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CONVERSATION / WORKSHOP INTERVIEW “O God Our Help in Ages Past, Our Hope MUSIC FESTIVAL CIRCLES for Years to Come”: A Service of Gratitude THEATER / LUNCH FILM FORUM and Dedication Join us to celebrate and give thanks for EXHIBITOR OPEN 25 years of the Festival of Faith & Writing PRESENTATION MIC and for the establishment of the new Calvin Center for Faith & Writing with BOOK COFFEE SIGNINGS BREAK this short service of praise, prayer, and poetry. We will also commission the Center’s first co-directors. Calvin College Chapel KEY { } Session title with session type icon PRESENTER NAME(S) Description of session Additional involvement Location of session

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Some Doubts Silence and Beauty About Certainty MAKOTO FUJIMURA TOBIAS WOLFF Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence took visual Esteemed author and mentor artist Makoto Fujimura on a pilgrimage Tobias Wolff offers a meditation of grappling with the nature of art, the on the social and spiritual problems significance of pain, and his own cultural posed by the felt need for certainty heritage. His journey overlaps with Endo’s in matters of faith and values, as he uncovers deep layers of meaning in and the corresponding danger of Japanese history and literature, expressed individuals, and societies, adrift in art both past and present. In this talk without a guiding sense of confidence he finds glimpses of how the gospel is in their beliefs. He will reflect on conveyed in Christ-hidden cultures. the circumstances surrounding Introduced by John Witvliet, his writing of “In the Garden of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship North American Martyrs,” and the Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium second thoughts he has had about the particular kind of heroism it depicts. To Insist That Sorrow WIERSMA MEMORIAL LECTURE Not Be Meaningless Introduced by Lisa Ann Cockrel, Festival of Faith & Writing DANI SHAPIRO Van Noord Arena Out of a chaotic childhood and a painful early adulthood marked by profound loss, Dani Shapiro “chipped away at her own bewilderment in order to find the pattern in it.” It is this pattern-making that has shaped Shapiro’s work over the course of eight books, and it is the daily practice of attempting to make art out of chaos that has also shaped 1:15 PM BOOK SIGNING her life. What makes us writers—and why? What do we do with what we’ve been given? Van Noord Arena In this talk, Shapiro discusses the raw TOBIAS WOLFF material of her personal history and how it has made her the writer she is today. Introduced by Kristine Johnson, Calvin College English Department Calvin College Chapel

18 SCHEDULE #FFWgr Writing in White Van Living As If JOHN DARNIELLE We Believe in Life Hailed as the best storyteller in rock JANISSE RAY for his work as the frontman of the The most existential challenge we face Mountain Goats, John Darnielle proved in the 21st century is figuring out how his storytelling prowess transcends genre to live well despite the isolation and with his debut novel Wolf in White Van. destructiveness of our times. This session Here Darnielle talks about writing novels will explore the role of writer as activist and dreaming out loud in front of people. and framer of a vision for a sustainable Introduced by Micah Lott, Boston College world. We can use our stories to transform, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall and to help create a world in which we can all lead more meaningful lives. We can learn to live so that we keep what we love. Writing Through the Ages Introduced by Gail Gunst Heffner, LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS, Calvin College Service-Learning Center LUCI SHAW, JEANNE MURRAY WALKER, Prince Conference Center, Willow Room SARA ZARR This panel features four writers of faith in each decade of life—from the 40’s through the 80’s—reflecting on the various seasons in their careers and also looking ahead. Themes include following one’s dreams, loneliness and persistence, the 2:45 PM COFFEE BREAK struggle to carve out room to write amidst family and job pressures, and the spiritual Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby depth that can arise from waiting. Hekman Library Lobby Commons Annex, Lecture Hall Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room

Seeing the World Anew: Notes from Third-Culture Writers TIM BASCOM, SUSANNA CHILDRESS, DANIEL COLEMAN, FAITH EIDSE Four former missionary kids—raised in the Philippines, Ethiopia, Kenya, and the Congo—describe how their cross-cultural encounters put them in unique positions to write about human experience and 3 PM BOOK SIGNING spirituality. As third-culture people, they express personal dislocation and loss, but Campus Store also a keen awareness of global issues. JOHN DARNIELLE Participants will be invited into conversation MAKOTO FUJIMURA about the ways that travel can enrich writing DANI SHAPIRO with cultural insight and inventive language. Introduced by Allison Graff Poosawtsee, Bethany Christian Services Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft

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An Interview with Zadie Smith Writing for the Joy of It: The celebrated novelist fields questions Surrendering Our Need for Status about her novels, all of which include MICHA BOYETT, MARLENA GRAVES, religious zeal or doubt (or both). She JEN POLLOCK MICHEL, also speaks to her work as an essayist TISH HARRISON WARREN and critic, her creative community, Many writers consider obscurity a and, if we’re lucky, her new novel, form of death; we want people to read Swing Time, due out next winter. our work. But how do we cultivate an THE DALE BROWN MEMORIAL SESSION audience without becoming consumed Interviewed by Jane Zwart, by the need for status and importance? Calvin College English Department How do we write with sustained joy Calvin College Chapel while coping with the perils of rejection, criticism, misinterpretation, and success? Panelists discuss the wonder and ache Going East: Following the of the writing life, and the spiritual Path of Poetry and Liturgy practices necessary for flourishing. SCOTT CAIRNS, ANGELA DOLL CARLSON, Introduced by Jack Van Allsburg, GAELAN GILBERT, Calvin College '16 CAMERON ALEXANDER LAWRENCE Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft In our technology-laden, soundbite- driven world, we are often unaware of the deep poetry and lasting peace that Tales of Faithful Dissent liturgy offers. Through reflections on the CATHERINE WOLFF works of the great poets and experiences Drawing on her work editing Not Less in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, these Than Everything: Catholic Writers on writers clear a pathway through the Heroes of Conscience, from Joan of slings and arrows of modern life. Arc to Oscar Romero, Catherine Wolff Introduced by Dave Harrity examines how tales of faithful dissent Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall inspire writers, in their lives and in their work. Some of these dissenters were great saints, some great sinners, Cultivating the Imagination others relatively unknown, but each for Societal Flourishing maintained their religious faith while DAVID H. KIM challenging the prevailing authorities. Cultivating the imagination is not only The audience will be invited to consider critical for the writing process, but their own heroes of conscience. equally critical for societal flourishing. Introduced by Andrea LeRoy, Drawing from the work of C. S. Lewis, this Calvin College talk will explore the essential role of the Calvin Seminary Chapel imagination in the Christian life and the unique calling that writers have to help cultivate that imagination for all people. Introduced by Scott Hoezee, Center for Excellence in Preaching Calvin Seminary, Auditorium

20 SCHEDULE #FFWgr Writer and Prototype, A Reading: Jennifer Maier Post-Mortem: Fred Manfred Introduced by Hannah Faith Notess, Seattle Pacific University Meets Jennie Van Engen Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall JAMES SCHAAP A writer publishes a novel that clearly uses a painfully sad story—a true story his The Pen is Mightier Than the own boyhood community knows very well. Sword: Writing Toward Shalom What if, by some strange phenomenon, MAE ELISE CANNON, SHAWN GRAVES, the spirits of the novelist and a woman, DREW G. I. HART, PETER HELTZEL a prototype he used in the telling, were Violence, fear and fear mongering, discord, to meet in the after-life, right there in and strife are salient features of our the cemetery where both are buried? fractured global society. And yet, Jesus What might be said between them? calls his followers to be peacemakers. In James Calvin Schaap will talk about his this session, we will engage the powerful own entrance to a story he discovered work of writers including Thomas Merton, in a small-town cemetery in Iowa. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, and Introduced by James Vanden Bosch, Virgilio Elizondo, as we explore how we Calvin College English Department ourselves might write effectively and Prince Conference Center, Board Room prophetically to bring about shalom. Introduced by Mary Hulst, Calvin College Weird Fiction as Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room Sacramental Practice DAVID GRIFFITH, CINA PELAYO, JONATHAN RYAN Story Workshop How can the literary genres of science HUGH COOK fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal Pre-registration required. Note: act as sacramental literature? This panel This workshop is two hours long will explore how the “weird fiction” of and lasts from 3:15–5:15 pm. writers including Charles Williams, Prince Conference Center, President’s Gene Wolfe, and Stephen King can strip Dining Room off our naturalistic blinders and invite us to “behold,” in the Old Testament sense, the unseen world around us. Introduced by Jennifer H. Williams, Calvin College English Department Commons Annex, Lecture Hall 4:30 PM BOOK SIGNING Campus Store JENNIFER MAIER CATHERINE WOLFF

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The Art of Spirituals Writing about Death ASHLEY BRYAN JAWEED KALEEM, Children’s book author and artist Ashley MARILYN CHANDLER McENTYRE Bryan will talk about creating art for his A journalist who covers the death beat illustrated collection of black American and a professor of medical humanities spirituals for children, which includes Walk discuss what they’ve learned about Together Children, I’m Going to Sing, and All living by writing about dying. Night, All Day. He’ll be joined onstage by Introduced by Kristen Alford, Calvin College the Grand Rapids Symphony Youth Chorus Sociology and Social Work Department performing a selection of these songs. Calvin Seminary, Auditorium Introduced by Sean Ivory, Calvin College Music Department and Grand Rapids Symphony Youth Chorus Portraiture and Power: Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall Representing the Lives of Others DENNIS COVINGTON, CHRIS HOKE, D. L. MAYFIELD ‘Riting, Reading, and ‘Rithmetic: Appalachian snake-handler churches. Global Realities Prospective Authors refugees in the inner-city. Mexican gang Should Know members and inmates. The spiritual pursuits JENNIFER GRANT, ROBERT HOSACK, of three memoirists—Dennis Covington, JUSTIN PAUL LAWRENCE D. L. Mayfield, and Chris Hoke—led them In this interactive session, three industry into these respective realms. These authors veterans offer their insights into the non- will engage in honest conversation around fiction book publishing process from this question: When we enter the worlds the vantage points of a writer reflecting of marginalized communities and write on all that it takes to conceive and craft memoir, how do we represent the Other, a book; an acquisitions editor asking given our privileges as outsiders? They will questions about form, fit, and finances; explore both the ethics and the craft of being and a salesperson evaluating if, where, in a world but not of it, in the context of and how books can actually be sold. memoir, social justice, and global difference. Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft Moderated by Jeff Chu Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Fantasy, Science Fiction, and the Muslim American Imagination Giving Voice to Biblical SALADIN AHMED Characters through Poetry Hugo, Nebula, and British Fantasy Award JILL P. BAUMGAERTNER, D. S. MARTIN, nominated novelist/short story writer TANIA RUNYAN, LUCI SHAW Saladin Ahmed discusses his work and Many poets write from the perspective what it means to be a Muslim American of—or about—Biblical characters. These writing fantasy and science fiction in writers will discuss the hazards and a climate of hostility and suspicion. rewards of working with this rich source He will also read “The Faithful Soldier, material, of digging deeper and challenging Prompted,” a post-apocalyptic short stereotypical responses to the Bible story about God and cyborgs, and characters many think they already know. invite questions from the audience. Calvin College Chapel Introduced by Jennifer H. Williams, Calvin College English Department Commons Annex, Lecture Hall

22 SCHEDULE #FFWgr 6 pm FESTIVAL CIRCLES See page 48 for details. Faith, Doubt, and Cinema PAUL HARRILL Whether it’s a car chase, two lovers kissing, or giant dinosaurs causing havoc, movies are great at showing things. But what 7:30 pm about stories that depict things felt but not seen? How does one make a film that An Evening with Zadie Smith concerns questions of faith and doubt? What is the purpose of writing “creatively”? Filmmaker Paul Harrill discusses this Have the reasons changed over time? challenge and that of making cinema What can aspiring writers do to convince outside the domain of both Hollywood themselves that serious writing—in a and so-called “faith based” film. world full of distractions—is still worth Introduced by William Romanowski, Calvin doing? What kind of writing is needed in College Communication Arts and Sciences the 21st century? Zadie Smith considers DeVos Communication Center, Bytwerk Theater these questions from both the modern reader and writer’s point of view. Introduced by Jane Zwart, Didn’t Our Hearts Burn Within Calvin College English Department Us: The Use and Abuse of Van Noord Arena Emotion in Storytelling DANIEL TAYLOR Stories are powerful because they engage the whole person—intellect, emotion, 8:45 PM BOOK SIGNING will, spirit, and body. Every aspect of Van Noord Arena the human person and experience has ZADIE SMITH a link to emotion. Effective writing of every kind understands this and uses all the devices of its genre to shape the emotional response of the reader. This session explores strategies for creating and controlling effective 9 pm emotion in writing (and avoiding excesses), with an emphasis on The Mountain Goats in Concert narrative in fiction and memoir. Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium Introduced by Donald Hettinga, Calvin College English Department Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall

5:45 PM BOOK SIGNING Campus Store SALADIN AHMED ASHLEY BRYAN DANIEL TAYLOR

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Prophetic Writing: Constructive A Conversation with Challenge or Total Turn-off? Danielle Chapman AUSTIN CHANNING, AIDEN ENNS, Danielle Chapman answers DREW G. I. HART questions about her poems, with How do you write about difficult things particular attention to the ways that without turning off or overwhelming place, form, and perspective matter readers? When do you keep pushing to her work. She also speaks about readers to wake up and make constructive promoting civic engagement with changes in their lives and when do you the written word, crafting book back off? Three writers and activists talk reviews, and teaching literature. about navigating these issues in their work Interviewed by Sarah Byker James, on subjects including mass incarceration, Community College of Philadelphia consumer culture, and white privilege. Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Introduced by Lissa Schwander, Center Lecture Hall Calvin College Sociology and Social Work Department Commons Annex, Alumni Association How Chronic Conditions Board Room Challenge and Enrich the Writing Life Till Death Do Us Part: DANIEL BOWMAN, JR., ELLEN PAINTER DOLLAR, Reimagining Christian Friendship JESSICA MESMAN GRIFFITH WESLEY HILL Writers who live with a variety In many Christian discussions of friendship, of chronic physical, mental, and writers have taken great care to distinguish neurobiological conditions talk about friendship from marriage and romantic how their experiences of disability love, stressing that friendship is about impart hard-earned insight around freely chosen affection that doesn’t issues including health, technology, depend on promises or vows. And yet, in and thriving within our limits. This some Christian writings friendship is as discussion is for all writers invested much about stability and permanence in compassion, humility, creativity, as marriage. In this session, Wesley and the unique ways that God’s Hill discusses this “minority report” strength is made perfect in weakness. and its promise for today’s churches. Introduced by Kyle Heys, Introduced by Karen Saupe, Calvin College Academic Services Calvin College English Department Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 115 Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall

24 SCHEDULE #FFWgr Making Your Own Searching for Faith in a Small Books at Home: Violent, Religious World Chapbook Construction DENNIS COVINGTON for Poets, Essayists, and Covington has written about the case of a snake-handling preacher in Southern Short Story Writers Appalachia who attempted to murder his BOB HUDSON wife with rattlesnakes, and he has written Pre-registration required. the story of a young American aid worker in Prince Conference Center, Syria who was kidnapped, raped, and killed President’s Dining Room by ISIS. In this work, and in this session, Covington ponders this central question: Poets on Motherhood Is Christianity without passion, danger, and mystery really Christianity at all? and Faith Introduced by Martyn Wendell Jones SUSANNA CHILDRESS, BARBARA CROOKER, Prince Conference Center, Board Room TANIA RUNYAN, ANYA SILVER Four poets read from their work exploring Telling It Slant: How to the ways faith affects how they mother, how mothering shapes their faith, and Develop an Angle for Your how both faith and mothering connect Book that Editors Will Love to the practice of writing. These poets STEPHANIE S. SMITH have diverse experiences, including If content is king, then angle is queen. those with biological children, adoptive The angle is the signature of great writing, children, children with special needs, providing a fresh frame for timeless and mothering during chronic illness. truth beyond overdone, underdeveloped, Calvin College Chapel dime-a-dozen concepts. In this workshop, Stephanie S. Smith, an acquiring editor for Zondervan, goes beyond the mechanics A Conversation with of creating a book proposal to focus David H. Kim: Preaching on the heart of the proposal itself. She Hope and Change to Millennials explains how to find and hone an angle It’s no secret that Millennials are leaving that will make for a great book and the church in droves in America because catch an editor or agent’s interest. they find the church to be increasingly Commons Annex, Lecture Hall irrelevant. How can pastors write sermons in a way that reaches the hearts and minds of Millennials who are seeking hope and change? David H. Kim discusses how to effectively connect the gospel to the deepest yearnings of this generation. Interviewed by Mary Hulst, Calvin College Calvin Seminary Chapel 9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby Hekman Library Lobby Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room

