - 9:30 pm

Center for Western Studies Fantle Building, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, Author

Reception – Meet and mingle with your favorite authors while enjoying the exhibit “South Dakota 2014: Artists Respond to the State’s 125th Anniversary” during our Festival fundraiser, hosted by South Dakota Humanities Council current and past board members. TICKET REQUIRED ($50) 25

Holiday Inn Sioux Falls Starlite Room

Skyline Room Meeting of SD Humanities Discipline Council

9 - 10 am 10 11 am

Discussion: The State of the Humanities in Higher Education (SD Humanities Discipline Council)

11 am - 12 pm

Palisades I

Palisades II

Writing for the Screen Workshop (Diane Johnson & Matthew Specktor) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Building a Writing Group: A Model Workshop (Mary Woster Haug, Christine Stewart & Amber Jensen) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Reveille for Sioux Falls: A WWII Army Air Forces Technical School Changes a South Dakota City (Lynwood E. Oyos)

Feed Sack Dresses: Remembering a Simpler Life (Marilyn Kratz)

12 - 1 pm

1-2 pm

Literary Lunch: Hollywood and the Novel (Pete Dexter, Diane Johnson and Matthew Specktor discuss the unique process of adapting novels for the screen and the widely varied results) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

2-3 pm

EXHIBITORS' HALL OPEN FROM 2 – 5 PM (FALLS ROOM)

3-4 pm

Pitchapalooza with The Book Doctors (Arielle Eckstut & David Henry Sterry) see description below

SPECIAL EVENTS 12 - 1 pm

Holiday Inn, Lobby Area, SDPB Live Broadcast – Dakota Midday Book Club – Host Karl Gehrke interviews Festival authors on the air.

2 - 3:30 pm

Holiday Inn, Skyline, Pitchapalooza – 26 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

The Book Doctors, Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, select up to 20 writers from the audience to present a one-minute pitch for their books. They critique each pitch and select a winner, who receives an introduction to an appropriate agent or publisher. ADMISSION REQUIRED TO PITCH – Purchase The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published ($16.99) and receive a 20-minute personal consultation

Siouxland Public Library Sioux Falls Palisades III

The Craft of Writing for Children Workshop (Jean Patrick) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Cascade

A Memory that Sticks: A Recipe for Memoir Workshop (Rachael Hanel) TICKET REQUIRED ($20)

Meeting Room A

Meeting Room B

Ten Days to Organized Writing Workshop (Judy Cook, South Dakota Authors' Association) TICKET REQUIRED ($15)

Dakota Writing Marathon Explore downtown Sioux Falls with fellow writers, enjoy lunch together and practice your craft in a yearly event hosted by the Dakota Writing Project. TICKET REQUIRED ($15)

Veterans’ Writing Group/ Book Discussion U.S. Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay discusses his war experiences, his writing process and his book, Redeployment, with veterans as part of the “Standing Together” program offered through the National Endowment for the Humanities. If I'm Right, Then You're Evil (Joseph Bottum)

Animated Poetry (Lawrence Diggs, South Dakota State Poetry Society)

with The Book Doctors. Observers attend free!

4 - 5 pm

Holiday Inn, Atrium, Early Bird Mass Book Signings

7:30 - 9 pm

7 - 8:30 pm

Washington Pavilion, Mary W. Sommervold Hall, Young Readers Keynote Celebration – Stories Connect Us – Kate DiCamillo and Kevin Locke demonstrate the power of stories through words, music and dance. A book signing with all Young Readers Festival authors follows.

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Sat., Sept. 27

Holiday Inn City Centre Sioux Falls Starlite Room

Cascade

Main Theater

Writing the Land (Larry Watson & Dawn Wink)

Calamity Jane: The Life & Legends (Richard Etulain)

The Stories Behind the Stories (or, "Where Do You Come Up with This Stuff?") (Sandra Brannan)

We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down (Rachael Hanel)

Reading: Mr. Tall (Tony Earley)

On the Road Again: Or, Discoveries About Your Ancestors Might Surprise You (Lane Dolly)

Life and Writing in the Mountain Time Zone (C.J. Box)

The Death of Protestant America (Joseph Bottum)

Life After Life: A Reading (Jill McCorkle)

The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas (Stew Magnuson)

Reading: Poetry About the Dakotas (Sharon Chmielarz)

Crime Fiction and Human Nature (Karin Slaughter)

Cooking for the Heartland Table (Amy Thielen)

Red Cloud & The Heart of Everything That Is (Bob Drury & Tom Clavin)

Daughters of the Grasslands (Mary Woster Haug)

South Dakota Courthouse Wars (Arthur Rusch)

Four Quarters to a Section: Readings from the SD State Poetry Society

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: What Injuries Teach Us About the Brain (Sam Kean)

2 – 2:45 pm

The Horse Lover (H. Alan Day)

Reviving Midwestern History (Richard Etulain, Jon Lauck & John Miller)

West of New York: Making a Literary Life Outside of the Publishing Power Center (Matthew Specktor)

