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THANK YOU, UNDERWRITERS CONTENTS

4 WELCOME 9 1 SCHEDULE ABOUT US 19 T Thursday CALVIN PARTNERS CONSULTANTS 27 F Friday 39 S Saturday 6 FESTIVAL FACTS 50 Festival Circles 6 Campus Map 51 Book Signings 8 The Festival Experience 52 Lunch Forums F ESTIVAL OF FAITH & WRITING MOBILE APP 9 New and Notable in 2018 4 5 SPEAKERS ADCAP M COFFEE BREAKS + POP-UP CAFÉ FESTIVAL STORIES 80 EXHIBIT HALL MEDITATION BREAKS EXHIBIT HALL MAP DAILY YOGA FESTIVAL T-SHIRTS 1 8 Receptions READING & WRITING WORKSHOPS LUNCH FORUMS 2 8 SPONSORS FESTIVAL BOOKSTORE SIGNATURE SPONSORS EXHIBIT HALL FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL EARLY EVENING KEYNOTES ENDOWMENTS A N EVENING OF SONG AND SPOKEN COMMUNITY PARTNERS WORDS WITH PARKER J. PALMER AND CARRIE NEWCOMER MEDIA PARTNERS FESTIVAL DAILY 4 8 Sponsor Advertising 3 1 Festival Basics STAY CONNECTED HAVE A QUESTION? REGISTRATION DESK FESTIVAL INFORMATION CENTER WAYFINDING ETIQUETTE THEATER TICKETS EMERGENCY INFORMATION MEDIA PRODUCTION 5 1 Calvin Campus 411 WI-FI QUIET SPACES ON-CAMPUS SHUTTLES INFANTS SMOKING AREAS DINING / ON-CAMPUS BOXED MEALS DINING / OFF-CAMPUS TRANSPORTATION WELCOME

DEAR READERS, On the opening page of this program you’ll see a quote from an interview Natalie Diaz did with The Creative Independent on the physicality of her writing process, a conversation in which the importance of community looms large: “I need the rigor and radicalism of friendship to be a poet, to be anything, really.” She reminds us that we need friends—not followers—if we want to read and write with clarity and creativity and nuance. We need robust relationships that expand our vocabularies for both joy and pain and give us loving contexts for hard conversations. We honor the communal nature of stories here at the Festival of Faith & Writing, which could also perhaps be called the Festival of Faith & Reading. For these three days, we celebrate the sway of stories by reading out loud to each other. We listen and we open ourselves to new-to-us worlds by making the kind of connections over coffee and tea that are only possible with eye contact. There is a subtle irony at the center of reading. As adults, we generally understand reading be to be a solitary pursuit, something done alone, perhaps even for the sake of being alone. And yet most of us first learned to read—first fell under the sway of story—because the adults in our lives loved us enough to read out loud to us. Mothers, fathers, older sisters, uncles, grandparents, teachers, they all read us stories—to delight, to calm, to teach. They read us stories to welcome us deeper into this new-to-us world and the mysteries of being alive, green eggs, ham, and all. For many of us, story time gave way to chapter books that we furtively read under covers with our flashlights after bedtime because we couldn’t wait to find out what Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys or Hermione would discover next. The whole world of books opened up to us even as we started to read— and often write —alone. And yet, reading and writing are deeply communal practices. Despite the solitary appearance, reading and writing are both active bids for connection—to other people, other places, to the natural world, to God. Insofar as the Festival offers more events over three days than any one person can possibly attend, it might seem as overwhelming as your social media feeds or your reading list, and you might be tempted to despair. Instead, I urge you to embrace your limits over these three days. Don’t worry about having more conversations, have deeper conversations. Have fun! And together, let’s recover the ritual of reading to each other, because, as William Stafford suggests, “If you don’t know the kind of person I am / and I don’t know the kind of person you are / a pattern that others made may prevail in the world / and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.”

Warmly,

Lisa Ann Cockrel director of the Festival of Faith & Writing managing director of the Calvin Center of Faith & Writing

4 WELCOME #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr 2018 FFW ABOUT US STUDENT COMMITTEE CALVIN Launched in 1990 by Calvin CCFW HUDSON-TOWNSEND PARTNERS College’s English department, the STUDENT FELLOWS Festival of Faith & Writing (FFW) Sarah Bass SPONSORS is now the flagship initiative Gwyneth Findlay Admissions Pete Ford of the Calvin Center for Faith & African and African Diaspora Studies Chloe Selles Writing (CCFW). The Festival Art and Art History Isabelle Selles continues to be made possible Calvin Alumni Association by the generosity of donors Alexandra Boa Calvin Institute for Christian to the CCFW’s endowment, Bastian Bouman Worship the dedication of the English Brianna Busscher Center for Excellence in Preaching department, as well as partners Madalyn Buursma Chapel and donors throughout campus Caroline Carlson Communication Arts and Sciences and in our community. Yolanda Chow Education Lauren Cole English STAFF Ale Crevier Frederik Meijer Chair in Dutch Amanda Davio Language and Culture Lisa Ann Cockrel, FFW director; Rachel DeHaan Geology, Geography, and CCFW managing director Environmental Studies David Fitch Jon Brown, CCFW creative director Gender Studies Rae Gernant Amanda Smartt, Henry Institute for the Study CCFW program coordinator J. Andrew Gilbert of Christianity and Politics Erin Haagsma Sarah L. Turnage, Mellema Program in Western CCFW program coordinator Katie Haan American Studies Nicole Hellinga Philosophy Daniel Hickey President’s Advisory Team FESTIVAL PLANNING Michelle Hofman for Diversity and Inclusion COMMITTEE Alyssa Johansen Psychology Jennifer L. Holberg, Alexandra Johnson Religion CCFW co-director Juliana Knot Science Division Jane Zwart, CCFW co-director Annaka Koster Sociology and Social Work L. S. Klatt, CCFW faculty fellow Alissa Lucas Student Life Division Debra Rienstra, CCFW faculty fellow Julia McKee Deborah Visser, CCFW faculty fellow Hannah McNulty SUPPORTING SERVICES Katie Munshaw Audio-Visual CCFW ADVISORY BOARD Sarah Nichols Box Office Carly Palmatier Scott Hoezee, chair Campus Ministries Micah Phua Jon Brown Campus Store Leeann Randall Lisa Ann Cockrel Communications and Marketing Sarah Rumple Don Hettinga Calvin Dining Services Isaac Shin Jennifer L. Holberg Event Services Hannah Spaulding Robert Hudson Financial Services Emily Stroble L. S. Klatt Mail and Print Services Anne Van Solkema Debra Rienstra Media Relations Molly Vander Werp Deborah Visser Office of the President Natalie Wessels Jane Zwart Office of the Provost Allyson Wierenga Physical Plant Addie Winkelman Campus Safety Meghan Worley Prince Conference Center Courtney Zonnefeld Printing Services Residence Life Student Activities Office CONSULTANTS Travel Services Rachel Hyde, Hyde Creative PEC Technologies LegitApps

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FESTIVAL FACTS 7 The Festival Experience

The Festival of Faith & Writing is a celebration of literature and belief that spans days, acres, and genres, with a little something for everyone: poetry readings, author interviews, workshops focused on both writing and reading, solo lectures, concerts, plays, an open mic, panels about publishing and the writing life, small group discussions called Festival Circles, book signings, an exhibit hall full of publishers and journals, and more. There are even places on campus to get away from the party and enjoy a bit of peace and quiet.

SOLO BOOK PRESENTATION SIGNING

GENERAL SESSIONS BOOK SIGNING FESTIVAL

INTERVIEW MUSIC OF FAITH & WRITING GENERAL SESSIONS GENERAL SESSIONS MOBILE APP

PANEL THEATER / If you have a smartphone, DISCUSSION FILM we encourage you to GENERAL SESSIONS GENERAL SESSIONS download our free FFW

READING OPEN App. With it you can MIC customize your own

GENERAL SESSIONS OPEN MIC schedule, use interactive maps to guide you to ETC FESTIVAL CIRCLE sessions, browse authors’

GENERAL SESSIONS FESTIVAL CIRCLES bios, and much more.

Search for “Festival of LUNCH READING Faith and Writing” in WORKSHOP FORUM the Apple App Store READING WORKSHOP LUNCH FORUM or Google Play.

COFFEE WRITING BREAK WORKSHOP

COFFEE BREAK WRITING WORKSHOP

Throughout the KEYNOTE program and in our

KEYNOTE app you’ll see icons that signify the options available to you during each hour of the Festival day.

8 FESTIVAL FACTS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr New & Notable in 2018

MADCAP COFFEE BREAKS + POP-UP CAFÉ Coffee breaks are a Festival favorite, providing opportunities to mingle, compare notes, and refuel with complimentary drinks and snacks. This year we’re excited to partner with our friends at Laity Lodge to serve Madcap coffee at our breaks and in a pop-up café in the DeVos Communications Center Lobby. A part of our thriving local food and drink scene that we’re excited to share with Festivalgoers, Madcap Coffee Company has been roasting and serving direct trade coffee here in Grand Rapids since 2008. Relationships are central to the mission of Madcap, Laity Lodge, and the Festival, so grab an old friend or make a new one and catch up over a cup of coffee or tea. Drinks in the café are complimentary with your Festival badge!

Located in the DeVos Communications Center Lobby, the Madcap Pop-Up Café hours are:

T Thursday: 8AM–5PM F Friday: 7AM–4PM S Saturday: 7AM–4PM COFFEE BREAK See the daily schedule for coffee break times and locations.

FESTIVAL STORIES In anticipation of our 30th anniversary in 2020, we’re gathering stories from Festivalgoers about the writers, books, and friends they’ve met here that have enriched their lives. Stop by our mobile recording booth in the west lobby of the Prince Conference Center on Friday or Saturday for a few minutes to tell us your story—a funny moment, a chance meeting that set something new in motion, a quote that stuck with you. We want to hear about it! And if you don’t get a chance to share your story during the Festival, email us at [email protected] and put Festival Stories in the subject line. We’ll get in touch to set up a time to record your story via phone.

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MEDITATION BREAKS DAILY YOGA Need a moment of stillness in the In addition to stretching our minds and midst of the Festival hubbub? Whitney hearts, we’re going to be stretching our R. Simpson and J. Dana Trent will be arms and legs at this year’s Festival. We’re facilitating short meditation sessions in partnering with Jenny Sheffer-Stevens the Center Art Gallery during each of to offer a daily yoga practice designed for the coffee breaks. (Please note: No food all who want to develop what she calls is allowed in the gallery.) They believe the “embodied imagination.” Practices that when approached simply, meditation are drop-in and suitable for all levels and offers a refreshing and safe space to every body type. Everyone is welcome. be with God, offering our minds and Each yoga practice will bodies a chance to reconnect and reset. be different. See the daily

GENERAL SESSIONS 15-minute meditation breaks schedule for details.

in the Center Art Gallery: T Thursday 9AM GENERAL SESSIONS Hoogenboom 300 T Thursday 2:45PM breath meditation F Friday 6:30PM Covenant Fine Arts Center, East Lobby F Friday 9:30AM centering prayer meditation S Saturday 7AM Covenant Fine Arts Center, East Lobby F Friday 3PM lectio divina meditation S Saturday 9:30AM loving-kindness meditation S Saturday 3PM devotional meditation

FESTIVAL T-SHIRTS The good people from Citizenshirt are going to be in the house on Friday screenprinting Festival t-shirts in the west hallway of the Prince Conference Center. Choose from one of four Festival designs—including Reader and Follow the Reader—and put it on your favorite color and shirt style in sizes ranging from XS–5X. The screenprints take just a few minutes and feature a sweet split-fountain ink process that is fun to watch. We’ll also have some pre-printed stock available for sale on Saturday. Proceeds benefit the Festival.

10 FESTIVAL FACTS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr READING & WRITING LUNCH WORKSHOPS FORUMS In addition to inviting panel proposals, Grab your lunch and pop into one last summer we also put out a call for of several sponsored Lunch Forums workshop proposals that resulted in a during the midday breaks on lively slate of both reading and writing Friday and Saturday. These special workshops at this year’s Festival. These sessions feature everything from a craft intensives are scheduled throughout conversation with Madeleine L’Engle’s the day, but a handful start before the granddaughters to a roundtable of first large block of programming each evangelical women grappling with morning. (Don’t worry; the Madcap Coffee that label, from Sarah Arthur and Erin Pop-Up Café will be open early, too!) F. Wasinger on balancing the writing Some workshops require pre- life with love of neighbor to Marilyn registration and advance prep; McEntyre on the creative and spiritual

READING WORKSHOP some are drop-in; some last possibilities of making lists. two hours. Read the workshop See the schedule for descriptions carefully for details on pages 52–53. WRITING WORKSHOP all the details, and enjoy! LUNCH FORUM

FESTIVAL BOOKSTORE EXHIBIT HALL The Calvin Campus Store is stocked Located in the Prince Conference with titles by our featured speakers Center, the Exhibit Hall is filled with (and more) and hosts dozens of book major publishing houses, small presses, signings throughout the Festival. journals, booksellers, schools, and other Both the store’s main home inside the organizations geared to the interests of Commons building and its satellite Festivalgoers. You are welcome to browse location inside the Prince Conference the booths every day from 9am–6pm. Center are open each day 8am–7:30pm. See page 80 for more information. Related books will also be available for sale during author signings in Van Noord Arena after keynotes. See a full list of book signings on page 51.

BOOK SIGNING

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EARLY EVENING KEYNOTES Edwidge Danticat and Bill McKibben will deliver their keynotes at 5pm on Friday and Saturday, respectively. We’ll be offering a number of optional events on campus Friday night, including a film screening and an open mic. We encourage you to use both evenings to recharge, whether that means one of these events on campus, a night out in Grand Rapids with friends, or an early curtain call.

AN EVENING OF SONG AND SPOKEN WORDS WITH PARKER J. PALMER AND CARRIE NEWCOMER Thursday night, instead of a traditional keynote, we’ll have the pleasure of an evening of songs and spoken words by Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer, with Gary Walters. We live in hard times and hope is sometimes hard to come by. But by faith and the evidence of our own eyes, we know that “what we need is here” (to steal a line from Wendell Berry). It’s our hope that the words, music, and conversation we share during this evening together will reinforce that hope in all of us.

FESTIVAL DAILY The Festival Daily is a newsletter available each morning—in print at the Registration and Information Desks and sent via email to all registered Festivalgoers. It highlights events happening that day in the Exhibit Hall, including author signings, as well as Festival news, and any last-minute changes to the schedule. Be sure to read your copy each day to be in-the-know!

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STAY CONNECTED You have several ways to learn about special events and programming changes during the Festival:

C Pick up a copy of the Festival Daily newsletter at one of the information desks.

C Follow the Festival on Twitter @FFWgr and Instagram @FFWgrmi for news updates and social media shenanigans. Use the hashtags #FFWgr and #FFWgr2018 to join in the fun.

C Download the FFW App and turn on push notifications for the duration of the Festival.

HAVE A QUESTION? All members of our indispensable, hardworking student committee are wearing bright yellow shirts bearing large white and yellow ampersands. They are ready to answer questions about session locations & campus directions & shuttles & just about anything. If you have a question or need help, look for the ampersands!

REGISTRATION DESK Located in the lobby of the Prince Conference Center C Open 8AM–9PM

Prince Conference Center 1800 East Beltline SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 616-526-7200

FESTIVAL INFORMATION CENTER Located in the Covenant Fine Arts Center, next to the Calvin Box Office C Open 8AM–5PM

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WAYFINDING ETIQUETTE To help you find your way around Room Capacity: Due to fire code campus, we’ve included a detailed regulations, we must closely monitor map (pages 6–7) that indicates room capacities during the Festival, venues by building. Signs around and sessions will be closed if room campus should also help, but please capacity is reached. If you arrive and don’t hesitate to ask for directions. In discover a session is already closed, addition, a detailed accessibility map please select another session to attend. is available at the Registration Desk, at Cell Phones: As a courtesy to speakers the Festival Information Center, and and fellow Festivalgoers, please from on-campus shuttle drivers. silence cell phones during sessions. THEATER TICKETS Recordings: For contractual reasons, personal recording of Your Festival badge provides you sessions is not permitted. admission to all sessions included in our program with two exceptions: Fans: Many of our featured speakers 1) sessions requiring pre-registration are also attending the Festival. Please (as noted in the schedule), and 2) the respect their time and privacy, and Calvin Theater Company’s production of use discretion when asking for Sense & Sensibility. Pending availability, autographs, selfies, and the like. tickets for the Friday and Saturday evening performances of the play can be purchased for $15 at the Calvin MEDIA PRODUCTION College Box Office, located on the first As you attend the Festival, you enter floor of the Covenant Fine Arts Center. an area where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. We EMERGENCY use these documents to help promote INFORMATION and tell the story of the Festival. If you do not wish to be photographed, If you need emergency assistance, please feel free to let the person with the contact Calvin’s Campus Safety Office at camera and/or Festival staff know. 616-526-3333 or the Registration Desk at 616-526-7200. The nearest urgent care clinic is Spectrum Health Urgent Care, located at 2750 East Beltline NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525 (616-391-6230). It is open every day from 8am–8pm.

14 FESTIVAL FACTS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr Calvin Campus 411

WI-FI Q QUIET SPACES To connect to the Festival’s wi-fi network, Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve: just select the FFW network from the list The Bunker Interpretive Center sits just 500 of available wireless networks that your feet behind the Prince Conference Center device provides and type in this password and is the gateway to 40 acres of hushed (all one word, all lowercase): festival18. woods. Attentive walkers will spot many birds and other small creatures along the pathways throughout the preserve. ON-CAMPUS Seminary Pond: Site of the annual Seminary Pond Jump during which students and SHUTTLES faculty voluntarily leap into icy water, the Shuttle vans loop around campus throughout “Sem Pond” is much lovelier in early spring, the Festival and provide a convenient way to get especially from the vantage point of one to your next session. With four vans in motion, of the nearby benches or the bridge. the next shuttle is always just a few minutes Hekman Library: Visitors may browse away. Jump on and off at any of these stops: the stacks or find a comfortable seat while Prince Conference Center enjoying this inviting study space. Covenant Fine Arts Center (East Lobby) Center Art Gallery: Located just off the Meeter Center Lecture Hall Lower West Lobby of the Covenant Fine Arts Spoelhof Center Center and the site of five guided meditation Calvin Theological Seminary breaks throughout the Festival (see page Van Noord Arena (for keynotes only) 10 for details), the Center Art Gallery is a Note: A sturdy step is provided to aid Festivalgoers beautiful space dedicated to special exhibits getting in and out of the shuttles. and a rotating selection of pieces from Calvin College’s permanent collection of over 1,800 works of art dating from the 16th century to the present. Hours: Thursday and INFANTS Friday: 9am–9pm; Saturday: 9am–4pm. If you have a future reader in tow, make note of the following:

 Nursing Rooms: You are welcome to feed your child when and where you are most SMOKING AREAS comfortable. If you prefer to nurse in private, Smoking is permitted in a limited we have four rooms available across campus. number of designated outdoor areas: Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 283 Knollcrest Dining Hall, east side Calvin Chapel Undercroft, Room 204 Hekman Library, south side (facing Seminary Pond) Prince Conference Center, designated room DeVos Communication Center, north side (key at Registration Desk) Prince Conference Center, east side Calvin Seminary, Room 171 These designated areas are clearly marked C Changing tables are available in several by signage and cigarette butt receptacles. bathrooms across campus. Specific Smoking is prohibited inside all campus locations are available at the Registration buildings, including all residence halls. Desk and Festival Information Center. For the purpose of this policy, smoking is defined as the act of lighting, smoking, or carrying a lighted or smoldering cigar or cigarette and inhaling e-cigarettes or vaporizers.

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DINING / ON-CAMPUS There are a number of on-campus options for meals, ranging from dining halls to coffee shops.

At Knollcrest Dining Hall and Commons Dining Hall, Festival attendees are offered a discounted meal rate of $5 for breakfast, $6 for lunch, and $7 for dinner. Cash or check only. Just show your Festival name badge at the door.

COMMONS DINING HALL SPOELHOF CAFÉ Fresh salads, sandwiches, and hot foods One hot meal option, a salad bar, Thursday: 11AM–1PM, 4:45–6PM and various cold sandwiches for lunch Friday: 7:15–10:30AM, 11AM–1PM Thursday & Friday: 8:30AM–4PM Saturday: closed Saturday: closed

UPPERCRUST DEVOS GRAB-AND-GO Located on the upper level of Commons Dining Hall Coffee and a small selection of sandwiches, snacks, and fruit Specialty sandwiches and salads; cash/check only Thursday & Friday: 8AM–3PM Thursday: 11AM–8PM Saturday: closed Friday: 11AM–5PM Saturday: closed KNIGHT WAY CAFÉ Snacks, smoothies, and light lunch JOHNNY’S CAFÉ Thursday & Friday: 7AM–2PM Located on the first floor of the Commons Saturday: closed Hot and cold sandwiches, hamburgers, soups, salads, and snacks Thursday & Friday: 7:30AM–11PM Saturday: 11A M–11PM

FISH HOUSE Connected to Johnny’s Café Fair-trade coffee and small snacks Thursday & Friday: 8AM–11PM Saturday: 9A M–11PM

KNOLLCREST DINING HALL Fresh salads, sandwiches, and hot foods Thursday: 11:30AM–1:30PM, 5–7PM Friday: 11:30AM–1:30PM, 4:45–7PM Saturday: 8:30–10AM, 11:30AM–1:30PM, 4:45–6:15PM

16 FESTIVAL FACTS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr BOXED MEALS Festival attendees who pre-ordered boxed meals may pick up THURSDAY their meals at the Registration Desk in the Prince Conference Lunch: 11A M–12:30PM Center or the Information Desk in the Covenant Fine Arts Center. Dinner: 5:15–6:30PM Please be sure to present order confirmation when you pick FRIDAY & SATURDAY up your meals. Pick-up times for boxed meals are as follows: Lunch: 12:15–1:15PM Dinner: 5:45–7PM

DINING / OFF-CAMPUS Grand Rapids has a wonderful local food scene. Here are some of our favorite spots around town.

Ando Asian Kitchen / Erb Thai / tasty Thai Matchbox Diner & Drinks / Asian comfort food all-day breakfast, deli Founders Brewing Co. / hearty sandwiches, milkshakes Asian Palace / phô and sandwiches, salads, and beer other Vietnamese cuisine Mikado / casual sushi Georgina’s Fusion Cuisine / Bistro Bella Vita / modern upscale Asian and Latin New Holland Knickerbocker / French and Italian fusion (kimchi tacos!) rustic, seasonal menu plus craft beer, cider, and spirits Brewery Vivant / Belgian GoJo / Ethiopian cuisine, food and taproom vegan friendly Osteria Rossa / upscale Italian Brick Road Pizza Company / Gray Skies Distillery / Palace of India / lunch buffet traditional and vegan pizza small batch spirits and and vegetarian options unique cocktails Brown Butter Creperie / Pupuseria El Salvador / from scratch with love The Green Well / cactus & jalapeno pupusas, American gastro pub yucca fries, horchata Chapbook Café at Schuler Books and Music / soups, GR Bagel / boiled bagels, Rose’s on Reed’s Lake / sandwiches, and coffee house-cured salmon, casual American dining sandwiches, and scones with gluten-free options Cherry Deli / salads, soups, sandwiches, and a large Grove / upscale American Rowster Coffee / neighborhood selection of vegetarian items roaster with pastries Harmony Brewing Company / Chez Olga / Caribbean favorites wood-fired pizzas and salads San Chez / tapas including goat curry, fried Le Kabob / casual Shiraz Grille / Persian cuisine plantains, and creole tofu Middle Eastern The Sovengard / new Nordic / global Creston Brewery Little Africa / Ethiopian shared plates and biergarten street food and beer cuisine, vegan friendly The Sparrows / coffee, / hipster Donkey Taqueria Lyon Street Café / rich desserts pastries, and the best tacos and tequila bar and pour-over coffee newsstand in town / Downtown Market Madcap Coffee / check Stella’s Lounge / stuffed multiple artisan food out the Fulton Street Café burgers, vegan chicken vendors under one roof for homemade waffles to wings, and punk rock pair with your coffee That Early Bird / brunch, Terra / new American tacos, salads, ramen, Marie Catrib’s / modern coffee, vegan friendly Vander Mill / upscale deli with Middle Eastern American comfort food The Electric Cheetah / creative accents and vegan options and a dozen ciders on tap soups, salads, sandwiches, and Maru / upscale sushi the best sweet potato fries Wikiwiki Poke Shop / fast, fresh seafood

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TRANSPORTATION

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CARPOOLING The Rapid (city buses) If you’ve driven to the Festival, please C ridetherapid.org consider offering rides to other Festival attendees you meet. A link to a Festival Calder City Taxi C 616-454-8080 rideshare board on Facebook was included with your registration and is one option Yellow Cab for offering and accepting rides. C 616-459-4646 Paid ridesharing C uber.com C lyft.com

HOTEL SHUTTLES

Limited shuttle service THURSDAY

is provided to and from 8AM–1:30PM / Shuttle buses run between the following hotels: hotels and the Prince Conference Center

C Comfort Inn 1:30–5PM / On-call hotel shuttle service available at the Registration Desk in C Delta Hotels Grand Rapids Airport the Prince Conference Center. C Hawthorne Suites by Wyndham 5–6:30PM / Shuttle buses loop between the C Wyndham Garden Prince Conference Center and hotels. Grand Rapids Airport 6:30–10PM / Shuttle buses loop between Signs on the shuttles will indicate hotels and Van Noord Arena. which hotels they service. If you plan

to use this service, please leave plenty FRIDAY & SATURDAY of time to get to your destination. 7:30–11:30AM / Shuttle buses run between hotels and campus. Shuttles will make two stops on campus: the Prince Conference Center and the Covenant Fine Arts Center. 11:30AM–3PM / On-call hotel shuttle service available at the Registration Desk in the Prince Conference Center. 3–7PM / Shuttle buses run between hotels and campus. Shuttles will make two stops on campus: the Prince Conference Center and Van Noord Arena. Friday Late Night / On-call shuttle service available at the Registration Desk for one hour after both film screening and open mic.

18 FESTIVAL FACTS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr SCHEDULE Thursday

In the following pages, you’ll find the details of our schedule—look 8am for the icons below to help you Registration Desk opens navigate the different types of The Registration Desk will be sessions you can attend. You can temporarily located in the Fireside Room through Thursday morning. also use the Festival Mobile App Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room to customize your own schedule. Madcap Coffee Pop-Up Café opens KEYNOTE BOOK SIGNING The café is open 8am–5pm today.

