EVENTS • PANELS FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

NONFICTION GRAPHIC NOVELS Events Panels Josh Neufeld, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, and Sean Fitzgibbon, A PRIZED EVENING FISHTACULAR DomestiCATed, discuss their Hear William Neal Harrison, Porter No bait and switch here. Mark Spitzer, documentary-style graphic novels and Prize winner, and Phillip McMath, Season of the Gar, and Keith Sutton, new trends in the illustration industry. Worthen Prize winner, speak Pro Tactics Catfi sh, plunge into this Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative about their works. Each prize is examination of two of Arkansas’s favorite Center 3rd Floor awarded annually and honors fi sh. Live specimens of fi sh will be the accomplishments of some of featured at the session. This session PERSPECTIVES IN POETRY Arkansas’s fi nest writers. Two high is sponsored by the Witt Stephens Jr. Each talented poet in this group has school seniors will receive new Nature Center. Arkansas ties. Angie Macri, Shin Yu creative writing scholarships from the Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Witt Stephens Jr. Pai, Laura Newbern, Antoinette Brim, THEA Foundation. Nature Center and Mary Angelino are featured in this Friday, 6:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center special extended session. GARDEN GROWS Saturday, 11:30 a.m., THEA Center for CHARLAINE HARRIS AFTER DARK Expert gardeners Janet Carson and the Arts, NLR If you like romance, science fi ction, mystery, Chris Olsen team up to share tips and or the supernatural, speak about their PORTIS you’re bound to enjoy this conversation books, In the The impact of local legend Charles Portis’s writing and the fi lm with Harris. She is best known for her Garden and 5 adaptations of his work will be explored by Graham Gordy, Sookie Stackhouse series, which is the Seasons. screenwriter; Jay Jennings, author; and Kane Webb, executive basis of HBO’s True Blood series. We Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Darragh editor of Arkansas Life. expect a capacity crowd, so make sure to Center Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor arrive early. This session is sponsored by CALS’s Elizabeth T. Dishongh Trust. INNOCENCE AND THE ACCUSED READ THIS Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Christ Episcopal The nature of innocence, justice, and Four members of the sly and oh-so-courant literary collective We Church the slow process of exoneration will be Ate The Book discuss their inspirations and discussed by Mara Leveritt, known for the process of making and selling intriguing PUB OR PERISH her investigative journalism regarding the chapbooks and graphic novels. Festival authors and additional local authors West Memphis Three; Fred McKinley, who Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd unite to read from their works. A limited worked with the Innocence Project of Texas Floor number of open mic slots will be available beginning at 9 a.m. on to write The Timothy Friday, April 8. For a slot or more information, email David Koon, Cole Story; and Cristi R. Beaumont, co- [email protected]. This session is sponsored by Arkansas Times. chair of the Innocence Project of Arkansas. THE SPORTS BOOK Saturday, 8:00 p.m., Big Whiskey’s American Bar & Grill This session is sponsored by William F. Southpaw roundhouses and major Laman Public Library System. league initiates go toe to toe in this action-packed 60 minutes covering SPOKEN WORD LIVE! Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Argenta Community the competitive world of sports writing. This marks the third year for this event where local word-slingers Theater, NLR Gear up for boxing essays by John and the winners of a city-wide poetry competition share their Rodwan, Jr., Fighters & Writers, and pieces with the crowd. This session is sponsored by Power LOYALTY, FAILURE, AND HONOR Bob Reising’s new chronicle about 92 Jams, the National Park Service, and the Mosaic Templars This riveting Civil War sesquicentennial Field of Dreams baseball legend Doc Cultural Center. session brings together Carl Graham, Chasing Moonlight. Thursday, 7:00 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Moneyhon, Edmund J. Davis of Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Arkansas Studies Texas: Civil War General, Republican Institute Room 124 TALES FROM THE SOUTH Leader, Reconstruction Governor; The internationally syndicated radio show Tales from the South, Mark Christ, Civil War Arkansas, 1863; YOUR FIRST TIME the William F. Laman Public Library System, and the Arkansas and Lorien Foote, The Gentlemen In 2010, the Festival offered two fi rst- Literary Festival have combined to sponsor a new literary memoir and the Roughs. The trio will touch time novelists, and both happened to writing contest. The winning writers will participate in on-air on everything from the violence, be male. This year we have evened readings of their stories based on the famous Jorge Louis Borges manhood, and honor of the Union the score by introducing you to Eleanor quote, “Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in troops to the Confederacy’s military Brown and Kyran Pittman. The twosome which a man fi nds out, once and for all, failure in Arkansas. will discuss Brown’s much adored debut, who he is.” More information can be found Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Arkansas Studies The Weird Sisters, and Pittman’s honest at www.talesfromthesouth.com. Institute Room 124 and absorbing Planting Dandelions: Field Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Starving Artist Café, NLR Notes from a Semi-Domesticated Life. MEMOIRS OF ARKANSAS Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Arkansas Studies THE GREAT MIGRATION WITH ISABEL Expect an earthy, smart session about Institute Room 124 WILKERSON roots and more as Don’t miss Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize- Jo McDougall and winning journalist, whose book, The Pat Carr examine ZOMBIE/AUSTEN Warmth of Other Suns, was on practically their new works. MASHUP every 2010 best books list. She will speak McDougall’s Have the good about the treks of three southern African powerful biography is set on an Arkansas sense and Americans to the north and west. Her rice farm, and Carr’s insightful new sensibility to make book has been called “a massive and memoir delves into what it is like to be a an appointment for masterly account…immensely readable” writer in academia. this bold collision of in a cover review by the New York Times Book Review and “a Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Historic Arkansas Robin Becker, brilliant and stirring epic” by the Wall Street Journal. This session Museum Ottenheimer Theatre Brains, and is sponsored by Philander Smith College and the Mosaic Templars Joan Ray, Cultural Center. MYSTERIOUS INSANE CROCODILES Jane Austen for Dummies. This waltz Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Culprits: Mystery writers Suzanne of decorum and the undead may result Arruda and Sheldon Russell. Motives: in eyes pried and prejudice rebuffed, as WE ATE THE BOOK WITH A VINTAGE RED Introducing Festival-goers to their works, etiquette and gore each receive their A local collective of authors, poets, and illustrators will perform The Crocodile’s Last Embrace and The due. We just hope both authors remain an evening of revelatory excursions fi lled with humor, pathos, Insane Train, and exploring the genre. bloody-well behaved! Warning: This and fresh vision. Great wine is also available for purchase in a Weapons of choice: Keen intellect, plenty session is not for the stiff, though stiff chic new River Market hotspot.This session is sponsored by Zin of humor, suspense, and a good dose of, upper lips are acceptable. Wine Bar. well, mystery. Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Historic Arkansas Saturday, 6:00 p.m., Zin Wine Bar Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Museum Ottenheimer Theatre FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC WORKSHOPS • SESSIONS foreign agencies and authors. visiting http://literatureandlunch.eventbrite.com. Teachers are bound to learn multitudes Noon, Argenta Community Theater, NLR Workshops from his exciting methodology. DEVELOPING INTRIGUING CHARACTERS Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Historic Arkansas Monday: Benjamin Hale explores his Unleash your creativity and join mystery writer Suzanne Arruda, Museum Ottenheimer Theatre audacious fi rst novel, The Evolution of The Crocodile’s Last Embrace, in a “character-building” workshop. Bruno Littlemore. The San Francisco Bring your story’s characters and put some fl esh on their bones. Chronicle called the book “a major TEACHER TRAINING ON ARKANSAS Arruda’s series is set in 1920s Africa, so accomplishment” and the New York she is familiar with killers of all species. HISTORY II Times deemed it “an absolute pleasure.” Janis Percefull is back to explore Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center Noon, Main Library Darragh Center Hot Springs history with her fi ctional 3rd Floor work Cedar Glades Express. This is Tuesday: Award-winning Arkansas the second book in her 1895 series. native Nate Powell is a publisher, FACT INTO FICTION Teachers will see how they can use Best-selling author Laura Parker musician, and graphic novelist history as a catalyst to spark students’ whose work includes Swallow Me Castoro, Love on the Line, and imaginations. attorney Phillip McMath, who will Whole. Powell is currently working Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Historic Arkansas on Any Empire and The Silence be awarded the Worthen Prize for Museum Ottenheimer Theatre The Broken Vase, delve into the of Our Friends. Both titles will be realities of turning someone’s life released later this year. story into fi ction. Evolving “historical” WRITE THAT CHILDREN’S BOOK 12:15 p.m., Pulaski Technical College So you have a really good story in mind and think you want to stories, penning romans à clef, and Grand Hall, NLR write a children’s book. Come to this frank and insightful session even coping with the legalities of on the pleasures and perils of writing successful books for kids. copyrights will be discussed. THE MUSIC SESSION I: FOLK Author Darcy Pattison will cover everything from the pitch process Saturday, 10:00 a.m., The Creative Len Holton opens for folk musician and working with unknown illustrators to unexpected edits. Space, NLR Si Kahn. Kahn’s musical body of work Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 includes 16 albums and a collection of MAGAMORPHOSIS traditional labor, civil rights, and women’s Paul Reyes, Exiles in Eden, songs recorded with Pete Seeger and conducts this educational foray into the world of magazines Sessions Jane Sapp. This session is sponsored by William F. Laman Public Library System. and online publications. Reyes will FANTASY & LIGHT Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Argenta Community explore turning a short article into a full- Renowned fantasy author Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn and the Theater, NLR length book using long-form narrative animated Lord of the Rings fi lm, appears for a candid discussion of journalism and detail. his work with special guest moderator Kevin Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library 5th Floor Brockmeier, The Illumination. Beagle has THE MUSIC SESSION II: COUNTRY many outstanding achievements in science With country chart hits like “I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate MAKING GOOD SONGS BETTER fi ction and fantasy and has received two Our Home,” “I Just Came Here to Dance,” Folksinger Si Kahn will help songwriters nominations for the World Fantasy Award. “A Million Light Beers Ago,” and a little improve their work with intriguing and Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh ditty about Oklahoma, Arkansas native interactive techniques. The workshop is Center David Frizzell is a classic. He will sing free, but space is limited. Call (501) 918- some of his favorites. This session is sponsored by William F. Laman Public 3009 to reserve your spot. GONE WITH THE WIND Library System. Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library East Room Ellen Brown reveals little-known facts in Saturday, 5:00 p.m., Argenta Community her recent book, Theater, NLR PRIMARY SOURCE RESEARCH: Margaret Mitchell’s WHERE TO FIND IT AND HOW TO USE IT Gone With the This workshop will give you practical Wind: A Bestseller’s THE PIONEER WOMAN LOVES A COWBOY research tips on where to fi nd print and Odyssey from Atlanta Ree Drummond, the well-known blogger digital primary source documents. Award- to Hollywood. This session is sponsored by whose new memoir The Pioneer Woman: winning author Carla Killough McClafferty the Historic Arkansas Museum. Black Heels To Tractor Wheels has been will show you how to use your research in Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Historic Arkansas optioned for fi lm, will light up the Festival accurate and interesting ways with specifi c Museum Ottenheimer Theatre with her down-home charm, passion, and warmth. Her blog, examples from her new book, The Many www.thepioneerwoman.com, receives two million hits a month. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center Faces of George Washington: Remaking a LITERATURE AT LUNCH SERIES Presidential Icon. Spend your lunch break with these Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Arkansas Studies amazing presenters. TOAD SUCK REVIEW Institute Room 124 The editors of Arkansas’s newest literary journal, Toad Suck Friday: The 2011 winner of the Review, will perform a dramatic reading of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s William F. Laman Public Library System’s Arkansas Writers TEACHER TRAINING ON ARKANSAS HISTORY I Cristo & Socrates, published in the debut issue of the journal. Tom Paradise, Arkansas: An Illustrated Fellowship, Kevin Brockmeier, discusses his new work, The Additional staff members will read selected works from the journal Atlas, has published more than 2,000 Illumination, and his work in progress. Limited free lunches as well, with discussion. maps. Paradise will speak about working for American and are provided by Laman Library and may be reserved by Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Historic Arkansas Museum Ottenheimer Theatre Professional Development ADDITIONAL SESSIONS Eighteen of the sessions are intended to meet the Arkansas Department of Education’s “Rules Governing Professional Development.” Educators will need to register utilizing the The Festival also offers additional sessions by these great authors: provided forms. They will receive an attendance certifi cate via email attachment during the work week following the Festival. All documentation will be housed in the Butler Center’s educator’s offi ce for the required fi ve years. The Central Arkansas Library System (CALS) Melanie Bowles • John Brandon • Laura Browder • Robert L. Brown has been an Arkansas Department of Education approved professional development provider since 2007. Arkansas educators attending CALS-sponsored public programs Tanner Critz • Matt de la Peña • William D. Downs Jr. • Eliza Griswold such as the Arkansas Literary Festival may obtain professional development credit for selected programs. Butler Center for Arkansas Studies educator Kay Bland maintains the Jay Jennings • Janie Jones • Wyatt Jones • James Marsh approved applications and documentation for educators registering and attending these sessions. Contact [email protected] for more information. Raul Ramos y Sanchez • Paul Reyes • John G. Rodwan Jr. The sessions are Spoken Word Live!; Literature at Lunch: Kevin Brockmeier; A Prized Evening; Your First Time; Fact Into Fiction; Teacher Training I with Tom Paradise; Daniel Seddiqui • Jeff Sharlet • Caleb Smith • Brock Thompson Teacher Training II with Janis Percefull; A Book Fiesta; Nonfi ction Graphic Novels; The Pioneer Woman Loves a Cowboy; Matt de la Peña, I Will Save You; Primary Source Michael Takiff • Alex Vernon • Curtis Wilke Research with Carla Killough McClafferty; Jay Jennings, Carry the Rock; The Great Migration with Isabel Wilkerson; Loyalty, Failure, and Honor: a Civil War panel; Janie and more! and Wyatt Jones, Arkansas Curiosities; Write That Children’s Book; Zombie/Austen Mashup. AUTHORS AND PRESENTERS SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, APRIL 7 6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Books by featured Clinton Presidential Center Curtis Wilkie, The Fall of the House of Choctaw Station Zeus Festival authors are Moderator: Skip Rutherford Mosaic Templars Cultural Spoken Word Live!: poetry competition available for purchase Center in the Arkansas The Old State House Mary Kwas, A Pictorial History of Arkansas’s Old State House: Celebrating 175 Years Studies Institute Moderator: Bll Gatewood Room 124. FRIDAY, APRIL 8 noon 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Argenta Community Theater, Literature at Lunch: NLR Kevin Brockmeier, The Illumination Moderator: Jeff Baskin Main Library Darragh Center A Prized Evening: awards Saturday Events ceremony Arkansas Studies Institute Author! Author!: cocktail Concordia Hall reception with authors