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9:45 AM BOOK SIGNING 10 am Campus Store CONCURRENT SESSIONS MARY HULST DAVID H. KIM A Reading: Christian Wiman Prince Conference Center Christian Wiman reads a selection of HUGH COOK poems—his own and those written by DENNIS COVINGTON others—and discusses the spiritual WESLEY HILL and theological issues they raise. Introduced by Jane Zwart, Calvin College English Department Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium

A Conversation with Dani Shapiro Dani Shapiro rejected the Orthodox Judaism of her youth, and then returned to the faith on her own terms later in life. Here she discusses the role of spirituality in a writing life that encompasses fiction, memoir, and essay. Interviewed by Catherine Wolff Introduced by Kristine Johnson, Calvin College English Department Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall

Writing Faith from the Inside Out: One Writer’s Journey Through Doubt DEBBY DAHL EDWARDSON Katherine Paterson writes, “The challenge for those of us who care about our faith and about a hurting world is to tell stories which will carry the words of grace and hope in their sinew and not wear them like a fancy dress.” Where do these kinds of stories come from and how do we make them happen? Indeed, can we or should we even try to make them happen? This National Book Award finalist believes that writing is an act of faith and stories are a gift of grace. The question is this: how does one channel this gift? Introduced by Katherine Swart, Calvin College Hekman Library Prince Conference Center, Board Room

26 SCHEDULE #FFWgr What It Means To Books, Movies, Spiritual Be a Muslim Journalist Engagement: The Uses In The Mainstream Media and Power of Transmedia JAWEED KALEEM RANDY TESTA Muslims are everywhere in the media Transmedia stories use different content these days yet, and yet they rarely report platforms to add something new to the stories. The coverage of Islam is about an overall narrative, be it by offering Muslims, but rarely features them. Jaweed background stories, changing the Kaleem talks about what it’s like to be perspective on an event or character a Muslim working in major American through different viewpoints, or newsrooms during a time of increasing continuing a story arc that was left anti-Muslim rhetoric. He addresses the off in another medium. This session ins and out of reporting on Islam and will explore transmedia through two how Muslims—and other minority stories: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, a groups (including Christians, in the case graphic novel that has been adapted as a of journalists)—can navigate newsroom Broadway musical; and Monster by Walter politics to make the case for covering Dean Myers, a novel about to become a religion in an increasingly secular world. feature-length film. We’ll explore the Introduced by Doug Kindschi, grace transmedia can offer storytellers, Kaufman Interfaith Institute story-lovers, and people of faith. Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Introduced by Quentin Schultze, Calvin College Communication Art and Sciences Emeritus DeVos Communication Center, Bytwerk Theater Blogging or Blathering: The Current State of Personal Online Writing KATELYN BEATY, AMY JULIA BECKER, LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS, SANDRA VANDER ZICHT Amid much media attention, some high- profile bloggers, including one founder of the genre, have recently called it quits, beginning a trend away from blogging. Is there still a legitimate place or need for blogging in a writer’s life, or are the critics and quitters right? An ex-blogger, 11:15 AM BOOK SIGNING a current blogger, a publisher, and a magazine editor weigh in on the present Campus Store challenges​, limits, and value ​of blogging. CHRISTIAN WIMAN Commons Annex, Lecture Hall Prince Conference Center DEBBY DAHL EDWARDSON

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The Language of Forgiveness Why and How Authors KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, Are Publishing Independently SHANE McCRAE ED CYZEWSKI, KRIS CAMEALY, Poet Shane McCrae writes, “There is ANDI CUMBO-FLOYD, JANA RIESS, a wound in American whiteness that SHAWN SMUCKER answers to the wound in American Opportunities abound for independent blackness, and whites and blacks need authors who want to take control of their each other to heal each other, and publishing careers, but independent forgiveness must play a role in the publishing isn’t just for authors who don’t healing.” Together he and theologian have a traditional book deal. Traditional Kelly Brown Douglas explore how authors are adding independent eBook to navigate our sinful racial history projects in order to build their email and unreconciled relationships in lists, to earn an additional side income, order to create a different world. or to establish a more sustainable long- Moderated by Jeff Chu term career. A panel of traditional Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium and independent authors will discuss the most effective tools and strategies they have used in order to create, Developing Story publish, and promote professional, Ideas for the Screen high quality books on their own. PAUL HARRILL Commons Annex, Lecture Hall Pre-registration required. DeVos Communication Center, Bytwerk Theater Memoir as Feminist Testimony AMY JULIA BECKER, JESSICA MESMAN GRIFFITH, Rendering the Body in ALISON HODGSON, KATHERINE Words and Illustration WILLIS PERSHEY, RACHEL MARIE STONE SAMUEL MARTIN, TARA OWENS, Recent studies and news reports suggest we RAGAN SUTTERFIELD, live in a world where women still struggle BRIAN VOLCK, JOHN VOLCK to be heard and believed about their own Does the Christian belief that God lives. Perhaps that’s why memoir, as a became human in the person of genre, is particularly resonant for women Jesus Christ grant the body special writers despite the very real danger of importance and signifying power in being branded narcissistic. In this panel, creative work by persons of faith? we’ll discuss how memoir functions This panel brings together writers differently than other forms of non-fiction, and a visual artist to explore ways in why women love memoir, and common which the body is rendered—from pitfalls in memoir writing, including the Latin root, reddere, “to give back, oversharing and modes of faux-confession. return, or restore”—in poetry, fiction, Introduced by Jennifer H. Williams, creative non-fiction, and visual art. Calvin College English Department Prince Conference Center, Board Room Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium

28 SCHEDULE #FFWgr What Is Within You An Interview with Jennifer Maier Will Save You: Deep-Mining Jennifer Maier invests the ordinary with shimmering significance. Here she discusses Your Attention Collection the role of time, memory, and redemption DAVID DARK in her two prize-winning books of poetry. “Write what will stop your breath if you Interviewed by Paul Willis, Westmont College don’t write,” Grace Paley once advised. Drawing on the development of Life’s Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room Too Short To Pretend You’re Not Religious, David Dark discusses writing as an Orwell Had it Easy: avenue for holding out your deepest frustrations and your deepest enthusiasms The Contemporary and with open hands. Unless we take up the Its Fictional Challenges work of creatively taking stock of our ZIA HAIDER RAHMAN fears and hopes, Dark argues we have What do the challenges of writing fiction yet to experience our own experience. about the contemporary, on the one hand, Introduced by Ken Heffner, and the current worldwide volatility of Calvin College Student Activities Office voters, on the other, have in common? Calvin College Chapel Zia Haider Rahman explores aspects of current political trends that reflect deep changes in a person’s encounter with the Are You There God? It’s Me, world and looks at how these very same YA Literature: Writing About changes pose new challenges for novelists. Teenagers and Faith Introduced by Jill VanBeek, JENNIFER MATHIEU Association for a More Just Society While contemporary young adult fiction Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall has ventured into challenging and even provocative territory in recent years, A Reading: Mary Ruefle books that tackle the sensitive topic Introduced by L. S. Klatt, of young people and faith are not as Calvin College English Department frequently found on bookstore shelves. Calvin Seminary Chapel Mathieu discusses how her own faith journey and her interest in religious extremes—including a fascination with the Duggar family of reality television fame—sparked her interest in writing Devoted, a novel about a young woman being raised in a restrictive Christian Patriarchy home. Mathieu explains why this topic may be neglected in the world of YA literature and what rewards can be found in writing about it. 12:45 PM BOOK SIGNING Introduced by Donald Hettinga, Prince Conference Center Calvin College English Department DAVID DARK Commons Annex, Alumni Board Room JENNIFER MATHIEU ZIA HAIDER RAHMAN MARY RUEFLE

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Christians who Drink Craft Beer: The Art and Wonder of The Rise of Middle Space Artists Writing for Children and Teens and Audiences in Entertainment ANNETTE BOURLAND, ERIK LOKKESMOE, CHARLIE LOWELL, GLENYS NELLIST, LORIE LANGDON WILLIAM ROMANOWSKI Have you ever wanted to write a children’s The 1970’s folk song, “They Will Know picture book? Has YA fiction captured your We Are Christians By Our Love” might imagination and writing zeal? It takes a be better sung as, “They Will Know We special kind of writer to create stories (and Are Christians By… Our Low-Budget intrigue!) for children and young adults. Movies” in 2016. In this session, Erik Writing for them requires not only a Lokkesmoe, executive producer of Last degree of child-brain and kid-memory, but Days in the Desert, discusses the growth a certain skill set and calling. In our time of the “in-betweeners” who exist between together, Zondervan publisher Annette mass/crass and teach/preach art and Bourland will introduce two dynamic entertainment. Questions he’ll explore writers. Glenys Nellist will share how she include: What does common grace look made her picture-book writing dream a like in the arts? What is the role of the reality, and then best-selling author artist in a pre-Christian world? How is Lorie Langdon will share how dynamic the middle-space audience changing how marketing goes hand-in-hand with great content is created and consumed? Adding content. A complimentary boxed lunch will to Lokkesmoe’s insights will be musician be provided for the first 30 attendees to arrive. Charlie Lowell of Jars of Clay and Sponsored by Zonderkidz William Romanowski of Calvin College. Prince Conference Center, Willow Room West Sponsored by Different Drummer Prince Conference Center, Board Room Hard Realities, Continual Rejection, and Occasional Wine, the Slow Food Disasters: A Publishing Journey Movement, and Spirituality ALISON HODGSON, GISELA KREGLINGER THE REAL PUG OLIVER In The Spirituality of Wine, Gisela Kreglinger Alison Hodgson arrived at her first writer’s offers a fresh, holistic vision of the Christian conference filled with hope, which was life that sees God at work in all created quickly crushed when she learned the things, including the beauty of well-crafted harsh realities of publishing, beginning wine shared with others around a table. She with: a platform isn’t merely a stage. After brings Christian spirituality and the world she wasted a few years fighting despair, of wine together in new ways, drawing things began to look up—until an arsonist both upon interviews with vintners from randomly set her house on fire. But, she around the world and on her own experience learned the great thing about being a growing up on a family winery in Bavaria. writer is that even your worst times can Join Gisela Kreglinger for a lunchtime become your best story. Hear Alison’s exploration of wine, spirituality, and what experience of becoming an author, learn it’s like to be writing at the intersection of insider tips, and meet The Real Pug Oliver, theology and the Slow Food movement. who became an essential part of Alison’s Sponsored by Wm. B. Eerdmans story! A complimentary boxed lunch will be Publishing Company provided for the first 30 attendees to arrive. Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room Sponsored by Zondervan Prince Conference Center, Willow Room East

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An Interview with Beyond our Tidy Boxes: George Saunders Race, Immigration, and Faith George Saunders entertains RANDY BOYAGODA, questions about his pilgrimage ZIA HAIDER RAHMAN from Catholicism to Buddhism, the Race, ethnicity, legal status, country of pleasures of story, humor and its origin, class, religion. We cannot seem relationship to truth telling, and to escape these categories even as we the uses and abuses of language. recognize how poorly our labels capture Interviewed by L. S. Klatt, the irreducible reality and intrinsic worth Calvin College English Department of just one human being. How does faith Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium inform, or perhaps upset, those tidy boxes we put each other in? How might the narratives of fictional characters reflect Black Lives Matter and even shift the “real world” narratives and the Justice of God of ourselves and others? Zia Haider KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS Rahman and Randy Boyagoda discuss What does it mean to be called by faith, identity, justice, and belonging faith to write? Stand Your Ground: in their novels and the real world. Black Bodies and the Justice of God Moderated by Micah Watson, was Kelly Brown Douglas’s testimony Calvin College Political Science Department of faith as she sought to understand Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall the meaning of God’s justice at a time when it appeared that Black lives did not matter. In this session she Called to Clarity: Writing explains her reluctant response to for a Polarized Public the call to write and how her faith MARILYN CHANDLER McENTYRE was deepened through the work. Civil conversation and humane public Introduced by Christina Van Dyke, discourse are hard to maintain in Calvin College Philosophy Department a political climate where stakes are and Director of Gender Studies higher, enmities more bitter, and Calvin College Chapel spin more sophisticated than ever in our lifetimes. Where half-truths are Lines common currency and discourse is dumbed down, speaking life-giving STEPHANIE SANDBERG words can be particularly challenging. This moving play explores how racial To write so as to educate, encourage, and issues specifically impact individuals clarify, to write sentences that survive and families. Lines challenges the and subvert organized confusion, is an audience to ask questions about their invigorating challenge. This session will communities and respond to race- offer some reflections on strategies for related division. Based on interviews staying both politic and prophetic in with more than 150 residents of Grand the midst of well-funded “messaging.” Rapids, this is the theatre of testimony, Introduced by Jennifer L. Holberg, giving voice to the voiceless. Calvin College English Department Run-time: 2 hours, including Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium post-show discussion Spoelhof Center, Lab Theater

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The Memoirist’s Lament: Revolution in the Garden Living with What you Publish JANISSE RAY, NORMAN WIRZBA CARLA BARNHILL, JENNIFER Sometimes notions of agrarian life GRANT, MARGOT STARBUCK, drawn from literature are idealised CARYN RIVADENEIRA or simply outdated, and at odds with What are the tricky bits seasoned the realities of rural American life. At authors have faced both in writing the same time, stories and storytellers memoir and also living with it once have been important to keeping rural it’s “out there.” Join memoirists as traditions, and even rural myths, alive. they unpack the passages closest Two writers deeply attentive to the to their hearts and also the ones natural world discuss what stories we that they’d now choose to change. have been told about “the country,” Drawing from their own favorite who is telling these stories, and how memoirs, these authors help writers we might tell more accurate ones. navigate the most difficult edges in Moderated by Gail Gunst Heffner, writing about those closest to us. Calvin College Service-Learning Center Introduced by Angela Scheff, LIONEL BASNEY MEMORIAL LECTURE The Christopher Ferebee Agency Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Commons Annex, Lecture Hall We Are the Journalists In Praise of Indolence: We’ve Been Waiting For Seasons of Discipline and PATTON DODD, MARIA EBRAHIMJI, Grace in the Writing Life JAWEED KALEEM, BOB SMIETANA BRIAN G. PHIPPS There are thousands of takes, many of If you’re discouraged because you just them hot, on what’s wrong with media in can’t seem to discipline yourself to write the age of the Internet. This panel will try when you don’t feel like it, take heart. to make sense of what’s not working, but You can have a rich writing life without also what is working, from the perspective being prolific. For many writers, creativity of the audience, media business is seasonal. Because we experience owners, and journalists themselves. times when we don’t feel like writing, Introduced by Bruce Buursma, as well as times when we do, grace plays Bruce Buursma Communications just as important a role as discipline in Prince Conference Center, Board Room our productivity and perseverance as writers. If you don’t feel like writing, it’s okay. Don’t write. But be ruthless about writing when you do feel like it. This presentation suggests ways to make the most of your productive seasons. Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room

A Reading: Danielle Chapman and John Estes Introduced by Sarah Byker James, 3:15 PM BOOK SIGNING Community College of Philadelphia Campus Store Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall DANIELLE CHAPMAN KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS MARILYN CHANDLER McENTYRE