KEYNOTE BOOK SIGNING DeVos Communications Center, Lobby

SOLO MUSIC PRESENTATION

GENERAL SESSIONS GENERAL SESSIONS

INTERVIEW THEATER / FILM 9am

GENERAL SESSIONS GENERAL SESSIONS Exhibit Hall opens PANEL OPEN DISCUSSION MIC The Exhibit Hall is open from 9am–6pm today. GENERAL SESSIONS OPEN MIC Prince Conference Center, Exhibit Hall READING FESTIVAL CIRCLE

GENERAL SESSIONS FESTIVAL CIRCLES

GENERAL SESSIONS Warm-Up Yoga JENNY SHEFFER-STEVENS ETC LUNCH FORUM Prime body, mind, and imagination for

GENERAL SESSIONS LUNCH FORUM the Festival with this 90-minute class that is suitable for all experience levels READING WRITING WORKSHOP WORKSHOP and bodies. We’ll practice yoga to warm, stretch, and release key muscle groups, READING WORKSHOP WRITING WORKSHOP explore the ways movement encourages COFFEE creative flow, and discover how breath BREAK acts as the interface between body and COFFEE BREAK imagination. We’ll incorporate vocal release, verbal and nonverbal forms of communication, visceral exploration of text, and conclude with deep relaxation. Hoogenboom 300 (the Dance Annex) Note: This practice is 90 minutes and lasts KEY from 9–10:30am. You’ll need to bring a yoga mat (a limited number of extra mats will be available for those who don’t have one with { } Session title with them), a large towel, comfortable clothes you session type icon can move in, pen, and paper. Suggested items include: a change of clothes and a freshen- PRESENTER NAME(S) up kit. Showers and lockers rooms are also Description of session available in the Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex. Additional involvement Location of session Additional notes as applicable

SCHEDULE / APRIL 12 / THURSDAY 19 Thursday

9:30am 10am

WRITING WORKSHOP Attention + Spirit GENERAL SESSIONS Vamos a Adorarlo JUDITH HOUGEN CARLOS COLÓN Pre-registration required. Sounds of Latino worship led by Note: This workshop is two hours, Carlos Colón for the Calvin community from 9:30–11:30am. and Festivalgoers. This daily chapel Hiemenga Hall, Room 314 service lasts 20 minutes. Calvin College Chapel

WRITING WORKSHOP Making Your Characters Their Own People MARJORIE MADDOX Pre-registration required. 10:30am Note: This workshop is two hours, from 9:30–11:30am.

READING WORKSHOP Sacred Reading, Sacred Writing: Spoelhof Center 300, Education Department Conference Room Practicing Poetry as Prayer KATHERINE WILLIS PERSHEY Inspired by the rich tradition of

WRITING WORKSHOP Self-Editing to Take Your contemplative practices, workshop Writing to the Next Level participants will engage in a series of ERIN BARTELS reading and writing exercises designed All great writers have one thing in to nurture creativity, awaken spirituality, common: they rewrite—sometimes and deepen engagement with both the dozens or even hundreds of times—until written word and the Word-made-flesh. their work is the best it can be. But in a Prince Conference Center, Board Room culture of instant gratification and do- it-yourself publishing, the kind of slow, dedicated tweaking that is a necessary part of writing is often avoided. Learn how to do an effective, targeted revision— pm to edit on the sentence, paragraph, and 12 chapter level; to reshape your voice; and

KEYNOTE Saying Yes to the Writerly Life to free yourself to finish a first draft. KWAME ALEXANDER Note: This workshop is two hours, from 9:30–11:30am. An energetic ambassador to folks around Prince Conference Center, Willow Room the world on behalf of the power of books and poetry to empower young people, Kwame Alexander shares a bit of

GENERAL SESSIONS Chapbook Construction for conversation, a dash of storytelling, and Poets, Essayists, and Short a splash of performance—all to promote Story Writers writing and reading as a way of life. ROBERT HUDSON Introduced by Gary D. Schmidt, Calvin College English Department Pre-registration required. Van Noord Arena Note: This workshop is two hours, from 9:30–11:30am. Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room

20 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS The Death and Resurrection 1:15pm of Sacred Speech JONATHAN MERRITT

BOOK SIGNING book signing According to a new study, sacred words Van Noord Arena and spiritual conversations are in rapid KWAME ALEXANDER decline among Americans. This matters Note: Local high school students will be given because, as the latest linguistic research priority in the book signing line so they can get demonstrates, the words we use impact our back to afternoon classes. Please be patient. emotions and thought patterns. But hope is not lost. Jonathan Merritt demonstrates how lovers of sacred speech can “learn to speak God from scratch” and use their words to ignite a rhetorical revolution, reviving the 1:45pm vocabulary of faith for generations to come. Introduced by Gwyneth Findlay, Calvin Center for Faith & Writing

WRITING WORKSHOP Navigating Faith and Religion in Writing Calvin College Chapel NATASHIA DEÓN

Natashia Deón explores how a writer can GENERAL SESSIONS The Enduring Appeal of Cults approach personal religious beliefs or ANBARA SALAM those of others while writing for general The success of novels like The Girls, audiences. She explains how to show Survivor, Gather the Daughters, and The spiritual feeling rather than just telling the Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly demonstrate that reader about it, how to use detail to evoke fiction readers still have a healthy—or spiritual spaces, and how to demonstrate unhealthy—interest in cults. Why do people what religion means to a character (without find cults so fascinating? Anbara Salam, including the entire history of the religion). who earned a PhD in Apocalyptic prophecy She also considers whether faith or lack of belief while writing a novel featuring a faith affects the stories writers choose to cult, explores what popular fiction about tell and how to navigate real or imagined cults reveals about our own relationship religious restrictions on creative writing. with the uncanny valley of faith. Introduced by Caitlin Horrocks, Introduced by Sarah Bass, Grand Valley State University Calvin Center for Faith & Writing Prince Conference Center, Board Room Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room

GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Anya Silver GENERAL SESSIONS Finding God (and Poetry) Anya Silver’s four books of poetry actively in All Things explore how faith can be threatened, re- MARGARITA PINTADO wrought, and deepened while living with In her poetry, Margarita Pintado searches metastatic breast cancer. Through fairy for instances in which beauty, mystery, and tales, ekphrastic poems, and meditations meaning unexpectedly coincide to reveal on memory, history, and family, Anya the poetic in the everyday. How can we seeks to create meaning and wholeness learn to see the invisible, to find miracles in out of unknowingness, wrestling belief the mundane, to find solace where we are? in an all-loving God from the daily fear How can poetry, by turning the familiar and trauma of illness. Anya reads from into something foreign and vice versa, bring her book and offers audience members the us closer to God, the world, and ourselves? opportunity to share their own experiences In this talk Margarita shares some of her of living with chronic or terminal illness insights into poetry’s power to transform and the ways in which their lives have the ordinary into the extraordinary. been impacted by their faith and writing. Introduced by Liz Page Vrooman, Introduced by Otto Selles, Calvin College Center for Student Success Calvin College French Department Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall

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GENERAL SESSIONS Publicity Confidential: READING WORKSHOP Beg/Steal/Borrow—Poetry What Authors and Publicists & Experimental Translation Wish Each Other Knew MATTHEW LANDRUM ROBIN BARNETT, CATHLEEN FALSANI, Pre-registration required. JENNIFER GRANT, KELLY HUGHES, Note: This workshop is two hours, CARYN RIVADENEIRA from 1:45–3:45pm. What’s the difference between Hiemenga Hall, Room 314 marketing and publicity? What are best practices for making the most

of the publicity-marketing one-two WRITING WORKSHOP Breaking Out the Gate: Getting punch? What are the limits of what a a Good Start to Your Story publicist can do—and what an author JACLYN DWYER can do—to promote a book effectively? Pre-registration required. How can both authors and publicists Note: Registered Festivalgoers should manage each other’s expectations bring the first 500 words of a short well? Seasoned publicists and authors story, flash fiction, or novel in progress to fully participate in the workshop. address these questions and share horror stories, happy endings, and more. Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room Prince Conference Center, Willow Room

GENERAL SESSIONS What Writers Can Learn from Flannery O’Connor’s 2:45pm Prayer Journal

JILL PELÁEZ BAUMGAERTNER, COFFEE BREAK coffee break ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby RALPH C. WOOD Hekman Library Lobby Flannery O’Connor kept a prayer journal Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room when at the Iowa School for Writers, in which she wrote, “Please let Christian

principles permeate my writing and GENERAL SESSIONS meditation break: breath please let there be enough of my writing WHITNEY R. SIMPSON (published) for Christian principles to Center Art Gallery permeate.” Three writers and scholars of O’Connor’s work discuss her journal and its fascinating look into the complexities a Christian writer faces— wanting to write to the glory of God pm but also craving an admiring audience 3 for one’s efforts. Humility and pride

BOOK SIGNING book signing stand side by side in the writer’s efforts. Campus Store What is the proper response for the JONATHAN MERRITT writer attempting this balancing act? Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall ANYA SILVER

Prince Conference Center NATASHIA DEÓN MARGARITA PINTADO ANBARA SALAM

22 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr READING WORKSHOP Giving and Receiving 3:15pm Gracious Feedback D. S. LEITER

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Kwame Alexander and Pre-registration required. Note: This workshop is two hours, Nate Marshall: Hip-Hop, from 3:15–5:15pm. Poetry, and What’s Next Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room Two writers shaped by spoken word and oral culture discuss rhythm,

GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Marie Howe publishing, and basketball. Introduced by Susan Blackwell Ramsey Interviewed by Billy Mark Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium

GENERAL SESSIONS Writing through

GENERAL SESSIONS A Prisoner and a Purpose BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY Devotion and Darkness Early in her career, journalist Barbara MACY HALFORD Bradley Hagerty knew the types of stories “I am terrified,” wrote Sylvia Plath, “of this dark that drew her—stories of injustice, of thing / That sleeps within me.” Writing is an people wrongly convicted or trapped in act of bringing light. But how can we write a legal system that can be blind to the when our minds are cluttered and confused, truth. At NPR and other news outlets, when the darkness seems to lie within? she touched on those stories now and Drawing on her recent book about the beloved again. Then she investigated the murder evangelical daily devotional My Utmost for His conviction of Ben Spencer in a recent Highest, Macy Halford explores creativity as an Atlantic article. In her talk, she weaves act of devotion, focusing on how a daily practice the story of Ben Spencer—a man who has can transform the drudgery and difficulty that spent the past 30 years in a Texas prison often attend writing into “a glorious struggle.” for a crime he may not have committed— Introduced by Debra Rienstra, into the story of her own search for, and Calvin Center for Faith & Writing discovery of, a worthy purpose in life. Prince Conference Center, Board Room Introduced by Christina Edmondson, Calvin College, Intercultural Student Development

GENERAL SESSIONS A Reporter’s Notebook: Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Writing from the Holy Land EMMA GREEN

READING WORKSHOP Silence and Beauty in the Jerusalem is one of the most faith-filled Sister Books of Shusaku Endo places in the world—a religion reporter’s and Makoto Fujimura dream, but also a potential minefield SHANN RAY of controversy. Political issues in Israel are perennially reoccurring; narratives Makoto Fujimura’s explication of the about identity, claims to the land, and novel Silence by Shusaku Endo in his own historical sins loom large. Emma Green book Silence and Beauty sets the stage explores the challenges of reporting on for a discussion of the soul of Christ, the land that is so holy to so many people the Anima Christi, at work in the world. and addresses some of the biases and Participants engage themes of humility foibles of media coverage in this little vs. self-reliance, the Judas shadow in stretch of desert. She talks about the mystical life, and the restorative beauty differences in reporting on religion in of Christ in the silent wake of American the United States and abroad and how and global genocidal amnesia. she fills her notebooks in this complex— Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room never boring!—reporting environment. Introduced by Lyz Lenz, The Rumpus DeVos Communications Center, Bytwerk Theater

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GENERAL SESSIONS Playfulness, Creativity, and Bravery 4:30pm JENNIFER TRAFTON

BOOK SIGNING book signing Jennifer Trafton discusses the importance Campus Store of playfulness in creativity as a means of overcoming fear and inhibition in both MARIE HOWE children and adults, using examples JENNIFER TRAFTON from her creative writing classes and workshops. She talks about her own Prince Conference Center struggles with fear as a writer and artist BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY and her long, rocky journey towards MACY HALFORD publication, mirrored in her latest novel Henry and the Chalk Dragon. Of special interest to parents and educators, but

relevant to anyone who needs to rediscover GENERAL SESSIONS Holding Space, Creating Space: their childlike love for creative play. A Southern Baptist Embraces Introduced by Donald Hettinga, Daoism Calvin College English Department AFAA M. WEAVER Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall In 1973, Afaa Weaver began reading the Dao De Jing; five years later, he began practicing Taijiquan; and 29 years later GENERAL SESSIONS Whose Story Is It Anyway? When Ministers Write Memoirs he began a daily practice of Daoist SUSAN BALLER-SHEPARD, RUTH sitting meditation. This integrative EVERHART, MARY S. HULST, BARBARA practice now constitutes the core of MELOSH, CAROL HOWARD MERRITT his faith, and he discusses his growing Memoirists who are ministers face awareness of its real and potential particular ethical questions as they tell benefits for his personal development stories of congregational life and share and his creative development as a poet. personal stories that push the boundaries of Introduced by Grace Ji-Sun Kim, what a leader ordinarily discloses. But these Earlham School of Religion underlying questions are shared by all who Calvin Seminary, Chapel write memoir. Whose story is it, anyway, and what are the writer’s responsibilities to

GENERAL SESSIONS The Risks of Writing on Race— those who share their stories? In this panel, and the Obligation to Continue clergywomen discuss navigating these lines in the context of their pastoral vocation. SHANNON DINGLE, DOROTHY LITTELL GRECO, CAROLINA HINOJOSA-CISNEROS, Calvin College Chapel CARA MEREDITH Do white writers have an obligation to use their influence and privilege to serve as GENERAL SESSIONS Making Space: The Literary Journal as Witness allies to people of color? These writers argue yes, despite the fact that painful mistakes DANIEL BOWMAN, ANGELA DOLL CARLSON, NATHANIEL LEE HANSEN, are inevitable. They discuss the personal KATIE MANNING, BRIANNA VAN DYKE cost of writing about race, what it means Small journals have a unique role in the to serve with an open and humble heart, literary ecosystem, building readers by and how to respond when things get ugly. cultivating and publishing enduring Prince Conference Center, Willow Room work. In this panel, four editors of small magazines discuss the role of the literary journal in the life of readers of faith, the push and pull of the “market” versus the “craft,” and how to make space for both spiritual writers and spiritual readers. Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall

24 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS What’s a Peacebuilder? GENERAL SESSIONS Queja con Alas: ABIGAIL DISNEY A Lament with Wings Along with Gini Reticker, Abigail Disney CARLOS COLÓN founded Fork Films in 2007 to create and Carlos Colón, a Salvadoran-American support media that makes an important composer, reflects on how lament, as found societal contribution. Fork Films puts in traditional prayers and poetry, gives us a particular emphasis on projects that language and raw material to express anger bring women’s voices to the forefront. and hope. Carlos takes Salvadoran poetry as Abigail discusses her work on the award- a point of departure to guide us through the winning documentaries Pray the Devil painful history of his resilient people, and Back to Hell and The Armor of Light he envisions a future where Salvadorans and explores what it might look like can partner with the community of to build peace through storytelling. nations to emerge forever from the depths Introduced by Peter Ford, of a legacy of oppression and violence. Calvin Center for Faith & Writing Introduced by Linda Naranjo-Huebl, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall Calvin College English Department Calvin College Chapel

WRITING WORKSHOP Becoming a Successful Blogger

without Selling Your Soul GENERAL SESSIONS Liturgy Where the JONATHAN MERRITT Prayer Books Ends You believe in your ideas, but how do you LAURA EVERETT break through the noise and deliver those After her car died, pastor and author Laura ideas to a wider audience? Jonathan Merritt Everett joined the ranks of Boston’s cyclists, knows this struggle well and has spent many of them non-religious or defiantly the last decade developing and testing a anti-religious. Within this community, simple path toward sucess as a blogger— a “ghost bike” is a public memorial one that any writer can implement. where a cyclist has been killed, and their He shares how to expand readership dedications are communal practices of joy and build a platform while avoiding and grief beyond the scope of prayer books. the common pitfalls of sensationalism Laura explores how you deduce a liturgy and shameless self-promotion. and write faithfully and respectfully about Introduced by Julia Mason, the spiritual practices of others, even those Calvin College English Department who don’t consider themselves spiritual. Calvin Seminary, Auditorium Introduced by Emily Ulmer, Western Theological Seminary Commons Annex, Lecture Hall

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Natashia Deón and Suzanne M. Wolfe: Walking the Line between Fact and Fiction in Historical Novels Natashia Deón and Suzanne M. Wolfe discuss writing novels based on real people and events, including what liberties to take and when. They also address why stories rooted in history are so compelling. Interviewed by Marlys Admiraal, Calvin College English Department Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room

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GENERAL SESSIONS The Academy and the Art of Religious Biography 6pm DAVID BRATT, HEATH W. CARTER, ELESHA J. COFFMAN, KRISTIN FESTIVAL CIRCLES festival circles KOBES DU MEZ, NANCY KOESTER, See page 50 for details. GEORGE MARSDEN, ANNE BLUE WILLS Religious biographies are immensely popular among both readers and writers of all stripes. This panel brings together accomplished historians and editors who publish for both the academy and lay 7:30pm readers. They discuss accessible research

methods that can enhance all kinds of GENERAL SESSIONS receptions writing projects, the art of crafting spiritual See page 81 for a list of on-campus biographies, and the spiritual rewards gatherings open to Festivalgoers tonight. of reading and writing about history. Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium GENERAL SESSIONS What We Need Is Here: An Evening of Song and Spoken Words with GENERAL SESSIONS Writing through Doubt: Quieting the Voices That Parker J. Palmer and Say You Can’t Do This Carrie Newcomer CATHERINE KNEPPER, We live in hard times, and hope is YASMINA DIN MADDEN, sometimes hard to come by. But by faith KALI VANBAALE, JENNIFER WILSON and the evidence of our own eyes, we know Who are we to write? Why have we been that “what we need is here” (to steal a line called? How do you claim time for a creative from Wendell Berry). In a time when it’s pursuit in today’s world? From early draft easy to feel overwhelmed, discouraged, or to revision to the publishing process, the cynical, Carrie, Parker, and pianist Gary hard work of writing can create debilitating Walters offer a journey of mind and spirit self doubt—doubt about voice, audience, characterized by thoughtfulness, realism, authenticity, the merit of the work, even vulnerability, good humor, and hope. the right to call oneself a writer. This panel Introduced by Jennifer L. Holberg, of working authors offers strategies for Calvin Center for Faith & Writing fear of submitting, understanding peer Van Noord Arena critique, finding writing community, and creating a balance between the real world and the creative life—all vital tools to help writers combat doubt. Prince Conference Center, Board Room 9pm

BOOK SIGNING book and music signing Van Noord Arena CARRIE NEWCOMER 5:45pm PARKER J. PALMER

BOOK SIGNING book signing Campus Store LAURA EVERETT AFAA M. WEAVER SUZANNE M. WOLFE

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7am 8:30am

Madcap Coffee GENERAL SESSIONS Choosing Us Pop-Up Café opens DEIDRA RIGGS The café is open 7am–4pm today. How do we put our focus on self- DeVos Communications Center, Lobby preservation aside and make the first move toward reconciliation? Deidra Riggs offers space to explore the choices we make as writers and readers—to do, to speak, to keep silent, to endure, to forgive, am or not to forgive. What do our choices 8 say to us, and to others, about what we believe about one another? Deidra reveals

WRITING WORKSHOP Shaping Family History the walls we’ve built, the lines we’ve in Compelling Stories drawn, the grudges we hold, and the doors ANNETTE GENDLER we’ve closed, all of which perpetuate our Pre-registration required. perceived polarity and divisiveness. We Note: This workshop is just under two hours can choose to stay where we are, or we and is designed so participants can get to a can choose to try something different. 10am session if they’d like. Introduced by Elisha Marr, Calvin College Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room Sociology and Social Work Department Calvin College Chapel

WRITING WORKSHOP Short Story Lab HUGH COOK

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with John Pre-registration required. Wilson and Macy Halford: The Note: This workshop is just under two hours State of the Evangelical Mind and is designed so participants can get to a 10am session if they’d like. Historian Mark Noll helped launch Hiemenga Hall, Room 314 Books & Culture in 1995, the year after his landmark book The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind was released. And for the next 21 years, under the editorial guidance of John Wilson, the bimonthly review engaged arts and culture from a Christian perspective, testifying to many of a new era of evangelical intellectual vigor. Now, almost two years after the last issue of Books & Culture was published, John Wilson and Macy Halford reflect on the current state of the evangelical mind, the fault lines around evangelical identity, and the faithful arts and culture criticism they find compelling now. Interviewed by Heath W. Carter, Valparaiso University Prince Conference Center, Board Room

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GENERAL SESSIONS On Writing and Mindfulness WRITING WORKSHOP How to Conduct Interviews DINTY W. MOORE That Enhance Your Stories Writers must develop the art of seeing DEAN NELSON with fresh eyes, thinking with open Whether you’re writing fiction or minds, searching the nooks and crannies nonfiction, sometimes you need someone of any subject to find what has not yet else’s perspective in order to make your been explored (or what might be explored stories more accurate and authentic. How further to shed original light). Otherwise, do you get sources to talk to you? How do we’re just playing with language, and you get past clichés and one-word answers? though language is a wonderful gift, How do you capture a person’s voice? How here play is not the goal. Dinty W. Moore do you get over your own insecurity and explores how writers can nurture shyness? A seasoned journalist guides the habit of mindfulness in thought you into getting the best information and observation rather than seeing or out of even the most inexperienced, hearing only what’s on the surface or reluctant, or too-talkative sources. only what they expect to see and hear. Calvin Seminary, Auditorium Introduced by Beth Peterson, Grand Valley State University

DeVos Communication Center, Bytwerk Theater WRITING WORKSHOP Writing and Revising Religious Poetry and Prose MIRIAM BAT-AMI, JANET RUTH HELLER

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Afaa M. Weaver Pre-registration required. Note: This workshop is two Afaa M. Weaver discusses how his 15 hours, from 8:30–10:30am. years of writing poetry at night while Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room working in a factory laid the foundation for subsequent decades as a professor and celebrated writer, the spiritual GENERAL SESSIONS Against Scarcity: Generosity practices that have sustained him and Writing Communities through tragedy, and the relationship JESSICA GOUDEAU, STINA KIELSMEIER- between thinking and doing. COOK, D. L. MAYFIELD, KELLEY Interviewed by Sarina Gruver Moore, NIKONDEHA, AMY PETERSON, Grove City College CHRISTIANA N. PETERSON Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall Four years ago, the panelists were mostly unpublished writers who admired each other’s work. They started a writing group

WRITING WORKSHOP On Finding and Growing over email, editing each other’s work each Ideas for Fiction month; then they started talking daily SHAWN SMUCKER via an app; finally, they met in-person at Christian publishing needs the new and the 2014 Festival. Since then, three have exciting voices of those who are able to published books and two have contracts. write outside current market boundaries. They have acted as agents and editors But fresh ideas for novels or short stories for each other, shared connections and sometimes seem hard to come by. In ideas, and accomplished things they never this workshop each attendee cultivates would have accomplished alone. Here they their own ideas for fiction writing by discuss their experience and offer advice for beginning with character creation finding vital forms of creative community. and then working through setting, Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft conflict, and the formation of a plot. Commons Annex, Alumni Board Room

28 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS Pocket Journals CHRISTINE DARRAGH 9am Pre-registration required. Exhibit Hall opens Note: This workshop is two hours, from 8:30–10:30am. The Exhibit Hall is open 9am–6pm today. Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 297 Prince Conference Center, Exhibit Hall

GENERAL SESSIONS Writing as Action, Writing as Contemplation: Interacting with Thomas Merton 9:30am BEN BRAZIL, LYNN DOMINA, DAVE HARRITY, SOPHFRONIA SCOTT

COFFEE BREAK coffee break As a poet, essayist, and memoirist, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby Thomas Merton described the struggles Hekman Library Lobby and rewards of a contemplative life, Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room yet he also remained engaged with the challenges of his time. Modern writers

of faith face similar challenges, for GENERAL SESSIONS meditation break: writing requires similar commitments centering prayer to the contemplative life, yet we are J. DANA TRENT nearly always writing to and for someone Center Art Gallery else—God, the community, readers not yet born. Panelists discuss how Merton influences, cautions, encourages, intimidates, and challenges them. Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium 9:45am

GENERAL SESSIONS Crossing Cultures: Among BOOK SIGNING book signing Others, Embracing Others Campus Store AARON BROWN, SUSANNA CHILDRESS, DEIDRA RIGGS NATASHA OLADOKUN, SHANN RAY What happens when, as an outsider, you Prince Conference Center are welcomed into and become a part of a DINTY W. MOORE community? At the same time, what are the slippages and breaking points that separate you from that community? How do you accurately and lovingly represent the community in writing? In this panel, writers who have grown up in varied cultural contexts—Native American reservations, the Philippines, Chad, and the Nigerian diaspora—share their opinions on what it means to write from a place of solidarity and of difference and discuss the responsibility as writers of faith to embrace and understand the other. Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall

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GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Abigail 10am Disney and Dorothy Fortenberry In the era of #MeToo and Time’s Up,

GENERAL SESSIONS Too Much to Ask: Hollywood is clearly an interesting place A Celebration of Luci Shaw for women. Producer Abigail Disney LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS, LUCI SHAW, and screenwriter Dorothy Fortenberry AND FRIENDS discuss faith, film, and feminism. The Baron Lecture Interviewed by Jennifer L. Holberg, A vital force in faithful literary publishing Calvin Center for Faith & Writing for more than a half century, Luci Shaw’s Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium poems, essays, editorial guidance, and friendship have left an indelible mark

on countless readers and writers. In this GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with hour, several readers offer their own Parker J. Palmer and Carrie stories of how a poem she wrote changed Newcomer: On Art and Activism their lives, interspersed with Luci reading Parker J. Palmer and Carrie Newcomer these poems. Luci offers concluding discuss art as a potent force for social remarks, including a reading from her change, how creative collaboration forthcoming collection of poetry and its sustains them, and what activists opening essay, “On Poets and Prophets.” need to know now more than ever. Introduced by Henry Baron, Calvin Interviewed by Shirley Hershey Showalter College English Department Emeritus Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium

GENERAL SESSIONS Godsong Resung: A Tour

GENERAL SESSIONS Religious Readers and Sexually of the Bhagavad-Gita Transgressive Fiction: “What AMIT MAJMUDAR Does Your Husband Think?” Poet and novelist Amit Majmudar has JAMIE QUATRO created a verse translation of the ancient Jamie Quatro is often asked—especially by Indian scripture in living American English, southern, “religious” readers—“What does this translation is painstakingly close to your husband think about your work?” the original Sanskrit. In this talk, Amit What inherently sexist assumptions are walks his listeners through the Gita from buried in this question? Why is art that beginning to end. Selections from his new depicts illicit sexual desire offensive, translation illuminate the setting, drama, specifically, to the church? Does Matthew and philosophy of this profound poem of 5’s “thinking = doing” apply to the reading friendship and existential questioning. and writing of fiction? Jamie explores these Introduced by Cheryl K. Brandsen, questions in the context of the current Calvin College Office of the Provost socio-political polarization in America, Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room in which secular readers find serious treatment of Christian themes ludicrous,

while readers on the “evangelical” right GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with find explicit sexual content related to Barbara Bradley Hagerty spirituality obscene, even blasphemous. and Tony Norman Introduced by Mara Naselli Two journalists who’ve seen their industry Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall undergo radical transformation over the last three decades talk about their own careers’ twists and turns, how new technology

GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Nate Marshall does and doesn’t affect the fundamentals Nate Marshall reads from his poetry of good writing and storytelling, and collection, Wild Hundreds. the future of the Fourth Estate. Introduced by Michelle Loyd Paige, Interviewed by Jesse Holcomb, Calvin College Office of the President Calvin College English Department Prince Conference Center, Board Room Calvin Seminary, Auditorium

30 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr WRITING WORKSHOP The Clever Researcher: Finding and Integrating 11:15am Source Material without Campus Store Sounding Like an Academic JAMIE QUATRO LUCI SHAW WENDY BILEN We tend to think of research as the work Prince Conference Center of scientists or scholars, but sources can AMIT MAJMUDAR significantly strengthen our creative writing. NATE MARSHALL Infusing prose with researched detail creates depth and credibility and enriches narrative. This process involves moving beyond critical dates and facts to contextual elements such as weather and social norms. Deduction, documents such as military 11:30am records, and old maps can inform and even

help craft our narratives. This workshop GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with explores where to look for information, how Edwidge Danticat to find unexpected nuggets in traditional Edwidge Danticat talks about grappling sources, and how to incorporate material with memory, mothers and daughters, with a creative, non-academic touch. politics and powers, religions, Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room Haiti—and maybe spirits, love, and death. In other words, she answers questions about her life and stories.