SUNDAY, APRIL 10 1:30 p.m 3:00 p.m. Main Library Darragh Center David Frizzell, I Love You a Thousand Ways; Moderator: Stephen KochH John O’Hara, A New American Tea Party; Moderator: Allen Kerr Arkansas Studies Institute Loyalty, Failure, and Honor: panel with Carl Moneyhon, Edmund J. Davis of Texas; Mark Write That Children’s Book: Room 124 Christ, Civil War Arkansas 1863; and Lorien Foote, The Gentlemen and the Roughs workshop with Darcy Pattison, The Scary Slopes Main Library 5th Floor Magamorphosis: workshop with Paul Reyes, Exiles in Eden Alex Vernon, Hemingway’s Second War Moderator: Jay Ruud Cox Creative Center Mysterious Insane Crocodiles: panel with Suzanne Arruda, Developing Intriguing Characters: 3rd Floor The Crocodile’s Last Embrace, and Sheldon Russell, workshop with Suzanne Arruda, The Insane Train; Moderator: Sharon Lee The Crocodile’s Last Embrace Cox Creative Center Janie & Wyatt Jones, Arkansas Curiosities Robert L. Brown, Defi ning Moments 2nd Floor Moderator: Maribeth Murray Moderator: Jajuan Johnson Main Library East Room Making Good Songs Better: workshop with William Downs Jr., Stories of Survival: Arkansas Farmers folk musician Si Kahn During the Great Depression; Moderator: Neal Moore Historic Arkansas Museum Toad Suck Review: panel with the editors of Zombie/Austen Mashup: panel with Robin Becker, Brains, Ottenheimer Theatre Toad Suck Review and Joan Ray, Jane Austen for Dummies; Moderator: Stacey Jones Witt Stephens Jr. Nature Tanner Critz, End to Ending Fishtacular: panel with Mark Spitzer, Season of the Gar, Center Moderator: Joe Jacobs and Keith Sutton, Pro Tactics Catfi sh; Moderator: Steve ”Wildman” Wilson Main Library Youth Services Daniel Seddiqui, 50 Jobs in 50 States; Moderator: Lance Turner Stacy Pershall, Loud in the House of Myself; Moderator: Sally Browder

MONDAY, APRIL 11 noon Main Library Darragh Center Literature at Lunch: Benjamin Hale, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore; Moderator: Ross Cranford

TUESDAY, APRIL 12 12:15 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Pulaski Technical College Literature at Lunch: Nate Powell, Swallow Me Grand Hall, NLR Whole; Moderator: Mark Barnes Jr. Starving Artist Café, NLR Tales From the South: radio show with writing contest winners WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 7:00 p.m. Pulaski Academy’s Connor An Evening With David Sedaris: readings by the author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, Performing Arts Center Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, When You are Engulfed in Flames, and Naked AUTHORS AND PRESENTERS SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