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A Conversation with Dispatches from Shauna Niequist Somewhere Else Shauna Niequist talks about the TARA ISABELLA BURTON, books that have influenced her DEAN NELSON own writing, paying attention to Two journalists who often write about the little things, and creativity. travel and foreign cultures discuss getting Interviewed by Ansley Kelly, beyond stereotypes, the importance of Calvin College ’16 literature written by locals to their own Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium work, and lessons they’ve learned writing about unfamiliar religious practices. A Reading: Scott Cairns Introduced by Tim Bascom, Waldorf College Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium Scott Cairns reads from two recently published books, Slow Pilgrim: The Collected Poems and Speaking the Truth in Love: the new, expanded edition of his spiritual memoir, Short Trip to Writing on Race MARLENA GRAVES, HELEN LEE, the Edge: a Journey to Prayer. PATRICIA RAYBON, MARGOT STARBUCK Introduced by John Estes, Four writers committed to speaking the Malone University truth in love explore what it means to write Calvin College Chapel about race in 2016—acknowledging the challenges and celebrating the rewards. Religious Words Introduced by Christina Edmondson, Calvin and Secular Pages College Intercultural Student Development Commons Annex, Lecture Hall G. C. WALDREP, CHRISTIAN WIMAN Two poets who have also edited poetry journals discuss how the secular Wrestling a Writer’s Life publishing world reacts to poetry with from Farm, Sea, and Forest explicit Christian themes, what kind of BRENT BILL, LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS, faith-related work (including doubt and PAUL WILLIS disavowal) is making its way over the Three writers—an Indiana farmer, an transom, why it’s the rare poet who can Alaska fisherwoman, and a California render religious language authentically wilderness guide—discuss the relationship and artfully, and how their own spiritual between their work on the page and and literary journeys inform their poetics. their work on the ocean and land. Their Moderated by John Wilson, Books & Culture immersion in place and labor has fed their Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall imaginations and located them as writers, yet it has also cost them as writers. With honesty and clarity, they explore together ways that all writers and readers can be fed and enriched by connection between body, land, imagination, and spirit. Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft

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Absurd Answers to Serious Searching for Truth Questions: The Coen Brothers’ in New Mexico A Serious Man KRISTIN VALDEZ QUADE JOSHUA MAX FELDMAN Making connections between theologian “Even though you can’t figure anything Paul Tillich’s concept of the “fascinating out, you’ll still be responsible for it on and shaking character of the holy” the midterm.” So despairs Larry Gopnik, and the practice of writing fiction in the Job-like protagonist in the 2009 Coen search of truth, Kirstin Valdez Quade brothers’ filmA Serious Man. Set in the talks about the role faith, Catholicism, Minnesota suburbs in the late 1960s, and the history of Hispanic northern the film follows Larry’s efforts to find New Mexico play in her work. larger meaning as his life falls apart. Introduced by Caitlin Horrocks, Author Joshua Max Feldman explores Grand Valley State University this comedic and notoriously perplexing Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall film through the lens of contemporary Jewish philosophy, showing how Larry’s I Speak for Myself travails resonate with some of the MARIA EBRAHIMJI fundamental questions of religion. Co-editor of I Speak for Myself: American Introduced by Sam Smartt, Calvin College Communication Arts and Sciences Women on Being Muslim, Maria Ebrahimji talks about the importance and power of DeVos Communication Center, Bytwerk Theater personal religious narratives, interfaith dialogue, and independent publishing. Introduced by Erin Lane Writing about Friendship Prince Conference Center, Board Room WESLEY HILL, DANIEL TAYLOR Writing and speaking about friendship is difficult. Unlike other common loves— parenting, for example—friendship has no obvious aim or end point. It isn’t “about” anything other than mutual enjoyment, even if many goods may come of it. In light of this, two friends discuss what it means to encounter—or attempt—good writing about friendship, writing that illuminates the experience of it and that encourages our pursuit of it. Introduced by Julia Smith, Calvin College Sexuality Series Commons Annex, Alumni Association 4:45 PM BOOK SIGNING Board Room Prince Conference Center SCOTT CAIRNS MARIA EBRAHIMJI JOSHUA MAX FELDMAN KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE PAUL WILLIS

34 SCHEDULE #FFWgr 4:30-6 pm 9 pm Party at the Prince Something, Anything Author Shauna Niequist hosts the PAUL HARRILL Party at the Prince in the Exhibit Hall. When a tragedy shatters her plans for Meet up with friends and enjoy snacks, domestic bliss, a seemingly typical Southern book signings, and special giveaways. newlywed gradually transforms into a Be sure to get the center square of your spiritual seeker, quietly threatening the FFW Bingo card stamped at the party closest relationships around her. One for a chance to win a free registration of ten projects selected in 2013 for IFP’s to the 2018 Festival of Faith & Writing. Narrative Lab, this debut feature from Prince Conference Center, Exhibit Hall Paul Harrill is both a meditative character study and an unconventional romance. Run time: 1 hour, 28 minutes DeVos Communication Center, Bytwerk Theater

Open Mic Poetry Reading 7:30 pm Hosted by Calvin’s creative journal Dialogue, this open mic event allows An Evening with writers to share their poetry (or other George Saunders work) for up to ten minutes. Sign up and Tobias Wolff at the Registration Desk by 6 pm. Hosted by Jack van Allsburg George Saunders takes up the question “What good is The Fish House art, and why?”: Exploring the actual “how” of art production, he considers what a close and honest observation of one’s own process can tell us about how much to trust art. After his talk, Saunders will be joined on stage by his former teacher Tobias Wolff for a wide-ranging conversation on faith and writing. Introduced by Sarina Gruver Moore, Grove City College Van Noord Arena

9 PM BOOK SIGNING Van Noord Arena GEORGE SAUNDERS TOBIAS WOLFF

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8 am Short Story Workshop HUGH COOK Pre-registration required. Note: A Conversation between This workshop is two hours long Ashley Bryan and Arree Chung: and lasts from 8–10 am. All Things Bright and Beautiful Hiemenga Hall, Room 314 ASHLEY BRYAN, ARREE CHUNG Throughout his long career, Bryan has always found a way to make art. Racial discrimination didn’t stop him. Neither did WWII. He always found a 8:30 am way, even keeping a sketchbook in his CONCURRENT SESSIONS gas mask. In this conversation, Chung asks Bryan to reflect on his persistent faith in tough times, his creative process, Everyday Dystopias: YA Realism and his secrets for relishing life. Introduced by Donald Hettinga, and the Meaning of the Ordinary Calvin College English Department BRYAN BLISS, KATE BASSETT, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall SARA ZARR While popular trends in young adult fiction emphasize epic tales of survival, The Art and Craft for most teens the true hero’s journey is of the Book Review just getting through the day. We’ll look at D. L. MAYFIELD, RICHARD KAUFFMAN, realism in young adult fiction and how C. CHRISTOPHER SMITH, RACHEL MARIE it portrays the faithful, the searching, STONE, JOHN WILSON and the ways young characters are lost We live in an age when every literate and found in our own familiar world. person with Internet access can publish Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 115 book reviews and op-eds on books. This panel considers what elevates a book review from glorified book report to bona fide The Enigmatic Supernatural essay, the deadliest sins besetting the book JOSHUA MAX FELDMAN, review, best practices for writing great book CHIGOZIE OBIOMA reviews, model practitioners of the art and Two debut novelists discuss the choice to craft of review writing, and how reviewing place puzzling, apparently supernatural books can improve one’s own writing. incidents at key inciting moments in their Commons Annex, Lecture Hall novels. How does the supernatural create complexity and possibility for two very different fictional worlds: the world of a secular Jewish lawyer in Manhattan, and the world of four young boys growing up Christian in Nigeria? How do biblical narratives resonate in their novels? And how might these novels comment on how we encounter the mystery of God? Moderated by Debra Rienstra, Calvin College English Department Calvin Seminary Chapel

36 SCHEDULE #FFWgr Writing Whole: Making The Fix I’m In Peace with the True You LORENE CARY TRACEY BIANCHI, LESA ENGELTHALER, Like the memoir that’s begun to coalesce ERIN LANE, GRACE SANDRA around the period at the end of her People of faith believe that God designed grandmother’s life, Lorene Cary’s talk will us to have a unique voice, passion, and meditate on faith and mortality: how so purpose. How does the creative process many traditions tell us to meditate on honor God by uncovering the “true you”? our own deaths as a way of living more And how does ego, doubt, compulsivity, and fully, even as we grab at what has seemed anxiety get in the way of continuing to write to keep us alive up till now. Despite the from this deep, soul-filled place? Guided lessons Cary thought she’d learned from by the wisdom of writers including Adele her grandmother’s terror of death, Cary Calhoun, Parker Palmer, and Richard Rohr, reenacted her grandmother’s denial for this workshop explores these questions years after her passing. Here she talks and includes a True You writing exercise. about how and why the denial ended. DeVos Communication Center, Introduced by Stacia Hoeksema, Bytwerk Theater Calvin College Sociology and Social Work Department Prince Conference Center, Willow Room The Body Electric: Creating Characters that Spark with Life KATHERINE JACOBS A Reading: The characters we most enjoy reading about Marci Rae Johnson are ones that have rich inner lives, clear and Aaron Belz motivations, and problems that drive the Introduced by Z. G. Tomaszewski, plot. Look at examples of electric characters Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters in children’s and young adult literature Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall and analyze why they work. Learn concrete ways to make characters in your own writing more dynamic. We will specifically consider Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu as a case study, so be sure to read that book in 9:30 AM COFFEE BREAK preparation (or be ready for spoilers!). Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby Commons Annex, Alumni Association Hekman Library Lobby Board Room Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room

9:45 AM BOOK SIGNING Prince Conference Center AARON BELZ LORENE CARY MARCI RAE JOHNSON

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A Conversation With How to be a Good M. T. Anderson: Symphonies, Literary Citizen Traitors, ‘Feeds’, and Faith DENISE FRAME HARLAN, CAROLINE In this interview, M. T. Anderson discusses LANGSTON, HANNAH FAITH NOTESS, LAURA TURNER his most recent work, Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dimitri Shostakovich Increasingly, writers are expected not just and the Siege of Leningrad, writing dark to write well and not just to find and build stories for young adults, and how winning an audience for their own work, but also literary awards affects his work. to participate in a literary conversation, promoting others’ works. This raises Interviewed by Randy Testa, Harvard Graduate School of Education interesting questions, including ethical Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium questions: What if a literary organization you love asks you to blog for them for no pay? Is it cheapening your work, A Reading: Shane McCrae or is it a way of supporting something Shane McCrae will read from his latest you love? This topic is relevant to both book, The Animal Too Big to Kill, a book- beginning writers wondering how to length prayer written as many poems build an audience for their writing, about growing up as a black child and established writers who may have raised by white racists, poems about many opportunities but limited time. poverty, poems about power, and poems Prince Conference Center, Willow Room about not being able to afford to be a vegetarian. He will also read poems from his forthcoming book, Imaginary A Reading: Luci Shaw Americans, about race in America. Introduced by Jill P. Baumgaertner, Wheaton College Introduced by Jacob Schepers, University of Notre Dame Calvin College Chapel Prince Conference Center, Board Room

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“Under God”: Faith as a Many Books Later, Window into American Life the View from Now TARA ISABELLA BURTON ANDREW CLEMENTS What do the street preachers of the Andrew Clements draws on his more Las Vegas strip, the practitioners of a than 25 years of experience as an Christian diet program in Tennessee, author for young adults to offer some and New Age hikers in the Arizona desert advice. He speaks to his sense of where have in common? What, if anything, is good ideas come from, what makes an quintessentially “American” about their idea worth exploring, and what the experiences? How do our beliefs about structure of a story and the structure God and eternity shape our views of the of a career may have in common. world—everything from our relationship Introduced by Joanne Anderson, with family to our relationship with Breton Downs Elementary food? Drawing on Tara Isabella Burton’s School, East Grand Rapids most recent research trips to Las Vegas, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium Nashville, and Sedona, this talk explores how understanding the complexities of Torn by Faith, Healed by Writing religious identity allows us to understand ALANA RAYBON, PATRICIA RAYBON people at the most fundamental level, When a Muslim daughter and her and with it help us convey characters Christian mother agreed to write their that are as rich and nuanced on way to interfaith peace, what did the the page as they are in real life. give-and-take of journaling through Introduced by Debra Rienstra, Calvin College English Department an impasse teach them about the power of the pen to heal a deep Calvin Seminary Chapel divide? Award-winning Christian journalist Patricia Raybon and her passionate educator daughter Alana Raybon, a convert to Islam, disclose the truths, troubles, and triumphs of co-authoring when the collaborators are struggling not just to write a book, but 11:15 AM BOOK SIGNING to reconcile their deepest difference. Campus Store Moderated by Jana Riess, M.T. ANDERSON Religion News Service SHANE McCRAE Calvin College Chapel LUCI SHAW

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Citizens of Majesty What Online Editors Want: PAUL HARDING Crafting Your Best Pitch Paul Harding meditates on how the most SARAH PULLIAM BAILEY, KAREN sacred human thought and writing is SWALLOW PRIOR, KATE SHELLNUTT directly available to anyone who cares to Today’s editors are inundated with queries, take the time to ponder it and attempt it questions, and press releases. How can for herself. He contends that writers are writers break through the inbox noise too often averse to attempting frankly and actually get noticed? In this session, great, sacred, beautiful works, partly panelists share industry do’s and don’ts for because we remove ourselves from the constructing the kind of well-timed, well- possibilities we find within art like the crafted pitch that can launch a writer’s Bible, Shakespeare, and Melville. This work onto a national platform online. session is a homily to the democracy of Commons Annex, Lecture Hall the imagination, and to the cultivation of the imagination itself as a kind of act of obedience and exercise in faith. Creative Cross Training: Introduced by Dean Ward, Practical and Spiritual Calvin College English Department Practices to Integrate Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall Writing into Busy Lives ANGELA DOLL CARLSON, Scribed: Writing with the Word DENISE FRAME HARLAN, DEBBIE BLUE, MORGAN MEIS, JONATHAN HISKES, CHRIS HOKE, KATHERINE WILLIS PERSHEY, CAROLINE LANGSTON RUSSELL RATHBUN For the majority of us who have work, When Christians write, our words are family, church, and community often tangled up with the words of the responsibilities, it’s a challenge to balance Bible—implicitly or explicitly. We wrestle life’s demands with the open-ended with scripture, quote its poetry, retell its contemplative space that art requires. parables, and ponder its often jarring Relatedly, writers of faith are called to assess wisdom. In this session, preachers who what creative success looks like in our lives. tend to approach scripture with an This panel will discuss concrete ways to abundance of reverence and a dash of integrate writing into life, including using irreverence will engage in a cross-genre day jobs as cross-training that conditions conversation about scripture and writing. our minds and hearts for creative uses. And Calvin Seminary Auditorium it will contextualize these ideas within a conversation about what constitutes success. Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft Music and Poetry as Forms of Exile G. C. WALDREP G. C. Waldrep reads from his work and discusses poetry and shape-note (Sacred Harp) singing as dual modes of spiritual and aesthetic practice. Introduced by Benita Wolters-Fredlund, Calvin College Music Department Calvin Seminary Chapel

40 SCHEDULE #FFWgr 12:45 pm LUNCH FORUMS

Leaving, Loving, and Loaded Language Laughing at the Church MARILYN CHANDLER McENTYRE MALLORY ORTBERG Especially in an election year, American Mallory Ortberg could be the world’s only public discourse is riddled with loaded hip, world-facing feminist engaging faith in language—buzz words, labels, abstractions, an earnest way, translating theology for the slogans, phrases abducted from respectable thoroughly secular, and making it funny. In sources and forcibly infused with new this talk, she discusses how and why religion meaning. Hijacked words become for a has continued to be compelling to her even time the property of hijackers. Though most as her own faith has changed, what it’s like slogans have a short half-life, they tend to to be writing about religion in the midst of color common speech and confuse common those shifts, and what it’s like to be writing sense. Churches and faith communities are about religion in a non-religious context. affected by the “load” on public language as it seeps into their internal conversation. Introduced by Aaron Belz In this session we’ll consider what loads Prince Conference Center, Willow Room language and how to approach the task of retrieving, repurposing, or sometimes rerouting our writing around “hot” words. Crafting a Christian Sponsored by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Creation Imagination Prince Conference Center, Board Room NORMAN WIRZBA Norman Wirzba explores the difference Re-Enchanting Christian Writing between narrating the world as “nature” WESLEY HILL, KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, or as “creation.” The grammars of these two JAMES K. A. SMITH, NORMAN WIRZBA terms can be vastly different depending on In his new book, You Are What You Love, context, and Wirzba proposes that a “creation James K. A. Smith writes, “I expect it will imagination” gives us access to a new vision be forms of reenchanted Christianity that of life’s movement, meaning, and purpose. will actually have a future.” Join us for a Introduced by Susan Felch, short panel discussion on how thoughtful Calvin College English Department Christian non-fiction can help foster Prince Conference Center, Board Room this reenchantment. Topics will include friendship, literature, worship, and creation. Box lunches will be provided for the first 40 attendees, and a book signing will follow. Sponsored by Baker Publishing Group Prince Conference Center, Willow Room 12:45 PM BOOK SIGNING

