ARKANSAS LITERARY FESTIVAL April 8 - 11, 2010

FREE READINGS, BOOK DISCUSSIONS, PANELS, AND MORE! www.arkansasliteraryfestival.org ALL SESSONS, PANELS, AND WORKSHOPS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. AUTHOR! AUTHOR!, THE COCKTAIL RECEPTION, IS $15.

Guests include First Lady Ginger Beebe, Rich STACEYANN CHIN ARKANSAS & OKLAHOMA: Events Davis, Darcy Pattison, Carla McClafferty, and tele- Dynamically gifted poet/performer Chin, known PARALLELS IN RACIAL HISTORIES vision personalities Pamela Smith, Donna Terrell, for her one-woman shows and her work on Rus- A PRIZED EVENING: Hannibal Johnson and Grif Stockley, natives of the Bob Clausen, and Jessica Dean. Partially under- sell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam, provides a special Natural State, delve into the complex and similar THE PRESENTATION OF THE PORTER written by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield. performance and talks about her new memoir The histories of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Johnson’s & WORTHEN LITERARY PRIZES Friday, 9:15 a.m., Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Other Side of Paradise. The session may include Black Wall Street and Stockley’s Ruled by Race Held on Saturday night, this event celebrates the adult language. Sponsored by the Stonewall Dem- will be explored. Sponsored by the Mosaic Tem- winners of these prestigious awards, Bob Ford and THE GATHERING OF THE GROUPS ocratic Caucus of Arkansas. plars Cultural Center.* Grif Stockley. Each prize is awarded annually and CALS, the Testimony to Tolerance Initiative, and Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Cox Ceative Center, 3rd Floor Friday, 12:00 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center honors the accomplishments of some of Arkan- the Lit Fest invite book club members in the CALS Meeting Room sas’s fi nest writers. Sponsored by the Porter and service area to celebrate group reading. Educa- Brock² Booker Worthen Literary Prizes. tional site coordinator Amanda Ferguson will dis- THE WITS INITIATIVE Treat your ears to two very imaginative writers’ Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center cuss the Tolerance Initiative, and adult programs Fourteen authors take part in the Festival’s Writ- work. Critics’ favorites Brock Clarke, An Arson- coordinator Maribeth Murray will provide informa- ers in the Schools (WITS) Initiative. Traveling to ist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, and ALADDIN & THE WONDERFUL LAMP tion on free book kits. Lunch provided for those 19 local schools, writers promote literacy, visit Kevin Brockmeier, The View from the Seventh Come see one of the enchanting tales of 1001 who reserve by April 2. Please call 918-3032. with students about the writing process, and share Layer, will thrill you with their satirical and fantasti- Arabian Nights. Wonder and intrigue abound in the Thursday, 11:00 a.m., Main Library Darragh Center new work. Authors include Rus Bradburd, Dori cal passages. Arkansas Arts Center’s play about a poor street Butler, Georgia Anne Butler, Lucha Corpi, Jason Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor urchin who unearths a mysterious lamp. With the PEN WOMEN MINI FEST Edwards, Gwendolyn Hooks, Christian Lander, Meeting Room help of a clever genie, Aladdin learns to rely upon The National League of American Pen Women, Beth Mahoney, Margaret McMullan, Jerdine Nolen, himself. Don’t miss this magic carpet ride! the oldest arts organization for women in the Unit- Janis K. Percefull, Alice Randall, Qaisra Shahraz, FORUM ON AFRICAN AMERICAN Saturday, 1:00 p.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater ed States, believe in the power of words, art, and and Peggy Sissel-Phelan. Sponsored by Wright, FICTION music to illuminate the human experience, fi re the Lindsey and Jennings LLP. Daniel Black, Alice Randall, and RM Johnson com- ART TO GO imagination, and nourish the soul. The Mini Fest Thursday & Friday, all day, Pulaski County Schools bine for a powerfully entertaining panel about their Celebrating self-esteem by letting kids see that comprises three sessions—come to one, or all new works Perfect Peace, Rebel Yell, and The they can be artists in many ways, this play with three. Maureen Stack Sappèy will discuss Vinnie WOLFE AT THE DOOR PUPPETS Million Dollar Demise. Partially underwritten by the music takes K-5 students “into the park for a night Ream, the fi rst female sculptor to receive a com- Whether a standard fairy tale or a story created for Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. of adventure and learning”! With snippets from mission from the U.S. government for a statue. the specifi c group, this lively and energetic hand Friday, 5:30 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Ichabod Crane, I Pagliacci, and even Martin Luther Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret will focus on iconic pho- puppet show is sure to delight. Led by master King, this new Wildwood Park production is de- tos of women. Steve Weinberg will speak about puppeteer Jan Wolfe, this show will keep the wee FOUR TIMES THE ROMANCE signed to bring a diversity of arts to life onstage. trailblazer/inspirational journalist Ida Tarbell, who ones rapt. Some participation may be required! From the sweet to the saucy, four experienced Saturday, 11:00 a.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater investigated John D. Rockefeller and the prac- Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Puppet Room 333 scribes, Christine Lynxwiler, Gina Wilkins, Amanda tices of Standard Oil. Sponsored by the National Stevens, and Laura Parker Castoro deliver a feast AUTHOR! AUTHOR! League of American Pen Women. WOOED AND WON of romance. How much can you handle? Meet and mingle with many Festival authors at Friday, 1:00 p.m., 2:15 p.m., & 3:30 p.m., Two actors tear through some of Shakespeare’s Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor once. This party, featuring hors d’oeuvres and liba- HAM Ottenheimer Theater best-known lovers and fi ghters in a sampler de- Meeting Room tions, is geared for adults. Books will be available signed to introduce kids to the Bard. Featuring for purchase. This is the only Festival event with PUB OR PERISH sword fi ghting, audience participation, and some COMICALLY GRAPHIC OR an admission price. Tickets are $15. A cash bar is Festival authors and additional local authors unite of the most colorful characters, this action-packed GRAPHICALLY COMIC? available. Please call 918-3009 to reserve a spot. to read from their works. A limited number of open (and accessible!) 40-minute Arkansas Shake- BAM! POW! ZAP! Forget that. Four illustrators Sponsored by Little Rock Soirèe. mic slots will be available beginning at 9 a.m., speare Theatre show is a great introduction to and writers share insight into the state of today’s Friday, 7:00 p.m., ASI Concordia Hall Friday, April 9. For a slot or for more information, these amazing plays and beautiful poetry. progressive comic and graphic novel industry. The email David Koon: [email protected]. Spon- Saturday, 2:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services/ panel includes Eric Shanower, Age of Bronze; sored by the Arkansas Times. BLESSED IS THE MATCH Poetry Café Randy Duncan, The Power of Comics; Dusty Saturday, 8:00 p.m., Prost Narrated by Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is Higgins, Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer ; and Ron a documentary fi lm about Hannah Senesh, the YOUTH POET COMPETITION Wolfe, Hellraiser. * World War II-era poet and diarist who became a SILHOUETTE CITY/A KINGDOM AT ANY Come give a listen to youth poetry fi nalists, chosen Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Room 124 paratrooper, resistance fi ghter, and modern-day COST from CALS branch competitions. Winners from this Joan of Arc. Through Senesh’s diary entries, po- Filmmakers/authors Natalie Zimmerman and Mi- event will perform readings at the Little Rock Zoo NOLAN, RAZORBACKS & RACE etry, and correspondence with her mother, Blessed as part of Earth Day and a conservation poetry in- chael Wilson participate in this “illustrated” session, Rus Bradburd, Forty Minutes of Hell: The Ex- Is the Match explores the complex life of a talented stallation on Saturday, April 17, 2010. weaving clips from the fi lm Silhouette City and the traordinary Life of Nolan Richardson, joins with girl who came of age in a world descending into Saturday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services/ material from the companion book A Kingdom at Razorback legends Pat Bradley and Darrell Brown madness. The fi lm, which will be shown on Ho- Poetry Café Any Cost into a directed discussion of America’s to discuss everything from integration to NCAA locaust Remembrance Day, is suitable for those recent history of apocalypticism and resurgent mili- Championships. over the age of 12. tancy in the wake of the economic crisis and 2008 Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library Youth Services election. Sponsored by Hendrix College. Panels Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center OXFORD AMERICAN SOUTHERN FOOD BOOK ART 826 VALENCIA /THE MEMORY PROJECT An exhibition of the creative ways artists use the SUPER FAMILY FUN NIGHT ISSUE Co-founded by author Dave Eggers and locat- New Orleans author Lolis Elie, Smokestack Light- book as a form of artistic expression. Get ready for a fun family time with Rich Davis, ed in the back of San Francisco’s Pirate Sup- ning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbeque Coun- The exhibition will be displayed in the Mezzanine children’s book illustrator from Arkansas. Watch ply Store, 826 VALENCIA supports students and try; Brett Anderson, restaurant critic and features Gallery of the Arkansas Studies Institute from April Davis speed-draw a whole picture to music and helps teachers get students excited about writing writer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune; and 8 to June 30. then lead the group on a simple but fun journey of through free programs, including drop-in tutoring, freelance writer Sam Eifl ing chat about the cuisine imagination, through a drawing game the whole fi eld trips, specialized workshops (from college en- of the South and their work in the Oxford Ameri- BRIAN AND TERRI KINDER family can play. Laugh and be amazed at how cre- trance essay writing to starting a ’zine), in-school can’s delicious food issue. Sponsored by the Ox- These local favorites present memorable, original ative you are! assistance, and extensive student publishing. THE ford American and Historic Arkansas Museum. melodies that will delight your child. The Kinders Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Main Library Youth Services MEMORY PROJECT is Little Rock-based, and Saturday, 4:00 p.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater regularly appear at CALS and have a large follow- started as a one-time desegregation assignment at ing, so be sure to arrive early. SPOKEN WORD LIVE! Central High School. The resulting book, Beyond Sunday, 11:00 a.m., Main Library Youth Services/ Wax poetic by attending this contest featuring local Central, Toward Acceptance, recounts lessons Poetry Café word-slingers and the winners of a city-wide po- learned, salutes agents of change, and exemplifi es etry competition. Roethkes and rap stars alike will what students can contribute to the history of their LITERACY ON THE LAWN: AT THE enjoy this event. Sponsored by the Central High community and the nation. Learn more about two ARKANSAS GOVERNOR’S MANSION School National Historic Site and Power 92 Jams.* exciting approaches to student writing from 826 Four hundred 2nd and 5th graders will enjoy a spe- Thursday, 7:00 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Valencia’s Lauren Hall and local student editors.* The 2010 Arkansas Literary Festival cial storytime by local celebrities and authors. Center Sunday, 3:00 p.m., ASI Room 124 is dedicated to Donald Harington. Arkansas River