10:00 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Main Library Garden Grows: panel with Michael Takiff, A Complicated Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Eliza Griswold, The Tenth Fantasy & Light: Darragh Janet Carson, In the Garden, Man Woman: Black Heels to Parallel session with Peter S. Center and Chris Olsen, 5 Seasons Moderator: Kane Webb Tractor Wheels Moderator: Clea Bunch Beagle, Sleight of Hand Moderator: Lisa Fischer Moderator: Kevin Brockmeier Arkansas Your First Time: panel Laura Browder, When Janey The Sports Book: panel Ace Collins, Jefferson Burke Primary Source Research: Studies with Eleanor Brown, The Comes Marching Home with John Rodwan Jr., and the Secret of the Lost workshop with Carla Killough Institute Weird Sisters, and Kyran Moderator: Philip Martin Fighters & Writers, and Bob Scroll McClafferty Room 124 Pittman, Planting Dandelions Reising, Chasing Moonlight Moderator: Garry Craig Powell Moderator: Amy Bradley-Hole Moderator: Rex Nelson Main Library Caleb Smith, The Prison and Si Kahn, Creative Community Matt de la Peña, I Will Save Raul Ramos y Sanchez, Alanna Nash, Baby, Let’s 5th Floor the American Imagination Organizing You House Divided Play House: Elvis Presley and Moderator: Bobby Roberts Moderator: Bob Russell Moderator: Graham Gordy Moderator: Michel Liedermann the Women who Loved Him Moderator: Karen Martin Cox Creative Portis: panel with Graham Nonfi ction Graphic Novels: John Brandon, Citrus County Read This: panel with Brock Thompson, Center 3rd Gordy, Jay Jennings, and panel with Josh Neufeld, Moderator: Ty Jaeger We Ate The Book The Un-Natural State Floor Kane Webb A.D.: New Orleans After the Moderator: Katherine Moderator: Jeff Kosiorek Deluge, and Sean Fitzgibbon, Whitworth DomestiCATed Moderator: Randy Duncan Historic Teacher Training on Teacher Training on Arkansas Memoirs of Arkansas: Melanie Bowles, The Ellen Brown, Margaret Arkansas Arkansas History I with History II with Janis Percefull, panel with Pat Carr, One Dogs of Proud Spirit Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind Museum Tom Paradise, Arkansas: Cedar Glades Express Page at a Time, and Jo Moderator: Ann Nicholson Moderator: Bill Worthen Ottenheimer An Illustrated Atlas Moderator: Kay Bland McDougall, Daddy’s Money Theatre Moderator: Kay Bland Moderator: Phillip McMath Argenta Innocence & the Accused: Jeff Sharlet, The Family: The Music Session I: Folk The Music Session II: Country Community panel with Mara Leveritt, The Secret Fundamentalism Len Holton of the Little Rock David Frizzell sings country Theater, NLR Devil’s Knot, Fred B. at the Heart of American Folk Club opens for folk classics. McKinley, A Plea for Justice, Power musician Si Kahn. and Cristi R. Beaumont Moderator: Mara Leveritt Moderator: John Hardin The Creative Fact Into Fiction: workshop with Laura Parker Castoro, Love on Space, NLR the Line, and Phillip McMath, The Broken Vase THEA Center Perspectives in Poetry: panel with Mary Angelino, Antoinette for the Arts, Brim, Angie Macri, Shin Yu Pai, and Laura Newbern NLR Starving James Marsh, Snapshots of Artist Café, Vietnam NLR Moderator: Jeff Baskin Mosaic Laura Freeman-Hines, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Templars the Nikki & Deja series Losing My Cool: How a Cultural Moderator: Quantia Fletcher Father’s Love and 15,000 Center Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture Jay Jennings, Carry the Rock Moderator: Jennifer “Coffy” Moderator: Spirit Trickey Davis 300 Third Cooking with Vikings: Baked: a workshop with Tower workshop with Elizabeth Matt Lewis and Renato 18th Floor Heiskell, Somebody Stole the Poliafi to, Baked Explorations: Party Room Cornbread from My Dressing, Classic American Desserts and Lee Richardson, Wild Reinvented Abundance

5:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Mosaic The Great Migration with Isabel Wilkerson, Templars The Warmth of Other Suns ATURDAY Cultural Moderator: Shareese Kondo S Center Zin Wine Bar We Ate The Book with a Vintage Red: EVENING readings by We Ate The Book Christ Charlaine Harris After Dark: Episcopal discussion with the author of EVENTS Church the Sookie Stackhouse series Big Whiskey’s Pub or Perish: readings by Festival authors & open mic RADIO DISNEY’S ROCKIN’ ROAD SHOW SPONSORS Enjoy the synchronized fun of the Rockin’ Road Show Dancers and For Families the music of Radio Disney during this live remote. A BOOK FIESTA Saturday,Saturd 9:00 a.m., Main Library Count Pulaski Way This party for kids wwillill introduce theththhee ARKANSAS 2011 Festival children’sen’s authors in SHUTTLECOCKSHUTT /TROLLEY TROUPE an interactive way. ChildrenChildren can win GrabGrab thet designated trolley between cities on Saturday and your trip LITERARY prizes, including a piñata,piñata, and enjoyenjoy is freefree if you show your Festival program. On some trips there will books about sports, be performancesper of the Bard’s works by the Arkansas Shakespeare FESTIVAL heroes, Arkansas, Theatre,The or something jaunty and contemporary by one of the science, and members of We Ate The Book. more. Authors Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., LR/NLR shuttles include Matt de la Peña, Darcy SUPER FAMILY FUN NIGHT Pattison, Carla Rich Davis returns to the Festival for an imaginative evening. Killough McClafferty,y, Families will relish the fun of speed-drawing to music and Mimi Vance, Melaniee playingpl the clever picture game Pick and Draw along with the Bowles, and Linda game’sgam creator. Williams. Snacks andnd drinks Thursday,Thurs 6:30 p.m., Main Library Youth Services will be served. Saturday, 10:30 a.m., Main Library SUPER SEUSS SATURDAY Youth Services Join Alyse Eady, Miss Arkansas 2010, as she reads her favorite Dr. Seuss book. Kids can create their own Seuss-inspired character, The Arkansas Literary Festival is supported in ARKANSAS SHAKESPEARE-IENCE as well as play Seuss games such as “Oh the Places You’ll Go!” part by the Arkansas Humanities Council and Actors from the Arkansas Shakespeare the National Endowment for the Humanities. Reservations are required; RSVP to Joyce Willis at (501) 748-0472. Theatre company will bring the works Activities are free; however, admission fees apply to tour the Clinton of the Bard to life in exciting and Library and the exhibit, “The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss.” Super Seuss unexpected ways. With shows such Saturday is sponsored by the Clinton Presidential Center. as Othello and As You Like It, the Saturday, 9:00 a.m., Clinton Presidential Center lively gang from AST will educate and entertain with the wit and TAIL WAGGIN’ TUTORS wisdom of the world’s most The Tail Waggin’ Tutors are obedience-nce- famous playwright. Great fun for trained dogs of good temperament thatthat audiences of all ages! This session have been tested and certifi ed by is sponsored by Little Rock Therapy Dogs International to help Convention and Visitors Bureau. children learn to read in a non- Saturday, 2:00 p.m., Main Library threatening environment. By relaxingg Youth Services and petting a dog, a child can gain confi dence in reading and increase CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY HOUR self-esteem. All Tail Waggin’ Tutors Your kids can have some interactive fun making books, playing are volunteers. chess, constructing basic origami delights, working on a giant Saturday, 1:00 p.m., 4th & Main Tent,, puzzle, and more. North Little Rock Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services