Campus Store ALANA AND PATRICIA RAYBON

Prince Conference Center MALLORY ORTBERG 2 PM BOOK SIGNING G. C. WALDREP Prince Conference Center NORMAN WIRZBA

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A Conversation with A Conversation with Paul Harding Nadia Bolz-Weber Paul Harding talks about fiction writing Preacher and author Nadia Bolz-Weber as truth telling, how words persuade discusses the challenges and benefits readers via all of their senses, and of crossing genres (e.g., sermons, why all writers must be readers. essays, stand-up comedy), how Interviewed by Micah Lott, Boston College formal structures like liturgy Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall and lectionaries affect creativity, and the noble art of sarcasm. Interviewed by Karen Saupe, Fantasy and Religious Imagination Calvin College English Department SALADIN AHMED, JEFFREY OVERSTREET Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium Fantasy writers create new worlds filled with nightmares and marvels, villains and heroes, where miracles and wonders are A Reading: Andrew Clements commonplace. More than a few have been Remember that trip to the principal’s inspired in part by religion: from the epic office? Numerous main characters in tales of the Greek and Norse myths to Lord Clements’s school stories have run-ins of the Rings and Narnia. In this conversation, with the principal—sometimes a happy two fantasy writers from different faith chat, but more often not. Clements reads backgrounds explore the role of religion in some of these scenes and talks about shaping imagination, and how religion’s the role of the principal in the lives cosmic views of history and reality have of kids and in the life of a school. shaped their work. They also discuss both the Children are welcome and joys and pitfalls of mixing faith and fantasy. encouraged to attend this session. Moderated by Bob Smietana, Introduced by Franny, Ted, and Lyndon Religion Newswriters Association Turnage, East Grand Rapids students Commons Annex, Lecture Hall Calvin College Chapel Fire in the Hole: Mysticism, Clouds of Witnesses: Imagery, and the Transformation How We Write Within Tradition of Lockdown Spaces BARBARA CROOKER, LYNN DOMINA, CHRIS HOKE JEFF GUNDY, JULIE L. MOORE Chris Hoke—jail chaplain, gang pastor— Panelists discuss how relationships with believes the growing number of prison ancestors in the faith combine with work cells in America can be repurposed by literary forebears to influence their like the simple bottles that become own poetry and prose. They describe the Molotov cocktails. Sharing from his own difficulties as well as the advantages of work—as well as looking at sacramental perceiving themselves as members of a theology, prison literature, and creative distinct literary tradition and provide writing workshops in juvenile detention specific examples illustrating how Christian centers—Chris will explore the writer’s texts or traditions have worked alongside power of image and metaphor to ignite other literary models to support, challenge, imaginations and re-purpose the spaces inspire, or otherwise affect their work. in which we find ourselves today. Calvin Seminary Chapel Introduced by Kim Benedict, Calvin College English Department DeVos Communication Center, Bytwerk Theater

42 SCHEDULE #FFWgr A Conversation with The Loud and the Quiet: Kirstin Valdez Quade Writing in the Age of Kirstin Valdez Quade’s very first book is a Social Media stunning collection of stories the New York SARAH BESSEY, CHRISTIE PURIFOY, Times calls “haunting and beautiful.” To call PRESTON YANCEY, ADDIE ZIERMAN her fiction “religious” is to understate the If, as Kafka once said, “Writing is utter immense force of the everyday martyrs who solitude, the descent into the cold abyss people her stories. Quade talks about faith of oneself,” then the Internet—with its and writing fiction as a search for truth. lightning-fast news cycles and dashed-off Interviewed by James Schaap status updates—sets itself in opposition Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall to that quiet, deep work. And yet, writers are often expected to have an engaging online presence. How do we make the From Grand Rapids Publishing necessary space to delve deeply into our Intern to New York Senior Editor art while still maintaining a platform? KATHERINE JACOBS This session explores the intersection A Grand Rapids native and Calvin alum between the quiet writing life and loud describes how she found her way to a online spaces and suggests how we might job at a major publisher in New York live and write well in the tension. City. Find out what really happens at Introduced by Angela Scheff, The a publishing house and all the people Christopher Ferebee Agency it takes to make a book. Get tips about Prince Conference Center, Willow Room how to enter the publishing industry, and be sure to bring a lot of questions. Introduced by Michael Van Denend, Calvin College Alumni Association Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room 3 PM COFFEE BREAK The Teacher As Writer: Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby How Classroom Experiences Hekman Library Lobby Shape Writers Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room JENNIFER MATHIEU, ALANA RAYBON While some may view teaching as a way to fund a writing career, for many writers, time in the classroom feeds the work of writing and is as integral to the writing process as drafting and revising. Mathieu and Raybon discuss how teaching has helped them define and refine their own writing processes, how students inspire their storytelling, and how 3:15 PM BOOK SIGNING writing improves their practice as teachers. Campus Store Introduced by Donald Hettinga, ANDREW CLEMENTS Calvin College English Department PAUL HARDING Prince Conference Center, Board Room

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Writing and Editing 3:30 pm Outside the Fold CONCURRENT SESSIONS THOM CARAWAY, KIMBERLY KOLBE, MARCI RAE JOHNSON In her book Walking on Water, Madeleine The Sacred and the Strange L’Engle suggests that good writing is M.T. ANDERSON incarnational regardless of the author’s M.T. Anderson describes some of the faith background. But what tensions most unusual mythic rites and religious arise between a writer’s faith and a practices he has come across in his publication that is not religious? In this travels. What can these rituals—sacrifices, panel, poets who grapple with issues of possessions and exorcisms, sacred spirituality in their own work discuss asceticism—teach us about writing and the joys and challenges of publishing in about what it means to be human? secular journals and presses, and of their Introduced by Debbie Visser, roles as editors for presses that are not Calvin College English Department specifically faith-focused: WordFarm, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium Sage Hill Press, and New Issues. Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room Love and Marriage: Writing our Most Intimate Relationships SUSANNA CHILDRESS, These Lives Matter BRENT NEWSOM, SARAH WELLS, LORENE CARY, ADDIE ZIERMAN DEBBY DAHL EDWARDSON A search for compelling work on marriage Even as American media focuses on the death turns up slim results. Unless your marriage of indigenous people and black youth, Cary has ended in death or divorce, reading and Edwardson insist on a different way of selections are often one-dimensional demonstrating that these lives matter: careful, or sentimental. Why is it so difficult to attentive, delighted focus not only on black and write about these relationships? Panelists brown people in crisis, but on the exquisite discuss making room for writing in detail of their lives and achievements. marriage, negotiating the space between Introduced by Linda Naranjo-Huebl, Calvin College English Department the page and the people we love the most, and what effect writing about marriage Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft has had on those relationships. Calvin Seminary Auditorium The Creator and the Creative Life ARREE CHUNG A Conversation with Chung recounts conversations with God that shaped his journey toward a bold Mallory Ortberg creative life. He discusses what he’s learned Humorist Mallory Ortberg says it’s easy about creativity, creating space, taking to find straight Christians talking about leaps of faith, People Angels, and trusting what to do about gay and trans people, or to in God. By detailing these conversations find queer people who have left organized with God, Chung hopes to help writers and religion discussing their own experiences, readers to see their way into discovering but we hear very little from people who are hidden ideas, embracing the messiness simply both. Co-founder of the blog The of life, and creating from the unknown. Toast, Ortberg discusses being Christian and Introduced by Monica Walen, queer, feminism’s role in her writing and Kent District Library faith life, and the art of short-form humor. Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 115 Interviewed by Christina Van Dyke, Calvin College Philosophy Department and Director of Gender Studies Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall

44 SCHEDULE #FFWgr Building and Sustaining A Good Cross is Hard Creative Community to Find: Catholic Fiction DANIEL BOWMAN, JR., Beyond Flannery O’Connor LORILEE CRAKER, DAVE HARRITY, RANDY BOYAGODA AMY PETERSON, Z. G. TOMASZEWSKI Contemporary Catholic writers have Writing is a solitary undertaking, but complicated relationships with Flannery writers work (and live!) at their best when O’Connor, whether they want to or not. consistently encouraged and challenged Contemporary Catholic readers also have by a supportive creative community. The relationships with O’Connor, but these tend panelists have done the work of shaping to be simpler—they hinge on adoration— and nurturing artistic communities in their and this often leads them to use her as the towns, churches, online, on college campuses, standard by which to judge all subsequent in environments hostile to art, and with Catholic writers. How, then, should Catholic people on the margins. They share their writers wrestle with (and perhaps move experiences, including practical strategies beyond) O’Connor’s stories? How should for developing a writing community Catholic readers rethink their expectations that will help sustain you year-round of writers who share their faith? and drive your writing toward its best. Introduced by Jane Zwart, Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall Calvin College English Department Prince Conference Center, Board Room Follow the (Lack of) Money: Making Media with Startups Thriving as a Writer in and Nonprofits College and Beyond PATTON DODD JACK VAN ALLSBURG, JOSH DELACY, In the 1976 filmAll the President’s Men, WILL MONTEI, ABBY ZWART Watergate informant Deep Throat told Growing as a writer during and after the Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward college years means more than taking to “follow the money.” These days, that a few creative writing courses. It means famous journalism quote carries a certain living and working in a larger ecosystem irony. Money is nowhere to be found, and of writers, challenging oneself, and journalists cannot afford to do journalism. In supporting one’s peers. After graduation, recent years, an array of startup efforts and the challenges increase. How do you nonprofit organizations have taken two very set goals, meet deadlines, and find an different approaches to the problem: make audience once you’ve left a supportive money in new ways, or make no money at college community? In this session, three all. A veteran of both approaches, Patton recent grads and a college senior explore Dodd surveys the recent past and looks to best practices for a healthy writing life as what new opportunities may yet emerge. students and beyond. They describe what Introduced by Lisa Ann Cockrel, they learned editing a student newspaper, Festival of Faith & Writing editing a student literary journal, and Prince Conference Center, Willow Room founding The Post Calvin, a successful blog for young alums, now in its third year. Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room

4:45 PM BOOK SIGNING Campus Store ARREE CHUNG

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4:45 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Unqualified: Why Everyone St. Hildegard: Can Write About Theology Trumpet of God SARAH BESSEY LINN MAXWELL, If you feel unqualified to write about STEPHANIE SANDBERG what you know or experience or hope This film adaptation of mezzo-soprano about God because you didn’t attend Linn Maxwell’s one-woman show, seminary or don’t have a position in developed by dramaturg Stephanie full-time vocational ministry, Sarah Sandberg, looks at Hildegard’s prophetic Bessey wants to set you free to explore visions and relates these visions to ancient theology and faith with boldness biblical prophecies. Hildegard described and authority. She discusses how herself as a “strong female warrior” and amateurs often reveal fresh ways to publicly rebuked clergy for being weak encounter God and why the practice and immoral. A discussion and dessert of theology belongs to everyone. reception will follow the screening. Introduced by Rebecca Jordan Heys, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall Calvin Christian Reformed Church Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium All Liturgy, All the Time: How To “Talk Politics” Objects in Mirror Are Without Losing Your Mind Closer Than They Appear DAVID DARK, JAMES K. A. SMITH CHIGOZIE OBIOMA David Dark and James K. A. Smith discuss Chigozie Obioma—a writer from Nigeria the promise and perils of conversations who now lives in Nebraska—believes largely driven by news cycles. Is Facebook a distance helps us write better about places. form of antiChrist? Is a computer a vampire? In this talk he explores how distance is Are there strategies for lifting language and locked into many aspects of life, including revering the human form divine in our age one’s faith life, and why solitude can of escalating polarization? Smith and Dark help people become better Christians. shore up various fragments against our ruin. Introduced by David Hoekema, Introduced by Karen Swallow Prior, Calvin College Philosophy Department Liberty University Prince Conference Center, Board Room Calvin College Chapel

A Conversation with Mary Ruefle Poet Mary Ruefle muses on what distinguishes poetry from prose, the God-presence in her poems, the poet’s duty to turn language inside out, and the symbiotic relationship between reading and writing. Interviewed by L. S. Klatt, Calvin College English Department Prince Conference Center, Willow Room 5:45 PM BOOK SIGNING Campus Store SARAH BESSEY CHIGOZIE OBIOMA

46 SCHEDULE #FFWgr 6 pm 7:30 pm KEYNOTE Gallery Talk: Chasing Faroe JOHN DONNELLY Artist John Donnelly discusses the An Evening with exhibit “Chasing Faroe—Imagining, Nadia Bolz-Weber Being, Remembering,” a selection of The blunt, tattooed pastor talks work based on his experience prior about the risks and rewards of telling to, during, and following a four-week inelegant truths about ourselves. expedition to the Faroe Islands in the Introduced by Karen Saupe, Calvin North Atlantic. The paintings—on College English Department paper, wood, canvas and wool—range THE BARON LECTURE from 6 inches to 7 feet in size. They Van Noord Arena document the memory of travel, the being in an actual place, and the imagining of a new destination on the line that divides the heavens and earth. Covenant Fine Arts Center, Center Gallery 9 PM BOOK SIGNING Van Noord Arena NADIA BOLZ-WEBER

SCHEDULE / APRIL 16 / SATURDAY 47 FESTIVAL CIRCLES

Festival Circles are small groups that meet two times during the Festival to discuss a topic of common interest. The circles run 6–7 pm on Thursday and 12:45–1:45 pm on Saturday. Space is limited in each Festival Circle and pre-registration is encouraged Check in at the Registration Desk to see which circles are still open to additional participants.

Poets: Understood What is Christian Poetry + Iconography + ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI-STOTT Film Criticism? Meditation Hiemenga Hall, Room 315 JOSH LARSEN ALESSANDRA SIMMONS Hiemenga Hall, Room 334 Hiemenga Hall, Room 462 Children’s Picture Books and God In the Waiting Room: Women Who Lead BARBARA BJELLAND Writing through Physical Through Writing Hiemenga Hall, Room 316 and Emotional Trauma NATASHA SISTRUNK ROBINSON MARJORIE MADDOX Hiemenga Hall, Room 463 It Really Happened Hiemenga Hall, Room 335 DIANE GLANCY Memoir: Inviting the Hiemenga Hall, Room 317 Christianity and Buddhism Reader into the Story in Dialogue CRAIG STEFFEN Poetry as Prayer SARINA GRUVER MOORE Hiemenga Hall, Room 466 MARJORIE GRAY Hiemenga Hall, Room 336 Hiemenga Hall, Room 320 Writing Prompts: Creating in Community: How Surprise and Delight East Meets West Meets to Start and Run a Monthly SHELLY WILDMAN Heart Meets Page Manuscript Group Hiemenga Hall, Room 467 MELISSA GUTIERREZ SHAYNE MOORE Hiemenga Hall, Room 321 Hiemenga Hall, Room 337 Pastoring Through Book Tours The Life of Little Magazines How to Be a Writer CARY UMHAU ADAM JOYCE with a Day Job Hiemenga Hall, Room 477 Hiemenga Hall, Room 323 NANCY NORDENSON Hiemenga Hall, Room 428 Telescope, Microscope, Women Writing: Megaphone, Muse: Getting it Done From Blog to Book Sorrow As Writing Partner TIFFANY KRINER CHRISTIE PURIFOY MICHELLE VAN LOON Hiemenga Hall, Room 331 Hiemenga Hall, Room 429 Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 222

Advance Your Writing through A Sinewy Grace Religious Syncretists Giving and Getting Feedback AIMEE REID W. BRETT WILEY ANN KROEKER Hiemenga Hall, Room 430 Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 227 Hiemenga Hall, Room 332 Memoir: Writing Dreams and Goal About Your Life Setting For Writers CAROL ROTTMAN LARA KRUPICKA Hiemenga Hall, Room 431 Hiemenga Hall, Room 333

48 SCHEDULE #FFWgr BOOK SIGNINGS

Book signings take Signings are scheduled to start 15 minutes after place throughout the an author’s talk, but please be patient as actual start times may vary. Although books will be Festival at four different available for sale at all of the signing venues, locations on campus: we strongly encourage Festival participants to purchase their books in advance of the signings C Lobby of the Prince Conference Center they plan to attend. This will save everyone time. C Calvin College Campus Store Read Festival Daily for information on additional C Van Noord Arena signings that will take place in the exhibition hall and elsewhere during the Festival.