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Thursday, April 8 11 a.m. 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. Main Library The Gathering of the Darragh Center Groups: a book club event with Amanda Ferguson and Maribeth Murray Main Library Super Family Fun Night: Youth Services Rich Davis, illustrator, Tiny on the Farm Mosaic Templars Spoken Word Live!: a poetry competition Cultural Center Friday, April 9 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 2:15 p.m. 3:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 7 p.m. HAM Ottenheimer Pen Women Mini Fest: Pen Women Mini Fest: Pen Women Mini Fest: author, Steve Theater author, Maureen Stack photographer, Joan Liffring- Weinberg,Taking on the Trust: How Ida Tarbell Sappéy, Letters from Vinnie Zug Bourret Brought Down John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil moderator: N. Tayor Collins moderator: N. Taylor Collins moderator: N. Taylor Collins Mosaic Templars Arkansas & Oklahoma: Forum on African American Cultural Center Parallels in Racial Literature: panel with Daniel Black, Histories: Hannibal Perfect Peace; RM Johnson, The Johnson, Black Wall Million Dollar Demise; and Alice Street, and Grif Stockley, Randall, Rebel Yell Ruled by Race moderator: Patricia mPata McGraw moderator: Jajuan Johnson ASI Concordia Hall Author! Author!: cocktail reception with authors and participants

Clinton Presidential Ken Gormley: author, The Center, Choctaw Death of American Virtue: Station, Sturgis Hall Clinton vs. Starr Saturday, April 10 10 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 1 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 8 p.m. Main Library Alice Randall: Pico Iyer: Christian Lander: Nolan, Razorbacks & Race: Silhouette City/A Kingdom at Any A Prized Evening: The Darragh Center author, Rebel Yell author, The Open Road author, Stuff White People a panel with author Rus Cost: a fi lm and book discussion presentation of the Porter and moderator: Lena Moore moderator: Kane Webb Like Bradburd, Forty Minutes of by Michael Wilson and Natalie Worthen Literary Prizes moderator: Butler Yates Hell: The Extraordinary Life Zimmerman of Nolan Richardson, Darrell moderator: Kristi McKim Brown, and Pat Bradley moderator: Jim Harris Main Library Marcus Sakey: Steve Yarbrough: Malcolm Jones: East Room author, The Amateurs author, Safe from the author, Little Boy Blues moderator: Karen Matin Neighbors moderator: Mary Gay Shipley moderator: Carol Ann Fitzgerald

ASI Room 124 Brooks Blevins: Jonathan Mahler: Dr. David Lipschitz: Jordan Christy: Kathy L. Patrick: author, Arkansas/Arkansaw: author, The Challenge and author, Dr. David’s First author, How to Be a Hepburn author, The Pulpwood Queens’ How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Health Book of MORE (Not in a Hilton World Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide & Good Ol’ Boys Defi ned Bronx Is Burning Less) moderator: Becki Moore to Life a State moderator: Warwick Sabin moderator: Sally Browder moderator: Marie Bruno moderator: Rod Lorenzen

ASI Ozark Steve Rushin: Anna Fields: Session Internationale: Manny Howard: Two Poets: Classroom author, The Pint Man author, Confessions of a a panel on living and writing author, My Empire of Dirt Sy Hoahwah, Velroy and the moderator: Jay Jennings Rebel Debutante in other countries with fi ction moderator: Jody Hardin Madischie Mafi a, and Patricia Neely- moderator: Barbara Graves writers Qaisra Shahraz, Dorsey, Refl ections of a Mississippi Adam Schwartzman, and Magnolia Steve Yarbrough moderator: David Koon moderator: David Stricklin

ASI Delta Classroom Qaisra Shahraz: Adam Schwartzman: Secrets to Getting Personal Essay: Steve Goreham: author, The Holy Woman and author, Eddie Signwriter Published: a workshop with a workshop with author and author, Climatism! Science, Common Typhoon moderator: Amy Bradley-Hole author Marcus Sakey writing instructor Pat Hoy Sense, and the 21st Century’s moderator: Ann Nicholson Hottest Topic moderator: Brett Cummins

Cox Creative Center RM Johnson: Lucha Corpi: History as Impetus: Tito Perdue: Norb Vonnegut: 2nd Floor Meeting author, Why Men Fear author, Death at Solstice and a workshop on incorporating author, Fields of Asphodel author, Top Producer Room Marriage Hit List: The Best of Latino history into your writing with moderator: Sharon Lee moderator: Faye Hanson moderator: Jajuan Johnson Mystery Angie Macri, Wade Derden, moderator: Paul Yoder and Steve Teske

Cox Creative Center Christopher Rice: Four Times the Romance: Staceyann Chin: Kate Harding: Brock²: 3rd Floor Meeting author, The Moonlit Earth a panel with Christine author, The Other Side of author, Lessons from the a panel with authors Brock Clarke, Room moderator: Amy Bradley-Hole Lynxwiler, Arkansas; Laura Paradise Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Parker Castoro, Love on moderator: Chad Rodgers and Declare a Truce with Homes in New England, and Kevin the Line; Amanda Stevens, Your Body Brockmeier, The View from the The Dollmaker; and Gina moderator: Becca Krukowski Seventh Layer Wilkins, Diagnosis: Daddy moderator: Hope Coulter HAM Hands-on- Sop It Up: Teacher Training on Teacher Training on Parental History Room a panel with Martha Hall Parental Involvement: a Involvement: a workshop with Foose and Katherine workshop with publisher publisher Peggy Sissel-Phelan using Whitworth, both cotntributors Peggy Sissel-Phelan using Parents Help in Lots of Ways to Cornbread Nation 5: Parents Help in Lots of Ways moderator: Kay Bland The Best of Southern Food moderator: Kay Bland Writing moderator: Rex Nelson HAM Ottenheimer Oxford American Southern Food Theatre Issue: a panel with contributors Lolis Elie, Sam Eifl ing, and Brett Anderson moderator: Sara Camp Arnold