WOLFE AT THE DOOR PUPPETS THE KINDERS UNPLUGGED Be it a standard fairy tale or Treat your child to the memorable, original melodies of the popular a story created for the specifi c duo’s short acoustic set. The Kinders regularly appear at CALS and group, this lively and energetic hand puppet performance is sure to have a large following, so be sure to arrive early. delight. Led by master puppeteer Jan Wolfe, this show will keep the Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Main Library Youth Services wee ones rapt. Be prepared to participate. Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Youth Services MIDWEST WINDS The Air Force Band of Mid-America’s Midwest Woodwind Quintet is a dynamic performing ensemble. The group reaches out to YOUTH POETRY COMPETITION America’s youth by offering concerts, clinics, and master classes in Youth poetry fi nalists chosen from CALS branch competitions will wind chamber repertoire and instrumental technique. compete for a grand prize. This jam-packed hour will be a true delight. Saturday, 2:00 p.m., 4th & Main Tent, North Little Rock Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Main Library Youth Services

Tyler Thompson GROUP PRESENTERS

ARKANSAS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE is the state’s only professional Shakespeare company. Each year, it produces a selection of the Bard’s plays in its summer festival. Founded in 2006, the mission of AST is to entertain, engage, and enrich the community. Arkansas Shakespeare-ience is sponsored by Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - noon, LR/NLR Shuttle Saturday, 2:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services Philander Smith College The Old State House TOAD SUCK REVIEW, Witt Stephens Jr. Central Arkansas AY Magazine Toad Suck Review is a national/international literary journal published by the University of Nature Center Hendrix College Central Arkansas. Its mission is to publish the most cutting-edge works of poetry, fi ction, Christ Church, Little Rock’s Argenta Community Theater creative nonfi ction, translations and reviews in the Universe. Born from the legendary Downtown Episcopal Church Exquisite Corpse Annual, which the University published from 2008 to 2010, “the Toad” Starving Artist Café The Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas now takes the place of “the Corpse” in a historic evolution that has established UCA as a Capital Hotel major player in the literary arts. Stonewall Democratic Caucus of THEA Foundation Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Historic Arkansas Museum Ottenheimer Theatre Arkansas Zin Wine Bar Arkansas Library Association and Booker Worthen Literary Prize Central High National Historic Site WE ATE THE BOOK, an Arkansas-based group, produces a variety of chapbooks from Committee National Park Service poetry to graphic novels to short stories. We Ate The Book focuses on putting out the works of local authors and artists as well as promoting these works throughout the community. Arkansas Governor’s Mansion Literacy Action of Central Arkansas Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - noon, LR/NLR Shuttle Arkansas Times Big Whiskey’s American Bar & Grill Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Power 92 Jams Friesens Printing Saturday, 6:00 p.m., Zin Wine Bar Kathy & Bobby Roberts Pulaski Technical College 2011 ARKANSAS LITERARY FESTIVAL FAMILY EVENTS SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

all day 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. AR Governor’s Literacy on the Lawn with First Lady Ginger Beebe and authors Mansion Clinton Presidential Patricia McKissack, Days of Jubilee Center Various Schools The WITS Initiative: authors in the schools Main Library Youth Super Family Fun Night with Rich Davis, illustrator, Services Room teaching families his Pick and Draw game Mosaic Templars Spoken Word Live!: poetry event Cultural Center (12 & up)

FRIDAY, APRIL 8 all day 6:00 p.m. Various Schools The WITS Initiative: authors in the schools Main Library A Prized Evening: awarding the Porter & Worthen Literary Prizes and scholarships from the THEA Foundation Darragh Center SATURDAY, APRIL 9

9:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. Main Library Youth The Kinders Wolfe at the A Book Fiesta: party anandd Children’s Activity AR Shakespeare-ience: Youth Poetry Services Unplugged: Door Puppets mini-sessions with Hour: interactive performance by Arkansas Competition: acoustic concert children’s authors workshops Shakespeare Theatre fi nals of a poetry contest North Little Rock 4th Family Activities: face painting and The Tail Waggin’ Midwest Winds: concert Family & Main Tent various impromptu performances by local musicians Tutors: dogs helping for children Activities kids learn to read resume Main Library Count Radio Disney’s Rockin’ Road Pulaski Way Show: radio remote Shuttle between Shuttlecocks/Trolley Troupe: impromptu performances by Arkansas Shakespeare LR & NLR Theatre and We Ate The Book Cox Creative Center Nonfi ction Graphic Read This: panel with 3rd Floor Novels with Josh We Ate The Book on Neufeld and Sean publishing your own Fitzgibbon (12 & up) work (14 & up) Moderator: Randy Moderator: Katherine Duncan Whitworth Mosaic Templars Laura Freeman- Cultural Center Hines, the Nikki & Deja series Moderator: Quantia Fletcher Main Library 5th Matt de la Peña, Floor I Will Save You (12 & up) Moderator: Graham Gordy HAM Ottenheimer Melanie Bowles, The Theatre Dogs of Proud Spirit Moderator: Ann Nicholson Clinton Presidential Super Seusss SaturdaySaturday withwith Center Miss Arkansasas Alyse Eady

MONDAY, APRIL 11 TUESDAY, APRIL 12

all day all day Various Schools The WITS Initiative: authors in the schools Various Schools The WITS Initiative: authors in the schools Books by featured Festival authors are available for purchase in the Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124. AUTHORS & PRESENTERS

MARY ANGELINO is the recipient of the University of KEVIN BROCKMEIER is the author of the novels MARK CHRIST is community outreach director for the Arkansas’s McKean Poetry Prize. She has been published The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program and a member of in Diagram, Best New Poets 2010, and has poetry Truth About Celia; the children’s novels City of Names the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. He forthcoming in Measure and Hayden’s Ferry Review. As and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery; and the story collections has written and edited several books on Arkansas history, an instructor for the University of Arkansas, she teaches Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the including The Die is Cast: Arkansas Goes to War, 1861 and advanced composition and creative writing classes. In Seventh Layer. His work has been translated into sixteen Civil War Arkansas, 1863: The Battle for a State, which won her spare time, she is a senior editor for the online poetry languages. Recently he was named one of Granta the 2010 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award. Christ is journal Linebreak. magazine’s Best Young American Novelists. He lives in sponsored by the Department of Arkansas Heritage. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., THEA Center for the Arts, NLR Little Rock, where he was raised. Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 Friday, noon, Argenta Community Theater, NLR