A Tribal Perspective on 125 Years of Statehood (Elizabeth Cook-Lynn)

Reading: New and Selected Poems (Patrick Hicks & Jim Reese)

Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land (Dan O'Brien)

3 – 3:45 pm

Reading: from New Novel (Pete Dexter)

Writing Narrative Screening of W.L. Nonfiction (Stew Dow, Architect with documentary Magnuson) filmmakers Jennifer & Brad Dumke

Dumb Bunnies & Expecting Cats (Matthew Moen)

Reading: New and Selected Poems (Mary K. Stillwell & Gwen Westerman)

From Adventure Journalist to Novelist (Peter Heller)

Hidden American History: The Crossroads of Indian Removals & Slavery (Lane Dolly)

Writing the American West (Larry Watson)

9 – 9:45 EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPENS am

(FALLS ROOM) Reading & Writing the Holocaust: The Commandant of Lubizec (Patrick Hicks)

10 – 10:45 am

Readings & Musings from Two Poets Laureate (Ted Kooser & Dave Evans) Sponsored by the SD State Poetry Society

11 – 11:45 am 12 – 12:45 pm

Literary Lunch: Solving the Mystery of C.J. Box see description below

Skyline Room

Palisades I

Palisades II

The Life and Poetry of Ted Kooser (Mary K. Stillwell)

Cultivating Creativity in the Midwest (John Miller)

The Pros & Perils of Writing About the Past (Jennifer Dumke)

From the Front Lines of War: Exploring Themes of Violence, Survival, Grief & Fear (Phil Klay)

Writing History from a Dakota Perspective (Gwen Westerman)

The Painter (Peter Heller)

Orph

4 – 4:45 EXHIBITORS' HALL CLOSES pm AT 5 PM (FALLS

Meadowlark in Word & Image (Dawn Wink)

ROOM)

SPECIAL EVENTS 12 - 1 pm

Holiday Inn, Starlite, Literary Lunch – Solving the Mystery of C.J. Box – Rapid City author Sandra Brannan interviews Edgar Award winner C.J. Box about his New York Times bestselling mystery novels and more. TICKET REQUIRED ($20) 28 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

Palisades III

1 - 2 pm

Holiday Inn, Atrium, Mass Book Signings

5 - 6 pm

Holiday Inn, Starlite, Happy Hour for Readers & Writers – Talk about your day and share book recommendations with other attendees and authors. See www.sdbookfestival.com for details.

7 - 8:30 pm

Orpheum, Main Theater, Keynote Panel – Perspectives on the Dakotas After 125 Years – Kathleen Norris, Dan O’Brien, Diane Johnson and Jon Lauck discuss Dakota culture, history, landscape and character. This event will begin with the presentation of the 2014 Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities Awards.

heum Theater Center Sioux Falls Anne Zabel Theater

Classroom

Siouxland Public Library Sioux Falls Meeting Room A

Meeting Room B

Painted Author, Publisher, Horses (Malcolm Publicist: What Brooks) It Takes to Get a Book Out There (H. Alan Day, Lynn Wiese Sneyd and Tom Swanson, University of Nebraska Press)

What Lives Deep in the Sea? (Rebecca L. Johnson)

Writing for Children About South Dakota (David Volk)

Reading: The Sense of Touch (Ron Parsons)

Creating Unforgettable Characters Using the Backstory Tool (Marcia Calhoun Forecki)

Great Places, Great (Animal) Faces (Jean Patrick)

Illustrating with Authenticity: Views of Native American Art (S.D. Nelson)

That Guy Wolf Prison Arts Writing Dancing (Eliza(Jim Reese) beth Cook-Lynn)

Illustrating for Children and Adults (Harry Bliss)

Creating Tasunka (Donald Montileaux)

Washington Pavilion Sioux Falls Belbas Theater

Schulte Room

Classrooms 312/313

Writing Books for Reluctant Readers (Joseph Bruchac)

The Monster that Ate the State (Chris Browne)

Mistakes Are Good: A Drawing Demonstration (Harry Bliss)

Screening of The Tale of Despereaux (Kate DiCamillo)

The Hoop of Life (Kevin Locke)

Turning Real Life into Fiction (Sonia Manzano)

My Name is Avi (Avi) "I Am a Man": Standing Bear of the Ponca (Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve)

Nature PhoMaking Editing Fun, Drawing a tography for or How to Enjoy Story: What All7:30 Ages–(Dick Happens 8:45 pmRevising I t’s theYour End Book of the World as We Kettlewell) (Arielle (Ashley Know It: The AppealNext of ApocaEvent CenterSuccessfully Eckstut & David Wolff) lyptic Literature (Peter Heller, Henry Sterry) Richard Van Camp & ONE More)

My Grandpa's War (David Volk)

Writers Discuss Their Process (Tony Earley & Jill McCorkle)

Painted Horses & Symbols of the Lakota (S.D. Nelson)

Native American Themes in Books for Young Readers (Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve)

The Hoop of Life (Kevin Locke)

Why Frighten Our Children? The Role of Scary Stories (Joseph Bruchac)

Could You Carve the Mountain? (Jean Patrick)

Recording a Unique Time: Writing and Self-Publishing Your Memories (Marilyn Kratz)

Save the Libraries! (Karin Slaughter)

Bring Your Teddy Bear for Storytime with the Author of Baby Bear & Miss Bindergarten (Ashley Wolff)

Are Zombies Real? (Rebecca L. Johnson)

Creating Tasunka (Donald Montileaux)

The Monster that Ate the State (Chris Browne)

VALID ONLY SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 2014 Washington Pavilion Festival Special $5 per person combo admission to the Kirby Science Discovery Center, Visual Arts Center and Wells Fargo CineDome mission films.