Prost Pub or Perish: authors reading and open mic Sunday, April 11 1:30 p.m. 3 p.m. MORE PANELS AND WORKSHOPS Main Library Marjorie Rosen: author, Alda Ellis: Darragh Center Boom Town: How Wal-Mart author, The Gentle Art of SÉSSION INTERNATIONALE HISTORY AS IMPETUS Transformed an All-American Hospitality Get out your passport—we’re going global. Come hear the chal- Angie Macri and Wade Derden, who teach English and history at Pu- Town into an International moderator: Hollyann Crum lenges and rewards of living and writing abroad from three ter- laski Technical College, join forces with Steve Teske, Encyclopedia of Community rifi c writers. Adam Schwartzman, Qaisra Shahraz, and Steve Arkansas History & Culture fact checker, to provide a concentrated moderator: Bobby Roberts Yarbrough have poetry, screenwriting, fi ction, and more to their exploration of how to fi nd and use Arkansas historical sources in cre- credit. Locales include Istanbul, Turkey; Manchester, England; ative writing.* Lahore, Pakistan; and Krakow, Poland. This one is sure to cause Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting Room or cure wanderlust. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom NAVIGATING THE WORLD OF ELECTRONIC BOOKS Lost in a maze of uncertainty about new electronic book devices? SOP IT UP Want to know more about Web options and what might help you fi nd Are you looking for something tasty? Chef and raconteur Martha your way? CALS computer instructor Robert Bailey leads an informal Hall Foose, along with expert fact checker and self-described dil- demonstration and discussion, where all questions are welcomed.* ettante Katherine Whitworth mix it up in this tantalizing session. Sunday, 3:00 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom Both panelists have essays featured in Cornbread Nation 5: The Best of Southern Food Writing. OH, THE HORROR Saturday, 1:00 p.m., HAM Hands-on-History Room Deborah LeBlanc, president of the Horror Writers Association, pro- Main Library Bill Eakin: Your First Time: a panel with vides writing techniques to rev up your prose, gain knowledge of the East Room Redgunk Tales Ben Farmer, Evangeline, TWO POETS unfamiliar and the unusual, capture a sense of place, move past road- moderator: Dorothy Graves and Matt Baker, Drag the Sy Hoahwah, Velroy and the Madischie Mafi a, and Patricia blocks, and even work with “the dead.” Darkness Down Neely-Dorsey, Refl ections of a Mississippi Magnolia, are poets Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Delta Classroom moderator: Philip Martin and more. Lyrical delights from this member of the Comanche Nation and this Tupelo dynamo are certain to reach the eaves. ORIGAMI Saturday, 4:00 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom No glue allowed! Hands will be kept busy in this introduction to the Japanese art of folding paper. Create bookmarks, puppies, and cranes THE UNDEAD LADIES by basic geometric folds and creases, using one piece of paper. Pa- Sink your fangs into this confab of vampire, werewolf, and zom- mela Kirkpatrick, a member of the CALS Youth Services staff, leads bie lore. Stacey Jay, Melissa Francis, and Deborah LeBlanc this fun session for the whole family. Limited seating. Call 918-3050 to explore old beliefs and new mythologies through a discussion reserve your spot. featuring samples of their writing. Sure to keep you up at night. * Saturday, 11:00 a.m., Main Library Puppet Room 333 Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Meeting Room PERSONAL ESSAYS YOUR FIRST TIME Need a little refi nement? Composing exciting essays that fl ow well can First time novelists Ben Farmer and Matt Baker penned star- be challenging. Pat Hoy, director of New York University’s expository tlingly good debuts recently. Their books, Evangeline, inspired by writing program, shares useful tips in this constructive workshop.* Longfellow’s poem, and Drag the Darkness Down, compared fa- Saturday, 2:30 p.m., ASI Delta Classroom vorably to the work of Charles Portis and Donald Harington, and each author’s road to publication will be discussed. ASI Room 124 Graphically Comic or 826 Valencia/The Memory POETS TO BE Saturday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library East Room Emily Bronte, John Keats, and Dr. Seuss all had to start somewhere. Comically Graphic?: Project: a panel about youth Poet Angie Macri, who was recently awarded a poetry fellowship, a panel with authors/ writing programs with Lauren leads this brisk and inspiring introduction. Tailored for kids ages 7-10, illustrators Randy Duncan, Hall and student editors Workshops this one is for those with the calling … or those with the hint of a poem The Power of Comics; Dusty moderator: Alex Vernon in their heart. Higgins, Pinocchio, Vampire BEGIN WITH BOOKS: Saturday, 12:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services/Poetry Café Slayer ; Eric Shanower, Age LITERACY FOR YOUNG CHILDREN of Bronze; and Ron Wolfe, Literacy begins at birth! Introducing your young child to the joy SECRETS TO GETTING PUBLISHED Hellraiser of reading books is critical for future reading success. Cindy Join bestselling author Marcus Sakey as he explains every step in the Young, with ACCESS Group, Inc., provides instruction on how to Cox Creative Center Mel White: Dotty Oliver: publishing process, from completing a manuscript through drafting a prepare your child for reading long before actual reading begins, query letter and landing an agent. Participants will receive valuable 2nd Floor Meeting author, National Geographic author, Mistress of the how to choose appropriate books for different ages, and how to handouts, as well as insider tips and hard-won secrets, during this in- Room Complete National Parks of Misunderstood incorporate reading awareness through daily activities. teractive workshop. the United States moderator: David Stricklin Sunday, 10:00 a.m., HAM Hands-on-History Room Saturday, 1:00 p.m., ASI Delta Classroom moderator: Kimble Talley Cox Creative Center David Stricklin: The Undead Ladies: a BUILD A PUPPET TEACHER TRAINING ON PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT 3rd Floor Meeting author, Louis Armstrong: The panel with authors Melissa Socks? Check. Buttons? Check. Funny noses? Check. Your tyke Publisher of BrainChild Books and lifelong educator Dr. Peggy Sissel- or tween is bound to appreciate the end result from this introduc- Room Soundtrack of the American Francis, Love Sucks!; Phelan leads this two-hour professional development workshop ad- tion to the world of constructing puppets, with instruction by Jan Experience Stacey Jay, My So-Called dressing numerous aspects of parental involvement, including psycho- Wolfe. This one is for the crafty or those who “yarn” to be. Lim- social frameworks useful to understanding why parents do, or do not, moderator: Stephen Koch Death; and Deborah ited seating. Call 918-3050 to reserve a spot. LeBlanc, Water Witch get involved. Practical strategies for engaging parents and a new Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Puppet Room 333 publication by BrainChild Press titled Parents Help in Lots of Ways will moderator: Amy Miller be highlighted.* ASI Ozark Navigating the World CHESS FOR KIDS Saturday, 2:30 p.m., HAM Hands-on-History Room Classroom of Electronic Books: Dating back to 15th-century Europe, and with roots in an even a workshop with CALS older Indian game, the tactical board game is great for building * These sessions are intended to meet the Arkansas Department computer instructor Robert cognitive skills. Youth can learn to build a castle or go for broke of Education’s “Rules Governing Professional Development.” Bailey with a cunning checkmate move. Strategy, patience, and good Educators attending this Literary Festival program will need to gamesmanship are needed for this game loved by kings and register utilizing the provided forms. They will receive an atten- pawns alike. Faye Hanson facilitates, and local chess teams will dance certifi cate via email attachment during the work week fol- also participate. Suggested age level is grades K-8. 64 squares lowing the festival. All documentation will be housed in the Butler + 32 pieces ÷ (an 8 x 8 grid) = hours of fun. Center educator’s offi ce for the required fi ve years. The Central Saturday, 2:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services Activity Center ASI Delta Classroom Oh, The Horror: a writing Rick Niece: Arkansas Library System (CALS) has been an Arkansas Depart- ment of Education approved professional development provider workshop with Deborah author, The Side-Yard GATHERING THE BONES: since 2007. Arkansas educators attending CALS-sponsored LeBlanc Superhero ART AS POETIC INSPIRATION public programs such the Arkansas Literary Festival may obtain moderator: Steve Straessle Caroline C. Lewis, English department chair, teams with Mari- professional development credit for selected programs. Butler Main Library Blessed Is the Match: beth Anders, art instructor and private sculptor at Pulaski Techni- Center for Arkansas Studies educator Kay Bland maintains the Youth Services a fi lm about poet and cal College. This workshop will be an opportunity for teens to be approved applications and documentation for educators register- paratrooper Hannah Senesh inspired by art as a way to create poetry. Workshop attendees ing and attending these sessions. Contact [email protected] for will not only create a piece of art, but complement the piece more information. through the poetic form. Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Ozark classroom Events, panels, and workshops are subject to change. Use a die or cut Begin Build six numbers into a With equal squares and Puppet Books Move pull from a hat. Ahead Start 1