ACE COLLINS is a bestselling author who has written SUZANNE ARRUDA, a zookeeper turned science LAURA BROWDER’S most recent book is When teacher, is the author of the Jade del Cameron mystery Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat more than sixty books in both the fi ction and nonfi ction series, set in 1920s Africa. Her latest book is The Veterans, with photographs by Sascha Pfl aeging. Browder genres. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Crocodile’s Last Embrace. She lives in Kansas. teaches at the University of Richmond and is the writer/ Today, NBC Nightly News, and a host of other media Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor co-producer of the forthcoming PBS documentary, Gone to outlets, as well as being a guest lecturer at the National Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Texas: The Lives of Forrest Carter, based on her book, Slippery Archives. He lives in Arkadelphia. His newest book is Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities. Jefferson Burke and the Secret of the Lost Scroll. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124

TANNER CRITZ lives in Little Rock with his wife and PETER S. BEAGLE was born in 1939 and raised in ELEANOR BROWN’S writing has appeared in the Bronx. Thanks to classics like The Last Unicorn, A Fine two sons. Coming from a lineage of closet poets, he is the magazines, newspapers, and journals. A New York Times fi rst to publish. His book is titled End to the Ending: An and Private Place, and Two Hearts, he is a living fantasy bestseller, The Weird Sisters is her fi rst novel. She lives icon. He also wrote the episode “Sarek” for Star Trek: The Appalachian Trail Thru-Hiker’s Story. Critz is the owner and in Colorado with her partner, writer J.C. Hutchins. Brown head instructor of Unity Martial Arts, which is the culmination Next Generation and the animated Lord of the Rings. is sponsored by Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center of many dreams and blessings, and much work. Critz is (FOCAL). sponsored by the Witt Stephens Jr. Nature Center. Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Witt Stephens Jr. Nature Center

RICH DAVIS is the children’s book illustrator of eight CRISTI R. BEAUMONT is an attorney licensed in LLEN ROWN is an award-winning freelance writer books. His newest, Drawing Doodle Bugs, will be available Arkansas and Texas who has been practicing for over E B from Richmond, Virginia. Her book, Margaret Mitchell’s this spring. He presents in libraries and schools, drawing twelve years. She is the co-chair of the Innocence Project Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller’s Odyssey from Atlanta with children and developing their creativity. Also, he is the of Arkansas. She has worked as an assistant district at- to Hollywood, offers an entertaining and informative inventor of a fun, inexpensive drawing game called Pick torney, deputy prosecutor, and deputy public defender, and behind-the-scenes look at one of the most popular and and Draw, that is selling worldwide. has tried more than fi fty jury trials, including three capital controversial novels in literary history. Brown is sponsored Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Main Library Youth Services murder cases. Beaumont is sponsored by William F. La- by Historic Arkansas Museum. man Public Library System. Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Historic Arkansas Museum Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Argenta Community Theater, NLR Ottenheimer Theatre MATT DE LA PEÑA has written four award-winning novels, Ball Don’t Lie, Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here, ROBIN BECKER, author of Brains, is waiting for ROBERT L. BROWN, a justice on the Arkansas the Zombie Apocalypse. In the meantime, she fi shes, Supreme Court, has authored numerous profi les of and I Will Save You, and one picture book with Kadir Nelson, plays guitar, and teaches writing at the University of Arkansas business and political leaders. His work, The A Nations Hope: The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis. Ball Central Arkansas. She received an Arkansas Arts Council Second Crisis of Little Rock: A Report on Desegregation Don’t Lie was made into a fi lm starring Ludacris, Nick Cannon, Individual Artist Fellowship in short fi ction for 2010. Within the Little Rock Public Schools, was published by the Emilie de Ravin, Melissa Leo, and Rosanna Arquette. He lives Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Historic Arkansas Museum Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation. His new book, Defi ning in Brooklyn, NY, and teaches creative writing at New York Ottenheimer Theatre Moments, examines ten Arkansas governors. Brown University. De la Peña is sponsored by CALS’s Elizabeth T. knew nine and worked for two. Brown is sponsored by the Dishongh Trust. Department of Arkansas Heritage. Saturday, 10:30 a.m., Main Library Youth Services Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library 5th Floor WILLIAM D. DOWNS JR. is professor emeritus of MELANIE BOWLES, along with her husband, Jim, PAT CARR has fi fteen published books, including The mass communications at Ouachita Baptist University. He is is the founder of Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, located in Women in the Mirror, winner of the prestigious Iowa Fiction the author of two books, The Fighting Tigers and Stories of Mena. Proud Spirit has evolved into an award-winning 320- Award, and The Death of a Confederate Colonel, winner of Survival: Arkansas Farmers During the Great Depression. acre facility, and is one of the most successful sanctuaries the PEN Southwest Fiction Award. She has more than 100 He and his wife, Vera, live in Arkadelphia. for horses in the United States. She lives with seventy-two short stories in such places as Southern Review and Best Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library East Room amazing equines, twelve delightful dogs, and one very American Short Stories. talkative barn cat. Her books include The Horses of Proud Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Historic Arkansas Museum Spirit, Hoof Prints, and The Dogs of Proud Spirit. Ottenheimer Theatre Saturday, 10:30 a.m., Main Library Youth Services Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Historical Arkansas Museum Ottenheimer Theatre REE DRUMMOND, author of The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels – A Love Story, began JANET CARSON, Arkansas master gardener coordi- blogging in 2006 and has built www.ThePioneerWoman.com JOHN BRANDON was raised on the Gulf Coast of nator, provides information to seventy-fi ve counties regard- into an award-winning website where she shares recipes, Florida. While writing his novels, Arkansas and Citrus ing all areas of horticulture related to home gardening, with showcases her photography, and documents her hilarious County, he worked in many warehouses and factories. an emphasis on ornamentals. She hosts a weekly radio transition from city life to ranch wife. The #1 New York Times Currently employed by University of Mississippi as a visiting show on KARN and the Arkansas Radio Network, writes bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes writer, he has had short works appear in Oxford American, weekly gardening columns in the Arkansas Democrat- from an Accidental Country Girl, Drummond has appeared on McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Mississippi Review. Gazette and monthly columns in Arkansas Gardener Today, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, The View, His favorite recreational activity is watching college football. magazine, and can be seen in weekly television spots on and QVC, and has been featured in Ladies’ Home Journal, Brandon is sponsored by Hendrix College. KARK, taped at Garvan Woodland Gardens. The multiple People, More, and Southern Living. She lives on a working Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor award-winning educator’s fi rst book is In the Garden. cattle ranch in Oklahoma with her husband and four children. Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Darragh Center Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center