GENERAL SESSIONS Freelancing Isn’t Free: Interviewed by Dean Ward, Calvin How to Get Paid to Write College English Department Emeritus DORCAS CHENG-TOZUN, ED CYZEWSKI, Prince Conference Center, Willow Room EDWARD GILBREATH, CARA MEREDITH, KATE SHELLNUTT

Many writers dream of getting paid to write GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Dave Harrity but find themselves stuck writing blog posts, Introduced by Jake Schepers, guest posts, and other articles that “pay” University of Notre Dame in social media numbers without offering Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room a clear path toward paid writing work. By sharing personal stories and experiences, a

GENERAL SESSIONS Reading, Writing, and diverse panel of seasoned writers, authors, and editors provide helpful tips to those the Art of Preaching eager to take writing to the next level FLEMING RUTLEDGE through editing, blogging, writing articles Reading, especially literary fiction, is for magazines, publishing books, and more. vital to writing good sermons. Fleming Spoelhof Center, Lab Theater Rutledge discusses the writers who have influenced her own preaching, the beauty and power of well-constructed sentences,

GENERAL SESSIONS Writing for Our Lives and why theologians must love books. MARLENA PROPER GRAVES, LISA Introduced by Kristine Johnson, SHARON HARPER, KATHY KHANG Calvin College English Department Some industry professionals advise authors Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium against writing about polarizing social issues or using social media to express political opinions. Experts fear it will affect writers’ platforms—costing authors readers and sales. In this session, three writers count their personal costs for speaking out and explore the sometimes fraught relationships between book sales, platforms, and moral conviction. Commons Annex, Lecture Hall

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WRITING WORKSHOP Examining the Space GENERAL SESSIONS Truth Has Stumbled in the of the Page in Your Poems Streets: Writing Faithfully ROB STEPHENS about Social Issues Pre-registration required. KIMBERLY BURGE, MADELEINE MYSKO, Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft KATHLEEN O’TOOLE The prophet Jeremiah said that when truth stumbles in the streets, honesty

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Emma cannot enter. Writing from Mississippi Green and Sarah Pulliam Bailey during the Civil Rights era, Eudora Welty Reporters covering the “God beat” have pondered a question, “Must the novelist never been busier. Emma Green and crusade?” When writers take up social and Sarah Pulliam Bailey discuss why political issues, how do we aim to create most news stories are really religion art rather than propaganda? A narrative stories, what interviews took them journalist, a novelist, and a poet grapple by surprise, and why women have with the tension between conviction and become so prominent in the field. proselytizing, frankly discussing times Interviewed by Jana Riess, Religion News Service when they felt they succeeded as well DeVos Communications Center, Bytwerk Theater as times when fear of stumbling made the work more difficult—and crucial. Spoelhof Center, Lab Theater

GENERAL SESSIONS Come and Go with Me WALT WANGERIN JR.

After a serious cancer diagnosis, Walt GENERAL SESSIONS The Ethics of Going Dark in Wangerin has thought about and written Middle-Grade Literature about the time before the end of life. Here KAREN COATS, NIKKI GRIMES, he tells the story of his experience. ALEXANDRIA LAFAYE Introduced by Elizabeth A. Vander Lei, Representing the emotional experience Calvin College Office of the Provost of loss children feel as they transition Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room into early adolescence, either directly or through metaphor, can be challenging for writers. Especially for writers

GENERAL SESSIONS Family Business: The Problems exploring the redemptive possibilities— and Possibilities of Writing and sometimes negative outcomes—of about Our Kids’ Lives ordinary or extraordinary trauma and BETH ADAMS, AMY JULIA BECKER, hardship, honesty requires avoiding MICHA BOYETT, GRACE JI-SUN KIM simplistic resolutions. In this panel, Our lives, and our children’s, intersect. two award-winning authors and a But what stories are “mine” to tell, and literary critic discuss the ethics and what stories belong to them alone? In craft of writing honest yet redemptive what ways can telling our family stories, fiction for middle grades. including anecdotes about our children, Prince Conference Center, Board Room harm them? In what ways might it benefit them? What will our kids think when

they read about themselves later on in life? GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Marie Howe How do we protect them and write about and Pádraig Ó Tuama: Poetry them at the same time? Panelists address and the Body Politic both practical concerns and philosophical “Language is almost all we have left of questions about how to welcome strangers action in the modern world,” observes into our family’s stories while also Marie Howe. She and Pádraig Ó Tuama protecting the privacy of our children. discuss the political possibilities of poetry: Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall to bear witness, to inspire the moral imagination, and to provide perspective on our neighbors’ lives and the broader world. Interviewed by Micah Lott, Boston College Calvin College Chapel

32 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS Writing about Animals with LUNCH FORUM How to Write—and Live—When the Respect They Deserve the World Is Burning LONNIE HULL DUPONT, SARAH ARTHUR, KYLE DAVID BENNETT, SUSY FLORY, ALISON HODGSON, CHRISTINA JASKO, ERIN F. WASINGER KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR Is it possible to chase the writing life and The animals we love are either cute, smart, also care about your neighbor? Can you or super intuitive, right? But what if they be a parent and still pursue social justice? are none of the above? This panel delves Join Sarah Arthur and Erin F. Wasinger, into the joys and pitfalls of writing about coauthors of The Year of Small Things: the creatures who share our lives; who have Radical Faith for the Rest of Us, and Kyle their own personalities, wants, desires, David Bennett, author of Practices of Love: and opinions; and who are increasingly Spiritual Disciplines for the Life of the World, being perceived as the unique and for a panel discussion on how writing can valuable sentient beings they truly are. fit with the call to follow Jesus in the world. Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium The first 100 people will receive a complimentary copy of The Year of Small Things! Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft Sponsored by Brazos Press 12:45pm LUNCH FORUM The Creative and Spiritual Possibilities of Making Lists

LUNCH FORUM The Art and Wonder of Writing and Marketing for MARILYN MCENTYRE At this luncheon gathering you’ll be Children and Teens invited to try out some of the various ANNETTE BOURLAND, LORIE LANGDON, approaches to list-making that can open GLENYS NELLIST wide avenues of reflection. We’ll talk Have you ever wanted to write a children’s about how list-making can allow you to picture book? Has YA fiction captured surprise yourself into seeing problems your imagination and writing zeal? It or possibilities from new angles and takes a special kind of writer to create how it can help you move toward greater stories (and intrigue!) for children and specificity in planning, self-awareness, and young adults. Writing for them requires prayer. We’ll look at how lists can “grow not only a degree of child-brain and up” to be poems, how they might become kid-memory, but a certain skill set and tables of contents for books you haven’t calling. In our time together, Zondervan written yet, and how they may deepen your publisher Annette Bourland will appreciation of people you care about. introduce two dynamic writers. Glenys Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Nellist will share how she made her Sponsored by the Wm. B. Eerdmans picture-book writing dream a reality and Publishing Company some effective marketing lessons she’s learned along the way. Then, best-selling

author Lorie Langdon will share how a BOOK SIGNING book signing story she’s dreamed of for years became Campus Store a reality and how dynamic marketing FLEMING RUTLEDGE goes hand-in-hand with great content. WALT WANGERIN JR. The first 10 attendees who arrive to the forum will receive a signed copy of either Prince Conference Center Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon or Love Letters from God by Glenys Nellist. DAVE HARRITY Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall Sponsored by Zondervan

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LUNCH FORUM Still Evangelical in the GENERAL SESSIONS Cultivating Compassion through Age of #MeToo? Literature for Young Readers KATELYN BEATY, KATHY KHANG, NIKKI GRIMES KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, DEIDRA RIGGS, There’s a great deal of discussion about SANDRA MARIA VAN OPSTAL the need for diversity in children’s and YA What does it mean to call yourself an literature, a topic routinely viewed from evangelical in the wake of the 2016 election? the perspective of numbers and statistics. Does the word still hold meaning and value? Is While it’s true that the growing shift in it repulsive or can it be redeemed? InterVarsity population toward a greater percentage of Press recently released Still Evangelical? people of color in this country heightens in which essayists tackle these questions, the need for diverse literature, a great deal exploring the genesis of the word and what more is at stake than how the numbers the future could possibly hold. This lunch shake out. Sharing a mixture of her poetry forum takes those questions a step further and prose, Nikki comments on a larger and asks what does it mean to be evangelical issue, namely where compassion fits into and female in 2018? Join us for a brief panel the diverse-literature equation. We have the discussion with women who have been powerful opportunity and responsibility both thoughtful and vocal on the topic of to plant seeds of empathy and cultivate evangelicalism today and who will examine compassion through the intentional this question in light of political movements use of well-crafted diverse literature in in the United States, the church’s response to our libraries, classrooms, and homes. #MeToo, and current trends in evangelicalism. Introduced by Kim Doele Prince Conference Center, Board Room Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium Sponsored by InterVarsity Press

GENERAL SESSIONS A Bike Ride through Grand Rapids LAURA EVERETT 2pm Join Laura Everett, author of Holy Spokes: The Search for Urban Spirituality on Two Wheels, and Martel Posey, executive director of Spoke

GENERAL SESSIONS Poems and Stories That Save PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA Folks, for a short bike ride through Grand Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama Rapids. The 10-mile route will be largely explores a spirituality of language and flat and accessible for most riders. Park your story that faces conflict, exorcisms, murder, bikes outside the DeVos Communications and suicide. Responding to personal Center and meet in the lobby for a distress with language both powerful brief orientation and instructions. The and gentle, Pádraig sees that both poetry group will reassemble there for and story—sacred stories and personal reflections from Laura after the ride. stories—might be the thing to save us. Introduced by Jon Brown, Calvin Center for Faith & Writing Introduced by Chloe Selles, Calvin Center for Faith & Writing DeVos Communications Center, lobby Calvin College Chapel

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Jamie Quatro and April Ayers Lawson: GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Sex, the Spirit, Short Stories, Walt Wangerin Jr. and the South Twelve years after their last conversation Jamie Quatro and April Ayers Lawson discuss at the Festival, Karen Saupe interviews the twin desires of spirituality and sexuality Walt Wangerin Jr. about the surprising in their work, the craft of short stories, twist in his final act and his storied and how the South shapes their writing. career as a writer, reader, and pastor. Interviewed by Amy Frykholm, Interviewed by Karen Saupe, Christian Century Calvin College English Department Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall Spoelhof Center, Lab Theater

34 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS On Living, Making WRITING WORKSHOP Advancing Fiction Narratives Meaning, and Writing via Character Development KERRY EGAN KATHERINE JAMES People are meaning-making creatures. We Pre-registration required. search for and make meaning of the events Note: This workshop is two hours, from 2–4pm. of our lives in the stories we tell. Meaning Hiemenga Hall, Room 314 making is the hallmark of both the writing and the spiritual life, yet it isn’t something

we always notice. Kerry Egan explores GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with how the great spiritual practices can teach Sandy Sasso us to be more aware of how we make Sandy Sasso discusses being the first meaning in our writing and in our lives. woman ordained as a rabbi in the Introduced by Stacia Hoeksema, Calvin College Reconstructionist branch of Judaism, how Sociology and Social Work Department Hasidic tales introduced her to the power of Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room storytelling, and why thoughtful spiritual formation for young people is so important. Interviewed by Mary S. Hulst, READING WORKSHOP Bullet Journaling for Calvin College Office of the Chaplain Readers and Writers Prince Conference Center, Willow Room JENNIFER TRAFTON Jennifer Trafton muses on her “theology

of beautiful lists” and discusses how she GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with uses a Bullet Journal as a creative outlet, Amit Majmudar a therapeutic tool, a way to keep track of A radiologist and poet, a family man and reading and writing projects, and a strategy novelist, Amit Majmudar has said his life’s for spiritual, mental, and vocational work “all has to do with pattern.” In this decluttering. Audience interaction interview, Amit will field questions about and doodling highly encouraged. the patterns that his poems, fictions, and Introduced by Amanda Smartt, essays examine: those we inherit from Calvin Center for Faith & Writing our families, cultures, and religions; those Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room we invent in our art and politics; and those we intuit at work in the cosmos. Interviewed by Jane Zwart,

GENERAL SESSIONS Writing Well about Adoption— Calvin Center for Faith & Writing and Other Complicated Things Prince Conference Center, Board Room LORILEE CRAKER, MELISSA FRANTZ, JESSICA GOUDEAU, KELLEY NIKONDEHA

Writers wrestle with complex things— GENERAL SESSIONS Why Don’t Men Read Women death, depression, racism, gentrification, Writers? Closing the Gender Gap and, yes, adoption. The stakes are high; in Christian Publishing our words affect our families and KATELYN BEATY, ROBERT N. HOSACK, communities. And it matters if we write AL HSU, JEN POLLOCK MICHEL, well or not, especially when we write TISH HARRISON WARREN about things that change over time and According to panelist Al Hsu’s doctoral our words sit static on the page. These research, women read relatively panelists—writers who have all adopted equally between male and female and/or been adopted—explore how to authors (54%/46%), whereas men are write, wrestle with, and transform such much more likely to read male authors stories with honesty. In these days fraught than female authors (90%/10%). with complexity and polarization, can we This panel explores reasons for this learn together in humility and grace? gender gap as well as practical ways Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium in which women writers might gain a broader readership among men. Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall

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GENERAL SESSIONS My Prosperity Gospel 3pm KATE BOWLER As an expert in the American prosperity

COFFEE BREAK coffee break gospel, Kate Bowler had a good handle Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby on why Americans are obsessed with Hekman Library Lobby being #blessed. But after her own cancer Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room diagnosis, she discovered that she was a little more invested than she realized. Introduced by Kristin Kobes Du Mez,

GENERAL SESSIONS meditation break: Calvin College History Department lectio divina Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium WHITNEY R. SIMPSON Center Art Gallery

GENERAL SESSIONS Learning to Tell Great Stories LEA THAU Drawing from her decades developing stories for projects including The Moth pm and Strangers podcasts, Lea Thau discusses 3:15 the key principles of great storytelling and offers concrete tips for creating

BOOK SIGNING book signing compelling narratives both on and off Campus Store the page. She explores how to grab an NIKKI GRIMES audience’s attention—and keep it—by LORIE LANGDON building suspense, landing your points, GLENYS NELLIST using the right details, developing a story arc, delivering your story in the Prince Conference Center manner that best suits your audience KERRY EGAN and personal strengths, and more. MARILYN MCENTYRE Introduced by Micah Lott, Boston College PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA Prince Conference Center, Willow Room

GENERAL SESSIONS Lost to History: Giving Voice to Augustine’s Concubine SUZANNE M. WOLFE Suzanne M. Wolfe reads short passages 3:30pm from her novel The Confessions of X and discusses the project of imagining a life

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with for the mother of Augustine’s child. Jen Hatmaker Introduced by Katherine Swart, Dale Brown Memorial Interview Calvin College Hekman Library Anyone who has read Jen Hatmaker Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall knows she writes with a winsome combination of authenticity and

hilarity. Having known success as GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Oliver de la Paz a bestselling writer, Jen has also Introduced by Chris Haven, Grand Valley State University undergone criticism for stances she has taken in recent years. This wide- Prince Conference Center, Board Room ranging interview explores it all. Interviewed by Jennifer L. Holberg, Calvin Center for Faith & Writing Calvin College Chapel

36 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with GENERAL SESSIONS Confessions of a Newspaper Carlos Colón and Adam Tice: Columnist in an Angry Age The Shared Psalms TONY NORMAN The Psalms have long been a source of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Tony inspiration to composers across cultures, Norman has been writing about the religious traditions, and political contexts. intersection of race, politics, and culture A Reformed worship leader interviews twice a week since 1996. There has never a Mennonite hymn text writer from been a shortage of hot topics, but in the the United States and an ecumenical last two years, the temperature of everyday composer from El Salvador about their discourse has steadily risen. Suddenly creative work in bringing the Psalms to the public square is a very angry place. life in fresh ways today. Together, they Commentators on every platform have explore their approaches and sing a to deal with the weight of their words in few examples of their psalm settings. ways they never have before. He asks: Is Interviewed by Emily R. Brink, there a way to resist the powers-that-be Calvin Institute for Christian Worship without succumbing to partisan anger Calvin Seminary, Chapel and hatred? Or does speaking truth to power necessitate raising the temperature of political and cultural discourse?

GENERAL SESSIONS Daughters Writing Introduced by Paul E. Bylsma, about Mothers Calvin College Alumni Association JILL PELÁEZ BAUMGAERTNER, Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room BARBARA CROOKER, ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL, JEANNE MURRAY WALKER

The mother/daughter relationship is GENERAL SESSIONS Writing behind Bars complex and often further complicated KIMBERLEY BENEDICT, PHIL CHRISTMAN, by toxic patterns and a reversal of roles COZINE WELCH, THE CPI WRITERS’ CLUB as the parent ages. In this session, four Prison both monopolizes time and wastes writers examine both the intimacy and it. Inmates lose control (of their time, distance in their relationships with their safety, and labor) yet spend many hours mothers and describe the process, tensions, in enforced solitude and idleness. No and challenges of capturing what are surprise, then, if many take up writing—a sometimes-fraught mother/daughter habit often found among people who have friendships in poetry and prose, where time but little power. How does writing imperfection and loss become public. in prison differ from writing in the free Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall world? How can readers and writers outside of prison support their fellow readers and writers in prison—without slipping into

GENERAL SESSIONS In Others’ Words condescension, or worse, exploitation? This SETH HAINES, KATHY KHANG, panel explores these questions and checks SHAWN SMUCKER in via video with a group of writers at the The co-writer is tasked with a particularly Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility difficult form of writing: that of getting in Ionia, Michigan—writers who are also down some other person’s words, some undergraduate students at Calvin College, other person’s story. How does one go about part of a partnership between the college doing such a thing, practically speaking? and Calvin Theological Seminary that Artistically speaking? This panel explores provides a liberal arts education to inmates. these questions plus the economics of DeVos Communications Center, Bytwerk Theater co-writing and the ethics of ghostwriting. Commons Annex, Lecture Hall

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5pm 7:30pm

KEYNOTE An Evening with

GENERAL SESSIONS Film Screening: Edwidge Danticat De Verloren Zoon Wiersma Memorial Lecture JAAP VAN HEUSDEN Introduced by Isabelle Selles, Calvin Center for Faith & Writing Enjoy light refreshments before a screening of Jaap van Heusden’s De Verloren Zoon, Van Noord Arena an adaption of Flannery O’Connor’s short story “The Lame Shall Enter First” set in modern Netherlands. Runtime: 40 minutes Introduced by Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Wheaton College Emerita 6:15pm Post-Screening Conversation featuring Jaap van Heusden, screenwriter and director; Herman De Vries Jr., Calvin

BOOK SIGNING book signing College German Department; and Jill Peláez Van Noord Arena Baumgaertner, Wheaton College Emerita EDWIDGE DANTICAT DeVos Communications Center, Bytwerk Theater Sponsored by the Frederik Meijer Chair in Dutch Language and Culture

pm GENERAL SESSIONS Sense and Sensibility 6:30 CALVIN THEATER COMPANY The classic story by Jane Austen,

GENERAL SESSIONS receptions See page 81 for a list of on-campus adapted by Jessica Swale and gatherings open to Festivalgoers tonight. directed by Debra L. Freeberg. Tickets available at the Calvin College Box Office and at the door.

GENERAL SESSIONS Wind-Down Yoga Gezon Auditorium JENNY SHEFFER-STEVENS This low-key restorative yoga flow will focus on areas of the body that get tight and cramped when sitting at a desk and writing all day, as well pm as particular muscle tensions that 9 inhibit the creative response. We’ll

OPEN MIC Open Mic Poetry Reading practice balancing breath techniques Hosted by the FFW Student Committee, to calm and de-clutter the mind, and this open mic event allows writers conclude with a guided relaxation to share their poetry (or other work) designed to inspire the imagination. for up to 10 minutes. Sign up at Covenant Fine Arts Center, East Lobby the Registration Desk by 6pm. Note: For this one-hour class you’re Commons, Fish House encouraged to bring a large towel or small blanket, comfortable clothes you can move in, a cozy sweater or sweatshirt, and socks. This practice is suitable for all levels and every body type. All are welcome.

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Madcap Coffee GENERAL SESSIONS Do I Have to Be a Pop-Up Café opens “Christian Writer”? The café is open 7am–4pm today. LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS DeVos Communications Center, Lobby If we believe in the exclusive claims of Christianity, are we obligated then to be “Christian writers”? How do we reconcile

GENERAL SESSIONS Sunrise Stretch the command of Jesus to “go and make JENNY SHEFFER-STEVENS disciples of all nations” with the aesthetic Greet the final morning of the Festival and demands of good Art? Leslie shares her energize for your busy day with this 45-minute own wobbling path through the limits yoga practice. We’ll limber up the body with a and the possibilities of writing from and traditional sun salutation series, followed by about her faith, offering a third path that refreshing stretches, and an exercise to sharpen honors and embodies both Art and Gospel. the mind and invigorate the imagination. Introduced by Debra L. Freeberg, Calvin Covenant Fine Arts Center, East Lobby College Communication Arts and Sciences Note: For this 45-minute class you’re Calvin Seminary, Chapel encouraged to bring comfortable clothes you can move in, a towel, and yoga mat (a few extras will be available). This

GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Scott Cairns practice is suitable for all levels and every body type. All are welcome. Scott Cairns reads from his published poetry and prose works—and from his new poetry manuscript, Anaphora— discussing how a sense of pilgrimage has come to inform his relationship 8am to his own writing, as well as how he understands the writer’s vocation to be

GENERAL SESSIONS Tiny Take-Along Book less about expressing what one thinks Structures or knows and more about writing to JOANNA BATTJES glimpse something just out of view. Pre-registration required. Introduced by Gregory Wolfe, Image Note: This workshop is just under two hours Prince Conference Center, Willow Room and is designed so participants can get to a 10am session if they’d like.