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Thursday, April 8, Family Sessions All day 6:30 p.m. 7 p.m. Friday, April 9, Family Sessions All day 9:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pulaski County Schools The WITS Initiative: Pulaski County Schools The WITS Initiative: authors making authors making presen- presentations in the schools tations in the schools Main Library Youth Services Super Family Fun Night: Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Literacy on the Lawn with First Lady Ginger Beebe, with illustrator Rich Davis illustrator Rich Davis, authors Darcy Pattison and Carla McClafferty, and television hosts Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Spoken Word Live!: a Clinton Presidential Center Kevin Luthardt: author and illustrator, Flying! poetry event for 12 & up Saturday, April 10, Family Sessions 10 a.m. 11 a.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 p.m. Main Library Youth Services/ Rob Reid: storyteller The Kinders in concert, a performance Poets to Be: a workshop Kevin Luthardt: author and illustrator, Flying! Wooed and Won: a performance Youth Poetry Poetry Café with poet Angie Macri by Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre Competition Main Library Puppet Room 333 Lucha Corpi: author, The Triple Origami Workshop Jason Edwards: author, Puppet Making Workshop with Jan Wolfe Georgia Ann Butler: author, Of Banana Split Boy with Pamela Kirkpatrick The Monster Chronicles the Wing moderator: Philip Buck moderator: Freddy Hudson moderator: Haley Rugger Main Library Room 356 Gwendolyn Hooks: author, Freshwa- Rich Davis: illustrator, Tiny on the Farm Wolfe at the Door: puppet Trent Stewart: author, The Mysterious Benedict Margaret McMullan: author, ter Feeders show, a performance Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma Sources of Light moderator: Dwain Gordon moderator: Don Ernst moderator: Latina Sheard Main Library Youth Services Peggy Sissel Phelan & Beth Mahoney: Dori Butler: author, Jerdine Nolen: author, Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm Chess for Kids: a workshop led Activity Center authors, A Visit to the Farmer’s Market & The Buddy Files moderator: Darcy Pattison by Faye Hanson Meet Robby the C-130 moderator: Darcy Pattison moderator: Sarah McClure HAM Ottenheimer Theater Art to Go: a performance by Wildwood Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp: a performance Park by the Arkansas Arts Center HAM Hands-on-History Room Begin with Books: a literacy Janis Percefull: author, workshop led by Cindy Young with Three Strangers Come to Call ACCESS Group Inc. moderator: Kay Bland moderator: Becca Green Name Your Have an Literacy on Favorite Author Book Come to the Lawn Your School Move Or Move Back Go Back Ahead 3 4 3

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Sunday, April 11, Teen Sessions 1:30 p.m. 3 p.m. Festival authors ASI Room 124 Comically Graphic or Graphi- 826 Valencia/The Memory Project: a panel cally Comic?: a panel with illustra- about youth writing programs with Lauren Hall tors/authors Eric Shanower, Age are available and student editors of Bronze; Randy Duncan, The moderator: Alex Vernon Power of Comics; Dusty Higgins, Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer; and Ron Wolfe, Hellraiser in the Festival Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor The Undead Ladies: a panel with authors Stacey Meeting Room Jay, My So-Called Death; Melissa Francis, Love Sucks!; and Deborah LeBlanc, Water Witch book sales area moderator: Amy Miller ASI Ozark Classroom Gathering the Bones: a workshop with Pulaski Tech artist Maribeth in ASI Room Anders and Caroline C. Lewis, English department chair Main Library Youth Services Blessed Is the Match: a fi lm about poet and paratrooper Hannah 110. Senesh PARTICIPANTS APPEARING AT THE ARKANSAS LITERARY FESTIVAL MARIBETH ANDERS DARRELL BROWN RICH DAVIS Before joining the faculty of Pulaski Technical College, Anders Brown was the fi rst African-American student athlete to Davis, illustrator of nine children’s books, lives in Siloam taught for Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock School District, attempt to play football at UA. He graduated from the UA Springs, Arkansas, with his family. He has a beginning reader Community School of the Arts, and Arkansas Extended Learn- law school and was a successful trial lawyer. Brown lives in series about dog named Tiny, including the recently released ing Center. Her artwork is currently on exhibit at the Bernice Horatio, Arkansas. Tiny on the Farm. His book Firefi ghters to the Rescue was Garden in downtown Little Rock and Gallery Central in Hot Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center. chosen for the Dolly Parton Imagination library literacy Springs. program distributed all over the world. He also has a passion Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Ozark classroom. to draw with kids and has invented a drawing game called Pick and Draw. Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Main Library Youth Services. Friday, 9:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Arkansas Governor’s Mansion BRETT ANDERSON Saturday, 11:00 a.m., Main Library Room 356. Anderson is the “anonymous” restaurant critic and a feature DORI HILLESTAD BUTLER writer at the New Orleans Times-Picayune. His writing has Butler is the author of 22 picture books, chapter books, and appeared in Gourmet (RIP), the Oxford American, the Wash- middle-grade novels for children. The Buddy Files is a chapter WADE DERDEN Besides teaching history and political science at Pulaski Tech- ington Post, Food & Wine, Saveur, and Salon; and is antholo- book series about a school therapy dog that solves mysteries. nical College, Derden is completing a Ph.D. in public policy gized in six editions of Best Food Writing and four editions of She and her dog, Mouse, are a registered pet partners team at the University of Arkansas. His emphasis of study is higher Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing. This in Coralville, Iowa. education policy, in particular the roles that culture and com- author is sponsored by the Oxford American. Saturday, 12:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services Activity munity play in college success. He is also a singer-songwriter Saturday, 4:00 p.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater. Center. in Little Rock. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting MATT BAKER Room. Baker was born in Indiana and grew up in Kansas. He lives in Little Rock and is a graduate of the University of Arkansas. He GEORGIA ANNE BUTLER Educator turned author, Butler translates her love for birding is the author of a novel, Drag the Darkness Down. His work RANDY DUNCAN into an adventure with The Legend Awakes, book 1 in the has not been translated into any languages. Duncan is a communication professor at Henderson State young adult trilogy Of the Wing. Book 2, The Ivory-billed Saturday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library East Room. University. He is co-author of The Power of Comics: History, Obsession, set in part within the White River in northwest Form and Culture. Duncan is co-founder of the Comics Arts Arkansas, is scheduled for release later this year. Butler lives Conference. He has served on the Editorial Board of the in Pennsylvania. International Journal of Comic Art and the Board of Directors Saturday, 2:00 p.m., Main Library Puppet Room 333. of the Institute for Comics Studies. Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Room 124. DANIEL OMOTOSHO BLACK Black teaches at Clark University in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned a Ph.D. in African American studies from Temple STACEYANN CHIN University, was awarded the Oxford Modern British Studies Chin is a fulltime artist. A resident of New York City and a WILLIAM R. EAKIN scholarship, and studied abroad at Oxford University, Oxford, Jamaican national, she has been an “out poet and political Eakin is best known for his Redgunk Tales. His work has ap- England. He is the author of They Tell Me of a Home, The Sa- activist” since 1998. From the Nuyorican Poets’ Cafe to one- peared in the biggest genre magazines from F&SF (Fantasy cred Place, and Perfect Peace. As an associate professor, he woman shows Off-Broadway to poetry workshops abroad to and Science Fiction) and Amazing Stories to Realms of Fan- now aims to provide an example to young African Americans co-writing and performing in the Tony-nominated Russell Sim- tasy. He has been compared to “James Joyce on moonshine” of the importance of self-knowledge and communal commit- mons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, Chin credits the long list and the “Bhagavad-Gita meets National Enquirer.” ment. This author is sponsored by the Mosaic Templars of “things she has done” to her grandmother’s hard-working Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library East Room. Cultural Center. history and the pain of her mother’s absence. She made Friday, 5:30 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. her fi lm debut in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe and is the author of the memoir The Other Side of Paradise. This BROOKS BLEVINS author is sponsored by the Stonewall Democratic Caucus of Arkansas. An Arkansas native and graduate of Lyon College in Bates- Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Cox Ceative Center, 3rd Floor Meeting Room. ville, Blevins is the endowed associate professor of Ozarks JASON EDWARDS Studies at Missouri State University. He is the author of JORDAN CHRISTY Edwards is a storyteller, teacher, father, coach, athlete, and Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, & Good authority on children’s anxieties. He is known for his children’s Ol’ Boys Defi ned a State, described by the Arkansas Times Christy, author of How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World, is a publicist for Warner Bros. Records and has worked with series The Chronicles of the Monster Detective Agency. His as “the bible of all things hick.” His other work includes Hill talent for illuminating anxiety for children and adults alike Folks: A History of Arkansas Ozarkers and Their Image and dozens of artists and celebrities. She has written for local and national fashion magazines and music trade publications. has been featured in print, radio, TV, and the Internet site of Lyon College: The Perseverance and Promise of an Arkansas the Anxiety Disorders Association of America. This is his fi rst College. He coedited John Quincy Wolf’s Life in the Leath- She currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, Drew, and their daughter, Paisley. Arkansas appearance. erwoods. This author is sponsored by the Department of Saturday, 12:00 p.m., Main Library Puppet Room 333. Arkansas Heritage. Saturday, 2:30 p.m., ASI Room 124. Saturday, 10 a.m., ASI Room 124.