ANTOINETTE BRIM is the author of Psalm of the LAURA PARKER CASTORO, a bestselling author, ALYSE EADY is the current Miss Arkansas. A 2010 Sunfl ower. A Cave Canem Foundation fellow, recipient has published thirty-nine books. She writes historical cum laude graduate of Ouachita Baptist University with of the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation romances, westerns, sagas, romantic suspense, category degrees in mass communications and speech communica- Scholarship to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, romance, young adult nonfi ction, and mainstream fi ction, tion, she was a Presidential Scholar and named to the and a Pushcart Prize nominee, she is a sought-after including Love on the Line and Icing on the Cake. She was Dean’s list. Eady gained acclaim across the state due to speaker, editor, educator, and consultant. the 2005 inductee into the Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame. her trademark talent, ventriloquism. “Friends” Rosie and Saturday, 11:30 a.m., THEA Center for the Arts, NLR Saturday, 10:00 a.m., The Creative Space, NLR Justin accompanied her at the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas, where she was named 1st Runner-up. Eady is sponsored by the Clinton Presidential Center. Saturday, 9:00 a.m., Clinton Presidential Center AUTHORS & PRESENTERS

SEAN FITZGIBBON is an artist and illustrator. He CHARLAINE HARRIS, a New York Times bestselling BRIAN AND TERRI KINDER perform rollicking currently exhibits work on the east coast and in the Mid- author, was born and raised in the Mississippi River goodtime original music for kids. They have six nationally west. He has illustrated books and is currently illustrating Delta area. She has been writing for thirty years, and is recognized children’s music releases, including A Kid Like a documentary-style graphic novel that chronicles the best known for her Aurora Teagarden books, the Harper You, which is on Rob Reid’s Must Have Short List for every Norman Baker years (1938-1939), the darkest years of Connelly series, and the Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy library. Their concerts prove to be memorable family events. the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. Other work includes series, which is the basis for the HBO series True Blood. Saturday, 9:30 a.m., Main Library Youth Services Small Wonders and DomestiCATed. She has co-edited four anthologies and is a member of the Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Mystery Writers of America, the American Crime Writers League, Sisters in Crime, the International Crime Writers Association, Science Fiction Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and Romance Writers of America. Harris is sponsored by CALS’s Elizabeth T. Dishongh Trust. LORIEN FOOTE, author of The Gentlemen and the Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church Roughs, is associate professor of history at the University MARY KWAS is a research associate for the Arkansas of Central Arkansas. She received her BA from the WILLIAM NEAL HARRISON started writing while Archeological Survey. Her recent work includes an article University of Kansas and a PhD from the University of at Vanderbilt with friends John Yount and Jim Whitehead. on the Abraham Block family of Arkansas for Southern Oklahoma. She has published two books on 19th-century With Whitehead, he founded the Program in Creative Jewish History Journal and a special issue on historical America and was the 2010 winner of the UCA Teaching Writing at the University of Arkansas. He is the recipient archeology in Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Her previous Excellence Award. of the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship and a book, Digging for History at Old Washington, received Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work the 2010 Ned Shank Award for Outstanding Preservation has been featured in dozens of anthologies including Best Publication from the Historic Preservation Alliance of American Short Stories, Best American Mystery Stories Arkansas. Her new book is A Pictorial History of Arkansas’s of 2006, and New Stories from the South. Harrison will be Old State House: Celebrating 175 Years. awarded the Porter Prize during the 2011 Festival. Thursday, 7:00 p.m., Old State House LAURA FREEMAN-HINES has illustrated more Friday, 6:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center than twenty books for children, including the Nikki & Deja series, written by Karen English, and Jazz Baby, by Carol MARA LEVERITT is a veteran Arkansas reporter LIZABETH EISKELL is the lead culinary instructor E H focused on law, crime, and prisons. She is drawn to cases Boston Weatherford. In addition to books, she has done at the Viking School in Greenwood, Mississippi. A native that, to her, “don’t make sense.” Two books have resulted illustrations for the New York Times, New York Magazine, of the Delta, she has prepared food for such notables from that interest: The Boys on the Tracks and Devil’s Knot. and Polo/Ralph Lauren, and has recently begun creating as the Duchess of York, Vice President Al Gore, and a Both were awarded the Central Arkansas Library System’s art for licensed products. She is a native New Yorker. host of Mississippi governors. She resides in Cleveland, Worthen Literary Prize. Leveritt is sponsored by William F. Freeman-Hines is sponsored by the Mosaic Templars Mississippi, with her husband and their three daughters. Laman Public Library System. Cultural Center. Somebody Stole the Cornbread from My Dressing is her Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Argenta Community Theater, NLR Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center fi rst book. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., 300 Third Tower 18th Floor