Prince Conference Center, President’s Dining Room WRITING WORKSHOP He Said, She Said HUGH COOK One of the important components of

WRITING WORKSHOP Getting It Done successful fiction is effective dialogue. SARAH ARTHUR This workshop examines detailed While many of us would like to wait for aspects of dialogue, such as how to inspiration to hit, the truth is that writing is use both direct and indirect dialogue, work. And we need to honor the process by proper use of dialogue tags, and bringing all our skills to it. Veteran writer avoiding common dialogue errors. Sarah Arthur helps you identify what’s Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 115 keeping you from moving forward, whether it’s organizing materials, narrowing

your focus, setting goals and deadlines, READING WORKSHOP Eros, Poetry, and pacing the process, or simply getting the the Divine Body words. She also offers some practical tools ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI for pushing through these obstacles. Pre-registration required. Note: This workshop is just under two hours Hiemenga Hall, Room 314 and is designed so participants can get to a 10am session if they’d like. Calvin Seminary, Auditorium

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GENERAL SESSIONS Cars, Kitchens, and Couches: GENERAL SESSIONS The Creative Nonfiction Family Life as Story in Young of a Niche Historian Adult Realism RUSSELL RATHBUN SARA ZARR Writers have written about particulars in From the inception of the Golden Age of the past to find meaning in the present. young adult literature, family has been The author of Exodus wrote the story of the context of our best coming of age God delivering Israel from Egypt while in stories. How families love or fail to love exile in Babylon hundreds of years later. each other and how adolescent characters Sarah Vowell chronicled her vacation are parented—by their actual parents, researching the assassinations of Presidents parental figures, found families, or Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley in hope of themselves—is a primary source of drama exorcising her irrational impulse to take out and comedy in classic and recent young George W. Bush. Russell Rathbun reports adult fiction. Sara Zarr explores the innate in from the Salton Sea in the Southern drama of the family unit and home life California desert where he researches and in her own work and that of others. writes about the history of an unfolding Introduced by Deborah Visser, man-made natural disaster in search of a Calvin Center for Faith & Writing spiritual practice for the end of the world. Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium Introduced by Krista Carter, Calvin College English Department Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall

READING WORKSHOP Retelling the Bible for Children SANDY SASSO

Educator, rabbi, and children’s book GENERAL SESSIONS Testing the Virtues in Story author Sandy Sasso guides participants DANIEL TAYLOR to learn new ways to tell Bible stories to Compelling stories put the virtues children. Using examples from both the at risk, which puts the characters at Hebrew scriptures and parables from the risk, which keeps us reading. This New Testament, Sandy gives examples session includes reflections on the of storytelling that allow children to relationship of the virtues to craft and bring their questions and curiosities to theme and the reading experience. the story; that enable children to read Introduced by Roy Anker, Calvin College the Bible without having to unlearn English Department Emeritus things later; and that don’t reduce Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room Bible stories to moral object lessons. Introduced by Laura Keeley, Christian

GENERAL SESSIONS Focus off the Family Reformed Church Faith Formation Ministries GINA DALFONZO, KATHRYN FREEMAN, Prince Conference Center, Board Room KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, JOY BETH SMITH, CHELSEA PATTERSON SOBOLIK Church has long been a space characterized

GENERAL SESSIONS Ancient Sources for Contemporary Writing by married people and families and is just beginning to wake up to the discomfort DIANE GLANCY, KAREN WRIGHT MARSH, DONYELLE MCCRAY, JAMES K. A. SMITH, this creates for faithful people whose LAUREN F. WINNER lives don’t fit this description. This panel Panelists from diverse backgrounds and offers practical wisdom for writers traditions recount the ancient stories and who seek to help the church become wisdom that fuel their essays, short stories, more balanced and sensitive through poems, and novels. Writers from all faith writing deeply personal stories about the traditions will discover an untapped trove struggles and joys of lives that don’t have of inspiration in the broken and beautiful marriage and/or children as their focus. sinner-saints who have gone before us. Commons Annex, Lecture Hall Calvin College Chapel

40 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS The Pre-Dawn Birds: Some Thoughts on Faith & Writing 9:45am JOY WILLIAMS

BOOK SIGNING book signing Introduced by Jamie Quatro Campus Store Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall HUGH COOK LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS

GENERAL SESSIONS Platforms and Privilege DANIEL TAYLOR AUSTIN CHANNING BROWN, JEFF CHU, SARA ZARR RACHELLE GARDNER, DEIDRA RIGGS If we publish—or aspire to publish—we Prince Conference Center write to be read. (Otherwise, we’d journal.) SCOTT CAIRNS And the reality of the publishing industry is that it obsesses about platform. Who RUSSELL RATHBUN will buy your book? We wish we lived in a SANDY SASSO world where platforms were built entirely on merit. We don’t. Race, gender, sexuality, class, various forms of privilege—all these enter the equation. While our temptation is simply to say #BurnItAllDown, we can’t, and 10am perhaps we shouldn’t. This frank, difficult, but necessary conversation examines

GENERAL SESSIONS Writing Our Wrongs: Alternatives the sorrows and joys of our publishing to the Savior Complex When experiences, the possibilities and limitations Teaching Writing within of platform, the ways in which the business may be changing, our hopes for the future, Marginalized Communities and the theological implications of it all. JOANNA ELEFTHERIOU, REBECCA Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium LAUREN, ZENIQUE GARDNER PERRY, BETH PETERSON While God created all human beings equal, not everyone has an equal opportunity to tell their story or create a work of art that expresses who they are. Four panelists 9am who are inspired by Christ’s model of communing with the marginalized share Exhibit Hall opens what they’ve learned while teaching The Exhibit Hall is open incarcerated men, adults with HIV and from 9am–6pm today. AIDS, immigrants, students of color, Prince Conference Center, Exhibit Hall and LGBT students attending Christian colleges. Each writer explains how her faith informs her teaching philosophy and how she deconstructs privilege in the process, cultivating space for all voices. 9:30am Commons Annex, Lecture Hall

COFFEE BREAK coffee break

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby Jaap van Heusden Hekman Library Lobby Dutch screenwriter and director Jaap van Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room Heusden discusses telling stories via film, adapting Flannery O’Connor’s Christ- haunted South for a secular European GENERAL SESSIONS meditation break: loving-kindness audience, and his current project, In Alaska. J. DANA TRENT Interviewed by Geert Heetebrij, Calvin College Communication Arts and Sciences Center Art Gallery DeVos Communication Center, Bytwerk Theater

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GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Luci Shaw: GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Natalie Making and Keeping Friends for Diaz and Margarita Pintado the Journey Two poets—one from Puerto Rico, the As an editor, mentor, and friend, Luci Shaw other an enrolled member in the Gila River has enjoyed deep creative partnerships Indian community—discuss how fluency in with many writers, perhaps none so dear Spanish and Mojave, respectively, gives them as her relationship with the late Madeleine expanded ways of accessing the world that L’Engle. Despite differences both held dear, both informs and enriches their writing. the two animated each other’s work in Interviewed by Linda Naranjo-Huebl, important ways. They coauthored three Calvin College English Department books, and Luci suggested and then edited Calvin Seminary, Chapel Madeleine’s seminal treatise on faith and writing, Walking on Water. Madeleine’s

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with granddaughters, Charlotte Jones Voiklis and Léna Roy, have known Luci for years Bill McKibben as a close friend of the family. Here they One of the original voices warning about interview her about the role of community climate change, Bill McKibben discusses in the life of a writer and what it takes to how the climate has changed for him as forge and sustain friends for the journey. a writer over the past 30 years. What is it Interviewed by Léna Roy and like to suffer harassment from the most Charlotte Jones Voiklis powerful corporations on earth? What Calvin College Chapel keeps him going? What gives him hope under the current administration? And how has he balanced his roles as a writer,

GENERAL SESSIONS Writing about Suffering teacher, activist, and person of faith? JOHN BLASE, SHARON GARLOUGH BROWN, Interviewed by Paul Willis, Westmont College SUSIE FINKBEINER Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Luis Alberto Urrea once said, “If you can see God in the muck and the mud, then

you’ve got it, man.” This panel explores the GENERAL SESSIONS Words & Images: importance of writing about suffering, Stories at the Intersection adversity, and grief, particularly from JOHN HENDRIX a perspective of faith. Panelists discuss The pairing of pictures and text is as old the beauty of seeing God from out of as literature itself. Working in concert, the depths and Urrea’s “it,” hope. words and images create a new space, a Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room third language that neither can replicate on its own. Illustrator and author John Hendrix talks about his work and the

GENERAL SESSIONS Words for Worship: Crafting Congregational Song rich potential of visual storytelling, both spiritually and aesthetically. ADAM TICE Introduced by Kenneth Kraegel What makes a hymn different from other Calvin Seminary, Auditorium forms of poetry? What are the elements of good text craft? How do texts and tunes get combined? And what in the world GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Kate is 8.7.8.7D? These questions and more Bowler and Kerry Egan are discussed as Adam Tice, a seasoned Kate Bowler and Kerry Egan consider hymn writer and teacher, explores the both shared and distinct terrain in their mechanics of writing texts for sung experiences as cancer patient and hospice worship. Come engage in several exercises chaplain, while exploring the power of to create simple, short songs—and learn language to shape our understanding what it takes to dive deeper into writing of illness, identity, and belief. for your own community’s worship. Interviewed by Jessica Bratt Carle, Introduced by James Vanden Bosch, Spectrum Health Calvin College English Department Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 115

42 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS The Story behind the Story MELISSA FRANTZ, LEA THAU 11:30am Three years ago Lea Thau started

documenting the life of Melissa Frantz’s GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with family—chronicling how their approach Joy Williams to open adoption has turned into a Interviewed by L. S. Klatt, radical experiment in community Calvin Center for Faith & Writing and also an ongoing confrontation Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall with systemic racism—for her podcast Strangers. In this conversation Lea and

GENERAL SESSIONS From Micromégas to Melissa discuss what it’s like being on Terra Ignota: Science Fiction’s either side of the microphone, the ethics of telling other people’s stories, the Love/Hate Relationship possibilities and limits of empathy, and with Spirituality what might be next for both of them. JO WALTON Interviewed by Lisa Ann Cockrel, You’d expect fantasy to be concerned with Calvin Center for Faith & Writing God, gods, and spirituality, but by and large Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall it isn’t or engages religious themes poorly. Whereas science fiction, while generally claiming to be atheist and secular, has a

GENERAL SESSIONS Sometimes Walking into a secret fascination with the spiritual and Sunset Is Walking into a Dawn engages it in fascinating ways. Many of JEFF ZENTNER sci-fi’s classic texts are deeply engaged When Jeff Zentner came to a crossroads with religion, including Dune, Stranger in his musical career, the path he took— in a Strange Land, A Canticle for Lebowitz, writing books for young people—was one and The Left Hand of Darkness. Walton he never expected. In this talk, he discusses discusses these books and the genre’s his winding journey to becoming a writer: love/hate relationship with spirituality. how it intersected with his faith and its Introduced by Jennifer H. Williams, struggles, how he balances a full-time Calvin College English Department job with his writing career, and how he Prince Conference Center, Board Room writes books on his phone on the bus. Introduced by Deborah Visser,

Calvin Center for Faith & Writing GENERAL SESSIONS Writing Real Stories Prince Conference Center, Board Room in a World of Fake News SARAH PULLIAM BAILEY These days our news channels and social media feeds often feel like a cacophony of hot takes, posturing, outrage, and lies. Sarah 11:15am Pulliam Bailey discusses how she learned to break through the noise as a religion reporter to tell the authentic, true stories

BOOK SIGNING book signing Campus Store readers still crave. She shares how to find good ideas, shape meaningful stories, and JOHN HENDRIX pitch and write articles with integrity. ADAM TICE Introduced by Josh Parks, Calvin College Chimes Prince Conference Center DeVos Communications Center, Bytwerk Theater KATE BOWLER JEFF ZENTNER

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GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Tania Runyan WRITING WORKSHOP Play Your Way to Tania Runyan reads from What Will Soon Creative Productivity Take Place, an imaginative journey through MARYANN MCKIBBEN DANA the book of Revelation. She offers a poet’s Writers, artists, and other creatives know view of the prophetic, not in the sense of the importance of discipline in our work: seeking out clues to the “end times,” but as Applying butt to chair. Getting the pages a means of taking this strange, fantastic done. Not waiting for “inspiration” to book of scripture and letting it read its way strike. Sometimes, though, we get dried into personal lives. This is not prophecy as up and burned out. We lose our sense of foretelling, but forth-telling: telling us the mystery and wonder. Writing becomes truths of our lives in the light of God’s light. a chore, and the work suffers as a result. Introduced by Otto Selles, This interactive workshop, inspired by Calvin College French Department improv comedy, offers practical, accessible Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall tools for getting out of your own way so the creativity can flow. Get up and get in touch with your playful side.

GENERAL SESSIONS Writing Honestly about Race (When Your Audience Is Calvin Seminary, Auditorium Primarily White)

EDWARD GILBREATH, KAREN GONZALEZ, GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Robin Coste Lewis LISA SHARON HARPER, MARGOT Introduced by Natasha Oladokun, STARBUCK, SANDRA MARIA VAN OPSTAL Hollins University Communicating nuanced ideas about Calvin College Chapel race is fraught with the possibility of misunderstanding, resistance, or outright

hostility. Yet in these polarized times, it’s GENERAL SESSIONS Spirituality in Young crucial that Christian voices infuse public Adult Literature discourse with prophetic messages of hope, WILLIAM BOERMAN-CORNELL, compassion, and justice. In this session, a KATHERINE GIBSON, KRISTINE diverse panel of leaders offers stories and GRITTER, GARY D. SCHMIDT, DEBORAH VRIEND VAN DUINEN tips to equip communicators to clearly address issues of race, ethnic identity, Religion is often, though not always, and reconciliation—especially when avoided in mainstream young adult their audience is predominantly white. literature. Panelists discuss the latest developments in the YA scene related to Prince Conference Center, Willow Room spirituality; recommend books that deal with issues and themes rooted in diverse faith traditions; and share suggestions for GENERAL SESSIONS Wisdom in the Shadows: Bringing Seasoned Women’s writers, readers, and teachers about how Voices to Light to approach religion in YA literature. AMANDA CLEARY EASTEP, Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium JENNIFER GRANT, KATHY KHANG, MICHELLE VAN LOON

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Those in the second half of life— particularly women—are often just Fleming Rutledge: beginning to discover their voices as The Cross and the Christian writers. But it can be discouraging when it Acclaimed preacher Fleming Rutledge seems like attention is skewed toward the discusses common misconceptions even young and novel, instead of the experienced theologians have about the crucifixion, and wise. What’s an older writer to do? how modern ideas about sin and evil This panel explores these challenges distort our understanding of what and issues a call to see the wisdom that actually happened on the cross, and comes from age and experience. why Anselm is still important today. Spoelhof Center, Lab Theater Interviewed by Scott Hoezee, Center for Excellence in Preaching Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium

44 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with LUNCH FORUM Writing the Wrinkles in Time Oliver de la Paz SARAH ARTHUR, LÉNA ROY, Oliver de la Paz talks about art as a CHARLOTTE JONES VOIKLIS collaborative exercise, the ingenuity of Sarah Arthur, author of the forthcoming hybrid forms, the importance of creating A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy spaces that foster solidarity and support of Madeleine L’Engle, explores what among minority writers, and what it Madeleine’s life and books have taught her means to mentor young writers. about writing from the stuff of your life Interviewed by Susanna Childress, Hope College when life doesn’t go as planned—about Calvin Seminary, Chapel surprises in your topic, plot twists in your personal circumstances, or feedback that requires rebuilding a project from

GENERAL SESSIONS Detoxifying Masculinity the ground up. Special guests include through Story and Verse Madeleine L’Engle’s granddaughters, JEFF CHU, KRISTIN KOBES DU MEZ, Léna Roy and Charlotte Jones Voiklis, JONATHAN HISKES, BILLY MARK coauthors of Becoming Madeleine: A Stories can help us discover who we are Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle and who we want to be. Rarely is this in Time by Her Granddaughters. more urgent than with the complex, Prince Conference Center, Board Room contested, and confusing question of what Sponsored by Zondervan it means to be a 21st-century man. We examine the rise of a toxic masculinity

LUNCH FORUM Writing about Politics that seeks dominance and control, and look to literature for more faithful visions in an Age of Rancor of masculinity. We reflect on our own SARAH PULLIAM BAILEY, writing and the art that sustains us KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, while also considering how masculinity C. CHRISTOPHER SMITH, JAMES K. A. SMITH, JEREMY WELLS intersects with race, class, sexuality, faith, and other dimensions of identity. Can we actually communicate about politics these days? Is anyone listening? Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall Join four writers who model different approaches on conversation in our fragmented times: Sarah Pulliam Bailey of the Washington Post; Karen Swallow Prior, professor at Liberty University; 12:45pm C. Christopher Smith, editor of The Englewood Review of Books; and James K.

LUNCH FORUM Publish or Parish: A. Smith, professor at Calvin College. Pastors and the Writing Life Everyone who attends will receive a poster ARTHUR BOERS, SCOTT CAIRNS, that celebrates reading, featuring Ned ANN GILLESPIE, CHRIS HOKE, Bustard’s original cover art for Karen Swallow LAUREN F. WINNER Prior’s forthcoming book, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. Four active writers who also serve Prince Conference Center, Willow Room pastoral roles—two Episcopal priests, Sponsored by Brazos Press an Anglican priest, and a gang pastor/ jail chaplain—discuss how their pastoral roles are enhanced by their writing FESTIVAL CIRCLES festival circles disciplines and how their writing is See page 50 for details. enriched by their pastoral service. Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall Sponsored by the Seattle Pacific University MFA in Creative Writing

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BOOK SIGNING book signing READING WORKSHOP Successful Intergenerational Campus Store Book Clubs OLIVER DE LA PAZ DEBORAH VRIEND VAN DUINEN ROBIN COSTE LEWIS Book club participation has risen in North JOY WILLIAMS America over the past decades, including in the form of intergenerational clubs— Prince Conference Center parent/child, teacher/student, and so on. TANIA RUNYAN In this workshop, Deborah Vriend Van JO WALTON Duinen shares best practices of successful intergenerational book clubs based TISH HARRISON WARREN on her years of experience facilitating both mother/daughter and mother/ son clubs, as well as on her scholarly work about book club participation. 2pm Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room

GENERAL SESSIONS Writing and What Matters Most GENERAL SESSIONS Private Prayer, Public Writing: The Positives and Pitfalls of JEN HATMAKER Writing about the Spiritual Life Jen Hatmaker discusses what it looks like when writing things that matter take a ANGELA DOLL CARLSON, KAITLIN B. CURTICE, ED CYZEWSKI, turn into advocacy, theological tension, and LISHA EPPERSON, SETH HAINES, political resistance. How do we write and TARA M. OWENS lead on meaningful topics in a way that Thomas Merton wrote that artists run encourages dialogue without feeling silenced the risk of “exploiting every experience by criticism? When writers are also thought as material for ‘creation,’” and, as a result, leaders, how do we steward our influence may never enter the deeper aspects of by choosing words that both reconcile and contemplative prayer. With the rise of challenge while also maintaining best memoirs and blogs alongside books of practices for soul care? It is an important spiritual writing that often use personal time to be a writer, and we have a role to anecdotes, a discussion of boundaries for play in culture that will require intelligence, writers of faith is essential. Panelists discuss courage, and an intentional use of our voices. how writers can write about the spiritual Introduced by Sarah L. Turnage, life so that others receive instruction and Calvin Center for Faith & Writing guidance, while maintaining the privacy and Covenant Fine Arts Center, Auditorium intimacy of their relationships with God. Prince Conference Center, Board Room

GENERAL SESSIONS Sentiment without Sentimentality: Women Writers

GENERAL SESSIONS It’s the End of the World as Who Won’t Stay in Their We Know It and I Feel Fine: (Inspirational) Lane Apocalyptic Literature and the KAREN GONZALEZ, JESSICA MESMAN Meaning of Life GRIFFITH, LYZ LENZ, D. L. MAYFIELD, KAYA OAKES, CHRISTIANA N. PETERSON RUSSELL RATHBUN, ANBARA SALAM Made up of women who don’t fit the A novelist and niche historian discuss standard definition of what it means why stories about the end of the world— to be a religious writer in this day and as we know it, as we hoped for it to be, age, this panel explores how to get across genres and cultures—capture published when you are religious but not our imaginations. Why does apocalyptic inspirational; how to be sad in a publishing literature fascinate us? What does it world that rewards tidy solutions; and reveal about the nature of modern life? transcending the traditional boundaries Interviewed by Jana Riess, Religion News Service of genre, religion, class, and gender. Calvin College Chapel Prince Conference Center, Willow Room

46 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS Breaking Up and Breaking READING WORKSHOP 101 Ways to Cultivate Online Down: Spiritual Stories Literary Conversations APRIL AYERS LAWSON ALEXIS DE WEESE, LINDSAY GUSTAFSON How people behave when their relationship With endless banter in digital spaces, is breaking down is at least as interesting how does one inspire conversations of and mysterious as how they behave value around topics that matter? This when they’re falling in love. People going workshop provides readers concrete through breakup trauma see themselves and manageable ideas to instigate and reality in ways they never have before. genuine digital conversations about Through an examination of relationship their favorite books and authors. breakup trauma in fiction and the Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 115 breakup narrative, April Ayers Lawson analyzes the psychological, spiritual, and existential effects of relationship breakdown, drawing connections between our struggle for meaning pm during breakup and our need for God. 3 Introduced by Cindy Kok

COFFEE BREAK coffee break Hiemenga Hall, Meeter Center Lecture Hall Covenant Fine Arts Center, Lower West Lobby Hekman Library Lobby Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore Dinty W. Moore discusses the art and craft

GENERAL SESSIONS meditation break: devotional of literary nonfiction, writing flash essays WHITNEY R. SIMPSON for the digital age, and how Buddhism Center Art Gallery shapes his own creative practice. Interviewed by Sarina Gruver Moore, Grove City College Calvin Seminary, Auditorium 3:15pm

GENERAL SESSIONS A Reading: Natalie Diaz Introduced by Kristina Faust Kaminskas BOOK SIGNING book signing Calvin Seminary, Chapel Campus Store Sponsored by the Mellema Program NATALIE DIAZ in Western American Studies JEN HATMAKER APRIL AYERS LAWSON

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Sara Zarr and Jeff Zentner Prince Conference Center SARAH ARTHUR Sara Zarr and Jeff Zentner discuss writing about class, poverty, and fraught LÉNA ROY family relationships in YA novels. CHARLOTTE JONES VOIKLIS Interviewed by William Boerman-Cornell, ERIN F. WASINGER Trinity Christian College Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall

WRITING WORKSHOP The Art of the Personal Essay MEGHAN FLORIAN Pre-registration required. Note: This workshop is two hours, from 2–4pm. Hiemenga Hall, Room 314

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GENERAL SESSIONS When the Wild Things Are Not 3:30pm DOROTHY FORTENBERRY Playwright and screenwriter Dorothy

GENERAL SESSIONS Thomas Merton and Bob Dylan: Fortenberry reflects on reading classic Joined at the Hippocampus books to her young daughters while ROBERT HUDSON the natural world depicted in them is Although they never met, Thomas Merton evaporating. She explores what it feels and Bob Dylan were two of the most like to read books including Anne of Green controversial figures of the 1960s. In the Gables, The Secret Garden, and Where the summer of ’66, after a brief affair with Wild Things Are in a time of accelerating a student nurse, hermit-monk Merton climate change and what such stories might became a Dylan fanatic, an interest that offer her children in their uncertain future. changed the direction of his writing. Robert Introduced by Allie Vroegop, Hudson, author of The Monk’s Record Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium Perilous Summer of 1966, examines both Merton and Dylan during that influential

period, when social and spiritual forces GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with came into conflict like never before. Come Robin Coste Lewis ready to hear music—Dylan, Joan Baez, Robin Coste Lewis talks about the black and John Coltrane—and to discuss. female figure Western art, why Beauty is Introduced by Donald Hettinga, not for the faint of heart, black joy as an Calvin College English Department aesthetic, and why her traumatic brain Calvin Seminary, Chapel injury is “the gift that keeps on taking.” Interviewed by Lisa Van Arragon, DisArt Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital Hall

GENERAL SESSIONS A Conversation with Jo Walton Jo Walton is a prolific writer, poet,

and reader of both science fiction and GENERAL SESSIONS Why We Still Need a fantasy. From her blog pieces on Tor.com Room of Our Own to her far-ranging Thessaly trilogy, she MARLENA PROPER GRAVES, explores time, space, and the interactions JESSICA MESMAN GRIFFITH, of people in difficult situations. She RACHEL MARIE STONE discusses why so much modern fantasy It’s hard to make a living from writing, and gets religion wrong; the legacy of Ursula writing takes serious time. Representation K. Le Guin; her forthcoming novel in print, therefore, represents privilege. about the Dominican friar, Savonarola; Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen knew Renaissance-era humanism; and more. this and argued forcefully for those Interviewed by Francene Lewis, Calvin College & silenced voices—first, that we be aware Calvin Theological Seminary, Hekman Library of the silence, and then that we work to Prince Conference Center, Board Room correct the material conditions that lead to silencing. Panelists get beyond dreamy aphorisms about “write or die” to discuss

READING WORKSHOP Building Community through why some people—women, minorities, Conversations about Books the working class—still can’t live out their DENISE MCCLELLAN vocations as writers, at least not as fully Pre-registration required. as others, and what readers and writers Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room can do to amplify marginalized voices. Commons Annex, Alumni Association Board Room

48 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr GENERAL SESSIONS Insider Info: Nonfiction Book Proposals Agents 4:45pm and Editors Love

BOOK SIGNING book signing CHAD ALLEN, RACHELLE GARDNER, Van Noord Arena STEPHANIE SMITH, MARGOT STARBUCK, JESSICA WONG KYLE DAVID BENNETT Agents and acquisitions editors share DOROTHY FORTENBERRY what makes so many proposals feel ROBERT HUDSON tired and overdone, as well as what it is in well-crafted proposals that sparks their interest and keeps them reading. Learn how to delight agents and publishers and, ultimately, your 5pm readers. Bring questions for Q&A.

KEYNOTE An Evening with Bill McKibben: Calvin Seminary, Auditorium Storytelling, Activism, and Keeping the Faith

GENERAL SESSIONS Surprised by Joy: Poetry Lionel Basney Memorial Lecture about Faith and Happiness Bill McKibben has been sounding BARBARA CROOKER, JULIE L. MOORE, the alarm about climate change for TANIA RUNYAN, ANYA SILVER over 30 years—through investigative Four poets from different Christian journalism, essays, books, op-eds, and, traditions read their work and discuss the most recently, his first novel. He discusses role of joy in their poetry and creative lives. how narratives drive social action All four seek to incorporate profound joy (and inaction), how faith grounds his in their poetry and to explicitly address commitment to climate justice through God as the source of their rejoicing, both breakthroughs and setbacks, and even when happiness is hard-won. what we can do now in the face of renewed Calvin College Chapel political opposition to creation care. Introduced by Debra Rienstra, Calvin Center for Faith & Writing

GENERAL SESSIONS Dwelling in the Discomfort Zone Van Noord Arena MARILYN MCENTYRE, MARCIA MEIER, SUSAN S. PHILLIPS, SHIRLEY HERSHEY SHOWALTER, JEANNE MURRAY WALKER Tricky issues come up in writing— writing about others without harming, 6:15pm then writing about public controversies

without alienating those you hope to BOOK SIGNING book signing engage, using or avoiding politically Van Noord Arena charged or loaded language, weighing the BILL MCKIBBEN proprieties of self-disclosure, and more. Based on long experience writing memoir, personal essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry, panelists offer strategies for navigating the “discomfort zone”; new 7:30pm approaches to the ethics of writing about

self, others, and God; and, ultimately, a GENERAL SESSIONS Sense and Sensibility new vision for what it might mean to be CALVIN THEATER COMPANY both bold and compassionate writers. The classic story by Jane Austen, Prince Conference Center, Willow Room adapted by Jessica Swale and directed by Debra L. Freeberg. Tickets available at the Calvin College Box Office and at the door. Spoelhof Center, Gezon Auditorium

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Festival Circles are small groups that meet two times during the Festival to

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

Writing Moms Becoming a Poet (with ASHLEY ABRAMSON or without an MFA) & KATE WATSON D. S. MARTIN Covenant Fine Arts Center, Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 227 Room 252

Loaded Language Secondary Teachers MARILYN MCENTYRE Who Write Covenant Fine Arts Center, MARY JUZWIK Room 264 Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 230 Preachers Who Read REBECCA JORDAN HEYS Writing with Both Hiemenga Hall, Heart and Mind Room 317 ASHLEY HALES & CHRISTIE PURIFOY Flash Memoir: A Few Hiemenga Hall, Short Lines about Life Room 430 JANE HERTENSTEIN Hiemenga Hall, Genre Bending Fiction Room 323 for Misfit Writers SAMUEL MARTIN & Writing Reproductive Loss LUKE HAWLEY JESSICA BALDANZI & Hiemenga Hall, SUSANNA CHILDRESS Room 429 Hiemenga Hall, Room 321 Write Where the Pressure Is Guarding and Growing KAREN SCHRECK the Writer’s Inner Life Hiemenga Hall, STEPHANIE S. SMITH Room 320 Covenant Fine Arts Center, Room 255 Expanding a Second: The Practice of Slow Writing The Sanctifying Process ELIZABETH DARK of Writing Memoir Hiemenga Hall, KATE MOTAUNG Room 462 Hiemenga Hall, Room 431