RUS BRADBURD SAM EIFLING Bradburd walked away from the glamorous world of college BROCK CLARKE Eifl ing has written and edited for newspapers, magazines, basketball to be a writer. His newest work is Forty Minutes Clarke is the author of two novels, An Arsonist’s Guide to and websites across the eastern and central United States. of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson. His Writers’ Homes in New England and The Ordinary White Boy, His 2004 profi le of a South Florida competitive eater won a short stories have appeared in Southern Review, Colorado and two short-story collections, Carrying the Torch and What national Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Profes- Review, Puerto del Sol, and Aethlon. His essays have We Won’t Do. Arsonist’s, a national bestseller, was named a sional Journalists and was a fi nalist for a Bert Greene Award appeared in the Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Editor’s Choice Book, a People magazine from the International Society of Culinary Professionals. He and New York Times. He teaches writing classes at New Critics’ Choice Book, and an American Library Association lives and eats in Little Rock. This author is sponsored by Mexico State University. His fi rst book was the acclaimed book of the year, and has appeared in a dozen foreign edi- the Oxford American. memoir Paddy on the Hardwood: A Journey in Irish Hoops. tions. He has recently been a National Endowment for the Saturday, 4:00 p.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center. Arts Fellow in Fiction, has won the Mary McCarthy Prize and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and has twice been a fi nalist PAT BRADLEY Bradley set the University of Arkansas and Southeastern for the National Magazine Award in Fiction. His novel Exley will be published in fall 2010. Conference all-time records for three-point fi eld goals made This author is sponsored by Hendrix College. LOLIS ERIC ELIE (366) and attempted (915). He also set an SEC record with Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting Room. Elie, author of Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart a three-point fi eld goal in 60 consecutive games and ranks of Barbeque Country, produced a television documentary in the top ten on the NCAA career list for three-pointers. He LUCHA CORPI based on his book. His documentary Faubourg Treme: The later moved on to play professional basketball in Denmark Corpi is a poet, novelist, and children’s book author. She Untold Story of Black New Orleans chronicles the civil rights and France, and briefl y for the Arkansas Rimrockers. He is has written four mystery novels featuring Chicana detective movement of the 1800s. He is currently writing Of Bondage currently the co-host of The Zone, which airs Monday through Gloria Damasco: Eulogy for a Brown Angel, Cactus Blood, & Memory, on the slave trade. Elie edited Cornbread Nation Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on KABZ-FM THE BUZZ. Black Widow’s Wardrobe, and Death at Solstice. Crimson 2, and was a producer for the Smithsonian Institution’s Jazz Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center. Moon introduces Brown Angel Investigations and detective Oral History Project. He is a metro columnist for the Times- Dora Saldaña. Corpi’s recent bilingual book for children is The Picayune and has master’s degrees from Columbia School KEVIN BROCKMEIER Triple Banana Split Boy/El niño goloso. Corpi was a tenured of Journalism and the University of Virginia. This author is Brockmeier has published six books of fi ction, including The teacher in the Oakland Public Schools Neighborhood Centers sponsored by the Historic Arkansas Museum. View from the Seventh Layer and The Brief History of the Program for more than 30 years. This author is sponsored Saturday, 4:00 p.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater. Dead, translated into fi fteen languages. His new novel is by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. forthcoming from Random House and will be published in the Friday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Puppet Room 333. spring of 2011. He lives in Little Rock and has participated in Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting Room. the Arkansas Literary Festival each year since it was founded. Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting Room. ALDA ELLIS LAUREN HALL PICO IYER Author, designer, entrepreneur, and television host, Ellis has Hall is the development director for 826 National, a network Iyer is the author of two novels and seven works of non- been working in the retail and wholesale design industry for of nonprofi ts that assist young people with their expository fi ction, including Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the over 20 years. She founded a company, Alda’s Forever, which and creative writing skills. 826 offers free writing workshops, Monk, and, most recently, The Open Road, an account of 34 specialized in weddings. As a designer, she worked with ce- tutoring, and publishing opportunities for students. She has years of talks and travels with the Dalai Lama. He has been a lebrities and hosted her own television series of 19 episodes. coordinated publishing projects and creative writing camps for constant contributor to Time, the New York Times, and many Gracious tables are her trademark when entertaining, full of San Francisco youth through her work at 826, and serves on other publications for more than a quarter of a century. This Southern charm for two or 200 guests. She is the author of the board of directors for the Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. author is sponsored by Christ Church and the Episcopal over 24 entertaining and lifestyle books including The Gentle Sunday, 3:00 p.m., ASI Room 124. Diocese of Arkansas. Art of Hospitality. Her new book will be released in 2010. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Main Library Darragh Center. Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center.

BEN FARMER KATE HARDING STACEY JAY Farmer lives in Maryland, where he was born and raised. Harding is the co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Jay writes young adult paranormal adventures with a healthy He graduated from Kenyon College with a degree in history. Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body. She is the dose of the silly and the scary. Her Megan Berry, Zombie Since, he has worked as a teacher, an editor, and in a book- founder of Shapely Prose, one of the most popular blogs in Settler series began with You Are So Undead to Me and ing agency for musicians. Evangeline is his fi rst novel. the fat-o-sphere. A graduate of the M.F.A. program in writing continues with Undead Much? and My So-Called Death. Saturday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library East Room. at Vermont College, she lives in Chicago, and is at work on Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Meeting about seven different book ideas. Room. Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center, 3rd Floor Meeting Room.