SUNDAY, Sept. 28 10:30 am - 12 pm

Holiday Inn, Starlite, Book-Lovers’ Brunch – Language and the Human Spirit – Kathleen Norris and Ted Kooser share poetry and other work centered on the human spirit. Music by Paul Peterson, instrumental acoustic guitar. TICKET REQUIRED ($20) 29

EXHIBITORS’ HALL AUTHORS

Ken Alvine, Creative Comics, Sioux Falls, SD, www.creativecomics.net

J.E. “Scotty” Terrall, Books by Terrall, Custer, SD

Doris Carlson, Sioux Falls, SD, www.bubblesdoriscarlson.com

Peter Vodenka & Deborah Stewart, Journey for Freedom, Forest Lake, MN www.journeyforfreedom.com

Amy Daws, Stars Hollow Publishing, Sioux Falls, SD, www.amydawsauthor.com

Joyce Wheeler, Philip, SD, www.joycewheelerbooks.com

Nathan D. Gjovik, Rapid City, SD, www.ndgjovik.tateauthor.com

Jason Willis, Mapleton, MN, www.jasonleewillis.com

Kendra Gottsleben, Sioux Falls, SD, www.kendragottsleben.com

Mary Yungeberg, Valley Springs, SD, www.maryyungeberg.com

Jane Green, Plain Jane’s Misadventures, Clark, SD, www.plainjanegreen.com Travis Gulbrandson, Yankton, SD, www.travisgulbrandson.com

BOOKSELLERS

Barnes & Noble, Sioux Falls, SD, www.barnesandnoble.com

Merry Helm, Prairie Boy Books, Fargo, ND

Usborne Books & More, Hudson, SD, www.patsysbookstore.com

Jeannie Hudson, Spearfish, SD, www.jeanniesforeverpetportraits.com

Zandbroz Variety, Sioux Falls, SD, www.zandbroz.com

John E. Irby, Red-tailed Rescue, Marana, AZ, www.johneirby.com Amy Kirk, Saddlestrings Freelancing, Pringle, SD, www.amykirk.com Steve Linstrom, Marshall, MN, www.stevenlinstromwriter.com Stew Magnuson, Arlington, VA, www.stewmagnuson.com Bill Markley, Pierre, SD, www.billmarkley.com John Michael McLaughlin, Sioux Falls, SD, www.readjohnmmclaughlin.com Kari McLaughlin, Gillette, WY, www.tatepublishing.com Marcia Mitchell, Maxmillion House Publishing, Hill City, SD, www.themitchellbooks.com Sarah J. Pepper, Harrisburg, SD, www.sarahjpepper.com Charles Rogers, Sioux Falls, SD Bruce Roseland, Seneca, SD

ORGANIZATIONS

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), www.olliuc.org SD Public Broadcasting, www.sdpb.org South Dakota State Poetry Society, www.sdstatepoetrysociety.wordpress.com Western Writers of America, www.westernwriters.org

PUBLISHERS

Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, SD, www.augie.edu/cws Ex Machina Publishing, Sioux Falls, SD, www.exmac.com Scurfpea Publishing, Sioux Falls, SD, www.scurfpeapublishing.com South Dakota State Historical Society Press, Pierre, SD, www.sdshspress.com University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, www.nebraskapress.unl.edu

Doris Stensland, Stensland Books, Omaha, NE, www.stenslandbooks.com

The Exhibitors’ Hall is located in the Holiday Inn Falls Room. Open from 2 to 5 pm on Friday and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturday. 30 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS

CELEBRATING 12 YEARS! September 25-28, 2014 Brookings & S i o u x F a l l s , S D www .sdbookfestival. com 605-688-6113 PRESENTING PARTNERS

A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF THE DONORS AND VOLUNTEERS WHO SUPPORT SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL PROGRAMS. The Ament Group of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Augustana College & the Center for Western Studies BankWest | Brookings Convention & Visitors Bureau Children’s Museum of South Dakota | Tom & Sherry DeBoer The de Groot Foundation | Holiday Inn City Centre Arlene Kirby | Larson Foundation Judith Meierhenry | Carolyn Mollers Orpheum Theater Center | Scott & Linda Rausch Steven W. Sanford | Jerry & Gail Simmons Sioux Falls Convention & Visitors Bureau Siouxland Public Libraries South Dakota State University Foundation & SDSU President David Chicoine Watertown Community Foundation Ann & Robert Weisgarber

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