50 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr Book Signings

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

THURSDAY, APRIL 12 FRIDAY, APRIL 13 SATURDAY, APRIL 14

1:15PM 9:45AM 9:45AM Campus Store Campus Store Campus Store KWAME ALEXANDER DEIDRA RIGGS HUGH COOK Prince Conference Center LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS 3PM DINTY W. MOORE DANIEL TAYLOR Campus Store SARA ZARR JONATHAN MERRITT 11:15AM Prince Conference Center ANYA SILVER Campus Store SCOTT CAIRNS Prince Conference Center JAMIE QUATRO RUSSELL RATHBUN NATASHIA DEÓN LUCI SHAW SANDY SASSO MARGARITA PINTADO Prince Conference Center 11:15AM ANBARA SALAM AMIT MAJMUDAR NATE MARSHALL Campus Store 4:30PM JOHN HENDRIX Campus Store 12:45PM ADAM TICE MARIE HOWE Campus Store Prince Conference Center JENNIFER TRAFTON FLEMING RUTLEDGE KATE BOWLER Prince Conference Center WALT WANGERIN JR. JEFF ZENTNER BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY Prince Conference Center 12:45PM MACY HALFORD DAVE HARRITY Campus Store 5:45PM 3:15PM OLIVER DE LA PAZ ROBIN COSTE LEWIS Campus Store Campus Store JOY WILLIAMS LAURA EVERETT NIKKI GRIMES AFAA M. WEAVER LORIE LANGDON Prince Conference Center SUZANNE M. WOLFE GLENYS NELLIST TANIA RUNYAN JO WALTON Prince Conference Center 9PM TISH HARRISON WARREN KERRY EGAN Van Noord Arena MARILYN MCENTYRE 3:15PM CARRIE NEWCOMER PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA PARKER J. PALMER Campus Store 6:15PM NATALIE DIAZ JEN HATMAKER Van Noord Arena APRIL AYERS LAWSON EDWIDGE DANTICAT Prince Conference Center SARAH ARTHUR LÉNA ROY CHARLOTTE JONES VOIKLIS ERIN F. WASINGER

4:45PM Van Noord Arena KYLE DAVID BENNETT DOROTHY FORTENBERRY ROBERT HUDSON

6:15PM Van Noord Arena BILL MCKIBBEN

SCHEDULE 51 Lunch Forums

Grab your lunch and pop into FRIDAY / 12:45PM one of several Lunch Forums sponsored by our underwriters How to Write—and Live—When during the midday breaks the World Is Burning SARAH ARTHUR, KYLE DAVID BENNETT, on Friday and Saturday. CHRISTINA JASKO, ERIN F. WASINGER Is it possible to chase the writing life and also care about your neighbor? Can you be a parent and still pursue social justice? Join Sarah Arthur and Erin F. Wasinger, coauthors of The Year of

LUNCH FORUM Small Things: Radical Faith for the Rest of Us, and Kyle David Bennett, author of Practices of Love: Spiritual Disciplines for the Life of the World, for a panel discussion on how writing can fit with the call to follow Jesus in the world. The first 100 people will receive a complimentary copy of The Year of Small Things! Calvin College Chapel, Undercroft Sponsored by Brazos Press

Still Evangelical in the Age of #MeToo? KATELYN BEATY, KATHY KHANG, KAREN SWALLOW PRIOR, DEIDRA RIGGS, SANDRA MARIA VAN OPSTAL What does it mean to call yourself an evangelical in the wake of the 2016 election? Does the word still hold meaning and value? Is it repulsive or can it be redeemed? InterVarsity Press recently released Still Evangelical? in which essayists tackle these questions, exploring the genesis of the word and what the future could possibly hold. This lunch forum takes those questions a step further and asks, what does it mean to be evangelical and female in 2018? Join us for a brief panel discussion with women who have been both thoughtful and vocal on the topic of evangelicalism today and who will examine this question in light of political movements in the United States, the church’s response to #MeToo, and current trends in evangelicalism. Prince Conference Center, Board Room Sponsored by InterVarsity Press

52 SCHEDULE #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr The Creative and Spiritual SATURDAY / 12:45PM Possibilities of Making Lists MARILYN MCENTYRE Writing about Politics At this luncheon gathering you’ll be invited to in an Age of Rancor try out some of the various approaches to list- SARAH PULLIAM BAILEY, KAREN making that can open wide avenues of reflection. SWALLOW PRIOR, C. CHRISTOPHER SMITH, We’ll talk about how list-making can allow you JAMES K. A. SMITH, JEREMY WELLS to surprise yourself into seeing problems or Can we actually communicate about politics possibilities from new angles and how it can help these days? Is anyone listening? Join four writers you move toward greater specificity in planning, who model different approaches on conversation self-awareness, and prayer. We’ll look at how in our fragmented times: Sarah Pulliam Bailey lists can “grow up” to be poems, how they might of the Washington Post; Karen Swallow Prior, become tables of contents for books you haven’t professor at Liberty University; C. Christopher written yet, and how they may deepen your Smith, editor of the Englewood Review of Books; appreciation of people you care about. and James K. A. Smith, professor at Calvin College. Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Everyone who attends will receive a poster that celebrates Sponsored by the Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company reading, featuring Ned Bustard’s original cover art for Karen Swallow Prior’s forthcoming book, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. The Art and Wonder of Prince Conference Center, Willow Room Writing and Marketing Sponsored by Brazos Press for Children and Teens ANNETTE BOURLAND, LORIE LANGDON, Writing the Wrinkles in Time GLENYS NELLIST SARAH ARTHUR, LÉNA ROY, Have you ever wanted to write a children’s CHARLOTTE JONES VOIKLIS picture book? Has YA fiction captured your Sarah Arthur, author of the forthcoming A Light imagination and writing zeal? It takes a special So Lovely: The Spiritual Legacy of Madeleine kind of writer to create stories (and intrigue!) L’Engle, explores what Madeleine’s life and books for children and young adults. Writing for them have taught her about writing from the stuff requires not only a degree of child-brain and of your life when life doesn’t go as planned— kid-memory, but a certain skill set and calling. In about surprises in your topic, plot twists in our time together, Zondervan publisher Annette your personal circumstances, or feedback that Bourland will introduce two dynamic writers. requires rebuilding a project from the ground Glenys Nellist will share how she made her up. Special guests include Madeleine L’Engle’s picture-book writing dream a reality and some granddaughters, Léna Roy and Charlotte Jones effective marketing lessons she’s learned along Voiklis, coauthors of Becoming Madeleine: A the way. Then, bestselling author Lorie Langdon Biography of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time will share how a story she’s dreamed of for years by Her Granddaughters. became a reality and how dynamic marketing Prince Conference Center, Board Room goes hand-in-hand with great content. Sponsored by Zondervan The first 10 attendees who arrive to the forum will receive a signed copy of either Olivia Twist by Lorie Langdon or Love Letters from God by Glenys Nellist. Publish or Parish: Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall Pastors and the Writing Life Sponsored by Zondervan ARTHUR BOERS, SCOTT CAIRNS, ANN GILLESPIE, CHRIS HOKE, LAUREN F. WINNER Four active writers who also serve pastoral roles—two Episcopal priests, an Anglican priest, and a gang pastor/jail chaplain—discuss how their pastoral roles are enhanced by their writing disciplines and how their writing is enriched by their pastoral service. Commons Annex, Commons Lecture Hall Sponsored by the Seattle Pacific University MFA in Creative Writing

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Hailing from places as BETH ADAMS SARAH ARTHUR different as Chalchuapa, Beth Adams is an executive editor saraharthur.com at Howard Books, a division of Sarah Arthur is the author of a El Salvador; Kodiak, Simon and Schuster. She acquires dozen books ranging from popular Alaska; a mountain both fiction and nonfiction for devotionals to serious engagement the Christian and inspirational with the role of literature in town that straddles markets. Some of the authors spiritual formation. A graduate Georgia and Tennessee; she’s worked with include Karen of Wheaton College and Duke Kingsbury, Roma Downey, DeVon Divinity School, she serves as the Gila River Indian Franklin, Allison Pataki, Laura preliminary fiction judge for the Community in Arizona; Schroff, Katelyn Beaty, and Bill Christianity Today Book Awards. Klein and Jennifer Arnold. She Her many books include The Year Northern Ireland; is also the author or coauthor of Small Things: Radical Faith for the and the South Side of of more than thirty novels Rest of Us (coauthored with Erin under various pen names. F. Wasinger) and the forthcoming Chicago; our speakers F FRIDAY 11:30AM A Light So Lovely: The Spiritual represent diverse Legacy of Madeleine L’Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time. perspectives, genres, KWAME ALEXANDER F FRIDAY 12:45PM and creative concerns. kwamealexander.com S SATURDAY 8AM Kwame Alexander is a poet and S SATURDAY 12:45PM They are bound together educator who has written 24 by a love for language books for children of all ages. His young adult novel Solo was SARAH and engagement with nominated for a 2017 NAACP PULLIAM BAILEY faith, and a belief that Image Award, and his middle grade sarahpulliam.com novel The Crossover received the Sarah Pulliam Bailey runs the stories are vital to our 2015 Newbery Medal. His other Washington Post’s religion blog lives. We’re grateful books include The Playbook: 52 Acts of Faith, covering how faith Rules to Help You Aim, Shoot, and intersects with politics, culture, for the generous gift of Score in This Game of Life; the education, or the environment. their time and insight picture books Animal Ark, Out of Previously, she was a national Wonder, and Surf’s Up; and the correspondent for Religion News during the Festival. novels Booked, He Said She Said, Service and worked as an online and Rebound, the forthcoming editor for Christianity Today where prequel to The Crossover. she cofounded Her.meneutics (now T THURSDAY 12PM CT Women), an influential blog T THURSDAY 3:15PM for women, with Katelyn Beaty. Bailey has interviewed hundreds of public figures, including CHAD ALLEN Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, bookproposalacademy.com Mike Huckabee, Billy Graham, Chad Allen is a writer, editor, and Desmond Tutu. Bailey is a speaker, entrepreneur, and graduate of Wheaton College creativity coach. He serves as and is based in New York City. editorial director for Baker Books, F FRIDAY 11:30AM a division of Baker Publishing S SATURDAY 11:30AM Group, where he has worked for S SATURDAY 12:45PM over 13 years. He’s also the creator of Book Proposal Academy, an online course that helps writers build a compelling book proposal. S SATURDAY 3:30PM

54 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr SUSAN ALEXANDRA KATELYN BEATY BALLER-SHEPARD BARYLSKI katelynbeaty.com spiritualbookclub.com Alexandra Barylski is a poet, Katelyn Beaty is author of A Susan Baller-Shepard is a writer, critic, teacher, and editor and Woman’s Place: A Christian Vision speaker, and Presbyterian is a consultant at Persephone for Your Calling in the Office, the minister. Her writing has Consulting. She is also the author Home, and the World and an appeared in the Chicago Tribune, of Imprecise Perishing. She has editor-at-large with Christianity the Washington Post’s “On Faith” over a decade of experience in Today, where she previously served section, Spirituality & Health, and editing and education, ranging as the magazine’s youngest and other publications. Baller-Shepard from prep schools to prison first female managing editor. is the author of the children’s book schools and writing labs. Her While there, she co-founded Her. Matching Yu and is a co-founder recent work examines the role meneutics (now CT Women) and and editor of SpiritualBookClub. of the erotic body in a world served as editorial director of the com. She currently teaches religion dominated by machines. This Is Our City project. A Calvin College graduate, she has written at Heartland Community College. S SATURDAY 8:30AM T THURSDAY 3:15PM for the New York Times, The Atlantic, the Washington Post, and MIRIAM BAT-AMI Religion & Politics and currently ROBIN BARNETT Miriam Bat-Ami is an author, serves as a part-time acquisitions Robin Barnett is the director of poet, actor, and professor emerita editor with InterVarsity Press. public relations for the Zondervan of Western Michigan University’s F FRIDAY 12:45PM Nonfiction Trade Team. During her English Department. She has F FRIDAY 2PM time in the publishing industry, published four books for children, she has worked with Rick Warren, ranging from picture books to Anne Graham Lotz, Ann Voskamp, a young adult novel: When the AMY JULIA BECKER Shauna Niequist, Lee Strobel, Frost Is Gone, Dear Elijah, Two amyjuliabecker.com and Grammy nominee Natalie Suns in the Sky, and Sea, Salt, and Amy Julia Becker writes and Grant, among others. A Chicago Air. She received a grand prize speaks on faith, family, disability, native, Barnett attended Baylor from the Maine Media Center and privilege. She is the author University before moving to for her poem “A Rounded Bowl,” of Small Talk: Learning from My Michigan, where she now resides. which is forthcoming in a book Children about What Matters T THURSDAY 1:45PM of nature poetry for adults, Most; A Good and Perfect Gift: Measuring the Marigolds. Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny; and Penelope Ayers: F FRIDAY 8:30AM ERIN BARTELS A Memoir. Her latest book, White erinbartels.com Picket Fences: Turning toward Love Erin Bartels is a copywriter, JOANNA BATTJES in a World Divided by Privilege, poet, photographer, blogger, and Joanna Battjes is a teacher and is forthcoming. She is a member novelist. Her debut novel, We artist with a special passion of INK: A Creative Collective. Hope for Better Things, will be for bookmaking, reading, and F FRIDAY 11:30AM released in January 2019, followed all things wonder-filled. by I Hold the Wind, which was a S SATURDAY 8AM finalist for the 2015 Rising Star KIMBERLEY M. Award from the Women’s Fiction BENEDICT Writers Association. Her short JILL PELÁEZ Kimberley Benedict teaches stories are collected in This Elegant BAUMGAERTNER academic and professional Ruin: and other stories, and her Jill Peláez Baumgaertner is a writing at Calvin College. She also poems have been published by poet, literary critic, scholar, and serves as a faculty advisor for the The Lyric and The East Lansing administrator. The author of many CPI Writers’ Club at Richard A. Poetry Attack. She is also a speaker books and collections, including Handlon Correctional Facility. She at writing conferences and the Flannery O’Connor: A Proper has published a study of medieval author of The Intentional Writer: Scaring, What Cannot Be Fixed, women’s writing practices, Finding the Time, Space, and and Finding Cuba, a collection of Empowering Collaborations: Inspiration You Need to Write. poems that explores her Cuban Writing Partnerships between T THURSDAY 9:30AM ancestry. Baumgaertner is Religious Women and Scribes in the professor of English emerita and Middle Ages, and has contributed former Dean of Humanities and a chapter to a book (forthcoming) Theological Studies at Wheaton about learning and teaching College. She is the poetry editor with imprisoned writers. of the Christian Century. F FRIDAY 3:30PM T THURSDAY 1:45PM F FRIDAY 3:30PM

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KYLE DAVID BENNETT WILLIAM DANIEL BOWMAN Kyle David Bennett is assistant BOERMAN-CORNELL Daniel Bowman is editor in professor of philosophy at William Boerman-Cornell is a chief of Relief Journal. His debut Caldwell University in Caldwell, professor of education and English collection of poems is A Plum New Jersey, where he also directs at Trinity Christian College. His Tree in Leatherstocking Country, the Spirituality and Leadership research focuses on ways that and his work has appeared in Institute, a think tank and training middle school and high school the Adirondack Review, American center that focuses on spiritual teachers can help students learn Poetry Journal, Books & Culture, formation and citizenship in North how to read within the context of the Midwest Quarterly, Seneca American democratic society. different academic disciplines. Review, and many other journals. He has taught at Azusa Pacific S SATURDAY 11:30AM He is associate professor of University, Providence Christian English at Taylor University. S SATURDAY 2PM College, and the King’s College. T THURSDAY 3:15PM F FRIDAY 12:45PM ARTHUR BOERS arthurboers.com MICHA BOYETT WENDY BILEN Arthur Boers is a priest in the michaboyett.com wendybilen.com Anglican Church of Canada. Based Micha Boyett is the author of Wendy Bilen is a writer of in Toronto, he is the author of Found: A Story of Questions, Grace, creative nonfiction, including eight books including The Way and Everyday Prayer. A former the biography-memoir Finding Is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage youth pastor, she’s particularly Josie. Her essays and articles have Along the Camino de Santiago, interested in monasticism and appeared in several magazines, Living into Focus: Choosing What ancient Christian spiritual journals, and newspapers, Matters in an Age of Distraction, practices—as well as how they including the Washington Post, and Never Call Them Jerks: Healthy inform the contemporary life Relief, and Women in Higher Responses to Difficult Behavior. of faith. Boyett holds an MFA in Education. In 2008, she started a poetry from Syracuse University S SATURDAY 12:45PM spoken word event called Speakin’ and speaks regularly on a variety It Real, which has launched of topics, including motherhood, talent such as the popular D.C. ANNETTE BOURLAND prayer, and special needs. poet Charity Blackwell. Bilen Annette Bourland is senior vice F FRIDAY 11:30AM is completing a biography of president and group publisher Horatio Gates Spafford Jr., the at Zondervan, overseeing trade, man behind the hymn “It Is Well Blink, and Zonderkidz divisions. DAVID BRATT David Bratt is the executive editor with My Soul.” She currently F FRIDAY 12:45PM teaches at the women’s college of at William B. Eerdmans Publishing Trinity Washington University Company in Grand Rapids, in the District of Columbia. KATE BOWLER Michigan. For more than 15 years F FRIDAY 10AM katebowler.com he has edited books relating to Kate Bowler, a leading historian religious history, the church and on the prosperity gospel, has its mission, and many other topics. JOHN BLASE written widely in both scholarly T THURSDAY 4:30PM johnblase.com journals and popular media. Her John Blase is an author, poet, and first book, Blessed: A History of acquisitions editor for WaterBrook the American Prosperity Gospel, BEN BRAZIL Multnomah in Colorado Springs, which traced the rise of Christian Ben Brazil directs the ministry of Colorado. His most recent belief in divine promises of health, writing program at the Earlham work is The Jubilee: Poems. wealth, and happiness, has been School of Religion, a Quaker S SATURDAY 10AM featured in the New York Times, seminary in Richmond, Indiana. The New Republic, the Guardian, He has written extensively Time, The Atlantic, the Economist, about the theology of travel the Washington Post, NPR, and and has been published in the the BBC. Bowler’s memoir, New York Times, Washington Everything Happens for a Reason, Post, and Los Angeles Times. written following her diagnosis F FRIDAY 8:30AM with stage IV cancer, explores her struggle to understand the American belief that all tragedies are tests of character. Bowler lives in North Carolina. F FRIDAY 3:30PM S SATURDAY 10AM

56 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr AARON BROWN KIMBERLY BURGE HEATH W. CARTER aaronbrownwriter.com kimberlyburge.com heathwcarter.com Aaron Brown is a poet and Kimberly Burge is a narrative Heath W. Carter is an associate assistant professor of writing and journalist, a longtime activist, a professor of history at Valparaiso editing at Sterling College. He has Fulbright Scholar to South Africa, University, the coeditor of the been anthologized in Best New and the author of The Born Frees: Library of Religious Biography African Poets and has received Writing with the Girls of Gugulethu, series, an editor of three books, nominations for the Pushcart Prize a book about girls growing up and the author of one. He is and the Best of the Net. He is the in post-apartheid South Africa. currently writing his second book author of the poetry chapbook In addition, her writing has titled On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Winnower and novella Bound. His been featured in The Atlantic, Social Christians and the Fight book of poems, Acacia Road, won Salon, the Huffington Post, and to End American Inequality. the 2016 Gerald Cable Book Award. Sojourners. She was also a fellow T THURSDAY 4:30PM F FRIDAY 8:30AM in global religion reporting for the F FRIDAY 8:30AM International Reporting Project. F AUSTIN FRIDAY 11:30AM DORCAS CHANNING BROWN CHENG-TOZUN austinchanning.com SCOTT CAIRNS chengtozun.com Austin Channing Brown is a Scott Cairns is a poet and essayist Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is a writer, writer and speaker focused on who currently serves as both editor, and the author of Start, black womanhood and faith. She’s Curators’ Distinguished Professor Love, Repeat: How to Stay in been published in Sojourners, of English at the University of Love with Your Entrepreneur in Relevant, Mutuality Magazine, Missouri and director of the a Crazy Start-Up World. She is and other places around the web, Seattle Pacific University low- also a columnist for Inc.com and her first book I’m Still Here: residency MFA program in creative and a regular contributor to Black Dignity in a World Made writing. His books include the the Well, Christianity Today, for Whiteness, is forthcoming. poetry collections Idiot Psalms and Asian American Women on Austin has a BA in business and Slow Pilgrim and the spiritual Leadership. Previously, Cheng- management from North Park memoir Short Trip to the Edge. Tozun worked as a nonprofit and University and a MA in social His writing has appeared in social enterprise professional justice from Marygrove College. The Atlantic, The Paris Review, in the United States and Asia. She has worked with nonprofits, The New Republic, and Poetry. F FRIDAY 10AM churches, parachurch ministries, Cairns received a Guggenheim and universities in both the Fellowship in 2006 and the urban and suburban context Denise Levertov Award in 2014. SUSANNA CHILDRESS for the advancement of racial S SATURDAY 8:30AM Susanna Childress writes poetry, justice and reconciliation. Most S SATURDAY 12:45PM short fiction, and creative recently, she served as a resident nonfiction. She is the author of two director and multicultural books of poetry, Jagged with Love liaison at Calvin College. ANGELA DOLL and Entering the House of Awe, and S SATURDAY 8:30AM CARLSON her book of essays, Extremely Yours, angeladollcarlson.com is due out in 2019. Childress has Angela Doll Carlson is a poet, received an AWP Intro Journals SHARON fiction writer, and essayist. She is Award, the National Career Award GARLOUGH BROWN the author of Garden in the East: in Poetry from the National sensibleshoesclub.com The Spiritual Life of the Body and Society of Arts and Letters, and Sharon Garlough Brown is author the memoir Nearly Orthodox: a Lilly post-doctoral fellowship. of the Sensible Shoes series, a On Being a Modern Woman in She lives in Holland, Michigan spiritual director, and co-founder an Ancient Tradition. Carlson and is an assistant professor of Abiding Way Ministries, currently serves as the managing of English at Hope College. which holds spiritual formation editor for St. Katherine Review. F FRIDAY 8:30AM retreats and provides educational Her forthcoming book is titled S SATURDAY 11:30AM resources. Brown is a graduate of The Wilderness Journal: Daily Princeton Theological Seminary Reflections on the Philokalia. and has served on the pastoral T THURSDAY 3:15PM staff of churches in Scotland, S SATURDAY 2PM Oklahoma, England, and Michigan. S SATURDAY 10AM

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PHIL CHRISTMAN ELESHA J. COFFMAN HUGH COOK Phil Christman teaches writing Elesha J. Coffman is an assistant hugh-cook.ca at the University of Michigan professor of history at Baylor Hugh Cook is a Canadian poet, and is the editor of the Michigan University and writes on novelist, and short story writer Review of Prisoner Creative religion and media in American who earned an MFA from Writing. His work has appeared culture. She is the author of “The the Writers’ Workshop at the or is forthcoming in the Hedgehog Christian Century” and the Rise University of Iowa. His poems Review, Commonweal, Christian of the Protestant Mainline and is and short stories have appeared Century, Books & Culture, and currently working on a religious in journals including Quarry, other publications, and in the biography of Margaret Mead. Canadian Poetry, Fiddlehead, Folio, recent anthology Red State Blues. T THURSDAY 4:30PM Descant, and the Antigonish Review, F FRIDAY 3:30PM and his books include Home in Alfalfa, linked stories that won first CARLOS COLÓN prize for fiction the Word Guild JEFF CHU Carlos Colón is a composer, of Canada Awards in 1998, and byjeffchu.com liturgist, and cultural promoter the novel Heron River. In 1997, the Jeff Chu is a Brooklyn-based whose recent projects lie at the Word Guild of Canada awarded journalist and the author of intersection of social justice Cook the Leslie K. Tarr Award Does Jesus Really Love Me? A and religious change. Born in in recognition of a major career contributing editor at Modern Chalchuapa, El Salvador, Colón contribution to Christian writing Farmer, Chu also writes frequently fled civil war at the age of 14 and and publishing in Canada. Cook for Travel + Leisure. His work became a U.S. citizen in 2001. is emeritus professor of English has also appeared in Time, the Colón’s personal experiences of at Redeemer University College. New York Times Magazine, immigration and violent conflict F FRIDAY 8AM the Wall Street Journal, and inform his compositions’ calls to S SATURDAY 8:30AM Fast Company. He is currently justice, peace, and beauty. His work pursuing an MDiv at Princeton includes requiems for Archbishop Theological Seminary, where Oscar Romero, and the victims of CPI WRITERS’ CLUB you can often find him digging the El Mozote massacre, as well as The CPI Writers’ Club is a Christian and weeding at the Farminary, the score for a short film he also writing community committed the seminary’s 21-acre farm. coproduced, Lamento Con Alas: to helping transform prison S SATURDAY 8:30AM Documenting Immigrant Deaths culture through the written S SATURDAY 11:30AM along the Texas–Mexico Border. word. They are an official club His music has been performed of Calvin College, and they meet worldwide, including at Carnegie and work within the Richard J. KAREN COATS Hall, on Venezuela National Handlon Correctional Facility as Karen Coats is a professor of Radio, and as part of the Festival part of the Calvin Prison Initiative. English at Illinois State University de Música Contemporánea of They focus on a wide variety and the author of The Bloomsbury El Salvador. He is a resident of activities, including writing Introduction to Children’s and scholar in Baylor University’s development, academic writing, Young Adult Literature and Institute for Studies of Religion. creative writing, and editing. Looking Glasses and Neverlands: T THURSDAY 10AM F FRIDAY 3:30PM Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity T THURSDAY 4:30PM in Children’s Literature. She F FRIDAY 3:30PM has also coedited several books and written over 30 scholarly articles on the intersections of children’s literature and critical and cognitive literary theory. F FRIDAY 11:30AM