ANNA FIELDS Fields is a New York-based television writer, author, come- HANNIBAL B. JOHNSON dienne, and confi rmed “Rebel Deb.” But just like many little DUSTY HIGGINS Johnson is an attorney, author, and independent consultant. girls with big dreams, she started out a chubby, bookish, Higgins is an award-winning illustrator and graphic artist at the His books include: Black Wall Street—From Riot to Renais- cotillion class drop-out growing up in the tiny Southern town of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He is the creator and illustrator sance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District; Up from the Burlington, North Carolina. After leaving the South, graduating of the 2009 graphic novel Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer. Ashes—A Story about Community; Acres of Aspiration—The from Brown University, and surviving years of celebrity mad- Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Room 124. All-Black Towns in Oklahoma; Mama Used To Say—Wit & ness (including hair-raising stints as Diana Ross’s personal Wisdom from the Heart & Soul; No Place Like Home—A Story assistant and tutor/slave to socialite/“Real” Housewife of New about an All-Black, All-American Town; and IncogNegro—Po- York Jill Zarin), Fields completed her memoir Confessions of etic Refl ections on Race & Diversity in America. Johnson is a Rebel Debutante. This author is sponsored by Friends of a contributing writer to the Encyclopedia of African American Central Arkansas Libraries (FOCAL). History. Johnson, who lives in Tulsa, is a graduate of Harvard Saturday, 11:30 a.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. Law School and did his undergraduate work at the University of Arkansas. This author is sponsored by the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Friday, 12:00 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. MARTHA HALL FOOSE SY HOAHWAH Foose, of the Mississippi Delta, is a chef and storyteller. Her Originally from Little Rock, Hoahwah is a member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. His family descends from recent book Screen Doors and Sweet Tea won a James RM JOHNSON Beard award. She is a contributor to Cornbread Nation 5. the Yappituka and Penatuka Comanche clans. He holds an Johnson is the author of nine novels, including bestsellers Saturday, 1:00 p.m., HAM Hands-on-History Room. M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arkansas. His The Harris Family, The Million Dollar Divorce, The Million Dol- poetry has appeared in publications such as Shenandoah, lar Demise, and Why Men Fear Marriage. He holds an M.F.A. Indiana Review, Yellow Medicine Review, and SAIL: Studies in creative writing from Chicago State University and currently of American Indian Literature, and he received an award from lives in Atlanta, Georgia. This author is sponsored by the the Academy of American Poets. Velroy and the Madischie Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Mafi a is his fi rst full-length book. Friday, 5:30 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Saturday, 4:00 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor ROBERT FORD Meeting Room. Ford is a playwright, novelist, actor, and director. He heads the Arkansas Playwrights’ Workshop and is co-founder and GWENDOLYN HOOKS artistic director of TheatreSquared in Fayetteville. His plays Hooks was the featured author for National Children’s Book MALCOLM JONES have appeared at Playwrights’ Playground, the Abingdon Week 2009 at the Rogers Public Library in northwest Arkan- Jones is the author of the memoir Little Boy Blues, released in Theatre in New York, American Stage, Pennsylvania Stage sas. She has published seven books, and sold eight more January 2010. He has written features, reviews, and essays Company, Hyde Park Theatre, Live Oak Theatre, and many last year. She authors both fi ction and nonfi ction for children, for Newsweek’s culture section since 1989. Prior to that, he others. Most recently, TheatreSquared premiered his play My and her books have sold more than 200,000 copies. Hooks, was a newspaper reporter in North Carolina and Florida. He Father’s War, about his father-in-law’s WWII experiences. His whose books include Freshwater Feeders, Can I Have a Pet? lives with his family in the Hudson River Valley. new play, The Fall of the House, premieres at the Alabama and Nice Wheels, lives in Oklahoma. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library East Room. Shakespeare Festival in 2010. Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Room 356. Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center.