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1:15 PM 9:45 AM 9:45 AM Van Noord Arena Campus Store Prince Conference Center TOBIAS WOLFF MARY HULST AARON BELZ DAVID KIM LORENE CARY 3 PM Prince Conference Center MARCI RAE JOHNSON Campus Store HUGH COOK JOHN DARNIELLE DENNIS COVINGTON 11:15 AM MAKOTO FUJIMURA WESLEY HILL Campus Store DANI SHAPIRO M. T. ANDERSON 11:15 AM SHANE McCRAE 4:30 PM Campus Store LUCI SHAW Campus Store CHRISTIAN WIMAN 12:45 PM JENNIFER MAIER Prince Conference Center CATHERINE WOLFF DEBBY DAHL EDWARDSON Campus Store Prince Conference Center ALANA RAYBON JANISSE RAY 12:45 PM PATRICIA RAYBON JAMES SCHAAP Prince Conference Center Prince Conference Center DAVID DARK MALLORY ORTBERG 5:45 PM JENNIFER MATHIEU G. C. WALDREP Campus Store ZIA HAIDER RAHMAN SALADIN AHMED MARY RUEFLE 2 PM ASHLEY BRYAN Prince Conference Center DANIEL TAYLOR 3:15 PM NORMAN WIRZBA Campus Store 8:45 PM DANIELLE CHAPMAN Van Noord Arena KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS 3:15 PM ZADIE SMITH MARILYN CHANDLER McENTRYE Campus Store ANDREW CLEMENTS 4:45 PM PAUL HARDING Prince Conference Center Prince Conference Center SCOTT CAIRNS CHRIS HOKE MARIA EBRAHIMJI JOSHUA MAX FELDMAN 4:45 PM KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE Campus Store PAUL WILLIS ARREE CHUNG Prince Conference Center 9 PM RANDY BOYAGODA Van Noord Arena GEORGE SAUNDERS 5:45 PM TOBIAS WOLFF Campus Store SARAH BESSEY CHIGOZIE OBIOMA

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FRIDAY / 12:45 PM Wine, the Slow Food Movement, and Spirituality GISELA KREGLINGER Grab your lunch and pop into In The Spirituality of Wine, Gisela Kreglinger one of several Lunch Forums offers a fresh, holistic vision of the Christian sponsored by our underwriters life that sees God at work in all created things, including the beauty of well-crafted wine shared during the midday breaks with others around a table. She brings Christian on Friday and Saturday. spirituality and the world of wine together in new ways, drawing both upon interviews with All Lunch Forums will take vintners from around the world and on her own experience growing up on a family winery in place in the Prince Conference Bavaria. Join Gisela Kreglinger for a lunchtime Center just steps away from exploration of wine, spirituality—and what it’s like to be writing at the intersection of theology where pre-ordered box lunches and the Slow Food movement. can be picked up. Pro tip: several Sponsored by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company sponsors are providing free Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room lunches to the first people at their The Art and Wonder of Writing doors, so if you’re not packing for Children and Teens your own food, get there early! ANNETTE BOURLAND, GLENYS NELLIST, LORIE LANGDON Have you ever wanted to write a children’s picture book? Has YA fiction captured your imagination and writing zeal? It takes a special kind of writer to create stories (and intrigue!) for children and young adults. Writing for them requires not only a degree of child-brain and kid-memory, but a certain skill set and calling. In our time together, Zondervan publisher Annette Bourland will introduce two dynamic writers. Glenys Nellist will share how she made her picture-book writing dream a reality, and then best-selling author Lorie Langdon will share how dynamic marketing goes hand-in-hand with great content. A complimentary boxed lunch will be provided for the first 30 attendees to arrive. Sponsored by Zondervan Prince Conference Center, Willow Room West

50 SCHEDULE #FFWgr SATURDAY / 12:45 PM Hard Realities, Continual Re-Enchanting Christian Writing Rejection, and Occasional WESLEY HILL, KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, Disasters: A Publishing Journey JAMES K. A. SMITH, AND NORMAN WIRZBA ALISON HODGSON AND THE REAL PUG OLIVER In his new book, You Are What You Love, James Alison Hodgson arrived at her first writer’s K. A. Smith writes, “I expect it will be forms of conference filled with hope, which was quickly reenchanted Christianity that will actually have crushed when she learned the harsh realities a future.” Join us for a short panel discussion on of publishing, beginning with: a platform isn’t how thoughtful Christian non-fiction can help merely a stage. After she wasted a few years foster this reenchantment. Topics will include fighting despair, things began to look up—until friendship, literature, worship, and creation. an arsonist randomly set her house on fire. But, A complimentary boxed lunch will be provided she learned, the great thing about being a writer for the first 40 attendees to arrive. is that even your worst times can become your Sponsored by Baker Publishing Group best story. Hear Alison’s experience of becoming Prince Conference Center, Willow Room an author, learn insider tips, and meet The Real Pug Oliver who became an essential part of Loaded Language Alison’s story! A complimentary boxed lunch will MARILYN CHANDLER McENTYRE be provided for the first 30 attendees to arrive. Especially in an election year, American public Sponsored by Zondervan Prince Conference Center, Willow Room East discourse is riddled with loaded language—buzz words, labels, abstractions, slogans, phrases abducted from respectable sources and forcibly infused with new meaning. Hijacked words Christians Who Drink Craft Beer: become for a time the property of hijackers. The Rise of Middle Space Artists Though most slogans have a short half- and Audiences in Entertainment life, they tend to color common speech and confuse common sense. Churches and faith ERIK LOKKESMOE, CHARLIE LOWELL, WILLIAM ROMANOWSKI communities are affected by the “load” on public language as it seeps into their internal The 1970’s folk song, “They Will Know We Are conversation. In this session we’ll consider what Christians By Our Love” might be better sung loads language and how to approach the task of as “They Will Know We are Christians By … Our retrieving, repurposing, or sometimes rerouting Low-Budget Movies” in 2016. In this session, Erik our writing around “hot” words. Lokkesmoe, executive producer of Last Days in the Desert, discusses the growth of the “in- Sponsored by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Prince Conference Center, Board Room betweeners” who exist between mass/crass and teach/preach art and entertainment. Questions he’ll explore include: What does common grace look like in the arts? What is the role of the artist in a pre-Christian world? How is the middle space audience changing how content is created and consumed? Adding to his real-world insights will be musician Charlie Lowell of Jars of Clay and Dr. William Romanowski of Calvin College. Sponsored by Different Drummer Prince Conference Center, Board Room

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Hailing from places SALADIN AHMED CARLA BARNHILL as different as @saladinahmed Carla Barnhill is the director Saladin Ahmed was born in of youth development for Nigeria, rural Georgia, Detroit and raised in Dearborn, Sparkhouse, a division of Manhattan, and Barrow, Michigan. His first novel, Augsburg Fortress Publishing. Alaska, our speakers Throne of the Crescent Moon, She is the author of The Myth was a finalist for the Hugo, of the Perfect Mother, the represent diverse Nebula, Crawford, Gemmell, editor of several more books, perspectives, genres, and British Fantasy Awards, and frequently serves as a and won the Locus Award for consultant for writers getting and creative concerns. Best First Novel. He has also started in publishing. They are bound together written nonfiction for NPR F FRIDAY 2 PM by a love for words and Books, Salon, and The Escapist. T THURSDAY 4:30 PM a belief that stories S SATURDAY 2 PM TIM BASCOM are vital to our lives. @BascomTim Tim Bascom is the director of We’re grateful for M.T. ANDERSON creative writing at Waldorf the generous gift of @_MTAnderson College and the author of four books. Bascom often draws their time and insight M.T. Anderson has written many books for young people material from his youth as the during the Festival. and adults including, most child of American missionaries recently, Symphony for the City in 1960s Ethiopia. His most recent of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich work, the memoir Running to and the Siege of Leningrad. The the Fire, was released last year. first volume of his Astonishing T THURSDAY 1:45 PM Life of Octavian Nothing books won the 2006 National Book Award in Young People’s KATE BASSETT Literature. Anderson lives @katebassett in Boston, Massachusetts. Kate Bassett is a journalist and young adult author. S SATURDAY 10 AM Her first book, Words and S SATURDAY 3:30 PM Their Meanings, won the 2014 IPPY Gold Medal. SARAH PULLIAM She lives in Harbor BAILEY Springs, Michigan. @spulliam S SATURDAY 8:30 AM Sarah Pulliam Bailey is a religion reporter at The Washington Post and JILL P. oversees its Acts of Faith blog. BAUMGAERTNER Jill Baumgaertner is the author S SATURDAY 11:30 AM of several poetry volumes, including What Cannot Be Fixed and Finding Cuba, and three poetry chapbooks. She is the poetry editor of Christian Century and teaches English at Wheaton College. T THURSDAY 4:30 PM

52 SPEAKERS #FFWgr KATELYN BEATY TRACEY BIANCHI NADIA @KatelynBeaty @traceybianchi BOLZ-WEBER Katelyn Beaty is the managing Tracey Bianchi is the worship @Sarcasticluther editor of Christianity Today and and teaching pastor at Christ Nadia Bolz-Weber is the the author of a forthcoming Church of Oak Brook (Illinois). author of Pastrix: The Cranky, book on women and leadership. She is the author of three Beautiful Faith of a Sinner F FRIDAY 10 AM books, including her latest, and Saint and Accidental True You: Overcoming Self-Doubt Saints: Finding God in All and Finding Your Voice, co- the Wrong People. She is the AMY JULIA BECKER authored with Adele Calhoun. founding pastor of House @amyjuliabecker S SATURDAY 8:30 AM for All Sinners and Saints Amy Julia Becker writes in Denver, Colorado. and speaks about family, S SATURDAY 2 PM faith, disability, and culture. J. BRENT BILL S A graduate of Princeton @brentbill SATURDAY 7:30 PM University and Princeton J. Brent Bill is an Indiana-based Theological Seminary, she is writer, photographer, retreat ANNETTE the author of Small Talk and leader, and Quaker minister. A Good and Perfect Gift. His books include Finding God BOURLAND @AnnetteBourland F FRIDAY 10 AM in the Verbs: A Fresh Language of Prayer, Holy Silence: The Annette Bourland is senior F FRIDAY 11:30 AM Gift of Quaker Spirituality, vice president and group and Sacred Compass: The publisher at Zondervan, Path of Spiritual Discernment. overseeing trade, Blink, AARON BELZ and Zonderkidz divisions. Aaron Belz is the author of He is also the author of the The Bird Hoverer, Lovely, blog Holy Ordinary: The F FRIDAY 12:45 PM Raspberry, and Glitter Sacraments of Everyday Life. Bomb. He earned a BA from F FRIDAY 3:30 PM Covenant College, an MA DANIEL in creative writing from BOWMAN, JR. New York University, and BRYAN BLISS @danielbowmanjr a PhD in English from @brainbliss Daniel Bowman, Jr. is the Saint Louis University. Bryan Bliss is the author of author of A Plum Tree in His poetry has appeared No Parking at the End Times Leatherstocking Country. in journals including and a forthcoming book titled His work has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Meet Me Here. He holds an MTS publications including The Painted Bride Quarterly, degree from Vanderbilt Divinity Adirondack Review, American Exquisite Corpse, and School and an MFA from Seattle Poetry Journal, Books & Culture, Mudfish. He is poet laureate Pacific University. He lives in The Midwest Quarterly, and of Hillsborough, North Minneapolis, Minnesota. Seneca Review. He is an associate professor of English Carolina, where he also lives. S SATURDAY 8:30 AM at Taylor University and editor- S SATURDAY 8:30 AM in-chief of Relief Journal. DEBBIE BLUE F FRIDAY 8:30 AM SARAH BESSEY Debbie Blue is one of the S SATURDAY 3:30 PM @sarahbessey founding pastors of House of Sarah Bessey is a blogger and Mercy, a church in St. Paul, the author of Jesus Feminist Minnesota. She is the author of and Out of Sorts: Making Peace Sensual Orthodoxy, From Stone with Evolving Faith. She lives in to Living Word, and Consider Abbotsford, British Columbia. the Birds: A Provocative Guide to the Birds of the Bible. S SATURDAY 2 PM S S SATURDAY 4:45 PM SATURDAY 11:30 AM

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RANDY TARA ISABELLA MAE ELISE CANNON BOYAGODA BURTON @reverendmae Randy Boyagoda is the @NotoriousTIB Mae Elise Cannon is the author author of two novels, Tara Isabella Burton writes of Social Justice Handbook: Governor of the Northern about religion, culture, and Small Steps for a Better World Province and Beggar’s Feast, travel and is the winner of and Just Spirituality: How Faith and a biography, Richard The Spectator’s 2012 Shiva Practices Fuel Social Action John Neuhaus: A Life in Naipaul Memorial Prize for and co-author of Forgive Us: the Public Square. He is travel writing. She has recently Confessions of a Compromised a professor of English at completed her first novel. Faith. She has an extensive Ryerson University and She is a Clarendon Scholar, ministerial background and president of PEN Canada. working on a doctorate in is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church. F FRIDAY 2 PM theology and French literature at Trinity College, Oxford. T S SATURDAY 3:30 PM THURSDAY 3:15 PM F FRIDAY 3:30 PM S SATURDAY 10 AM THOM CARAWAY MICHA BOYETT @t_caraway @michaboyett Thom Caraway is an assistant Micha Boyett is the author of SCOTT CAIRNS professor of English at Found and she blogs regularly, @ScottCairnsPoet Whitworth University. was a contributor to Deeper Scott Cairns is a professor of He serves as editor-in-chief Story, and has published English and director of creative of Rock & Sling, a journal pieces on websites including writing at the University of witness. OnFaith and Her.meneutics. of Missouri. His poems and She lives in San Francisco. essays have appeared in S SATURDAY 3:30 PM T THURSDAY 3:15 PM publications including Poetry, Image, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and New Republic. ANGELA DOLL ASHLEY BRYAN His newest collection is CARLSON Ashley Bryan is a writer and Idiot Psalms. He received a @mrsmetaphor illustrator of over 50 books for Guggenheim Fellowship in Angela Doll Carlson is a poet, children. He has received many 2006, and received the Denise essayist, and fiction writer. awards, including the Coretta Levertov Award in 2014. Her most recent book is Nearly Orthodox: On Being a Modern Scott King Virginia Hamilton T THURSDAY 3:15 PM Lifetime Achievement Award Woman in an Ancient Tradition; F FRIDAY 3:30 PM and the Laura Ingalls Wilder her forthcoming book is Award. Bryan is a professor titled Garden in the East: The emeritus at Dartmouth College. KRIS CAMEALY Spiritual Life of the Body. A veteran of World War II, Bryan @KrisCamealy T THURSDAY 3:15 PM currently lives and works in Kris Camealy has written S SATURDAY 11:30 AM Islesford, one of the Cranberry a book Holey, Wholly, Holy: Isles off the coast of Maine. A Lenten Journey Of Refinement, T THURSDAY 4:30 PM its companion workbook, S SATURDAY 8:30 AM and runs her own blog. She is a monthly contributor for Living The Story and Allume. Her writing has also been featured on (in)Courage: Home for the Hearts of Women. F FRIDAY 11:30 AM