58 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr LORILEE CRAKER ED CYZEWSKI OLIVER DE LA PAZ lorileecraker.com edcyzewski.com oliverdelapaz.com Lorilee Craker is the author Ed Cyzewski is the author of Oliver de la Paz is the author of of more than a dozen books, Flee, Be Silent, Pray: An Anxious four collections of poetry, most including Money Secrets of the Evangelical Finds Peace with God recently Post Subject: A Fable. Born Amish, a 2012 Audie Awards through Contemplative Prayer in the Philippines, he co-chairs nominee; Through the Storm and A Christian Survival Guide. the advisory board of Kundiman, with Lynne Spears; My Journey to He works as a freelance writer a not-for-profit organization Heaven with Marv Besteman; and and editor and blogs regularly dedicated to the promotion of most recently, a memoir, “Anne of on writing and prayer. Asian American poetry. He also Green Gables,” My Daughter, and F FRIDAY 10AM serves on the Association of Me. She has taught book proposal S SATURDAY 2PM Writers and Writing Programs writing at writers’ conferences board of trustees and teaches at and consulted on or written the College of the Holy Cross and dozens of books proposals. She GINA DALFONZO in the low-residency MFA program also blogs about serious church Gina Dalfonzo is author of One by at Pacific Lutheran University. matters, funny life happenings, One: Welcoming the Singles in Your F FRIDAY 3:30PM and compassion for all. Church. She is the associate editor S SATURDAY 11:30AM F FRIDAY 2PM for features at Christianity Today and editor of Dickensblog. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, NATASHIA DEÓN BARBARA CROOKER Christianity Today, Christ and natashiadeon.com barbaracrooker.com Pop Culture, First Things, Aleteia, Natashia Deón’s first novel, Grace, A Grammy nominee, Barbara and elsewhere. She is a member was nominated for the 2017 Crooker is the author of eight of INK: A Creative Collective. NAACP Image Award and won books of poetry, including the S SATURDAY 8:30AM the 2017 First Novel Prize by the forthcoming Book of Kells. Her American Library Association’s writing has received numerous Black Caucus. A recipient of awards, including the Thomas EDWIDGE DANTICAT a PEN Center USA Emerging Merton Poetry of the Sacred Award, edwidgedanticat.com Voices Fellowship, Deón is also the WB Yeats Society Award, three Edwidge Danticat is the author of the creator of the popular Los Pennsylvania Council on the Arts several books, including Breath, Angeles-based reading series Fellowships in Literature, and 49 Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Dirty Laundry Lit, as well as an Pushcart Prize nominations. Club selection, and Krik? Krak!, attorney and law professor. F FRIDAY 3:30PM a National Book Award finalist. T THURSDAY 1:45PM S SATURDAY 3:30PM Danticat has also published T THURSDAY 4:30PM nonfiction works, children’s books, and young adult novels. Her KAITLIN B. CURTICE memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was ALEXIS DE WEESE kaitlincurtice.com a 2007 finalist for the National alexisdeweese.com Kaitlin B. Curtice is a writer, Book Award and a 2008 winner Alexis De Weese is a digital speaker, worship leader, and of the National Book Critics Circle marketer with Apricot Services, author of Glory Happening: Finding Award for autobiography. She where she is a project manager, the Divine in Everyday Places, a is a 2009 MacArthur fellow. content creator, and content collection of essays and prayers. F FRIDAY 11:30AM editor. She is also a blogger, As both an enrolled member of F FRIDAY 5PM speaker, and aspiring novelist. the Potawatomi Citizen Band S SATURDAY 2PM Nation and someone who has grown up in the Christian faith, CHRISTINE DARRAGH Curtice blogs on the intersection darkoakbindery.com of spirituality and mystic faith Christine Darragh is a poet and in everyday life and the church. bookbinder who works from S SATURDAY 2PM her home studio to create and teach the art of handcrafted books. Formerly the marketing manager at the Zingerman’s Roadhouse, a nationally acclaimed restaurant, Darragh founded Dark Oak Bindery, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. F FRIDAY 8:30AM

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NATALIE DIAZ LYNN DOMINA JACLYN DWYER Natalie Diaz is author of the poetry lynndomina.com jaclyndwyer.com collection When My Brother Was Lynn Domina is the author of two Jaclyn Dwyer is the author of The an Aztec. Diaz has taught at the collections of poetry, Corporal Bride Aflame, a poetry collection Institute of American Indian Works and Framed in Silence, forthcoming in 2019. She has Arts low-residency MFA program and is the editor of a collection published fiction and poetry in and partnered with Arizona of essays, Poets on the Psalms. a number of literary magazines, State University in directing the She is the head of the English including Ploughshares, Sugar Fort Mojave Language Recovery department at Northern Michigan House Review, Indiana Review, the Program. Her honors include University and creative writing Journal, Rattle, Prairie Schooner, the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo editor of the Other Journal. New Ohio Review, and Witness. Neruda Prize for Poetry, the F FRIDAY 8:30AM Dwyer earned an MFA from the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship University of Notre Dame and in Poetry from Bread Loaf, the a PhD in creative writing from Narrative Poetry Prize, and a KRISTIN Florida State University. She is Lannan Literary Fellowship. KOBES DU MEZ currently an assistant professor S SATURDAY 10AM kristindumez.com and the director of creative writing S SATURDAY 2PM Kristin Kobes Du Mez is a professor at Malone University in Ohio. and scholar specializing in gender T THURSDAY 1:45PM and religion in both late-19th- SHANNON DINGLE and 20th-century U.S. history ShannonDingle.com as well as in the contemporary AMANDA Shannon Dingle is a writer, moment. Her work investigates CLEARY EASTEP speaker, and advocate who the intersections between amandaclearyeastep.com writes about politics, privilege, Christianity and feminism in her Amanda Cleary Eastep is the trauma, and disability. She has book, A New Gospel for Women: senior developmental editor at been published in Teen Vogue Katharine Bushnell and the Moody Publishers and cofounder and the Washington Post, and her Challenge of Christian Feminism, (with Michelle Van Loon) of The work has been featured by the as well as her current research Perennial Gen, a blog collective Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, on Hillary Clinton’s religious providing an encouraging space Slate, Daily Kos, and Sojourners. history. Du Mez has written for middle-aged women’s words T THURSDAY 4:30PM for Religion and Politics, the and voices. She has contributed Washington Post, and Christianity to Christianity Today, Think Today and regularly blogs for Christian, and Topology. ABIGAIL DISNEY Anxious Bench. She serves on the S SATURDAY 11:30AM forkfilms.net editorial board for Perspectives: Abigail Disney is a filmmaker, A Journal of Reformed Thought. philanthropist, and activist known T THURSDAY 4:30PM KERRY EGAN for her documentary films on S SATURDAY 11:30AM kerryegan.com social themes. She has produced Kerry Egan is a mother, hospice over 60 films, including Pray the chaplain, and writer. She is Devil Back to Hell, which won best LONNIE the author of On Living and documentary at the Tribeca Film HULL DUPONT Fumbling: A Pilgrimage Tale of Festival in 2008 and led Disney to Lonnie Hull DuPont is a poet, Love, Grief, and Spiritual Renewal work on a five-part special series book editor, and writer. She on the Camino de Santiago. Her for PBS called Women, War & Peace is the author of several books, writing about hospice work has in 2011. She made her directorial including five compilations appeared in many national print debut with the film The Armor of animal stories under the and online publications. She of Light, which premiered at the pseudonym of Callie Smith Grant. received a BA from Washington 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Her work has been nominated for and Lee University and an MDiv T THURSDAY 4:30PM a Pushcart Prize, and her poems from Harvard University. Egan F FRIDAY 10AM have been published in dozens is currently working on a book of journals and anthologies. about how the dying make DuPont lives in rural Michigan. meaning of their lives. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina. F FRIDAY 11:30AM F FRIDAY 2PM S SATURDAY 10AM

60 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr JOANNA RUTH EVERHART LESLIE ELEFTHERIOU rutheverhart.com LEYLAND FIELDS Joanna Eleftheriou is assistant Ruth Everhart is a Presbyterian leslieleylandfields.com professor of literature at the pastor and the author of two Leslie Leyland Fields is the author University of Houston–Clear spiritual memoirs: Ruined, which and editor of 10 books, including Lake and also teaches at the received the 2017 Book Award her 2016 book Crossing the Waters: Writing Workshops in Greece. Her from CT Women, and Chasing Following Jesus through the Storms, scholarship, essays, fiction, poems, the Divine in the Holy Land. Her the Fish, the Doubt and the Seas, and translations regularly appear writing has also appeared in the which won Christianity Today’s in literary journals including Washington Post, Sojourners, 2017 Book Award in Christian the Crab Orchard Review, Arts Religion News Service, Christian Living. A widely published and Letters, and the Common. Century, Feasting on the Word, essayist, Leyland Fields was a and other publications. S SATURDAY 10AM founding faculty member of T THURSDAY 3:15PM Seattle Pacific University’s MFA program. She has also taught LISHA EPPERSON literature and creative writing at lishaepperson.com CATHLEEN FALSANI the University of Alaska for 15 Lisha Epperson is a writer, cathleenfalsani.com years and continues to mentor speaker, and dancer who addresses Cathleen Falsani is a religion other writers through Harvester grace, faith, infertility, and journalist, author, and literary Island Wilderness Workshop and motherhood. She has worked consultant. Her books include other writing workshops. She with World Changers Church The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual lives on Kodiak Island, Alaska, and the Unbroken Chain Church Lives of Public People, Sin Boldly: in the winter and Harvester Fellowship in New York City in A Field Guide for Grace, The Dude Island, Alaska, in the summer, dance ministry. As a founding Abides: The Gospel According to the where she works in commercial member of the staff at the Coen Brothers, and Disquiet Time: salmon fishing with her family. Rants and Reflections on the Good Abundant Waters After-School F FRIDAY 10AM Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, program, Epperson has taught S SATURDAY 8:30AM dance to hundreds of children and a Few Scoundrels (coedited in the NYC public school system. with Jennifer Grant). Cathleen Epperson blogs regularly and was the longtime religion writer SUSIE FINKBEINER lives in New York City. and columnist for the Chicago susiefinkbeiner.com Sun-Times, and also served as web S SATURDAY 2PM Susie Finkbeiner is a novelist. editor for Sojourners where she Her books include A Cup of remains a featured contributor. Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl, LAURA EVERETT Her work has appeared via myriad A Trail of Crumbs: A Novel of the reveverett.com media outlets including Rolling Great Depression, and A Song Laura Everett is the author of Stone, Christianity Today, and of Home: A Novel of the Swing Holy Spokes: The Search for Urban the Orange County Register. She Era. She is also the author of Spirituality on Two Wheels. Everett is at work on the forthcoming My Mother’s Chamomile and is an ordained pastor in the book, The End of Hunger (coedited Paint Chips. Finkbeiner lives United Church of Christ, executive with Jenny Eaton Dyer); and she and works in West Michigan. co-hosts the audio magazine The director of the Massachusetts S SATURDAY 10AM Council of Churches, and an Shwell, exploring ancient tools itinerant preacher. She is a of contemplative spiritual graduate of Brown University practice for modern living. MEGHAN FLORIAN and Harvard Divinity School T THURSDAY 1:45PM meghanflorian.com and is an advisor for Leadership Meghan Florian is the author Education at Duke Divinity School. of The Middle of Things: Essays. T THURSDAY 4:30PM She earned an MTS from Duke F FRIDAY 2PM Divinity School and an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte. Florian currently teaches writing at William Peace University and is working on her second book. She lives in Durham, North Carolina. S SATURDAY 2PM

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SUSY FLORY MELISSA FRANTZ ANNETTE GENDLER susyflory.com melissafrantz.com annettegendler.com Susy Flory is an author, speaker, Melissa Frantz’s life has been Annette Gendler is a literary conference director, and formed by a legacy of Mennonites nonfiction writer, photographer, collaborative writer. Flory is and missionaries, the Canadian and blogger, and her memoir is the author or coauthor of 11 river valley where she grew titled Jumping over Shadows. Essays books, including an upcoming up, and the cities she’s lived in excerpted from the manuscript memoir with NASA astronaut since. She writes about being a appeared in the Wall Street Scott Parazynski, called The White Lady, her beautiful and Journal and Tablet Magazine. Sky Below; So Long Status Quo: complicated family, and the things Gendler regularly writes for What I Learned from the Women she does to make sense of both. the Washington Independent Who Changed the World; and a F FRIDAY 2PM Review of Books and the Jewish memoir she co-wrote with 9/11 S SATURDAY 10AM Book Council. Her photography survivor Michael Hingson, called has been featured in Bella Grace Thunder Dog: The True Story of Magazine and Artful Blogging. a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and KATHRYN FREEMAN She holds an MFA in creative the Triumph of Trust at Ground surrenderisthenewblack. writing from Queens University Zero. Formerly, Flory taught high wordpress.com of Charlotte and teaches memoir school English and journalism, Kathryn Freeman is the director writing at StoryStudio Chicago. then quit in 2004 to write full time of public policy of the Texas F FRIDAY 8AM for publications such as Focus Baptist Christian Life Commission. on the Family, Guideposts Books, She’s interested in helping In Touch, Praise & Coffee, Today’s Christians faithfully steward KATHERINE GIBSON Christian, and Today’s Christian their public witness when it Katherine Gibson is the assistant Woman. Recently, Flory was comes to policy, advocacy, and managing editor for Eerdmans named director of the West Coast the pursuit of the common good. Books for Young Readers (EBYR), Christian Writers Conference. She lives in Austin, Texas. which publishes trade and F FRIDAY 11:30AM S SATURDAY 8:30AM religious titles in children’s and young adult literature. At EBYR, Gibson has worked on everything DOROTHY RACHELLE GARDNER from an illustrated collection FORTENBERRY rachellegardner.com of prayers to a fable about an dorothyfortenberry.com Rachelle Gardner is a literary adopted swamp creature. Dorothy Fortenberry is currently agent, editor, and speaker, as well S SATURDAY 11:30AM a producer and writer on the as a coach for writing, publishing, Emmy Award-winning series The and social media. Gardner has Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu. Prior secured over 200 book deals for EDWARD GILBREATH to that, she spent three years authors including Rachel Held Edward Gilbreath is the author on the writing staff for the CW Evans, Sarah Bessey, Preston of Reconciliation Blues and series The 100. In 2017, IAMA Yancey, and Addie Zierman. Before Birmingham Revolution. He Theatre Company produced establishing herself with Books also works as an editor at large the world premiere production and Such Literary Agency, Gardner for Christianity Today and was of Fortenberry’s play Species was senior editor with NavPress. the founding editor of Urban Native to California, a modern S SATURDAY 8:30AM Ministries Inc.’s online magazine, re-telling of The Cherry Orchard. S SATURDAY 3:30PM UrbanFaith.com. Currently, he Fortenberry’s essays on subjects serves as the executive director including faith, fear, and the of communications at the politics of country music have Evangelical Covenant Church’s appeared in The Los Angeles denominational offices in Chicago. Review of Books, Real Simple, and F FRIDAY 10AM Pacific Standard. Fortenberry is S SATURDAY 11:30AM a recipient of the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and she has an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. F FRIDAY 10AM S SATURDAY 3:30PM

62 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr ANN GILLESPIE JENNIFER GRANT EMMA GREEN Ann Gillespie has served as senior jennifergrant.com Emma Green is staff writer associate rector at historic Christ In 2017, Jennifer Grant, the author for The Atlantic, writing on Church in Alexandria, Virginia, of several works of nonfiction, religion, especially as it overlaps for 10 years. She comes to parish published a memoir titled When with politics and culture. She ministry by way of 20 years as Did Everybody Else Get So Old? graduated from Georgetown a professional actress and 12 Indignities, Compromises, and the University in 2012 where she years as a hatha yoga teacher. Unexpected Grace of Midlife and studied government. In 2017 she She recently completed her MFA her first picture book for children, won first place for the Religion in creative writing through Maybe God Is Like That Too, News Association’s Excellence Seattle Pacific University. which won a gold medal from the in Religion News Analysis for S SATURDAY 12:45PM Moonbeam Spirit awards. Other Multi-Media Coverage and second books include Love You More, place in three other categories MOMumental, and Disquiet Time. for her writing for The Atlantic. DIANE GLANCY A regular contributor to Chicago T THURSDAY 3:15PM dianeglancy.com newspapers as well as many online F FRIDAY 11:30AM Diane Glancy is a novelist, poet, and traditional publications, playwright, essayist, and educator. Grant is also a popular speaker Glancy has explored Native and editor. She is a member of JESSICA American history—as well as her INK: A Creative Collective. MESMAN GRIFFITH own Cherokee heritage—through T THURSDAY 1:45PM jessicamesman.com her novels Pushing the Bear: A S SATURDAY 11:30AM Jessica Mesman Griffith is a widely Novel of the Trail of Tears and published author of essays, the Stone Heart: A Novel of Sacajawea. cofounder and curator of the blog Glancy won the Juniper Prize in MARLENA Sick Pilgrim, and the author of four 2003 for a collection of poems PROPER GRAVES books, including Strange Journey titled Primer of the Obsolete. marlenagraves.com and her memoir (coauthored S SATURDAY 8:30AM Marlena Proper Graves is the with Amy Andrews), Love and author of A Beautiful Disaster: Salt. She is a cultural columnist Finding Hope in the Midst of for U.S. Catholic Magazine, where KAREN GONZALEZ Brokenness. She writes regularly she often writes about women’s A former public school teacher, for many venues including issues and the intersections of Karen Gonzalez is a speaker, writer, CT Women and Our Daily faith, psychology, and creativity. and immigrant advocate based in Bread and speaks frequently Griffith is currently working on Baltimore, Maryland. She studied to students and congregations a second memoir of her Catholic theology and missiology at Fuller about spiritual formation. girlhood in southern Louisiana. Theological Seminary and has been F FRIDAY 10AM S SATURDAY 2PM a nonprofit professional for the S SATURDAY 3:30PM S SATURDAY 3:30PM past 10 years. Her writing has been featured in Sojourners and the Baltimore Sun among other places. DOROTHY NIKKI GRIMES She’s at work on her first book. LITTELL GRECO nikkigrimes.com S SATURDAY 11:30AM dorothygreco.com Nikki Grimes is a poet and S SATURDAY 2PM Dorothy Littell Greco is an children’s book author. Her books author, writer, speaker, and for children and young adults JESSICA GOUDEAU photographer. She is the author include Bronx Masquerade, winner of Making Marriage Beautiful and of the Coretta Scott King Award, jessicagoudeau.com her writing has been featured and Jazmin’s Notebook, Talkin’ Jessica Goudeau is a writer, in Christianity Today, Relevant, about Bessie, Dark Sons, The Road scholar, entrepreneur, teacher, and and the Mudroom, among many to Paris, and Words with Wings, editor. Her writing has appeared others. She lives outside of Boston. each of which received a Coretta in publications including The T THURSDAY 4:30PM Scott King Honor. In 2017, she was Atlantic, the Washington Post, presented with the Laura Ingalls Teen Vogue, and the Huffington Wilder Medal for her “substantial Post. She is currently working and lasting contribution to on a book about refugees as they literature for children.” begin the resettlement process. F FRIDAY 11:30AM F FRIDAY 8:30AM F FRIDAY 2PM F FRIDAY 2PM

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KRISTINE GRITTER SETH HAINES LISA SHARON Kristine Gritter is a professor sethhaines.com HARPER and scholar whose research Seth Haines is an attorney and lisasharonharper.com interest currently focuses on author. His first book, Coming A prolific speaker, writer, and textual discussions in English Clean: A Story of Faith, is an activist, Lisa Sharon Harper language arts classrooms, account of his first 90 days of works in places from Ferguson particularly how students make sobriety. It won the Award of and New York to Germany text-to-self connections with Merit in Christianity Today’s and South Africa, training and texts and their prior knowledge 2016 Book Awards. Haines lives helping mobilize clergy and of popular culture. Gritter spent in the Ozark Mountains. community leaders around shared 10 years as a middle school F FRIDAY 3:30PM values for the common good. A English language arts teacher in S SATURDAY 2PM widely published essayist and in- Miami, Florida, before beginning demand commentator, she is the her current appointment at author of several books, including Seattle Pacific University. MACY HALFORD The Very Good Gospel: How S SATURDAY 11:30AM macyhalford.com Everything Wrong Can Be Made Macy Halford is a memoirist and Right. Among her many honors, book reviewer. Her first book, Relevant recognized her as one of LINDSAY GUSTAFSON My Utmost: A Devotional Memoir, Seven Leaders to Follow in 2017. apricotservices.com is about her fascination with F FRIDAY 10AM Lindsay Gustafson is co-owner Oswald Chambers’s My Utmost S SATURDAY 11:30AM of Apricot Services, a marketing for His Highest. Halford also spent firm specializing in Christian eight years on the editorial staff publishers, authors, and book of the New Yorker magazine. DAVE HARRITY retailers. She is experienced in She currently teaches English at daveharrity.net marketing, the publishing world, Sciences Po University in Paris, Dave Harrity is a writer and and nonprofit development. France, in addition to working as a teacher from Louisville, Kentucky, S SATURDAY 2PM freelance reviewer and translator. where he is an assistant professor T THURSDAY 3:15PM of English at Campbellsville F FRIDAY 8:30AM University. He is the author BARBARA of Making Manifest: On Faith, BRADLEY HAGERTY Creativity, and the Kingdom barbarabradleyhagerty.com NATHANIEL LEE at Hand, a craft manual of Barbara Bradley Hagerty is the HANSEN meditations and writing exercises author of two books, Fingerprints plainswriter.com for individual creative practice of God: The Search for the Nathaniel Lee Hansen is the and communal formation, as Science of Spirituality and Life author of the poetry collection well as two books of poetry, Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Your Twenty-First Century Prayer These Intricacies and Our Opportunity of Midlife. She was Life, as well as the poetry chapbook Father in the Year of the Wolf. the religion correspondent for Four Seasons West of the 95th F FRIDAY 8:30AM NPR for 20 years, reporting on the Meridian. He is associate professor F FRIDAY 11:30AM intersections of faith with politics, of English at the University of law, science, and culture. As NPR’s Mary Hardin-Baylor where he Justice Department correspondent, edits The Windhover and directs JEN HATMAKER she also covered the impeachment The Windhover Writers’ Festival. jenhatmaker.com proceedings against President T THURSDAY 3:15PM Jen Hatmaker is a Christian Clinton, Florida’s disputed 2000 author, speaker, and blogger. She election, and the investigation has written 12 books, including into the September 11 attacks. For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a T THURSDAY 3:15PM World of Impossible Standards, and F FRIDAY 10AM most recently, Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight out of This Wild and Glorious Life. Hatmaker speaks nationally and has a popular podcast in which she and guests discuss topics such as authenticity, parenthood, and friendship. F FRIDAY 3:30PM S SATURDAY 2PM

64 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr JANET RUTH HELLER JONATHAN HISKES JUDITH HOUGEN janetruthheller.com jonathanhiskes.com judithhougen.blogspot.com Janet Ruth Heller is a poet, literary Jonathan Hiskes is a writer Judith Hougen is a poet and critic, college professor, essayist, and reporter. He works as creative writing professor at the playwright, and fiction writer. communications director at University of Northwestern–St. She has published three books of the University of Washington Paul. She has published a book poetry; a book of literary criticism, Simpson Center for the of poetry, The Second Thing I Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and Humanities and has published Remember, and a Christian living the Reader of Drama; a middle- work in Mother Jones, River Teeth, book, Transformed into Fire. grade chapter book about sibling the Sun, and the Guardian. Currently working on a collection rivalry, The Passover Surprise; S SATURDAY 11:30AM of creative nonfiction, she holds and a children’s picture book an MFA from the University of about bullying, How the Moon Montana and has taught creative Regained Her Shape. Heller ALISON HODGSON writing for over 20 years. Hougen is president of the Michigan The author of The Pug List: A has also led workshops and private College English Association. Ridiculous Dog, a Family Who Lost weekend writing retreats. F FRIDAY 8:30AM Everything, and How They All Found T THURSDAY 9:30AM Their Way Home, Alison Hodgson has been published in Woman’s JOHN HENDRIX Day, Forbes.com, Her.meneutics, MARIE HOWE johnhendrix.com and Religion News Service. A Moth mariehowe.com John Hendrix, an author of StorySLAM winner and a regular Poet laureate of New York State children’s literature and an contributor to Houzz.com, her from 2012 to 2014, Marie Howe illustrator, is the writer and essays have also been published has published four collections artist for John Brown: His Fight for in a variety of anthologies. of verse: The Good Thief, What Freedom, Miracle Man: The Story F FRIDAY 11:30AM the Living Do, The Kingdom of of Jesus, and Shooting at the Stars. Ordinary Time, and Magdalene. Her Hendrix’s art has also appeared in poems have appeared in the New the New York Times, Rolling Stone, CHRIS HOKE Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, AGNI, the New Yorker, Time, and other chris-hoke.com Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and publications. His awards include Chris Hoke is the author of the Partisan Review. She has also the Society of Illustrators 2009 Wanted: A Spiritual Pursuit co-edited one anthology of essays, 3x3 Gold Medal in sequential Through Jail, Among Outlaws, and In the Company of My Solitude: illustration and the SILA Silver Across Borders. Hoke received American Writing from the AIDS Best of Show Award. He teaches his BA from the University of Pandemic, with Michael Klein. illustration and typography at California, Berkeley and his T THURSDAY 3:15PM Washington University in St. Louis. MFA in creative nonfiction from F FRIDAY 11:30AM S SATURDAY 10AM Seattle Pacific University. S SATURDAY 12:45PM AL HSU CAROLINA Al Hsu is senior editor for IVP HINOJOSA-CISNEROS ROBERT N. HOSACK Books at InterVarsity Press, where cisneroscafe.org Robert N. Hosack is executive he acquires and develops books in Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros editor for Baker Academic, Baker areas such as culture, discipleship, is a poet, writer, and blogger. Books, and Brazos Press. He is also ministry, and mission. With a Her work has appeared in the coauthor of The New Millennium PhD from Trinity Evangelical Acentos Review, Sagebrush Manual, a freelance writer and Divinity School, he is the author Review, the Mudroom, Lookout editor, and a member of the of Singles at the Crossroads, The Magazine, and more. Academy of Christian Editors. Suburban Christian, and most T THURSDAY 4:30PM F FRIDAY 2PM recently, a revised edition of Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One’s Search for Comfort, Answers, and Hope. He lives in Chicago. F FRIDAY 2PM

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ROBERT HUDSON KATHERINE JAMES STINA Robert (Bob) Hudson is a senior katherinejameshome.com KIELSMEIER-COOK editor at large for Zondervan/ Katherine James’s debut novel, stinakc.com HarperCollins and the author of Can You See Anything Now? won Stina Kielsmeier-Cook is a writer The Christian Writer’s Manual of Christianity Today’s 2018 Fiction and digital communications Style, now in its fourth edition. Book of the Year Award and was a specialist for the Collegeville His most recent work includes semifinalist for the Doris Bakwin Institute. Her writing and a collection of poems, Kiss the Prize. Her poetry and narrative essays have appeared in many Ground When You Pray; a study of nonfiction has been published publications, including Image, Bob Dylan’s influence on Thomas in a variety of journals and the Englewood Review of Books, Merton, The Monk’s Record Player; anthologies, one of her stories was and Sojourners. A former housing and an edition of Thomas Dekker’s shortlisted for a Narrative spring advocate for refugees, Kielsmeier- prayers, Four Birds of Noah’s Ark. prize, and she has a forthcoming Cook lives in Minneapolis. He and Shelley Townsend-Hudson memoir, Notes on Orion. She F FRIDAY 8:30AM coauthored Companions for the holds an MFA from Columbia Soul. They also own the Perkipery University, where she received Press, a chapbook publisher that the Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship. GRACE JI-SUN KIM has issued dozens of volumes F FRIDAY 2PM gracejisunkim.wordpress.com over the past three decades. Grace Ji-Sun Kim is an ordained T THURSDAY 9:30AM minister in the PC (USA) and S SATURDAY 3:30PM CHRISTINA JASKO associate professor of religion Christina Jasko is currently a at Earlham School of Religion. textbook specialist for Baker Noted for her work in the fields KELLY HUGHES Academic and has also served for of feminist, post-colonial, and With more than 25 years’ four years as an editorial associate. Asian American theology, Kim experience as a book publicist, In her role at Baker, Jasko is is the author or editor of more Kelly Hughes heads DeChant- responsible for the supplemental than a dozen books, most recently Hughes Public Relations, a materials developed around Baker Mother Daughter Speak and Chicago-based firm dedicated to Academic’s major textbooks, Embracing the Other. She has also national media coverage for books including the Textbook eSources written for publications including on religious thought, spirituality, website. Jasko holds degrees from Time, The Nation, Feminism and cultural issues. She has Wheaton College and University and Religion, and Sojourners. represented a wide range of of Chicago Divinity School. F FRIDAY 11:30AM authors, scholars, and theologians, F FRIDAY 12:45PM including Nadia Bolz Weber, Fr. James Martin, Philip Yancey, CATHERINE KNEPPER Rachel Held Evans, and Jim Wallis. KATHY KHANG A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ T THURSDAY 1:45PM kathykhang.com Workshop, Catherine Knepper is Kathy Khang is a speaker and an editor, writer, and consultant. journalist. With expertise in Her fiction has appeared in MARY S. HULST issues of gender, ethnicity, justice, West Branch, the Florida Review, Calvin College’s chaplain since and leadership development, Memorious, and Necessary 2009, Mary S. Hulst is the author she has worked in campus Fiction, among others. of A Little Handbook for Preachers. ministry for more than 20 T THURSDAY 4:30PM With experience as a senior years. She is a columnist for pastor and as a professor, she Sojourners, a writer for Faith & lectures around the country on Leadership, and a coauthor of NANCY KOESTER preaching, teaches workshops More Than Serving Tea: Asian Nancy Koester has taught for preachers, and consults with American Women on Expectations, religion and church history at churches and search committees Relationships, Leadership, and Luther Seminary, St. Paul, and at on how to listen well to sermons. Faith. Her book, Raise Your Augsburg College, Minneapolis. T THURSDAY 3:15PM Voice, is due out in June 2018. An ordained Lutheran minister F FRIDAY 2PM F FRIDAY 10AM and a spiritual director, she has F FRIDAY 12:45PM also written Journeying through F FRIDAY 3:30PM Lent with Luke and the Fortress S SATURDAY 11:30AM Introduction to the History of Christianity in the United States. T THURSDAY 4:30PM