MELISSA FRANCIS Francis is a small-town Southern girl with big-city dreams. MANNY HOWARD She graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Howard is a veteran of the magazine world, having written BRIAN AND TERRI KINDER Rock with an English degree but still uses words like “y’all,” and/or edited for New York, New York Times Magazine, GQ, The Kinders perform rollicking goodtime original music for “dunno,” and “gonna” on purpose. Bite Me! is her current Esquire, Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Gourmet, Food & Wine, kids. With six releases of nationally recognized children’s release, and Love Sucks! hits the shelves in summer 2010. Details, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, music, including A Kid Like You, which is on American Library Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Meeting Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Us Weekly, National Geographic, Association author Rob Reid’s Must Have Short List for every Room. and Travel & Leisure, among many others. He lives in Brook- library. Their concerts prove to be memorable family events. lyn with his wife, two children, and a dwindling number of Saturday, 11:00 a.m., Main Library Youth Services/Poetry farm animals. In his new book My Empire of Dirt, the locavore Café. movement is put to the test in Brooklyn. STEVE GOREHAM Saturday, 2:30 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. Goreham has extensively researched climate physics, meteo- rology, solar physics, oceanography, and energy economics, including discussions with key scientists and experts, and PAT C. HOY II CHRISTIAN LANDER combined this with a study of a wide variety of books and ar- A Hamburg, Arkansas, native, Hoy directs New York Universi- Lander is the creator of the website (and the book) Stuff ticles on both sides of the global warming debate. He distilled ty’s expository writing program. Author of numerous textbooks White People Like. He is a Ph.D. dropout who was the 2006 and captured this information in a single book, Climatism!, and essays, including Reading and Writing Essays: The public speaking instructor of the year at Indiana University. He providing a common-sense discussion on climate change for Imaginative Task, Hoy was awarded the 2003 Cecil Woods Jr. has lived in Toronto, Montreal, Copenhagen, Tucson, Indiana, the world citizen. A white water kayaker, husband, and father Prize for Nonfi ction from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. and now Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife, Jess, a of three, Goreham holds an M.S. in electrical engineering He has twice won NYU’s Golden Dozen Award for excellence photographer who contributed many of the photos in the book. from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the Univer- in teaching. This author is sponsored by ProSmartPrinting.com. sity of Chicago. Saturday, 2:30 p.m., ASI Delta Classroom. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center. Saturday, 4:00 p.m., ASI Delta Classroom. KEN GORMLEY Gormley is interim dean and professor at Duquesne Univer- sity law school, specializing in constitutional subjects. He is a nationally renowned expert on Watergate and special pros- ecutors, and is the author of the critically acclaimed Archibald Cox: Conscience of a Nation and the new book The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr. This author is sponsored by the Clinton School of Public Service. Friday, 12:00 p.m., Clinton Presidential Center, Choctaw Station, Sturgis Hall. DEBORAH LEBLANC BETH MAHONEY KATHY L. PATRICK Award-winning and bestselling author, LeBlanc is a business Mahoney is a military child turned military spouse with three Patrick owns and operates Beauty and the Book, a hair owner, a licensed death scene investigator, and has been elementary-school-aged children. She is the author of the salon/bookstore in Jefferson, Texas. It is headquarters of The an active paranormal investigator for over fi fteen years. She Robby the C-130 military children’s book series and president Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Clubs, the largest is the president of the Horror Writers Association, Mystery of Kids of America’s Heroes. Mahoney attended Hawaii “meeting and discussing” book club in the world! The clubs’ Writers of America’s Southwest Chapter, and the Writers’ Pacifi c University and has received numerous awards for her 265 U.S. chapters and members in nine foreign countries Guild of Acadiana. LeBlanc is also the founder of the LeBlanc military family services. have been featured by Good Morning America, The Oprah Literacy Challenge, an annual, national campaign designed to Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Youth Services Activity Winfrey Show, Newsweek, Time, the Los Angeles Times, and encourage more people to read, and Literacy Inc., a non-profi t Center. more. Author of The Pulpwood Queens’ Tiara-Wearing, Book- organization with a mission to fi ght illiteracy in America’s Sharing Guide to Life, Patrick runs two annual book festivals teens. Her latest novel is Water Witch. in East Texas: Books Alive and Girlfriend Weekend! Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Delta Classroom. CARLA KILLOUGH MCCLAFFERTY Saturday, 4:00 p.m., ASI Room 124. Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Meeting Room. McClafferty is the author of nonfi ction books, including In Defi ance of Hitler: The Secret Mission of Varian Fry. Her work CAROLINE C. LEWIS Lewis received her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of has been honored by the International Reading Association, DARCY PATTISON Massachusetts, and has been published in The Indiana American Library Association, and Charlie May Simon Read- Pattison has been published in eight languages. Her books Review, Quarterly West, and the small press publication ing List. She has presented programs at local, national, and include 19 Girls and Me, Searching for Oliver K. Woodman, Heliotrope. She came to Pulaski Technical College to chair international venues. and The Journey of Oliver K. Woodman. She is the 2007 the English Department after teaching creative writing and Friday, 9:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Arkansas Governor’s recipient of the Arkansas Governor’s Arts Awards, Individual literature for fi ve years at Pratt MWP, an extension campus of Mansion. Artist Award, for her work in children’s literature. Pratt Institute in New York City. She is currently participating Friday, 9:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Arkansas Governor’s with fi ve other female poets from the northeast in a blog, in Mansion. which the group has committed to writing 100 poems in 100 MARGARET MCMULLAN days. McMullan’s latest novel, Sources of Light, is set in Jackson, Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. Mississippi, in 1962. Her previous work includes In My Mother’s House, How I Found the Strong, When I Crossed JOAN LIFFRING-ZUG BOURRET Liffring-Zug Bourret is a photographer, publisher, editor, and No-Bob, and Cashay. A recipient of a 2010 NEA Fellowship, JANIS K. PERCEFULL author. Her photography, in the collection of the Metropoli- McMullan graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fay- Percefull received a B.A. in history from Ouachita Baptist tan Museum of Art and other museums, has appeared in etteville M.F.A. program. She is currently an English professor University and an M.A. in public history from the University of national magazines and a wide range of books. Liffring-Zug at the University of Evansville. Arkansas at Little Rock. She is the author of Ouachita Springs Bourret is in the Iowa Women Hall of Fame. Her newest book, Saturday, 2:00 p.m., Main Library Room 356. Region: A Curiosity of Nature and Three Strangers Come to Women 1957–1975, features iconic photos of women in the Call. mid-twentieth century when hats, gloves, and pearls were the Saturday, 11:00 a.m., HAM Hands-on-History Room. norm. This author is sponsored by the National League of PATRICIA NEELY-DORSEY American Pen Women. Originally from Tupelo, Mississippi, Neely-Dorsey received Friday, 2:15 p.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater. a B.A. in psychology from Boston University. After living for almost 20 years in Memphis, she returned to her hometown DR. DAVID LIPSCHITZ in 2007. Refl ections of a Mississippi Magnolia, her fi rst book Lipschitz is a world-renowned geriatrician and executive of poetry, is “a celebration of the south and all things south- TITO PERDUE director of the Longevity Center at St. Vincent Medical Center. ern.” This author is sponsored by the Mosaic Templars Perdue was born in Chile to American parents and relocated He has authored two books, Breaking the Rules of Aging and Cultural Center. to the United States in 1941 at the outbreak of war. He was Dr. David’s First Health Book of More, Not Less, and is widely Saturday, 4:00 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. raised in Alabama and attended the University of Texas and published in various prestigious medical journals. Indiana University, earning a bachelor’s and two master’s de- Saturday, 1:00 p.m., ASI Room 124. grees. He was employed by the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, the State University of New York (Binghamton), RICK D. NIECE and Emory University before taking early retirement in 1982 to Niece grew up in DeGraff, Ohio, a small town of 900 resi- become a full-time writer. His books include Lee – Four Walls dents. A career educator, Niece is currently the president of Eight Windows and Fields of Asphodel. KEVIN LUTHARDT the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas. The Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting Luthardt is a children’s author/illustrator, painter, and muralist Side-Yard Superhero chronicles his childhood friendship with Room. based in the Chicago area. He is the author and/or illustrator Bernie Jones, a wheelchair-bound boy with severe cerebral of eight children’s picture books, including Flying!, The Vowel palsy. Family: A Tale of Lost letters, Peep!, and Larabee. His paint- Sunday, 3:00 p.m., ASI Delta Classroom. ings are represented by Mars Gallery in Chicago and he has ALICE RANDALL created large-scale murals in schools and libraries around Randall is the author of Rebel Yell, The Wind Done Gone, the Chicago area. He presents programs and workshops for and Pushkin and the Queen of Spades. She is a Harvard- students of all ages, visiting about 50 schools, libraries, and JERDINE NOLEN educated African American novelist who lives in Nashville and other venues each year. This author is sponsored by the Nolen was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and raised in writes country songs. Clinton Presidential Center. Chicago. Nolen writes fantasy, tall tales, and family stories. Friday, 5:30 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. Friday, 9:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Clinton Presidential Center. She is the author of Plantzilla, Plantzilla Goes to Camp, Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Darragh Center. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services Poetry Café. Thunder Rose, Lauren McGill’s Pickle Museum, Max and Jax in Second Grade, Hewitt Anderson’s Great Big Life, Pitching CHRISTINE LYNXWILER In for Eubie, Big Jabe, and In My Momma’s Kitchen. Her book Christian romance author Lynxwiler has written seventeen Raising Dragon, won the Christopher Award, and Harvey Pot- novels and novellas, including the bestselling Arkansas. ter’s Balloon Farm won multiple awards and was named both Her recent releases include Forever Christmas, Promise Me an ALA Notable Book and an IRA-CBC Children’s Choice. ROB REID Always, Along Came a Cowboy, and Alibis in Arkansas, a Nolen lives near Columbia, Maryland. Reid is a senior lecturer for the Foundations of Education mystery series. She is the four-time winner of the prestigious Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services Activity Center. Department at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. His American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year Award specialties are children’s literature, literature for adolescents, and is working on a new six-book family series. The Arkansas DOTTY OLIVER and storytelling. He is the author of two picture books and native lives in the Ozark Mountains. Oliver has made life an adventure to be written about … from ten storytime programming and read-aloud resource books Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor living in a rock’n’roll commune with Black Oak Arkansas in the for librarians and teachers. His works include Comin’ Down Meeting Room. ’70s to publishing an alternative newspaper, The Little Rock to Storytime, Shake & Shout, and Wave Goodbye. He has a Free Press, from 1993 until 2008. Mistress of the Misunder- regular column in Book Links magazine titled “The Reid-Aloud ANGIE MACRI stood is her fi rst book. Alert” and frequently contributes to Library Sparks magazine. Macri received an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. Her Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Youth Services/Poetry work appears in journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Room. Café. Southern Indiana Review, and Tar River Poetry, and was featured in Spoon River Poetry Review. She was awarded an individual artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council. Saturday, 12:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services/ CHRISTOPHER RICE Poetry Café. LAURA PARKER CASTORO Rice is the author of four New York Times bestselling novels. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting Bestselling author Parker Castoro has published 39 novels. His fi rst novel, A Density of Souls, was published when the Room. She is a speaker and writing coach, and her recent releases author was 22 years old. Rice followed up with a second are Love on the Line and “Stormy Weather” for Cougar Tales New York Times bestselling thriller, The Snow Garden, which JONATHAN MAHLER Anthology ’09. A multi-award-winning author, Parker Castoro received a Lambda Literary Award. His third New York Times Mahler is a writer for the New York Times Magazine. He is the was the 2005 inductee into the Arkansas Writers Hall of bestseller, Light Before Day, was selected as the fi rst annual author of the award-winning legal thriller The Challenge and Fame. She is a Pine Bluff native. summer reading book by Frontiers magazine. The fourth, the bestselling Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Blind Fall, was named “Best Book of 2008” by the Insight/Out which was adapted as an eight-part mini-series on ESPN. Meeting Room. book club. A native of California, but a Southerner by blood, Both were New York Times Book Review notable books. The Rice lives in West Hollywood. His newest book, The Moonlit Challenge is currently being developed for the big screen by Earth, will be released in April 2010. George Clooney and Aaron Sorkin. This author is spon- Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Meeting Room. sored by Hendrix College. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., ASI Room 124. MARJORIE ROSEN AMANDA STEVENS KATHERINE WHITWORTH Rosen is the author of Boom Town: How Wal-Mart Trans- Stevens is the award-winning author of more than forty Little Rock–based writer, editor, and fact-checker, Whitworth formed an All-American Town into an International Com- novels, including The Dollmaker and The Devil’s Footprints. thinks the world could do worse than simply to feed itself well. munity and three other books, including Popcorn Venus: She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband and a very Ever the dilettante, she has recently begun studying fashion Women, Movies & the American Dream. A former editor at strange cat named Lola. Her favorite TV program will always design. One of her essays is found in Cornbread Nation 5. the New York Times Magazine and senior writer at People, be The X-Files, which nourished her passion for crop circles, Saturday, 1:00 p.m., HAM Hands-on-History Room. she is a professor of journalism at Lehman College–CUNY conspiracy theories, and things that go bump in the night. and a fellow at CUNY’s Center for Place, Culture, and Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Politics. Meeting Room. This author is sponsored by Friends of Central Arkan- sas Libraries (FOCAL). Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center. GINA WILKINS TRENTON LEE STEWART Bestselling and award-winning author Wilkins sold her fi rst STEVE RUSHIN Stewart is the author of the bestselling children’s novels novel to Harlequin Temptation in 1986 and has been a full- Rushin is the author of a novel, The Pint Man, and two works The Mysterious Benedict Society, The Mysterious Benedict time writer ever since. A four-time winner of the prestigious of nonfi ction: Road Swing and The Caddie Was a Reindeer. A Society and the Perilous Journey, and The Mysterious Bene- Maggie Award for Excellence sponsored by the Georgia former writer for Sports Illustrated, he lives in Connecticut with dict Society and the Prisoner’s Dilemma, as well as Flood Romance Writers, she has written over 90 books for Harle- his wife and three children. Summer, a novel for adults. He lives in Little Rock with his quin/Silhouette. Wilkins was born, raised, and still resides in Saturday, 10:00 a.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. wife and two sons. central Arkansas. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Room 356. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Meeting Room.