54 SPEAKERS #FFWgr LORENE CARY SUSANNA ANDREW @LoreneCary CHILDRESS CLEMENTS Lorene Cary is the author Susanna Childress is the author Andrew Clements is the of three novels, The Price of of two books of poetry and author of many books for a Child, Pride, and If Sons, also writes short fiction and children and young adults, Then Heirs,and a memoir, creative nonfiction. She teaches including Frindle, Things Black Ice. She also founded at Hope College and makes Not Seen, About Average, Art Sanctuary, an African- up half the band Ordinary Troublemaker, and the American arts and letters Neighbors, whose songs are Benjamin Pratt and the organization that provides based on her writings. Keepers of the School series. opportunities and resources T THURSDAY 1:45 PM He has been honored with for the Philadelphia a multitude of awards, F FRIDAY 8:30 AM community. She is currently including two Christopher S SATURDAY 3:30 PM a senior lecturer of creative Awards and an Edgar writing at the University Award. He lives in Maine. of Pennsylvania. JEFF CHU S SATURDAY 11:30 AM S SATURDAY 8:30 AM @jeffchu S SATURDAY 2 PM S SATURDAY 3:30 PM Jeff Chu is a reporter and writer whose work has appeared in the New DANIEL COLEMAN AUSTIN CHANNING York Times Magazine, Daniel Coleman grew up in @austinchanning Travel+Leisure, the Ethiopia with missionary Austin Channing has an Wall Street Journal, the parents and has published MA in social justice from Washington Post, and Fast books on masculinity in Marygrove College. She currently Company. He has also Canadian immigrant literature, serves as a resident director and written a book, Does Jesus the spirituality of reading, multicultural liaison for Calvin Really Love Me? A Gay the colonial construction College, and blogs regularly Christian’s Pilgrimage in of Canadian white identity at austinchanning.com. Search of God in America. (winner of the Klibansky F Prize for Best Canadian FRIDAY 8:30 AM F FRIDAY 11:30 AM Book in the Humanities), plus a memoir titled Scent of DANIELLE ARREE CHUNG Eucalyptus. He is a professor CHAPMAN @arreechung of English and cultural studies Danielle Chapman is the Arree Chung is a children’s at McMaster University. author of the poetry collection book author and illustrator. T THURSDAY 1:45 PM Delinquent Palaces. Her poetry Before his writing career, has appeared in magazines and Chung worked as a scheduler at journals such as The Atlantic, Pixar and video game designer, HUGH COOK Harvard Review, The Nation, and attended the Art Center @HughCook_ca and The New Yorker. She lives College of Design. His debut Hugh Cook writes both short in New Haven, Connecticut, book, Ninja!, came out in 2014. stories and novels. His newest and teaches at Yale University. Chung lives in San Francisco. novel is Heron River, set in a small town in southern F FRIDAY 8:30 AM S SATURDAY 8:30 AM Ontario. Retired from full- F FRIDAY 2 PM S SATURDAY 3:30 PM time teaching, Cook lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where he spends most of his time writing. T THURSDAY 3:15 PM S SATURDAY 8 AM

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DENNIS ANDI JOHN COVINGTON CUMBO-FLOYD DARNIELLE @decoving @andilit @mountain_goats Covington is author of two Andi Cumbo-Floyd is a writer, John Darnielle is an author novels and four nonfiction teacher, editor, and farmer. and musician, best known books, including Salvation Two of her books include as the frontman for the on Sand Mountain, a finalist The Slaves Have Names, and Mountain Goats, an indie for the 1995 National Book Writing Day in Day Out. Along folk rock band. His debut Award. His most recent book with working at her farm novel, Wolf in White Van, is Revelation: A Search for Faith in Virginia, she has taught was nominated for the in a Violent Religious World. writing at several colleges and National Book Award for He teaches creative writing universities including George fiction in 2014. He lives in at Texas Tech University. Mason University, Cecil College, Durham, North Carolina. T THURSDAY 4:30 PM and Santa Clara University. T THURSDAY 1:45 PM F FRIDAY 8:30 AM F FRIDAY 11:30 AM T THURSDAY 9 PM

LORILEE CRAKER ED CYZEWSKI JOSH DELACY @lorileecraker @edcyzewski @josh_delacy Lorilee Craker is the author of Ed Cyzewski is the author of Josh deLacy is a writer, public thirteen books, including Anne A Christian Survival Guide: A speaker, and website developer of Green Gables, My Daughter, Lifeline to Faith and Growth; from Seattle, Washington. and Me: What My Favorite Book Coffeehouse Theology: Reflecting He graduated from Calvin Taught Me about Grace, Belonging, on God in Everyday Life; and Pray, College with a double major in and the Orphan in Us All, a Write, Grow. He is a freelance writing and political science. writer who has contributed memoir about her adoption and S SATURDAY 3:30 PM that of her Korean daughter. She to numerous magazines is also an Audie Awards finalist and book projects. Cyzewski for Money Secrets of the Amish, lives in Columbus, Ohio. PATTON DODD which she wrote and narrated. F FRIDAY 11:30 AM @pattondodd S SATURDAY 3:30 PM Patton Dodd is the executive director of media and DAVID DARK communications for the BARBARA @DavidDark H. E. Butt Family Foundation. CROOKER David Dark is the author of four He is also the author of a books, including, most recently, Barbara Crooker is the author memoir, My Faith So Far. Life’s Too Short to Pretend of six books of poetry, including Dodd’s writing has appeared You’re Not Religious. Following her Selected Poems, and twelve in many publications, years of teaching high school poetry chapbooks. Her awards including Newsweek, Slate, English, he received his PhD include the WB Yeats Society of Christianity Today, Cineaste, in 2011 and now teaches at the New York Award, the Thomas and The Revealer. He holds a Tennessee Prison for Women, Merton Poetry of the Sacred PhD in religion and literature Charles Bass Correctional Award, and many fellowships. from Boston University. Facility, and in the School of She lives in Pennsylvania. F FRIDAY 2 PM Religion at Belmont University. F FRIDAY 8:30 AM S SATURDAY 3:30 PM F FRIDAY 11:30 AM S SATURDAY 2 PM S SATURDAY 4:45 PM

56 SPEAKERS #FFWgr ELLEN PAINTER MARIA LESA DOLLAR EBRAHIMJI ENGELTHALER @EllenPDollar @MariaEbrahimji @lengelthaler Ellen Painter Dollar is the Maria Ebrahimji is a journalist, Lesa Engelthaler is a writer author of No Easy Choice: A strategist, and speaker. She for publications including Story of Disability, Parenthood, is the co-founder of the I The Dallas Morning News, and Faith in an Age of Advanced Speak for Myself narrative Christianity Today, Relevant, Reproduction. Her writing platform and in 2011 co-edited Conversation Journal, and has appeared in Christian and published, I Speak for Prism. She is proud to be a Century, the New York Times’ Myself: American Women on member of two writer’s guilds: Motherlode blog, OnFaith, Being Muslim (White Cloud Ink: A Creative Collective and and Christianity Today. Press), a collection of essays the Redbud Writers Guild. F FRIDAY 8:30 AM written by 40 American-born S SATURDAY 8:30 AM Muslim women under 40. F FRIDAY 2 PM LYNN DOMINA F FRIDAY 3:30 PM AIDEN ENNS Lynn Domina has written Aiden Enns is former managing two collections of poetry, editor of Adbusters magazine Framed in Silence and Corporal DEBBY DAHL and founder of Buy Nothing Works, which won the Intro EDWARDSON Christmas. Raised as an urban Series Prize from Four Way @DebbyEdwardson Anabaptist, he finds hope in Books. She currently chairs struggling for justice. He’s Debby Dahl Edwardson has the English department at the editor of Geez, a magazine written three books for young Northern Michigan University. focused on “contemplative adults: Blessing’s Bead, Whale cultural resistance” and lives S SATURDAY 2 PM Snow, and My Name is Not in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Easy, which was a National Book Award finalist in 2011. F FRIDAY 8:30 AM KELLY BROWN She lives in Barrow, Alaska. DOUGLAS F FRIDAY 10 AM Kelly Brown Douglas JOHN ESTES S SATURDAY 3:30 PM directs the religion @jestes program at Goucher John Estes directs the College and is the author Creative Writing Program FAITH EIDSE at Malone University in several books, including Faith Eidse, editor of the Canton, Ohio, and is a visiting Stand Your Ground: Black anthology Unrooted Childhoods: faculty member of Ashland Bodies and the Justice of Memoirs of Growing Up Global, University’s Low-Residency God, Sexuality and the grew up in Congo, Canada, and MFA. He is the author of Black Church, and What’s the U.S. She won the Kingsbury three books, Kingdom Come, Faith Got to Do With It?: Award for her memoir writing, Stop Motion Still Life, and Sure Black Bodies/Christian an oral history award for Extinction and two chapbooks. Soul. She is also a priest Voices of the Apalachicola, F in the Episcopal Church. and has published a biography FRIDAY 2 PM F FRIDAY 11:30 AM of her Canadian missionary F FRIDAY 2 PM parents, and has completed a prison novel, Healing Falls. T THURSDAY 1:45 PM

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JOSHUA MAX GAELAN GILBERT DAVID GRIFFITH FELDMAN Gaelan Gilbert is an assistant @poorerthandead @jmaxfeldman professor of English at St. David Griffith is the director Joshua Max Feldman is a Katherine College and the of creative writing at writer of fiction and plays. managing editor of the Interlochen School of the Born and raised in Amherst, St. Katherine Review. Arts in Interlochen, Massachusetts, he graduated T THURSDAY 3:15 PM Michigan. He holds degrees from Columbia University. from the University of Notre Feldman’s debut novel is Dame and the University The Book of Jonah, a modern JENNIFER GRANT of Pittsburgh. Griffith is retelling of the story of @jennifercgrant the author of A Good War Jonah. He lives in Florida. Jennifer Grant is an author, is Hard to Find: The Art book editor, and consultant. of Violence in America. F FRIDAY 3:30 PM She has written four works S T THURSDAY 3:15 PM SATURDAY 8:30 AM of nonfiction, Love You More, MOMumental, Disquiet Time, LESLIE LEYLAND and Wholehearted Living, and JESSICA MESMAN regularly contributes to blogs GRIFFITH FIELDS including Her.meneutics. @Mesman_Griffith @leslielfields T Jessica Mesman Griffith Leslie Leyland Fields is the THURSDAY 4:30 PM is a widely published author and editor of more F FRIDAY 2 PM essayist and the author than ten books, most recently of the memoir Love & Salt: Forgiving Our Fathers and A Spiritual Friendship in Mothers: Finding Freedom MARLENA GRAVES @MarlenaGraves Letters, winner of the 2014 from Hate and Hurt. Her work Marlena Graves is the author Christopher Award. has appeared in publications of A Beautiful Disaster: including Christianity Today, F FRIDAY 8:30 AM Finding Hope in the Midst of Books & Culture, Her.meneutics, F FRIDAY 11:30 AM Brokenness, and a contributor and the Bellingham Review. to Her.meneutics and Gifted T THURSDAY 1:45 PM For Leadership, Our Daily F JEFF GUNDY FRIDAY 10 AM Journey and Questions.org. Jeff Gundy currently teaches F FRIDAY 3:30 PM T THURSDAY 3:15 PM creative writing and literature F FRIDAY 3:30 PM at Bluffton University. His poems have appeared in The MAKOTO Adirondack Review, Arsenic FUJIMURA SHAWN GRAVES Lobster, and Hamilton Stone @iamfujimura Shawn Graves is a professor of Review. He recently published Makoto Fujimura is a visual philosophy at the University a book titled Songs from an artist and the author of of Findlay. He serves as chair Empty Cage: Poetry, Mystery, Culture Care: Reconnecting of the midwest region of the Anabaptism, and Peace. Beauty for our Common Life. In Evangelical Philosophical S SATURDAY 2 PM 2015, Fujimura was appointed Society. Graves has published director of the Brehm Center articles in various scholarly for Worship, Theology, and journals, and he has co-edited a the Arts at Fuller Theological forthcoming book on Christian Seminary. His latest book is pacifism and nonviolence. Silence and Beauty: Hidden T THURSDAY 3:15 PM Faith Born of Suffering. WEDNESDAY 3:30 PM (Pre-Festival event at 106 Gallery.) T THURSDAY 1:45 PM

58 SPEAKERS #FFWgr PAUL HARDING DAVE HARRITY WESLEY HILL Paul Harding is the author @daveharrity @wesleyhill of two novels about multiple Dave Harrity’s writing has Wesley Hill is an assistant generations of a New England appeared in Verse Daily, professor of Biblical Studies at family: the Pulitzer Prize- Memorious, Revolver, The Los Trinity School for Ministry in winning Tinkers and Enon. He Angeles Review, Copper Nickel, Ambridge, Pennsylvania. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Confrontation, Softblow, and is the author of three books, Writers’ Workshop, has received elsewhere. Author of three including Spiritual Friendship: a Guggenheim Fellowship, and books, his most recent are These Finding Love in the Church was a fiction fellow at the Fine Intricacies and Our Father in the as a Celibate Gay Christian. Arts Center in Provincetown. Year of the Wolf. He is a recipient He co-founded the website He lives in Massachusetts. of the William Alexander II SpiritualFriendship.org, S SATURDAY 11:30 AM and Lisa Percy Fellowship at the and he writes regularly for Rivendell Writers’ Colony and Books & Culture, Christianity S SATURDAY 2 PM lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Today, and First Things. S SATURDAY 3:30 PM F FRIDAY 8:30 AM DENISE FRAME F FRIDAY 3:30 PM HARLAN S SATURDAY 12:45 PM @twirlyhead DREW G. I. HART @DruHart Denise Frame Harlan’s Drew G. I. Hart is a blogger, essays have appeared in JONATHAN HISKES PhD candidate in theology The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers @jhiskes and ethics, and activist who on Feasting and Fasting Jonathan Hiskes works as speaks regularly in churches, Toward God, and won communications director at universities, and seminaries. an honorable mention the Simpson Center for the His blog, Taking Jesus Seriously, in Ruminate Magazine’s Humanities at the University of is hosted by Christian Century, VanderMey Nonfiction Washington. He has published and his first book, Trouble contest for 2013. She holds journalism and creative I’ve Seen: Changing the Way an MFA from Seattle writing in The Guardian, the Church Views Racism, Pacific University. Mother Jones, Image, River was recently released. Teeth, The Other Journal, Books S SATURDAY 10 AM T THURSDAY 3:15 PM & Culture, and elsewhere. S SATURDAY 11:30 AM F FRIDAY 8:30 AM S SATURDAY 11:30 AM PAUL HARRILL Paul Harrill is a filmmaker PETER HELTZEL ALISON HODGSON @PeterHeltzel whose debut film, Something, @HodgsonAlison Peter Heltzel is an ordained Anything, was named a Critic’s Alison Hodgson is author minister in the Christian Pick by the New York Times. of The Pug List: A Ridiculous Church (Disciples of Christ) He is the co-founder of Self- Dog, a Family Who Lost and an assistant professor Reliant Film. Harrill lives in Everything and How They All at New York Theological Knoxville, where he teaches Found Their Way Home. Her Seminary. He has contributed in the School of Art at the writing has been featured on to eight books as author University of Tennessee. Her.meneutics, Religion News or editor and published T Service, and Forbes.com. THURSDAY 4:30 PM numerous articles in F FRIDAY 11:30 AM F FRIDAY 11:30 AM journals, such as Books & F FRIDAY 12:45 PM F FRIDAY 9 PM Culture, Sojourners, Princeton F SUNDAY 2 PM (Something, Theological Review and the FRIDAY 4:30 PM (Party at the Prince) Anything screening at Scottish Journal of Theology. Celebration Cinema Woodland) T THURSDAY 3:15 PM