66 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr ALEXANDRIA LAFAYE REBECCA LAUREN D. S. LEITER alafaye.com Rebecca Lauren, managing editor deborahleiter.blogspot.com Alexandria LaFaye has published of Saturnalia Books, teaches D. S. Leiter is a researcher, over a dozen books for young English at Eastern University. writer, and speaker. She teaches readers ranging from historical She also serves on the faculty interpersonal and small group fiction to fantasy, including the of Seminar by the Sea, a gender communication classes at Scott O’Dell Award-winning Worth studies summer program in coastal the University of Wisconsin– and the verse novel Pretty Omens. Maine. Winner of an Academy Platteville, where she focuses on Her picture book Walking Home of American Poets Prize and the theory and practice of healthy to Rosie Lee is a Stepping Stones nominated for a Pushcart Prize, communication patterns, and she Honor book and IRA Teacher’s her poetry has been published in also speaks about communication Choice selection. She has two Prairie Schooner, Mid-American as author-audience relationships. upcoming picture books: No Frogs Review, the Cincinnati Review, Rock Leiter is a member of Sisters in in School and Follow Me Down to & Sling, Ruminate, and the Journal Crime as well as the co-chair of Nicodemus Town. LaFaye is also an of Feminist Studies in Religion. Her the Mystery and Detective Fiction associate professor of English at chapbook, The Schwenkfelders, Area of the Popular Culture Greenville University in Illinois which is the reimagined the Association. She holds two degrees and a visiting associate professor history of her German ancestors’ in literature in addition to her in the summer graduate program religious persecution and their PhD in communication. She in Children’s and Young Adult subsequent immigration to the currently lives in Dubuque, Iowa. Literature at Hollins University. United States, won the 2009 T THURSDAY 3:15PM F FRIDAY 11:30AM Keystone Chapbook Prize. S SATURDAY 10AM LYZ LENZ MATTHEW LANDRUM lyzlenz.com matthewlandrum.com APRIL AYERS Lyz Lenz is the managing editor at Matthew Landrum is a poet, LAWSON The Rumpus. Her writing has been teacher, and associate editor aprilayerslawson.com published in the New York Times, of Structo Magazine. His April Ayers Lawson is the author the Guardian, Columbia Journalism translations have appeared in of Virgin and Other Stories, which Review, Pacific Standard, Marie Agni, Michigan Quarterly Review, was named a best book of the Claire, and others. In addition, RHINO, and Anomaly, and his year by Vice, Bomb, Southern Lenz is also a regular contributor chapbook is titled The Homeland: Living, and Refinery29, and has to Mom.me and a columnist for Translations from the German been published in Germany, the Cedar Rapids Gazette. She of Katharina Müller. Landrum Italy, Norway, and Spain. The has two books—The Death of the lives and teaches in Detroit. title story in the collection won Midwestern Church and Belabored: T THURSDAY 1:45PM the Plimpton Prize for Fiction in Tales of Myth, Medicine, and 2011. Her fiction has appeared Motherhood—forthcoming. in Granta, Oxford American, Vice, S SATURDAY 2PM LORIE LANGDON ZYZZYVA, Crazyhorse, and Five lorielangdon.com Chapters. Lawson was a 2015 Lorie Langdon left a thriving writing fellow at Yaddo, has corporate career with a Fortune lectured in the creative writing 500 company to satisfy the voices department at Emory University, in her head urging her to write. and was the 2016–2017 Kenan She coauthored with Carey Corp Visiting Writer at the University the bestselling DOON series, of North Carolina Chapel Hill. a young adult reimagining F FRIDAY 2PM of the musical Brigadoon. S SATURDAY 2PM F FRIDAY 12:45PM

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ROBIN COSTE LEWIS AMIT MAJMUDAR KAREN WRIGHT Robin Coste Lewis won a National amitmajmudar.com MARSH Book Award for her debut Amit Majmudar is a novelist, poet, karenwrightmarsh.com collection, Voyage of the Sable essayist, and diagnostic nuclear Karen Wright Marsh is the Venus, in 2015. Her work has radiologist. He has recently author of Vintage Saints and also appeared in many journals written a new translation of the Sinners: 25 Christians Who and anthologies, including the Bhagavad Gita, titled Godsong, Transformed My Faith. She is Massachusetts Review, Callaloo, and his poetry collections also executive director and cofounder Transition, and VIDA. Lewis include Dothead; 0˚, 0˚; and Heaven of Theological Horizons, a earned her MFA from New and Earth, the winner of a Donald ministry that advances theological York University, where she was Justice Prize. Majmudar is also the scholarship at the intersection a Goldwater fellow in poetry, author of the novels Partitions and of faith, thought, and life. as well as her MTS at Harvard The Abundance. His essays have S SATURDAY 8:30AM Divinity School, where she been published by the Kenyon studied Sanskrit and comparative Review, New York Times, and New religious literature. Lewis is York Review of Books. Majmudar NATE MARSHALL currently the poet laureate of Los currently lives in Dublin, Ohio. natemarshallpoetry.com Angeles and a Provost’s Fellow F FRIDAY 10AM Nate Marshall is the author of the in the Creative Writing and F FRIDAY 2PM prize-winning poetry collection Literature PhD program at the Wild Hundreds. He directs national University of Southern California. programs for the Louder than a S SATURDAY 11:30AM KATIE MANNING Bomb Youth Poetry Festival and S SATURDAY 3:30PM katiemanningpoet.com works as a teaching artist with Katie Manning is an associate many organizations. A Cave professor at Point Loma Nazarene Canem fellow, Marshall edited The YASMINA University, specializing in poetry BreakBeat Poets: New American DIN MADDEN and women writers. Manning Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Yasmina Din Madden is an English is the author of four poetry released a rap album with his professor at Drake University, chapbooks, and her first full-length group Daily Lyrical Product, and where she teaches short story, poetry collection, Tasty Other, won co-directs Crescendo Literary with creative nonfiction, flash the 2016 Main Street Rag Poetry Eve Ewing. Marshall earned his narratives, and literature. Din Book Award. She has received the MFA at the University of Michigan. Madden has published fiction and Nassau Review Author Award for He lives and writes in Chicago. essays in the Masters Review, Word Poetry. She is the founding editor T THURSDAY 3:15PM Riot, Hobart, the Idaho Review, in chief of Whale Road Review: A F FRIDAY 10AM Flash Flash Click, Fiction Southeast, Journal of Poetry & Short Prose. Carve, and other journals. She is T THURSDAY 3:15PM also the coordinator for the Susan D. L. MAYFIELD dlmayfield.com Glaspell Writers & Critics Series. BILLY MARK T THURSDAY 4:30PM D. L. Mayfield is the author of a billymark.space book of essays titled Assimilate Billy Mark is an interdisciplinary or Go Home: Notes from a Failed MARJORIE MADDOX poet who studied music and Missionary on Rediscovering Faith. marjoriemaddox.com theater at Calarts in Los Angeles Writing on a range of topics, Marjorie Maddox is a writer and now lives and works in including refugees, theology, and and professor of English and Detroit. His current work downward mobility, Mayfield creative writing at Lock Haven explores monasticism, liturgy, has had work appear in a wide University. She has published mulatto identity, and place. variety of publications from four children’s books, a volume of F FRIDAY 3:30PM Christianity Today to McSweeney’s. short stories, and 11 collections S SATURDAY 11:30AM She lives in Portland, Oregon. of poetry, including True, False, F FRIDAY 8:30AM None of the Above, which won S SATURDAY 2PM the 2017 Illumination Bronze GEORGE MARSDEN Medalist Award in the Education George Marsden is a professor Category. She has also had over 500 emeritus of history at the poems, stories, or essays appear University of Notre Dame and the in journals and anthologies. author of many books, including Maddox is coeditor of Common the Bancroft Prize-winning Wealth: Contemporary Poets biography Jonathan Edwards: A Life. on Pennsylvania and lives in T THURSDAY 4:30PM Williamsport, Pennsylvania. T THURSDAY 9:30AM

68 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr DENISE MCCLELLAN BILL MCKIBBEN BARBARA MELOSH Denise McClellan is the director billmckibben.com Barbara Melosh is a Lutheran of adult ministries at Desert Bill McKibben’s 1989 book, pastor and the author of the Cross Lutheran Church in The End of Nature, is regarded forthcoming Loving and Leaving a Tempe, Arizona. She previously as the first book for a general Church, the story of her initiation taught high school English audience about climate change; into ministry in a small, blue- writing and literature courses. it has appeared in 24 languages, collar urban congregation. Before S SATURDAY 3:30PM and McKibben has written a discerning a call to ministry, she dozen more books, most recently taught American literature and Radio Free Vermont: A Fable. The history for many years. Melosh DONYELLE MCCRAY writer and environmentalist is has also published reviews and Donyelle McCray is an assistant a founder of 350.org, the first essays in the Christian Century and professor of homiletics at Yale planet-wide, grassroots climate Journal for Pastors and contributed Divinity School and a fellow at change movement. In 2014, he to Lectionary Homiletics. Yale’s Pauli Murray College. Her won the Right Livelihood Prize. T THURSDAY 3:15PM first book, The Censored Pulpit Biologists also recognized him (forthcoming), examines the that year, naming a new species of roles of censorship in preaching woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia CARA MEREDITH and explores some of the ways mckibbeni—in his honor. carameredith.com censorship contributed to Julian of S SATURDAY 10AM Cara Meredith is author of the Norwich’s illegibility as a preacher. S SATURDAY 5PM forthcoming The Color of Life: She is currently working on a book A White Woman’s Journey of on the spirituality and preaching Legacy, Love and Racial Justice, a of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. MARYANN memoir about her journey into S SATURDAY 8:30AM MCKIBBEN DANA issues of race. With forays into theblueroomblog.org high school English teaching and MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a full-time youth ministry before MARILYN MCENTYRE writer, pastor, speaker, and coach pursuing a master of theology marilynmcentyre.com living in the Washington, D.C., from Fuller Seminary, Meredith Marilyn McEntyre is the author area. She is author of Sabbath in now writes and speaks regularly. of 18 books, including Caring for the Suburbs and the forthcoming T THURSDAY 4:30PM Words in a Culture of Lies and God, Improv, and the Art of Living. F FRIDAY 10AM Word by Word: A Daily Spiritual Her writing has appeared in Practice. She has taught American TIME.com, the Washington Post, literature and medical humanities the Huffington Post, Religion CAROL HOWARD for more than three decades, most Dispatches, Journal for Preachers, MERRITT recently at Westmont College and the Christian Century, and carolhowardmerritt.org and at the UC Berkeley–UCSF she was featured on PBS’s Religion Carol Howard Merritt is a PC Joint Medical Program. Her and Ethics Newsweekly for her (USA) minister and the author of newest book is Make a List. work on Sabbath. She served three books, including Healing F FRIDAY 12:45PM as a pastor for 12 years and as Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting S SATURDAY 3:30PM co-chair of NEXT Church, a with a Loving God after national movement within the Experiencing a Hurtful Church Presbyterian Church (USA). and Tribal Church: Ministering S SATURDAY 11:30AM to the Missing Generation. She is a senior consultant at the Center for Progressive Renewal MARCIA MEIER and founder and host of UNCO, marciameier.com an open-space “unconference” Marcia Meier is publisher of that attracts church leaders Weeping Willow Books and a across denominations and writer, developmental book generations. She also cohosts editor, and writing coach. She the podcast God Complex is the author of four books; her Radio with Derrick Weston. latest, Unmasked: Women Write T THURSDAY 3:15PM about Sex and Intimacy after Fifty, she coedited with Kathleen A. Barry. Meier is currently at work on Face: A Memoir. S SATURDAY 3:30PM

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JONATHAN MERRITT JULIE L. MOORE CARRIE NEWCOMER jonathanmerritt.com julielmoore.com carrienewcomer.com Jonathan Merritt writes on The director of the writing Carrie Newcomer is a singer, religion, culture, and politics. center at Taylor University, songwriter, and author. She has The author of Green Like God and Julie L. Moore is the author of produced 16 solo CDs and has A Faith of Our Own: Following three books of poetry: Particular written two collections of essays Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars, he Scandals, Slipping out of Bloom, and poetry as companion pieces currently serves as a contributing and Election Day, a chapbook. Her to recent albums: A Permeable writer for The Atlantic, poetry has appeared in numerous Life: Poems and Essays and The contributing editor for The Week, publications and anthologies, and Beautiful Not Yet: Essays, Poems and senior columnist for Religion her fourth collection of poetry, and Lyrics. Newcomer speaks News Service. Merritt has written Full Worm Moon, is forthcoming. and teaches about creativity, articles for publications such as S SATURDAY 3:30PM vocation, activism, and spirituality USA Today, Buzzfeed, The Daily at colleges, conventions, and Beast, the Washington Post, and retreats. In 2009 and 2011, she Christianity Today. His next book, MADELEINE MYSKO traveled to India as a cultural Learning to Speak God from Scratch: mmauthor.com ambassador. She lives in Indiana. Why Sacred Words Are Vanishing— Madeleine Mysko is the author T THURSDAY 7:30PM and How We Can Revive Them, of two novels: Bringing Vincent F FRIDAY 10AM is forthcoming this summer. Home, based on her experience T THURSDAY 1:45PM as an army nurse during the T THURSDAY 4:30PM Vietnam War, and Stone Harbor KELLEY NIKONDEHA Bound. Her poetry, reviews, kelleynikondeha.com essays, short fiction, and op- Kelley Nikondeha is co- JEN POLLOCK eds have been published director and chief storyteller MICHEL widely in venues including for Communities of Hope, jenpollockmichel.com Shenandoah, Commonweal, a community development Jen Pollock Michel is the author River Styx, the Hudson Review, enterprise in Burundi, and of Teach Us to Want, Christianity and the Baltimore Sun. cofounder of Amahoro Africa, an Today’s 2015 Book of the Year, F FRIDAY 11:30AM ongoing conversation between and Keeping Place: Reflections on theologians and practitioners the Meaning of Home. She writes within the African context. widely for both print and digital GLENYS NELLIST She is the author of Adopted: publications and speaks regularly glenysnellist.com The Sacrament of Belonging at churches, conferences, and Glenys Nellist is coordinator of in a Fractured World. retreats. She lives in Toronto. children’s ministry for the West F FRIDAY 8:30AM Michigan conference of the F FRIDAY 2PM F FRIDAY 2PM United Methodist Church. She is the author of Love Letters From DINTY W. MOORE God and Snuggle Time Prayers. TONY NORMAN dintywmoore.com F FRIDAY 12:45PM Tony Norman is a Pittsburgh Dinty W. Moore is an American Post-Gazette columnist who has essayist and writer of both fiction also appeared as an expert on and nonfiction, including The DEAN NELSON cultural issues on local radio and Story Cure, Dear Mister Essay deannelson.net television programs. Norman Writer Guy, and The Mindful Writer. Dean Nelson directs the journalism was named the Post-Gazette’s pop His memoir, Between Panic and program at Point Loma Nazarene music/pop culture critic in 1990. Desire, received the Grub Street University and at the Writer’s In 1996, Norman began writing an National Book Prize for Non- Symposium by the Sea. He writes award-winning general interest Fiction in 2008. Published widely for the New York Times, the Boston column and joined the Post- as a short story writer and essayist, Globe, Christianity Today, and Gazette editorial board in 1999. he also edits Brevity, an online Sojourners. He has won several An alumnus of Calvin College, he journal of creative nonfiction, awards from the Society of is a native of West Philadelphia and is on the editorial board of Professional Journalists for his but now lives in Swisshelm Park. Creative Nonfiction magazine. reporting and has written or co- F FRIDAY 10AM Moore is currently professor of written 14 books, including God F FRIDAY 3:30PM English and director of creative Hides in Plain Sight. His most recent writing at Ohio University. book, Quantum Leap: How John Polkinghorne Found God in Science F FRIDAY 8:30AM and Religion, focuses on the world- S SATURDAY 2PM famous physicist who became a priest in the Anglican Church. F FRIDAY 8:30AM

70 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr KAYA OAKES KATHLEEN O’TOOLE ZENIQUE oakestown.org kathleenotoolepoetry.com GARDNER PERRY Kaya Oakes is the author of Kathleen O’Toole has combined Zenique Gardner Perry is the four books, including Radical an active professional life in prevention education manager Reinvention: An Unlikely Return community organizing with for Safe Connections, an agency to the Catholic Church and most teaching and writing. She is the committed to ending domestic recently, The Nones Are Alright: author of two books of poetry, abuse and gender violence in A New Generation of Seekers, Meanwhile and Practice, and the St. Louis region. She is a Believers, and Those In-Between. the coauthor with three other former contributor for two. She is an editor and contributing women poets of In the Margins: one.five magazine and has led writer at Killing the Buddha website A Conversation in Poetry. writing groups at the Institute for and the cofounder and senior F FRIDAY 11:30AM Community Justice, both based editor of the arts and culture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. magazine Kitchen Sink. Oakes Today, she uses creative writing teaches nonfiction writing at the TARA M. OWENS as a tool to explore and promote University of California, Berkeley. anamcara.com self-love and self-awareness with S SATURDAY 2PM Tara M. Owens is a certified middle and high school girls. spiritual director and the senior S SATURDAY 10AM editor for Conversations Journal, ANGELA ALAIMO a forum for authentic spiritual O’DONNELL transformation. She is the author KATHERINE WILLIS angelaalaimoodonnell.com of Embracing the Body: Finding God PERSHEY Angela Alaimo O’Donnell is a in Our Flesh & Bone and At Play in katherinewillispershey.com God’s Creation: An Illuminating writer, poet, and professor at Katherine Willis Pershey is an Coloring Book. Owens also provides Fordham University in New York associate minister of the First spiritual direction through her City, where she teaches English, Congregational Church in Western ministry, Anam Cara, and is creative writing, and American Springs, Illinois, and the author a part-time instructor for the Catholic studies. She is the author of two books, Any Day a Beautiful Benedictine Spiritual Formation of seven books of poetry and three Change and Very Married. Pershey Program at Benet Hill Monastery, books of prose, including Still is a frequent contributor to The both based in Colorado Springs. Pilgrim, her most recent collection Art of Simple and the Christian of poetry, and Flannery O’Connor: S SATURDAY 2PM Century (where she is a board Fiction Fired by Faith, a biography. member), was a storyteller for O’Donnell also serves as associate PARKER J. PALMER the now-archived Deeper Story director of the Curran Center website, and has also contributed Parker J. Palmer is founder and for American Catholic Studies. chapters to many books about senior partner emeritus of the T THURSDAY 1:45PM preaching and ministry. Center for Courage & Renewal F FRIDAY 3:30PM T THURSDAY 10:30AM as well as a writer, speaker, and activist who focuses on issues in NATASHA OLADOKUN education, community, leadership, AMY PETERSON Natasha Oladokun is a Cave Canem spirituality, and social change. amypeterson.net Palmer has written many books, fellow, poet, and essayist. Her work Amy Peterson teaches and including Let Your Life Speak, has appeared or is forthcoming works with the honors program The Courage to Teach, and in the American Poetry Review, at Taylor University. She has Healing the Heart of Democracy: Harvard Review Online, Pleiades, written for publications such The Courage to Create a Politics Image, Indie Film Minute, Bearings as River Teeth, St. Katherine Worthy of the Human Spirit, Online, and elsewhere. She is Review, Relief, Books & Culture, chosen by Spirituality & Practice currently a visiting assistant the Millions, Christianity Today, as one of the best books of 2011 professor of English at Hollins the Other Journal, the Cresset, and on contemplation and social University, her MFA alma mater. Art House America. Dangerous activism. With a PhD in sociology F FRIDAY 8:30AM Territory: My Misguided Quest to from UC–Berkeley, Palmer has Save the World is her first book. also received numerous awards, F FRIDAY 8:30AM including 11 honorary doctorates. A member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker), he lives in Madison, Wisconsin. T THURSDAY 7:30PM F FRIDAY 10AM

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BETH PETERSON MARGARITA PINTADO JAMIE QUATRO bethlpeterson.com desvalijados.blogspot.com jamiequatro.com Beth Peterson is a nonfiction Margarita Pintado is an assistant Jamie Quatro is an author, poet, writer and assistant professor professor of Spanish at Ouachita and essayist. Her writing has of writing at Grand Valley State Baptist University in Arkansas, appeared in publications such as University. A wilderness guide where she also teaches creative Tin House, the New York Times before she began writing, Peterson writing courses. She has two Book Review, and the Kenyon is currently working on a book of published books of poetry, Ficción Review. Her first book, I Want to lyric essays set in a disappearing de venado/Fiction of the Deer and Show You More, was, among others, glacial landscape. She is a recipient Una muchacha que se parece a mí/A a New York Times Notable Book, of an American-Scandinavian Girl Who Looks Like Me, which an NPR Best Book of 2013, and an Fellowship and has recent or won first prize in the Institute Indie Next pick. Her first novel, Fire forthcoming work in Fourth Genre, of Puerto Rican Culture’s 2015 Sermons, was released in January River Teeth, Passages North, Post Literary Award in the Poetry 2018. A contributing editor at Road, the Pinch, Assay, Ocean category. Born and raised in Puerto Oxford American, Quatro teaches in State Review, and other journals. Rico, Pintado studied journalism the MFA program at Sewanee, the S SATURDAY 10AM at the Universidad de Puerto Rico University of the South, and lives and received her MA and PhD in on Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Spanish from Emory University. F FRIDAY 10AM CHRISTIANA N. T THURSDAY 1:45PM F FRIDAY 2PM PETERSON S SATURDAY 10AM christiananpeterson.com Christiana N. Peterson writes RUSSELL RATHBUN across a range of subjects including KAREN revlamblove.wordpress.com farm life, the local church, death, SWALLOW PRIOR Russell Rathbun is a writer, the quirkiness of community, Karen Swallow Prior is a professor blogger, speaker, and a founding and more recently, the Christian of English at Liberty University and pastor of House of Mercy, a mystics. Her forthcoming book, the author of Fierce Convictions: church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mystics and Misfits: Finding God The Extraordinary Life of Hannah His most recent book is The Great through St. Francis and Other More – Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist; Wall of China and the Salton Unlikely Saints, crosses genres, the literary and spiritual memoir Sea: Monuments, Missteps, and blending a memoir of life in a Booked: Literature in the Soul the Audacity of Ambition. His Mennonite community with letters of Me; and the forthcoming On other books are Midrash on the and biographies of the Catholic Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Juanitos, a novella; Post-Rapture mystics. She is also a regular through Great Books, releasing in Radio, a novel based on the contributor at Good Letters. 2018. Her writing has appeared writings of the fictional character F FRIDAY 8:30AM in numerous publications, Reverend Richard Lamblove S SATURDAY 2PM including Christianity Today, the (who Rathbun also occasionally Washington Post, and The Atlantic. blogs as); and nuChristian: Finding Faith in a New Generation, a F FRIDAY 11:30PM book about church ministry. SUSAN S. PHILLIPS F FRIDAY 12:45PM susansphillips.com S SATURDAY 8:30AM S SATURDAY 8:30AM Susan S. Phillips is executive S SATURDAY 12:45PM S SATURDAY 2PM director and professor of sociology and Christianity at New College Berkeley, where she previously served as academic dean. She is also a trained spiritual director who also serves as a supervisor for spiritual directors and consultant for Christian organizations. She is the author of The Cultivated Life: From Ceaseless Striving to Receiving Joy and Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction. S SATURDAY 3:30PM

72 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr SHANN RAY LÉNA ROY FLEMING RUTLEDGE shannray.com lenaroy.com ruminations.generousorthodoxy.org Shann Ray is a poet, prose Léna Roy is the eldest Fleming Rutledge is the author writer, and professor at Gonzaga granddaughter of Madeleine of eight books, most recently The University, where he teaches L’Engle and the coauthor, with Crucifixion: Understanding the leadership and forgiveness studies. her sister Charlotte Jones Voiklis, Death of Jesus Christ, for which she His debut novel, American Copper, of the middle grade biography won a grant from the Louisville won the Foreword Book of the Becoming Madeleine: A Biography Institute. She is also a priest in the Year Readers’ Choice Award and of the Author of A Wrinkle in Time Episcopal Church and was one the Western Writers of America by Her Granddaughters. She runs of the first women ordained in Spur Award. He is also the the Westchester and Connecticut 1977. Rutledge earned her Master author of American Masculine, a branches of Writopia Lab, a in Divinity at Union Theological collection of stories, and Balefire, not-for-profit whose mission is Seminary. She has been invited a book of poems. A licensed to instill joy, literacy, and critical to teach at Wycliffe College in clinical psychologist and former thinking through creative the University of Toronto School professional basketball player, writing to all kids and teens. of Theology, to serve as visiting Ray is also the author of a work of S SATURDAY 10AM scholar at the American Academy political theory titled Forgiveness S SATURDAY 12:45PM in Rome, and to preach in and Power in the Age of Atrocity. prominent pulpits, including the T THURSDAY 3:15PM Washington National Cathedral, F FRIDAY 8:30AM TANIA RUNYAN the Duke University Chapel, taniarunyan.com and Trinity Church in Boston. Tania Runyan is a poet and F FRIDAY 11:30AM DEIDRA RIGGS educator. She is the author of S SATURDAY 11:30AM deidrariggs.com five poetry collections, including Deidra Riggs is a speaker and Delicious Air, which was awarded the author of Every Little Thing: Book of the Year by the Conference ANBARA SALAM Making a World of Difference Right on Christianity and Literature anbarasalam.com Where You Are and One: Unity in in 2007, and her poems have Anbara Salam’s debut novel, a Divided World. She is a monthly appeared in many publications, Things Bright and Beautiful, is contributor to (in)courage and including Poetry, Image, and due out this April. Pursued by served as the managing editor Books & Culture. She is an editor multiple publishers, the book of The High Calling, part of the for Every Day Poems and the follows the violent unraveling Theology of Work project. Riggs poetry editor for Relief Journal. of two missionaries, drawing on has been a featured speaker at Her guides, How to Read a Poem, the six months its author spent Q Women, TEDx, and The City How to Write a Poem, and How working on a small island in the Gates Initiative, as well as several to Write a College Application South Pacific. Salam, who is half- women’s events. Her work has Essay, are used in classrooms Palestinian and half-Scottish, grew been featured online at the across the country. After working up in London. She graduated from Washington Post and Today’s in educational publishing and Oxford with a PhD in Theology Christian Woman. She lives in teaching high school English, in 2014, after studying in Beirut Bloomfield, Connecticut. Runyan began her own tutoring and York, where she continues to F FRIDAY 8:30AM business and now works with live and work as an academic. F FRIDAY 12:45PM students on reading, writing, and T THURSDAY 1:45PM S SATURDAY 8:30AM college admissions applications. S SATURDAY 2PM S SATURDAY 11:30AM S CARYN RIVADENEIRA SATURDAY 3:30PM carynrivadeneira.com Caryn Rivadeneira is the author of eight books for adults and children, including Grit and Grace: Heroic Women of the Bible. In addition to writing, Rivadeneira serves on the worship staff at her Chicago church. T THURSDAY 1:45PM