MICHAEL WILSON Wilson is a transdisciplinary artist who has exhibited his work MARCUS SAKEY GRIF STOCKLEY widely, including at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Sakey has been called “one of the hottest young crime writers Stockley is the author of 10 books. His most recent work Chicago Underground Film Festival, Ars Electronica, Harvard in the country.” His novels include The Amateurs, The Blade is Ruled by Race: Black/White Relations in Arkansas from Divinity School, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, and Itself, At the City’s Edge, and Good People. A Chicago resi- Slavery to the Present. the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf. He holds an M.F.A. from Yale dent, Sakey is the recipient of the Strand Critic’s Award. His Friday, 12:00 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. University and is co-founder of the Social Satisfaction media books have been translated into numerous languages. collective. He collaborated with Natalie Zimmerman on the Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library East Room. fi lm Silhouette City and the book A Kingdom at Any Cost. This Saturday, 1:00 p.m., ASI Delta Classroom. author is sponsored by Hendrix College. Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center.

JAN WOLFE ADAM SCHWARTZMAN Wolfe became obsessed with puppetry while working on Schwartzman was born in Johannesburg and educated at the fi nal for her Arts in Education class—a puppet show. Oxford University. He is the author of three books of poetry DAVID STRICKLIN Captivated by bits of felt and foam, she pursued performing and the editor of an anthology of South African poetry. His fi rst Stricklin is head of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies with puppets because they “sold” reading so effectively to her novel, Eddie Signwriter, was published in March 2010. He and an adjunct history professor at UALR. His new biography students. Her shows promote the fun of literacy and books. lives in Istanbul. is Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American Experi- She tours Arkansas with Wolfe at the Door puppets. This Saturday, 11:30 a.m., ASI Delta Classroom. ence. He is the co-author, with Bill C. Malone, of Southern presenter is sponsored by the Department of Arkansas Saturday, 1:00 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. Music/American Music, and the author of several other Heritage. books, book chapters, and articles about Southern music and Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Puppet Room 333. religion. Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Meeting QAISRA SHAHRAZ Room. RON WOLFE Born in Pakistan and raised in the UK, Shahraz has been A writer and cartoonist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, widely acclaimed by critics for producing novels, short Wolfe wrote the newspaper’s Santa Times comics, illustrated stories, and television screenplays that offer particularly by Dusty Higgins. In a previous life, he wrote Hellraiser NORB VONNEGUT human characterizations of life in her native country and of Vonnegut is a wealth adviser who writes about Wall Street’s comics for Marvel. He is the co-author (with John Wooley) of the experiences of Pakistani immigrants in the West. She is behavior behind the headlines. His fi rst novel, Top Producer, three horror novels. His novella Our Friend Electricity, in The also an educator and creative writing instructor, and has led received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. He is now Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, was reprinted in workshops and seminars on these subjects abroad and in editing The Fund, a thriller scheduled to print in the winter of two best-of-the-year anthologies. the UK. Her debut novel received a Golden Jubilee Award, 2010/2011. Vonnegut built an extensive career with Morgan Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Room 124. and she has won several Pakistan Television Awards for her Stanley, Paine Webber, and other Wall Street institutions. screenwriting. Her books include The Holy Woman and Ty- He graduated from Harvard College in 1980 and earned an phoon. This author is sponsored by the Betty Chamberlain Fund, Central Arkansas M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1986. STEVE YARBROUGH Library System. Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting Yarbrough’s newest novel is Safe from the Neighbors. He Saturday, 10:00 a.m., ASI Delta Classroom. Room. was born in Indianola, Mississippi, and has lived in Arkansas, Saturday, 1:00 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. Virginia, North Carolina, California, and Poland. His work experience includes stints as a stock-boy in a grocery store, ERIC SHANOWER a hoe hand in a cotton patch, a dime-store clerk, and a STEVE WEINBERG Shanower is the award-winning cartoonist of the graphic newspaper reporter. Yarbrough is the author of three story Weinberg is the author of eight nonfi ction books (biographies novel series Age of Bronze, a retelling of the Trojan War. His collections and four previous novels. Yarbrough and his family and investigative reporting), as well as hundreds of magazine past work includes the Oz graphic novel series; many other live in Boston and Krakow. feature stories, personal essays, and reviews. He also comic books; and illustrations for television, magazines, and Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Main Library East Room. teaches at the University of Missouri Journalism School in children’s books. He lives in San Diego, California. This pre- Saturday, 1:00 p.m., ASI Ozark Classroom. senter is sponsored by Henderson State University. Columbia, Missouri. His recent book Taking on the Trust: The Sunday, 1:30 p.m., ASI Room 124. Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller explores a remarkable journalist, thinker, and trailblazer. This author CINDY YOUNG is sponsored by the National League of American Pen Young, chief operations offi cer and co-founder of ACCESS Women. Group Inc., is a speech-language pathologist who specializes Friday, 3:30 p.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater. in oral motor dysfunction, and feeding disorders, early child- PEGGY SISSEL-PHELAN hood apraxia, and literacy. A frequent guest speaker, she is a Sissel-Phelan is the founder of BrainChild Press, Inc., a Little member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Associa- Rock publishing company dedicated to improving the health, tion, the Arkansas Speech-Language-Hearing Association well-being, and quality of life of children and families. Her 30- MEL WHITE and the International Dyslexia Association. She co-authored year career as advocate, professor, consultant, and nonprofi t White is a freelance writer specializing in travel and natural Tools for Literacy and Communication: A Collection of Stories. executive has resulted in nearly 50 publications, including history. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic Saturday, 10:00 a.m., HAM Hands-on-History Room. scholarly works, teaching guides, magazine articles, games, Society publications, having covered destinations including and children’s books, including A Visit to the Farmer’s Market. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, Borneo, the Amazon River, Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Youth Services Activity Madagascar, and the Swiss Alps. His most recent book is the Center. National Geographic Complete National Parks of the United NATALIE ZIMMERMAN Saturday, 2:30 p.m., HAM Hands-on-History Room. States. Zimmerman’s fi lm, photography, sound, and installation work Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Meeting has been exhibited internationally, including at the Moscow MAUREEN STACK SAPPÉY Room. International Film Festival; La Casa Encendida in Madrid; Los Stack Sappéy is an archival-level researcher and multi-award- Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Galeria Santa Fe winning author of four historical fi ction novels. Letters from in Bogota, Colombia; and San Francisco Camerawork. She Vinnie, her award-winning epistolary novel, told through the collaborated with Michael Wilson on the fi lm Silhouette City singular vision of sculptor Vinnie Ream, offers a unique per- and the book A Kingdom at Any Cost. Zimmerman currently spective of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. Letters lives in Los Angeles, where she and Wilson are working on from Vinnie was optioned by HBO. This author is sponsored their next fi lm—an exploration of the nature and possibili- by the National League of American Pen Women. ties of love and community. This author is sponsored by Friday, 1:00 p.m., HAM Ottenheimer Theater. Hendrix College. Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center. BEHIND THE SCENES ARKANSAS LITERARY FESTIVAL Festival chair ...... Gina Kokes SPONSORS Talent committee chair ...... Jay Jennings

Festival guides chair ...... Laura Stanley

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Logistics chair ...... Eric Paxton

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Talent committee ...... Kevin Brockmeier, Laura Parker Castoro, Jan Emberton, Rod Lorenzen, Bob Razer, Skip Rutherford, Constance Sarto, Marc Smirnoff, Annie Stricklin, David Stricklin, Spirit Trickey, Alex Vernon, Katherine Whitworth, Paul Yoder

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