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CHRIS HOKE KATHERINE JACOBS RICHARD @ChrisHoker @kjacobsedits KAUFFMAN Chris Hoke is the author of Katherine Jacobs is an editor Richard Kauffman recently Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit at Roaring Brook Press and retired after 14 years as senior Through Jail, Among Outlaws, a graduate of both Calvin editor and book reviews and Across Borders. Hoke College and the Center for the editor of Christian Century. received his BA from the Study of Children’s Literature Prior to that he served as University of California, at Simmons College. Before an editor for Christianity Berkeley and his MFA in working in publishing she Today and also as a pastor. creative nonfiction from was a Peace Corps volunteer S SATURDAY 8:30 AM Seattle Pacific University. in Romania and a school T THURSDAY 4:30 PM librarian in Honduras. S SATURDAY 11:30 AM S SATURDAY 8:30 AM DAVID H. KIM S SATURDAY 2 PM S SATURDAY 2 PM @dhkimnyc David H. Kim is the executive director of the Center for BOB HOSACK MARCI RAE Faith & Work at Redeemer @RhosackBob JOHNSON Presbyterian Church in Robert Hosack is an executive @MarciRaeJohnson Manhattan. Kim is the author editor with Baker Publishing Marci Rae Johnson teaches of Twenty and Something: Group, co-author of The New English at Wheaton College. Have the Time of Your Life Millennium Manual, and a She is also the poetry editor (Without Wasting Any freelance writer and reviewer. for WordFarm press. Her of It) and two devotional T THURSDAY 4:30 PM first collection of poetry, books, and is the general The Eyes the Window, won editor of a forthcoming the Powder Horn Prize. Here faith and work Bible. BOB HUDSON most recent collection is T THURSDAY 3:15 PM Bob Hudson has been an editor Basic Disaster Supplies Kit. F FRIDAY 8:30 AM for Zondervan for 30 years and S SATURDAY 8:30 AM has been making chapbooks for S SATURDAY 3:30 PM 20 years longer than that. He KIMBERLY KOLBE and his wife, Shelley, own the Kimberly Kolbe is Perkipery Press, a Michigan- JAWEED KALEEM managing editor for based chapbook publisher that @jaweedkaleem New Issues Poetry & Prose. has issued dozens of volumes Jaweed Kaleem is an Her work has appeared in the last 30 years. He is the independent journalist online at AGNI and author of three books and writing for The Atlantic, Coldfront, and in Hayden’s many, many chapbooks. National Catholic Reporter, Ferry and Passages North. F FRIDAY 8:30 AM Jewish Journal, Religion S SATURDAY 3:30 PM Dispatches and other publications. He was MARY HULST The Huffington Post’s senior @PastorMary2U religion reporter from 2011 to Mary Hulst—Pastor Mary to 2016. At HuffPost, he also wrote many—serves as the chaplain about death, dying, grief, and for Calvin College. She the end of life. He is the co- recently published her first vice president of the Religion book, A Little Handbook for Newswriters Association. Preachers: Ten Practical Ways T THURSDAY 4:30 PM to a Better Sermon by Sunday. F FRIDAY 10 AM F FRIDAY 8:30 AM F FRIDAY 2 PM

60 SPEAKERS #FFWgr GISELA CAROLINE ERIK LOKKESMOE KREGLINGER LANGSTON @ErikLokkesmoe @GKreglinger Caroline Langston is a widely Erik Lokkesmoe is the founder Gisela Kreglinger is a writer, published writer and essayist, and principal of Different theologian, and spiritual a winner of the Pushcart Prize, Drummer, an LA-NYC audience director. In her most recent and a commentator for NPR’s mobilization agency for global book, The Spirituality of Wine, “All Things Considered.” She is entertainment brands and she offers a fresh, holistic a regular contributor to Image’s content, and the partner of vision of the Christian life that Good Letters blog, and works in Waking Giants Entertainment sees God at work in all created foundation development for Group, a film production and things, including vineyards, The Atlantic and National Journal. distribution company. He’s an executive producer on Last Days the work of vintners, and the S SATURDAY 10 AM beauty of well-crafted wine in the Desert, an imaginative S SATURDAY 11:30 AM shared with others around retelling of Jesus’s 40 days in the a table. She is a research desert that recently premiered associate with the Institute CAMERON at the Sundance Film Festival. for Theology, Imagination & ALEXANDER F FRIDAY 12:45 PM the Arts at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. LAWRENCE Cameron Alexander Lawrence F FRIDAY 12:45 PM CHARLIE LOWELL is a poet whose work has @cdlowell appeared in Asheville Poetry Charlie met a few friends ERIN S. LANE Review, Exit 7, Image, and and formed the band Jars of @holyhellions Rock & Sling. He currently Clay during his short college Erin S. Lane is the author lives in Decatur, Georgia. career in the mid 90s, and has of Lessons in Belonging From T THURSDAY 3:15 PM spent the past 20 years playing a Church-Going Commitment keyboards, songwriting, Phobe and co-editor of the touring, and founding the anthology Talking Taboo: JUSTIN PAUL non-profit Blood:Water American Christian Women LAWRENCE with the band. He handles Get Frank About Faith. @just_inpaul special projects for Different Drummer, a LA-NYC audience S SATURDAY 8:30 AM Justin Paul Lawrence is the academic and library mobilization agency for global markets sales manager for entertainment brands and LORIE LANGDON InterVarsity Press. In his content, from Nashville. @LorieLangdon prior work for Calvin College F FRIDAY 12:45 PM Lorie Langdon left a thriving he managed the bookstore corporate career with a for the last four Festivals. Fortune 500 company to satisfy T THURSDAY 4:30 PM JENNIFER MAIER the voices in her Jennifer Maier is the author head urging her to write. of two poetry collections: Dark The final installment for HELEN LEE Alphabet and Now, Now. Maier her four-book series, DOON, @HelenLeeAuthor also serves as the associate editor a YA reimagining of the Helen Lee is an associate of Image and is a professor of Scottish legend of Brigadoon editor at InterVarsity Press. literature and creative writing co-authored with Carey Corp, Her work has appeared in at Seattle Pacific University. will be released this fall. Christianity Today, Leadership T THURSDAY 3:15 PM F FRIDAY 12:45 PM Journal, and Christ and Pop F FRIDAY 11:30 AM Culture. Her essays and blog The Missional Mom focus on faith, pop culture, and race. She also co-edited the book Growing Healthy Asian American Churches. F FRIDAY 3:30 PM

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D. S. MARTIN D. L. MAYFIELD MORGAN MEIS D. S. Martin is a poet whose @d_l_mayfield Morgan Meis is critic-at-large works include Poiema, So D. L. Mayfield writes about for The Smart Set and the author The Moon Would Not Be refugees, theology, and of Ruins. He has written for Swallowed, and most recently, downward mobility from The New Yorker, Image, The Conspiracy of Light: Poems Portland, Oregon. Mayfield’s Believer, Harper’s Magazine, Inspired by the Legacy of C.S. writing has appeared in and Virginia Quarterly Review. Lewis. He lives in Ontario. McSweeney’s, Image, Christianity He is also an editor at 3 Quarks T THURSDAY 4:30 PM Today, Books & Culture, and Daily and a winner of a Warhol The Other Journal. Her book of Foundation Arts Writers grant. essays, Assimilate or Go Home: S SATURDAY 11:30 AM SAMUEL MARTIN Notes from a Failed Missionary Samuel Martin is the author on Rediscovering Faith, will of the story collection This be released this August. JEN POLLOCK Ramshackle Tabernacle, T THURSDAY 4:30 PM MICHEL short-listed for Canada’s S SATURDAY 8:30 AM @Jenpmichel BMO Winterset Award, Jen Pollock Michel is and the novel A Blessed the author of Teach Us to Snarl, long-listed for the SHANE McCRAE Want, Christianity Today’s International IMPAC @akasomeguy 2015 Book of the Year. Dublin Literary Award. Shane McCrae is the author She lives in Toronto. F of four poetry collections, FRIDAY 11:30 AM T THURSDAY 3:15 PM including The Animal Too Big to Kill and Forgiveness JENNIFER MATHIEU Forgiveness. In 2013 he received WILL MONTEI @jenmathieu a National Endowment for the Will Montei is a graduate of Jennifer Mathieu teaches Arts fellowship. He teaches at Calvin College, a blogger for English to middle and high Oberlin College and in the MFA The Post Calvin, and a brand school students in Texas. program at Spalding University. manager at Omni ePartners. She won the Teen Choice F FRIDAY 11:30 AM S SATURDAY 3:30 PM Debut Author Award at S SATURDAY 10 AM the Children’s Choice Book Awards for her first novel, The JULIE L. MOORE Truth About Alice. She is also MARILYN CHANDLER Julie L. Moore is the director of the author of Devoted and a the writing center at Cedarville forthcoming book, Afterward. McENTYRE @marilynmcentyre University and the author of F FRIDAY 11:30 AM Marilyn Chandler McEntyre the poetry collections Particular S SATURDAY 2 PM is a writer and professor of Scandals, Slipping Out of Bloom, medical humanities at the UC and Election Day. Her work Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical has earned the Writecorner LINN MAXWELL Program. She is the author of Press Editor’s Choice Award Mezzo-soprano Linn many books, most recently A and has been nominated for Maxwell is a graduate of Long Letting Go: Meditations on the Dogwood Poetry Prize the University of Maryland Losing Someone You Love. She and the Pablo Neruda Prize. and holds a Master of Music lives in Oakland, California. S SATURDAY 2 PM degree from the Catholic T University of America. She THURSDAY 4:30 PM has recorded for RCA Red F FRIDAY 2 PM Seal, New World, Centaur, S SATURDAY 12:45 PM and Albany Records. She currently serves as president of Joy in Singing and the Grand Rapids Bach Festival. S SATURDAY 4:45 PM

62 SPEAKERS #FFWgr GLENYS NELLIST HANNAH FAITH JEFFREY @GlenysNellist NOTESS OVERSTREET Glenys Nellist is coordinator Hannah Faith Notess is author @Overstweet of children’s ministry for the of The Multitude, winner of the Jeffrey Overstreet writes West Michigan conference Michael Waters Poetry Prize fiction, memoir, reviews, and of the United Methodist from Southern Indiana Review arts journalism—and teaches Church. She is the author Press, and editor of Jesus Girls: creative writing, film studies, of Love Letters From God True Tales of Growing Up Female and cultural engagement for and Snuggle Time Prayers. and Evangelical, a collection people of faith. His novels F FRIDAY 12:45 PM of personal essays. She edits include the fantasy series Seattle Pacific University’s The Auralia Thread and Response magazine. he’s written a “memoir of DEAN NELSON S SATURDAY 10 AM dangerous moviegoing” titled @deanenelson Through a Screen Darkly. He’s Dean Nelson is a journalist currently a contributing and travel writer whose work CHIGOZIE OBIOMA editor for Response magazine has appeared in the New @ChigozieObioma at Seattle Pacific University. York Times, the Boston Globe, Chigozie Obioma was born S SATURDAY 2 PM Christianity Today, Sojourners, in Nigeria and now lives in and elsewhere. He is the SUNDAY 2 PM (Something, the United States. His debut Anything screening at Celebration founder and director of the novel, The Fisherman, was Cinema Woodland) journalism program at Point short-listed for the 2015 Man Loma Nazarene University Booker Prize for Fiction and in San Diego. His most recent was widely heralded as one of TARA OWENS book is Quantum Leap: How the best books of the year. His @t_owens John Polkinghorne Found God fiction has also appeared in Tara Owens is a certified in Science and Religion. Virginia Quarterly Review and spiritual director, the founder F FRIDAY 3:30 PM Transition. He is an assistant of Anam Cara Ministries, and professor of English at the senior editor of Conversations University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Journal. She is author of Embracing the Body: Finding BRENT NEWSOM S SATURDAY 8:30 AM @Brent_Newsom God in Our Flesh and Bone. S SATURDAY 4:45 PM Brent Newsom is the author F FRIDAY 11:30 AM of the poetry collection, Love’s Labors, and teaches English at MALLORY Oklahoma Baptist University. CINA PELAYO S ORTBERG @cinapelayo SATURDAY 3:30 PM @mallelis Cina Pelayo is a writer and Mallory Ortberg is a writer, poet with an affinity for editor, and a co-founder of the SHAUNA NIEQUIST Latin American folklore. Her feminist general interest site @sniequist work includes a short story The Toast. She previously wrote Shauna Niequist is the author collection entitled Loteria for Gawker and the Hairpin. of Cold Tangerines, Bittersweet, and a novel, Santa Muerte. Her first book, Texts from Jane Bread & Wine, and a 365- Her fiction has also appeared Eyre, was published in 2014. day devotional called Savor. in The Horror Zine, Danse Her next book, Present Over S SATURDAY 11:30 AM Macabre, and MicroHorror. Perfect, will be published this S SATURDAY 3:30 PM She lives in Chicago. August. Shauna also writes T THURSDAY 3:15 PM for the IF:Table, Storyline Blog, and Women of Faith. She lives outside Chicago. F FRIDAY 3:30 PM F FRIDAY 4:30 PM (Party at the Prince)

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KATHERINE WILLIS CHRISTIE PURIFOY RUSSELL RATHBUN PERSHEY @ChristiePurifoy @russellrathbun @kwpershey Christie Purifoy earned a PhD Russell Rathbun is a founding Katherine Willis Pershey in English literature at the pastor of House of Mercy in St. is an associate minister of University of Chicago before Paul, a church regularly featured First Congregational Church trading the classroom for a on Minnesota Public Radio for it in Western Springs, Illinois, farmhouse, a garden, and a blog. arts and music projects. Russell and the author of Any Day a She is author of Roots and Sky: curated the popular lectionary Beautiful Change: A Story of A Journey Home in Four Seasons. blog, The Hardest Question, and Faith and Family. She regularly S SATURDAY 2 PM is the author of several books, contributes to Christian Century including Post Rapture Radio and the TheArtofSimple.net. and Midrash on the Juanito. His latest, The Great Wall of China F FRIDAY 11:30 AM KIRSTIN VALDEZ and the Salton Sea: Monuments, S SATURDAY 11:30 AM QUADE @kvquade Mishaps, and the Audacity of Kirstin Valdez Quade is Ambition is forthcoming. AMY PETERSON the author of the short S SATURDAY 11:30 AM @amylpeterson story collection Night at the Amy Peterson, the assistant Fiestas. She won a Rona Jaffe director of honors programming Foundation Writer’s Award JANISSE RAY at Taylor University, has written in 2013 and the National Janisse Ray is the author of two for Christianity Today, Books Book Foundation’s 5 Under memoirs, Ecology of a Cracker & Culture, The Other Journal, 35 Award in 2014. Her work Childhood, winner of the 2000 Comment, and many others. has appeared in The New National Book Award, and Wild She has an essay in Soul Bare Yorker, Narrative, and The Best Card Quilt: Taking a Chance on and a forthcoming book. American Short Stories. From Home, among other works of nonfiction and poetry. She is S SATURDAY 3:30 PM 2009 to 2011 she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and she is currently a Woodrow Wilson now an assistant professor Visiting Fellow through the BRIAN G. PHIPPS at Princeton University. Council of Independent Colleges. T Brian G. Phipps is a poet and F FRIDAY 3:30 PM THURSDAY 1:45 PM a senior editor at Zondervan. F S SATURDAY 2PM FRIDAY 2 PM His poetry has appeared in Anglican Theological Review, The Other Journal, Relief, Rock & ZIA HAIDER ALANA RAYBON Sling, and St. Katherine Review. @AlanaRaybon RAHMAN Alana Raybon is the F FRIDAY 2 PM @ziahaiderrahman co-author of Undivided: Born in Bangladesh, Rahman A Muslim Daughter, Her emigrated to the UK as a child. Christian Mother, Their Path KAREN SWALLOW He worked as an investment to Peace, along with her PRIOR banker for Goldman Sachs in @LoveLifeLitGod mother, Patricia Raybon. New York before practicing Raybon writes and teaches Karen Swallow Prior is an corporate law and then middle school in Tennessee. English professor at Liberty working as an international University. Her books include human rights lawyer focusing S SATURDAY 11:30 AM Fierce Convictions: The on corruption. His 2014 debut S SATURDAY 2 PM Extraordinary Life of Hannah novel, In the Light of What We More, Booked: Literature Know, was awarded the James in the Soul of Me, and her Tait Black Memorial Prize. other scholarly work has F been published in journals FRIDAY 11:30 AM F such as The Shandean FRIDAY 2 PM and The Scriblerian. S SATURDAY 11:30 AM S SATURDAY 12:45 PM