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SANDY SASSO SOPHFRONIA SCOTT KATE SHELLNUTT allaboutand.com sophfronia.com Kate Shellnutt is an associate Sandy Eisenberg Sasso is the Sophfronia Scott is an author editor at Christianity Today and author of many children’s books and former writer and editor reports on breaking news and on religious topics, including For for Time and People. For her first trends in evangelicalism. She is Heaven’s Sake, Noah’s Wife, and novel, All I Need to Get By, Scott also a freelance journalist covering The Shemah in the Mezuzah, which was nominated for best new faith, women, friendship, reality won the 2012 National Jewish author at the African American TV, and pop culture. Her work Book Award for Best Illustrated Literary Awards and hailed by has earned honors from the Children’s Book. The first woman Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Society for Features Journalism to have been ordained a rabbi as “potentially one of the best and Religion News Association. in Reconstructionist Judaism, writers of her generation.” She Shelnutt lives in Augusta, Georgia. in 1974, she has also written has also published numerous F FRIDAY 10AM and lectured on women and essays and short stories and has spirituality. Sasso is the Director co-written a spiritual memoir of Religion, Spirituality, and the with her son titled This Child of SHIRLEY HERSHEY Arts at Butler University and Faith: Raising a Spiritual Child in SHOWALTER Christian Theological Seminary. a Secular World. She teaches on shirleyshowalter.com She also writes a monthly column the faculty of Regis University’s Shirley Hershey Showalter—a for the Indianapolis Star. Mile-High MFA in Denver, former professor of English, F FRIDAY 2PM Colorado; Bay Path University’s the first woman president of S SATURDAY 8:30AM MFA in creative nonfiction; and Goshen College, and an executive the Fairfield County Writers’ at the Fetzer Institute—is now Studio in Westport, Connecticut. a full-time writer. Her memoir GARY D. SCHMIDT F FRIDAY 8:30AM Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets Gary D. Schmidt is a professor a Glittering World was named of English at Calvin College. He a Best Spiritual Book of 2013 has written over 30 books, most LUCI SHAW by Spirituality & Practice. Her of them for children and young lucishaw.com essays have been published in the adults. He received both a Newbery Luci Shaw is a prolific poet and Christian Century, the Chronicle Honor and a Printz Honor for essayist. Her latest book of verse of Higher Education, Minneapolis Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster is Sea Glass: New and Collected Star Tribune, Next Avenue, and Boy and a Newbery Honor for Poems, and her latest prose Forbes.com. Showalter was the The Wednesday Wars. Schmidt nonfiction book is Thumbprints in Kilian McDonnell Fellow at the recently contributed a story to the the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Collegeville Institute in fall 2016. Order, and Grace. Her other titles Star Wars anniversary collection, S SATURDAY 3:30PM From a Certain Point of View. include Accompanied by Angels, S SATURDAY 11:30AM God in the Dark, and Polishing the Petoskey Stone. Her work ANYA SILVER has been widely anthologized. anyasilverpoet.com Named Regent College’s writer-in- Anya Silver is the author of residence in 1988, she also serves four books of poetry, including as an editor for Radix and Crux. The Ninety-Third Name of God, I F FRIDAY 10AM Watched You Disappear, and From S SATURDAY 10AM Nothing. Her most recent book, Second Bloom, was published in 2017. Silver currently teaches in JENNY the English department at Mercer SHEFFER-STEVENS University and in 2015 was named theregularjenny.com Georgia Author of the Year in the Jenny Sheffer-Stevens is a poetry category. She has been living writer, actor, yoga instructor, and thriving with inflammatory and arts educator specializing breast cancer since 2004. in innovative interdisciplinary T THURSDAY 1:45PM body- and breath-based practices S SATURDAY 3:30PM for enhanced creativity. She lives in New York City. T THURSDAY 9AM F FRIDAY 6:30PM S SATURDAY 7AM

74 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr WHITNEY R. SIMPSON JOY BETH SMITH MARGOT STARBUCK exploringpeace.com joybethsmith.com margotstarbuck.com Whitney R. Simpson is the Joy Beth Smith is a managing Margot Starbuck is a speaker, author of Holy Listening with editor at Christianity Today and columnist, author, and ghostwriter. Breath, Body, and the Spirit, a a winner of the Evangelical Press Her first book, The Girl in the 40-day devotional. After a stroke Association’s Higher Goals in Orange Dress: Searching for a at age 31, she began exploring Christian Journalism Award. Father Who Does Not Fail, was creative prayer and meditation Smith is the author of Party of awarded the Advanced Writers practices. She is a trained spiritual One: Truth, Longing, and the Subtle and Speakers Association’s best director, yoga and meditation Art of Singleness and has written nonfiction book of the year for teacher, and retreat facilitator. for the New York Times, the 2011. In addition to the many T THURSDAY 2:45PM Washington Post, Salt Lake Tribune, books she has collaborated on, F FRIDAY 3PM Virginian Pilot, Think Christian, she is also the author of six S SATURDAY 3PM and Christ and Pop Culture. other Christian living books. S SATURDAY 8:30AM S SATURDAY 11:30AM S C. CHRISTOPHER SATURDAY 3:30PM SMITH STEPHANIE SMITH C. Christopher Smith is the slantletter.com ROB STEPHENS editor of the Englewood Review Stephanie Smith is an acquisitions robthepoet.com of Books, and the author of both editor for Zondervan. A former Rob Stephens is a poet and adjunct Slow Church and a forthcoming editor at Relevant and the professor at Malone University in book on reading in community. Barna Group, Smith equips Canton, Ohio. His poetry has been writers with skills of craft and published in Epoch, Copper Nickel, S SATURDAY 12:45PM industry through her monthly Rattle, and other journals. He ​is newsletter, SLANT LETTER. currently a PhD student in creative JAMES K. A. SMITH S SATURDAY 3:30PM writing at Florida State University. jameskasmith.com F FRIDAY 11:30AM The Gary and Henrietta Byker Chair in Applied Reformed SHAWN SMUCKER Theology at Calvin College, James shawnsmucker.com RACHEL MARIE K. A. Smith is also a cultural critic Shawn Smucker is an author STONE and the author of several books, who has written or co-written rachelmariestone.com including three Christianity Today 16 books, including Twist of Faith Rachel Marie Stone is the author Book Award winners: You Are (the story of Auntie Anne’s Soft of Birthing Hope, a memoir What You Love, Who’s Afraid of Pretzels), The Day the Angels of motherhood and fear, the Postmodernism?, and Desiring Fell, The Edge of Over There, 40th anniversary edition of the the Kingdom. The editor in chief and Dying Out Loud. Smucker More-With-Less cookbook, a of Comment Magazine, Smith teaches about and specializes in practical theology of food titled regularly writes for academic biography and memoir writing. Eat with Joy, and two children’s publications as well as magazines F FRIDAY 8:30AM books about Jesus. She teaches and newspapers, such as Slate, F FRIDAY 3:30PM high school English at the Stony Christianity Today, the Wall Street Brook School in New York. Journal, and the New York Times. CHELSEA S SATURDAY 3:30PM S SATURDAY 8:30AM S SATURDAY 12:45PM PATTERSON SOBOLIK Chelsea Patterson Sobolik is the DANIEL TAYLOR author of Longing for Motherhood: wordtaylor.com Holding onto Hope in the Midst of Daniel Taylor is the author of Childlessness. She’s worked for nine books, most recently Do We the U.S. House of Representatives Not Bleed?: A Jon Mote Mystery. on issues including child welfare, His other titles include Letters to religious freedom, adoption, My Children, Tell Me a Story, and and foster care policy. She has Creating a Spiritual Legacy. Taylor written for The Gospel Coalition, also co-founded the Legacy Center, 9 Marks, the Ethics and Religious served as a contributing editor for Liberty Commission, and the Books & Culture, worked as a stylist Patheos evangelical channel. for the New Living Translation S SATURDAY 8:30AM of the Bible, and spent most of his teaching career at Bethel College (now Bethel University) in Arden Hills, Minnesota. S SATURDAY 8:30AM SPEAKERS 75 Speakers

LEA THAU JENNIFER TRAFTON PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA storycentral.org jennifertrafton.com padraigotuama.com Lea Thau is a Peabody Award- Jennifer Trafton is a children’s A poet, theologian, and group winning producer and director. book author. Her first novel worker, Pádraig Ó Tuama is the She pioneered the podcast for middle-grade readers, The leader of Corrymeela Community, Strangers in partnership with Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic, an interdenominational church KCRW and is the show’s producer was nominated for Tennessee’s in Belfast dedicated to conflict and host. Prior to launching Volunteer State Book Award and transformation and church Strangers, Thau was the executive the National Homeschool Book reconciliation. Ó Tuama has and creative director of the live Award. Her second book is Henry published and edited collections storytelling organization The and the Chalk Dragon. With degrees of poetry, essays, and theology, Moth, out of which she created from Wake Forest University including Readings from the Book The Moth Podcast and The Moth and Gordon-Conwell Theological of Exile, Sorry for Your Troubles, and Radio Hour. She also works as a Seminary plus graduate work at In the Shelter: Finding a Home in storytelling teacher and coach. Duke University, Trafton served the World. Working with groups in She has trained Hollywood actors, as the managing editor of a Ireland, Britain, Australia, and the Harvard’s Nieman Fellows, and history magazine for four years. United States, he leads workshops Fortune 500 executives, as well as She currently teaches writing and retreats on storytelling, inner city kids in New York and classes, workshops, and summer spirituality, and conflict resolution. Los Angeles. Born in Denmark, camps in the Nashville area. He is currently working on a PhD. Thau now lives in Los Angeles. T THURSDAY 3:15PM F FRIDAY 11:30AM F FRIDAY 3:30PM F FRIDAY 2PM F FRIDAY 2PM S SATURDAY 10AM J. DANA TRENT KALI VANBAALE ADAM TICE jdanatrent.com kalivanbaale.com adammltice.blogspot.com J. Dana Trent is an author, speaker, Kali VanBaale is an Iowa-based Ordained in the Mennonite minister, and teacher. She has writer of novels, short stories, Church USA, Adam Tice is a published two books: For Sabbath’s essays, and articles. She is the hymn writer. The Hymn Society Sake: Embracing Your Need for author of the novels The Good of the United States and Canada Rest, Worship, and Community Divide and The Space Between named him a Lovelace Scholar in and Saffron Cross: The Unlikely and is the recipient of the Eric 2004, and he has since taken on Story of How a Christian Minister Hoffer Book Award for General several leadership roles within Married a Hindu Monk. In addition Fiction, an American Book Award, that organization. He has also to teaching world religions and and the Fred Bonnie Memorial been named as the text editor critical thinking at Wake Technical First Novel Award. She teaches for the Mennonite Worship and Community College, Trent has in the Lindenwood University Song Committee, and Tice’s work written for TIME.com, the Christian MFA in writing program. appears in many recent hymnals Century, Patheos, and Sojourners. T THURSDAY 4:30PM and supplements. Additionally, F FRIDAY 9:30AM his hymns have been performed S SATURDAY 9:30AM in numerous choral settings DEBORAH VRIEND and translated into multiple VAN DUINEN languages, including Spanish, Deborah Vriend Van Duinen is Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish. an associate professor of English F FRIDAY 3:30PM education at Hope College. She S SATURDAY 10AM writes and teaches in the areas of English education, disciplinary literacy, and adolescent literacy. A recipient of the Towsley Research Scholar Award in 2013, Van Duinen is also the program director of the Big Read Holland Area, a community- wide reading program that takes place in November. She has been on the board of editors for Perspectives, a journal of Reformed thought, since 2012. S SATURDAY 11:30AM S SATURDAY 2PM

76 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr BRIANNA VAN DYKE SANDRA MARIA JEANNE MURRAY Brianna Van Dyke is the editor and VAN OPSTAL WALKER founder of Ruminate Magazine, sandravanopstal.com jeannemurraywalker.com a nonprofit arts and literary Sandra Maria Van Opstal is an Long-time professor at the magazine that seeks to help author, liturgist, activist, and University of Delaware, Jeanne people slow down, encounter executive pastor at Grace and Murray Walker serves as a mentor honest storytelling, and awaken Peace Community on the westside in the Seattle Pacific University their hearts. She currently lives of Chicago. The author of four low-residency MFA program and in Fort Collins, Colorado. books, Van Opstal has also been teaches in prison. Her poetry T THURSDAY 3:15PM published in multiple journals. appears in journals like Image, She has served 15 years with Poetry, and the Christian Century InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and is collected in Helping the JAAP VAN HEUSDEN was the director of worship for Morning: New and Selected jaapvanheusden.com the Urbana Missions Conference Poems. Walker travels widely Jaap van Heusden is a filmmaker, and the Chicago Urban Program for workshops, often focusing trained at the Dutch Filmacademy, director, and now serves as a board on her memoir, The Geography graduating as a director in 2005. member for Evangelicals for Justice of Memory: A Pilgrimage through His film Een ingewikkeld verhaal, and the Christian Community Alzheimer’s. A collection of eenvoudig verteld (A Complicated Development Association. sonnets, Pilgrim, You Find the Path Story, Simply Told), was shortlisted F FRIDAY 12:45PM by Walking, is forthcoming. for the Student Academy Awards. S SATURDAY 11:30AM F FRIDAY 3:30PM Since then he has directed and S SATURDAY 3:30PM screenwritten several short films, documentaries, and plays. His CHARLOTTE JONES debut feature film, Win/win was VOIKLIS JO WALTON selected by 25 international film madeleinelengle.com jowaltonbooks.com festivals and won the Prix Europe Charlotte Jones Voiklis is a Jo Walton is a poet, essayist, for Best Screenplay. His second granddaughter of Madeleine short story, and fantasy/science feature film, De nieuwe wereld, L’Engle and the literary executor fiction writer. She has published premiered at the International of the L’Engle estate. Together 13 novels, including The King’s Film Festival Rotterdam and with her sister, Léna Roy, she Peace and Necessity; three poetry was awarded a Signis award at recently authored the middle collections; an essay collection; the Washington Film Festival. grade biography Becoming and a short story collection. Her F FRIDAY 7:30PM Madeleine: A Biography of the many awards include the John S SATURDAY 10AM Author of A Wrinkle in Time by W. Campbell Award for Best New Her Granddaughters. She also Writer, the World Fantasy Award MICHELLE VAN LOON handles L’Engle’s online presence, for her novel Tooth and Claw in including the daunting task of 2003, and both a Hugo and Nebula michellevanloon.com tweeting to Madeleine’s fans. award in 2011 for her semi- Michelle Van Loon is the author S SATURDAY 10AM autobiographical fairytale Among of five books including Born to Others. In 2014, she published S SATURDAY 12:45PM Wander: Reclaiming Our Pilgrim the novel My Real Children, which Identity and If Only: Letting Go won the James Tiptree Jr. Award. of Regret, which won a 2015 The Just City, a novel exploring award of merit from Christianity Plato’s Republic, was published in Today. Van Loon has been a early 2015 to widespread acclaim. regular contributor to CT Women, Originally from Wales, Walton maintains her own blog at now lives in Montreal, Quebec. Patheos, and recently launched S SATURDAY 11:30AM The Perennial Gen, a website for S SATURDAY 3:30PM women at midlife (and beyond) with Amanda Cleary Eastep. S SATURDAY 11:30AM

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WALT WANGERIN JR. ERIN F. WASINGER JEREMY WELLS walterwangerinjr.org erinwasinger.com Jeremy Wells is marketing The author of over 40 books, Erin F. Wasinger is a freelance director for Baker Academic and Walt Wangerin Jr. is a writer who writer, speaker, and coauthor of Brazos Press. He holds an MA focuses on issues of faith and The Year of Small Things: Radical from Wheaton College and a BA spirituality in works spanning Faith for the Rest of Us (with Sarah from William Tyndale College. from fiction and children’s Arthur). Her work has appeared S SATURDAY 12:45PM stories to essays, poetry, and at Think Christian, Red Letter biblical exposition. His debut Christians, the Redbud Post, and novel, The Book of the Dun Cow, elsewhere on the web. She’s on the JOY WILLIAMS won the National Book Award teaching team at her church and Joy Williams is an essayist and as well as The New York Times sister churches in mid-Michigan. writer of literary fiction. Her Best Children’s Book of the Year. After eight years as an editor at a first novel, State of Grace, was Wangerin’s professional life mid-sized daily newspaper in the nominated for a National Book has been as varied as his books: Midwest, Wasinger now loves to Award, and her most recent he has been a speaker for the write from her home in Lansing, novel, The Quick and the Dead, Lutheran Vespers radio program, Michigan, especially about people, was a finalist for the Pulitzer a pastor of an inner-city church, church, and neighboring. Prize. Williams is perhaps best and a book reviewer. He is now F FRIDAY 12:45PM known for her short fiction, a senior research professor appearing in collections such as with appointments in both the Taking Care, Escapes, Honored English and theology departments AFAA M. WEAVER Guest, and 99 Stories of God. at Valparaiso University. magichorses.org Her stories and essays—which F FRIDAY 11:30AM Afaa M. Weaver is a poet, short often contain elements of the F FRIDAY 2PM story writer, playwright, and gothic and grotesque—are editor. Weaver has published 10 frequently anthologized, and she poetry collections, including Water has received many awards and TISH HARRISON Song, Multitudes, The Ten Lights honors, including the Harold and WARREN of God, and City of Eternal Spring. Mildred Strauss Living Award tishharrisonwarren.com Weaver also wrote Rosa, which was from the American Academy Tish Harrison Warren is a produced at the Venture Theatre of Arts and Letters and the Rea priest in the Anglican Church in in Philadelphia, and edited These Award for the Short Story. North America, now serving as Hands I Know: African-American S SATURDAY 8:30AM coassociate rector at the Church Writers on Family. The recipient of S SATURDAY 11:30AM of the Ascension in Pittsburgh, a Fulbright Scholar appointment Pennsylvania. She writes regularly and a Pew Foundation Fellowship, for CT Women, Christianity Today, Weaver held the Alumnae ANNE BLUE WILLS and the Well, and her work has Endowed Chair at Simmons Anne Blue Wills is an associate also appeared in many other places College, from which he retired professor of religion at Davidson including Comment Magazine, after 20 years on the faculty. He College. She teaches courses in Christ and Pop Culture, and Art is a member of the core faculty American religion and culture, House America. Her book is titled in the Drew MFA program in specializing in 19th-century Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Poetry and Poetry in Translation. women’s religious activism. Her Practices in Everyday Life. T THURSDAY 4:30PM research interests include civil F FRIDAY 2PM F FRIDAY 8:30AM religion, politics and religion, gender and religion, popular religious practice, African- COZINE WELCH American religious traditions, Cozine Andre Welch Jr., is the Mormonism, and religious most-published writer in the 10- memoir. She is writing a biography year history of the Michigan Review of Ruth Bell Graham and coediting of Prisoner Creative Writing. A a volume on Billy Graham. lyric poet and performer of slam T THURSDAY 4:30PM and performance poetry, he is also an accomplished amateur guitarist. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is a student at Washtenaw Community College. F FRIDAY 3:30PM

78 SPEAKERS #FFWgr2018 #FFWgr JENNIFER WILSON SUZANNE M. WOLFE SARA ZARR jennifer-wilson.com suzannemwolfe.com sarazarr.com Jennifer Wilson is a national Suzanne M. Wolfe is the author Sara Zarr is an author of novels magazine editor and author of of Unveiling: A Novel and The for young adults. Her novel Story the part travelogue/part memoir Confessions of X, which won the of a Girl was a National Book Running Away to Home, which 2017 Christianity Today Book of Award finalist and an American won the American Society of the Year Award for fiction. She Library Association “best book Journalists and Authors 2011 and her husband, Gregory Wolfe, for young adults.” Her works Best Nonfiction Award and the co-founded Image and have include The Lucy Variations, Emerging Iowa Author Award coauthored books on literature Sweethearts, Once Was Lost, and in 2012. More recently, she has and prayer including Books That Gem & Dixie. Zarr has also written written an environmental novel, Build Character: How to Teach Your essays and creative nonfiction Water. Her nonfiction work has Child Moral Values through Stories for Image, Hunger Mountain, and appeared in Esquire, Gourmet, and Bless This House: Prayers Response, as well as for several Midwest Living, Kirkus Review, No for Children and Families. Wolfe anthologies. Zarr is a two-time Depression, National Geographic, is writer-in-residence at Seattle Utah Book Award winner. Her and many other publications. Pacific University where she has books have been translated into T THURSDAY 4:30PM taught literature and creative multiple languages and named writing since 2000. Her essays to annual best books lists by and blog posts have appeared in Publishers Weekly, School Library JOHN WILSON Image and other publications. Journal, the Guardian, and the John Wilson is editor at large T THURSDAY 4:30PM International Reading Association. for Christianity Today and F FRIDAY 3:30PM S SATURDAY 8:30AM the former editor of Books & S SATURDAY 2PM Culture. He received a BA from Westmont College in Santa RALPH C. WOOD Barbara, California, and an MA Ralph C. Wood has served as JEFF ZENTNER from California State University University Professor of theology jeffzentnerbooks.com in Los Angeles. His reviews and and literature at Baylor University Jeff Zentner is the author of two essays have appeared in the New since 1998. Some of his major young adult novels, The Serpent York Times, Boston Globe, First books include The Comedy of King and Goodbye Days. The Things, and National Review, Redemption, The Gospel According Serpent King was much-lauded, among other publications. to Tolkien, and Flannery O’Connor including being named a New York F FRIDAY 8:30AM and the Christ-Haunted South. Times Notable Children’s Book He serves as an editorial board of 2016, receiving the William member for both the Flannery C. Morris Award, the Amelia LAUREN F. WINNER O’Connor Review and Seven: An Elizabeth Walden Award, the Lauren F. Winner is an associate Anglo-American Literary Review. International Literacy Association professor of Christian spirituality T THURSDAY 1:45PM Award, and the Westchester Fiction at Duke Divinity School and an Award, and being longlisted Episcopal priest. She writes and for the Carnegie Medal. Before lectures widely on Christian JESSICA WONG becoming a writer, Zentner practice, the history of Christianity Jessica Wong is the senior was a musician with three solo in America, and Jewish-Christian acquisitions editor at Nelson albums. He currently lives and relations. Her books include Girl Books, a division of HarperCollins. works as a lawyer in Nashville. Meets God, Mudhouse Sabbath, A She has worked closely with a S SATURDAY 10AM Cheerful and Comfortable Faith, number of bestselling nonfiction S SATURDAY 2PM Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis, authors, such as Lysa TerKeurst, and, most recently, Wearing Jen Hatmaker, and Stasi Eldredge. God. Winner has written for the She holds a BA in English New York Times Book Review, linguistics from Arizona State the Washington Post Book University and is also an alumnus World, Publishers Weekly, and of the Yale Publishing Course. Christianity Today, and her S SATURDAY 3:30PM essays have been included in The Best Christian Writing. S SATURDAY 8:30AM S SATURDAY 12:45PM

SPEAKERS 79 EXHIBIT HALL

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 Festivalgoers. Here you are welcome to browse and buy new books, attend author signings, network with representatives from publishing houses, and more. C Open daily from 9AM–6PM

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10–11AM 7:15–8:15AM Collegeville Institute Alumni Wheaton College Breakfast Gathering Calling all alumni of the Collegeville Institute’s Grab a coffee at the Madcap Pop-Up Café in the writing programs! Connect with fellow alumni, DeVos Lobby (if you’d like) and then join a gathering learn more about opportunities from the Collegeville of Wheaton College folks for light breakfast fare in Institute, and provide feedback on our writing the Prince Conference Center. Any friends of the workshops, all while enjoying light refreshments. college, alums, and current students are welcome. Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room Hosted by Nicole Mazzarella Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room 5:30–6:30PM Calvin Alumni and Prospective Students 6:30–8PM Meet alumni journalist and FFW 2018 speaker Five Minute Friday Meet-and-Greet Tony Norman, learn about studying at Calvin Connect with Kate Motaung and other members College, and reconnect with former professors of the Five Minute Friday online writers group. and old friends. Light refreshments served. Prince Conference Center, Hickory Room Covenant Fine Arts Center, East Lobby 7:30–9:30PM Book Release Party: The Wonder Years: 40 Women Over 40 on Aging, Faith, Beauty, and Strength Celebrate the launch of Leslie Leyland Field’s new anthology The Wonder Years: 40 Women Over 40 on Aging, Faith, Beauty, and Strength, with essays by Ann Voskamp, Brené Brown, Luci Shaw, Lauren Winner, Jeanne Murray Walker and others. More than a dozen contributors will be present for readings, signings, book giveaways, great food and the all-important swag! (Folks under 40 are welcome, but might be carded.) Hosted by Kregel Publications Prince Conference Center, Board Room

9–11PM Poiema Poetry Night Meet Poiema series poets and hear them read: Anya Krugovoy Silver, Brad Davis, Julie L. Moore, Barbara Crooker, D.S. Martin, Paul J. Willis, Tania Runyan, Marjorie Maddox, Nathaniel Lee Hansen, James A. Zoller, and Jill Paláez Baumgartner. Many of these poets are included in the anthologies The Turning Aside: The Kingdom Poets Book of Contemporary Christian Poetry and Adam, Eve, & the Riders of the Apocalypse: 39 Contemporary Poets on the Characters of the Bible. Hosted by Cascade Books Prince Conference Center, Willow Room

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