64 SPEAKERS #FFWgr PATRICIA RAYBON WILLIAM JONATHAN RYAN @PatriciaRaybon ROMANOWSKI @authorjryan Patricia Raybon is a journalist William Romanowski is a Jonathan Ryan is an author, and the author of four books, scholar and commentator on columnist, blogger, and including the memoirs I the intersection of religion speaker. He has published two Told the Mountain to Move, and popular culture. He is paranormal thrillers, 3 Gates a finalist for Christianity professor of communication of the Dead and its sequel, Dark Today’s 2006 Book of the arts and sciences at Calvin Bride. His blog, Sick Pilgrim, Year, and My First White College, where he teaches explores faith, reason, and Friend, which won the courses in film and media doubt. He has also written for Christopher Award. Her most studies. His books include Eyes Christianity Today, Quantum recent book is Undivided: Wide Open: Looking for God in Fairy Tales, Huffington Post A Muslim Daughter, Her Popular Culture, winner of the and Notre Dame magazine. Christian Mother, Their Path ECPA Gold Medallion Award. T THURSDAY 3:15 PM to Peace, co-written with her F FRIDAY 12:45 PM daughter Alana Raybon. F FRIDAY 3:30 PM STEPHANIE S SATURDAY 11:30 AM MARY RUEFLE SANDBERG Mary Ruefle is the author Stephanie Sandberg is a of many volumes of poetry, playwright, director, and JANA RIESS including Trances of the Blast, a professor of theatre @janariess Indeed I Was Pleased With history, dramaturgy, and Jana Riess holds degrees from the World, Post-Meridian, directing at Calvin College. Wellesley College, Princeton and The Adamant, which She is also the artistic director Theological Seminary, and won the Iowa Poetry Prize. of ADAPT.Theatre that Changes. Columbia University. She is Her collection of lectures, F FRIDAY 2 PM a freelance editor, a senior Madness, Rack, and Honey, S SATURDAY 4:45 PM columnist for Religion News was a finalist for the National Service, and the author of Book Critics Circle Award in Flunking Sainthood and The criticism and she has received GRACE SANDRA Twible, among other books. fellowships from the National @Grace_Sandra_ F FRIDAY 11:30 AM Endowment for the Arts and Grace Sandra is author the Guggenheim Foundation. of Converge Bible Study: She teaches at Vermont Kingdom Building, and Converge CARYN College and the University of Bible Study: Cries of the Poor. RIVADENEIRA Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has also published essays @CarynRivadeneir F FRIDAY 11:30 AM in Talking Taboo: American Caryn Rivadeneira is a S SATURDAY 4:45 PM Christian Women Get Frank freelance writer and editor. About Faith and The Mother She is the author of five books Letters: Sharing the Laughter, and a regular contributor to TANIA RUNYAN Joys, Struggles & Hope. Her.meneutics and Re:Frame @TaniaRunyan S SATURDAY 8:30 AM Media’s ThinkChristian. Tania Runyan is an author and F FRIDAY 2 PM poet. Her work includes four poetry collections, What Will Soon Take Place (forthcoming), Second Sky, A Thousand Vessels, Simple Weight, and Delicious Air. She was awarded an NEA Literature Fellowship in 2011. She also writes for Image’s blog, Good Letters. T THURSDAY 4:30 PM F FRIDAY 8:30 AM

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GEORGE SAUNDERS LUCI SHAW BOB SMIETANA George Saunders is the author @luci_shaw @bobsmietana of three essay collections Luci Shaw has published several Bob Smietana is a Nashville- and several works of fiction, volumes of poetry, including based correspondent for including, most recently, What the Light Was Like and Religion News Service and Tenth of December: Stories. Harvesting Fog. She also writes former religion writer Among his many awards are non-fiction, including, most for the Tennessean. He’s the MacArthur “genius grant” recently, Adventure of Ascent: a frequent contributor to and Guggenheim fellowships. Field Notes from a Lifelong national publications like In 1997, he joined the faculty Journey. She was co-founder and Sojourners, Christianity Today, of Syracuse University, where later president of Harold Shaw U. S. Catholic, and On Faith, he is currently a professor Publishers, and since 1988 has and the co-author of three of creative writing. been a writer-in-residence at books. He currently serves F FRIDAY 2 PM Regent College in Vancouver. as president of the Religion Newswriters Association. F FRIDAY 7:30 PM T THURSDAY 1:45 PM T THURSDAY 4:30 PM F FRIDAY 2 PM S SATURDAY 10 AM S SATURDAY 2 PM JAMES SCHAAP James Schaap is the author of 23 books, several short fiction KATE SHELLNUTT C. CHRISTOPHER pieces, and essays, including @kateshellnutt SMITH Romey’s Place and Things We Kate Shellnutt is an associate @ERBks Couldn’t Say (with Diet Eman). editor at Christianity Today, Chris Smith is the editor of the Schaap is emeritus professor where she oversees Englewood Review of Books, the of English at Dordt College Her.meneutics. author of Slow Church, and the in Sioux Center, Iowa. S SATURDAY 11:30 AM author of a forthcoming book T THURSDAY 3:15 PM on reading in community. S SATURDAY 2 PM S SATURDAY 8:30 AM ANYA SILVER @AnyaSilverPoet DANI SHAPIRO Anya Silver is a poet and JAMES K. A. SMITH @danijshapiro professor at Mercer University. @james_ka_smith Dani Shapiro is the author of Named Georgia Author of the James K. A. Smith is professor five novels and the memoirs Year for poetry in 2015, she has of philosophy at Calvin College, Slow Motion and Devotion. She published two books of poetry, editor-in-chief of Comment has also written for magazines The Ninety-Third Name of God magazine, and regular writer including The New Yorker; and I Watched You Disappear. for publications including O, The Oprah Magazine; Vogue; Her new book of poems, From the Wall Street Journal, the and ELLE. She has taught Nothing, it due later this year. New York Times, Slate, and creative writing at Wesleyan F FRIDAY 8:30 AM First Things. His most recent is University, the New School, book is You Are What You Love: and Columbia University. The Spiritual Power of Habit. T THURSDAY 1:45 PM S SATURDAY 12:45 PM F FRIDAY 10 AM S SATURDAY 4:45 PM

66 SPEAKERS #FFWgr STEPHANIE S. MARGOT DANIEL TAYLOR SMITH STARBUCK @DanielWTaylor @heystephsmith @MargotStarbuck Daniel Taylor is the Stephanie S. Smith is associate Margot Starbuck is the co-founder of the Legacy acquisitions editor for the co-author of the forthcoming Center, an organization non-fiction editorial team book Overplayed: A Parent’s that helps individuals at Zondervan. She worked Guide to Sanity in the World identify and preserve previously as an editor of Youth Sports and the author their values and personal at Barna Group, and at of five books, including The stories. He’s the author of Relevant Media Group. Girl in the Orange Dress. She many books, including Death Comes for the F FRIDAY 8:30 AM is a regular contributor to Today’s Christian Woman Deconstructionist, winner and an editorial advisor of Christianity Today’s 2015 ZADIE SMITH for Gifted for Leadership. Book Award for fiction. T Zadie Smith is the author of F FRIDAY 2 PM THURSDAY 4:30 PM four novels, including her F F FRIDAY 3:30 PM FRIDAY 3:30 PM highly-acclaimed debut, White Teeth, and On Beauty, which won the 2006 Orange Prize for RACHEL MARIE RANDY TESTA Fiction. Her next novel, Swing Randy Testa was the vice STONE president of education at Time, will be released in 2016, @Rachel_M_Stone and she is working on a book Walden Media for eleven Rachel Marie Stone’s writing of essays entitled Feel Free. years and is now associate has appeared in Books & Smith is a professor of creative director of PreK–16 programs Culture, Christian Century, the writing at New York University. at Harvard Graduate School of Washington Post, Christianity Education. While at Walden T THURSDAY 3:15 PM Today, and elsewhere. Her first Media, he wrote educational T THURSDAY 7:3O PM book, Eat With Joy: Redeeming materials related to films God’s Gift of Food, won the based on children’s literature, Christianity Today Book including The Giver and SHAWN SMUCKER Award for Christian Living. @shawnsmucker The Chronicles of Narnia. F FRIDAY 11:30 AM Shawn Smucker has authored F FRIDAY 10 AM S SATURDAY 8:30 AM and co-authored 15 books, S SATURDAY 10 AM including The Day the Angels Fell, How to Use a Runaway RAGAN Truck Ramp, and Building Z. G. TOMASZEWSKI a Life out of Words. He also SUTTERFIELD Z. G. Tomaszewski is a poet, coaches people who are writing Ragan Sutterfield is the author rambler, handyman, fisherman, memoirs and autobiographies. of This is My Body: From Obesity and musician, as well as a to Ironman, My Journey Into the founding producer of Lamp F FRIDAY 11:30 AM True Meaning of Flesh, Spirit, and Light Musical Festival and Deeper Faith and is training to co-founder of Great Lakes become an Episcopal Priest. Commonwealth of Letters. His F FRIDAY 11:30 AM book of poetry, All Things Dusk, was selected by Li-Young Lee as the 2014 International Poetry Prize Winner and published by Hong Kong University Press. S SATURDAY 3:30 PM

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LAURA TURNER JOHN VOLCK TISH HARRISON @lkoturner John Volck is an illustrator, WARREN Laura Turner is a writer painter, and image maker living @Tish_H_Warren and editor living in San in Cincinnati. He attended the Tish Harrison Warren is a Francisco. She writes the Columbus College of Art and priest in the Anglican Church Entertaining Faith blog for Design and the University of in North America and works Religion News Service and Cincinnati DAAP Program. He with InterVarsity Women in is a regular contributor to illustrated Brian Volck’s poetry the Academy and Professions. Her.meneutics and other collection, Flesh Becomes Word. Her work has appeared in The publications, including F FRIDAY 11:30 AM Well, Her.meneutics, Christianity Pacific Standard, Books & Today, and elsewhere. Her Culture and The Bold Italic. first book, Liturgy of the S SATURDAY 10 AM G. C. WALDREP Ordinary: Sacred Practices in G. C. Waldrep is the author Everyday Life, is forthcoming. of four volumes of poetry, T THURSDAY 3:15 PM JACK VAN ALLSBURG including Goldbeater’s Skin Jack Van Allsburg is a senior and Disclamor. He currently English major at Calvin College directs the Bucknell Seminar SARAH M. and is the editor of Dialogue, for Young Poets at Bucknell Calvin’s creative journal of University, edits the journal WELLS @sarah_wells undergraduate art and writing. West Branch, and also serves as Sarah Wells is the author editor-at-large for the Kenyon F FRIDAY 9 PM of the poetry collection, Review. He is a member of the S SATURDAY 3:30 PM Pruning Burning Bushes, and a Old Order River Brethren. chapbook of poems, Acquiesce. F FRIDAY 3:30 PM She is a regular contributor to SANDRA S SATURDAY 11:30 AM Off the Page, a ministry of Our VANDER ZICHT Daily Bread, managing editor Sandra Vander Zicht is at the Weatherhead School of an associate publisher JEANNE MURRAY Management, and associate and executive editor at WALKER editor of River Teeth: A Journal Zondervan Books. @jmurraywalker of Nonfiction Narrative. F FRIDAY 10 AM Jeanne Murray Walker is a S SATURDAY 3:30 PM poet, editor, scriptwriter, and professor at The University of BRIAN VOLCK Delaware. She has published PAUL WILLIS Brian Volck is a pediatrician, eight volumes of poetry and a Paul Willis has published author of the poetry memoir titled, The Geography numerous poems in journals collection, Flesh Becomes of Memory: A Pilgrimage including Poetry, Ascent, Word, and co-author through Alzheimer’s. She has Wilderness, and Christian of Reclaiming the Body: won many awards, including Century. His most recent Christians and the Faithful the Pew Fellowship in the Arts collections of poetry are Use of Modern Medicine. and a National Endowment Say this Prayer Into the His memoir, Attending for the Arts Fellowship. Past, Rising from the Dead, Others: A Doctor’s Education T THURSDAY 1:45 PM and Visiting Home. He in Bodies and Words, is is a professor of English forthcoming in 2016. at Westmont College. F FRIDAY 11:30 AM F FRIDAY 11:30 AM F FRIDAY 3:30 PM

68 SPEAKERS #FFWgr JOHN WILSON CATHERINE WOLFF SARA ZARR @jwilson1812 Catherine Wolff is the author @sarazarr John Wilson is the editor of of Not Less Than Everything: Sara Zarr is the author of five Books & Culture and editor at Catholic Writers on Heroes of novels for young adults, most large for Christianity Today. Conscience, from Joan of Arc to recently The Lucy Variations. His reviews and essays have Oscar Romero and the former Her first book, Story of a appeared in the New York Times, director of the Arrupe Center Girl, was a National Book Boston Globe, and First Things. for Community-Based Learning Award finalist in 2007. F FRIDAY 3:30 PM at Santa Clara University. She T THURSDAY 1:45 PM lives in Stanford, California. S SATURDAY 8:30 AM S SATURDAY 8:30 AM T THURSDAY 3:15 PM F FRIDAY 10 AM CHRISTIAN WIMAN ADDIE ZIERMAN Christian Wiman is a poet, @addiezierman author, editor, and translator. TOBIAS WOLFF Addie Zierman holds Wiman’s volumes of poetry Tobias Wolff is the author an MFA from Hamline include Once in the West, Every of two memoirs, This Boy’s University and is the author Riven Thing, The Long Home, and Life, and In Pharaoh’s Army, of two memoirs: When Hard Night. He has also written numerous short story We Were on Fire and the several works of nonfiction, collections, and three novels, forthcoming Night Driving: most recently My Bright Abyss: including The Barracks Thief, A Story of Faith in the Dark. Meditations of a Modern which won the PEN/Faulkner Addie lives and blogs Believer. Wiman is currently a Award for Fiction. He has been regularly in Minnesota. senior lecturer in religion and a professor of English and S SATURDAY 2 PM literature at Yale University. creative writing at Stanford S SATURDAY 3:30 PM F FRIDAY 10 AM University since 1997. F FRIDAY 3:30 PM T THURSDAY 12 PM F FRIDAY 7:30 PM ABBY ZWART @abbyzwart NORMAN WIRZBA Abby Zwart graduated from @NWirzba PRESTON YANCEY Calvin College in 2013 with a Norman Wirzba is the @prestonyancey degree in English secondary author of several books, Preston Yancey is a writer, education. She lives in including From Nature to baker, painter, and speaker. Grand Rapids and teaches Creation: A Christian Vision for He has written two books, seventh- and eighth-grade Understanding Our World and most recently a meditation English. She also manages Living the Sabbath: Discovering on spiritual disciplines and the blog The Post Calvin. the Rhythms of Rest and Delight. baking called Out of the House S SATURDAY 3:30 PM He is a professor of theology, of Bread. Yancey holds degrees ecology, and agrarian studies from Baylor University and St. at Duke Divinity School. Andrews University in Scotland. F FRIDAY 2 PM He lives in Waco, Texas. S SATURDAY 11:30 AM S SATURDAY 2 PM S SATURDAY 12:45 PM

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Located in the Prince Conference Center, the Exhibit Hall is filled with major publishing houses, small presses, journals, booksellers, schools, and other organizations geared to the interests of Festival-goers. Here you are welcome to browse new books, watch film trailers, attend author signings, and network with representatives from publishing houses.

Ave Maria Press / 5 Geez / 40 Anna Redsand, author / 21 Baker Publishing Group / 9 Wendy Vanderwal Gritter, Relief Journal / 28 author / 21 Book Rescue Ink / 20 Rock & Sling | A Journal Harvester Island Wilderness of Witness / 13 Books & Culture / 31 Workshop / 34 Ruminate Magazine / 25 Books & Such Literary Her.meneutics / 31 Management / 18 Sojourners / 35 Herald Press / 29 Calvin College Office Thomas Nelson / 32 of Admissions / 23 Image Journal / 1 Topology Magazine / 26 Christian Century / 27 InterVarsity Press / 6 Upper Room Books/ Christian Scholar’s Review / 39 Kregel Publications / 12 Fresh Air Books / 2 Different Drummer / 10 Maranatha Christian Windhover: A Journal Writers’ Conference / 22 of Christian Literature / 30 Discovery House / 19 Off the Page (Our Wipf & Stock / 16 Earlham School of Religion / 38 Daily Bread Ministries) / 4 Word Weavers Eerdmans Publishing The Other Journal / 24 West Michigan / 36 Company / 11 Plough Publishing / 33 WordFarm / 7 Eighth Day Books / 8 Principia Media / 3 Zondervan / 15 Englewood Review of Books / 14 Redbud Writers Guild / 17 Fordham University Press / 37

EDITORIAL PRESENTATIONS Aspiring writers will want to attend our editorial presentations just off the Exhibit Hall. These informal sessions provide an opportunity to hear from publishers about their aims and audience, and to ask practical questions about getting published.

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10 AM INTERVARSITY PRESS / HELEN LEE Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room

10:30 AM THOMAS NELSON / JESSICA WONG Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room

11 AM WORDFARM / SALLY CRAFT Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room

11:30 AM REDBUD WRITERS GUILD / LARA KRUPICKA Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room

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