DAVID FRIZZELL a native of El Dorado, developed his artistic identity at an early age, writing and singing his own music. He won numerous awards with hits such as “You’re MATT LEWIS and Renato Poliafi to left day jobs in the Reason God Made Oklahoma.” His book, I Love You advertising fi ve years ago to open Baked, in what was then JAY JENNINGS is a native of Little Rock and a freelance a Thousand Ways, tells the story of his years with his still rough-and-tumble Red Hook, Brooklyn. Famous for its brother, Lefty Frizzell. writer whose journalism, book reviews, and humor have appeared in many national magazines and newspapers. His modern design, both in the bakery-café and on the desserts, Saturday, 5:00 p.m., Argenta Community Theater, NLR Baked garnered fans including Martha Stewart and Oprah Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center fi rst book, Carry the Rock: Race, Football, and the Soul of an American City, was published in the fall of 2010. Jennings is Winfrey. The duo published Baked: New Frontiers in Baking to sponsored by the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. great acclaim and an IACP Award nomination. They opened Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor their second Baked in Charleston, SC, and are in talks with Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center Al Roker’s production company for a reality show about their work, their bakeries, and themselves. Their new book is Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented. Lewis is sponsored by Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries (FOCAL). GRAHAM GORDY’S plays have been produced and performed by Naked Angels, The New Group, New York Saturday, 2:30 p.m., 300 Third Tower 18th Floor Stage and Film, The Drama Dept., and The Royal Court (London). He has multiple screenwriting credits, and The JANIE JONES is a freelance journalist and a member Slow Rise of Wesley Sinker is scheduled for production later of the Poets’ Roundtable of Arkansas. She has numerous ANGIE MACRI’S recent work appears or is forthcom- this year. His TV pilot, The Wreck, was purchased by AMC. newspaper articles to her credit and is currently the true ing in Crab Orchard Review, Redivider, RHINO, and Third Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor crime writer for AY Magazine. With her husband, Wyatt, Coast, among other journals, and the University of Virginia she has co-authored two books, Hiking Arkansas and Press’s Best New Poets 2010. A recipient of an individual Arkansas Curiosities. artist fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council, she Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor teaches at Pulaski Technical College. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., THEA Center for the Arts, NLR

ELIZA GRISWOLD, a fellow at the New American Foundation, received a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. Her journalism has appeared in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, WYATT JONES, a lifelong resident of Arkansas, has and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. A co-authored two books about his native state. He and Nieman Fellow at Harvard, she was awarded the fi rst Robert JAMES MARSH is the author of Snapshots of his wife, Janie, trekked over hill and dale for their fi rst I. Friedman Award for investigative reporting. She is also a Vietnam: The Unraveling of a Non-Combatant. He holds a collaborative effort, Hiking Arkansas. Their more recent published poet, with a collection entitled Wideawake Field. master’s degree in education from Springfi eld College in book, Arkansas Curiosities, is about oddities found around Her recent book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Massachusetts. Marsh is a nursing supervisor on a cardiac the state and in Arkansas history. Fault Line between Christianity and Islam, was featured on unit in Little Rock. He is married and has four children. Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 2nd Floor the cover of the New York Times Book Review and became Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Starving Artist Café, NLR a bestseller. Griswold is sponsored by Christ Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese. Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center

SI KAHN began his 45-year career as a civil rights, BENJAMIN HALE is a graduate of the Iowa Writers community, and union organizer and musician in St. CARLA KILLOUGH MCCLAFFERTY, an Workshop, where he received a Provost’s Fellowship to Francis County, Arkansas, during the Southern Civil Rights Arkansas native, is an award-winning author of nonfi ction complete his novel, which went on to win a Michener- movement. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos: books and a public speaker for audiences of all ages. Copernicus Award. He has been a night-shift baker, A National Center for Ideas and Action, and executive di- Her latest book, The Many Faces of George Washington: security guard, trompe l’oeil painter, pizza deliverer, rector emeritus of Grassroots Leadership. His four books, Remaking a Presidential Icon, answers the question: Did cartoonist, illustrator, and technical writer. He grew up in including Creative Community Organizing, and sixteen CDs George Washington really look like his image on the one Colorado and now lives in New York. The Evolution of have garnered a gratifying international reputation. dollar bill? Bruno Littlemore is his fi rst novel. Hale is sponsored by Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Main Library 5th Floor Saturday, 10:30 a.m., Main Library Youth Services CALS’s Elizabeth T. Dishongh Trust. Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Argenta Community Theater, NLR Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 Monday, noon, Main Library Darragh Center Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library East Room AUTHORS & PRESENTERS

JO MCDOUGALL, an Arkansas native, lives in Laura Newbern is the author of Love and the Eye, selected KYRAN PITTMAN grew up in the seventies on the Kansas City. Her books of poetry include Dirt, Satisfi ed by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2010 Kore Press near-mythical island of Newfoundland, the daughter of a with Havoc, and a chapbook, Under an Arkansas Sky. Her First Book Award, and a recipient of a 2010 Writer’s Award poet. In 1996, she emigrated to landlocked, suburban Little memoir, Daddy’s Money: A Memoir of Farm and Family, is from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her poems have ap- Rock, and met her muse in what she calls “extraordinary, forthcoming from the University of Arkansas Press. peared in such publications as the Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, ordinary life.” She is a contributing writer for Good Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Historic Arkansas Museum and the Oxford American. Housekeeping magazine and the author of Planting Ottenheimer Theatre Saturday, 11:30 a.m., THEA Center for the Arts, NLR Dandelions: Field Notes from a Semi-Domesticated Life. Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124

JOHN O’HARA is the author of A New American Tea Party and the vice president of external relations at the Illinois RENATO POLIAFITO and Matt Lewis left day jobs in Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research organization dedicated FRED B. MCKINLEY, a native of Beaumont, advertising fi ve years ago to open Baked, in what was then to supporting free market principles and liberty-based public Texas, received a master’s degree in history from Lamar still rough-and-tumble Red Hook, Brooklyn. Famous for its policy initiatives. Before joining IPI, O’Hara worked at The University and a law enforcement certifi cation from modern design, both in the bakery-café and on the desserts, Heartland Institute, as a political appointee in the administration Louisiana State University. He retired from the Louisiana Baked garnered fans including Martha Stewart and Oprah of George W. Bush, and was a Collegiate Network journalism Department of Justice, where he served as a supervisory Winfrey. The duo published Baked: New Frontiers in Baking to fellow at the American Spectator. For his work with the Tea criminal investigator. His latest book is A Plea for Justice: great acclaim and an IACP award nomination. They opened Party movement, O’Hara received an inaugural William F. The Timothy Cole Story, and he is involved with the their second Baked in Charleston, SC, and are in talks with Buckley, Jr. Leadership Award from the Young Conservatives Innocence Project of Texas. He is the author or co-author Al Roker’s production company for a reality show about their Coalition. O’Hara is sponsored by ProSmart Printing and is of three other books, and has written numerous articles for work, their bakeries, and themselves. Their new book is presented as CALS’s J.N. Heiskell Distinguished Lecture. national and professional publications. He lives with his Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented. Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center wife, Dottie, in Burleson, Texas. McKinley is sponsored by Poliafi to is sponsored by Friends of Central Arkansas Libraries the William F. Laman Public Library System. (FOCAL). Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Argenta Community Theater, NLR CHRIS OLSEN is a nationally-known home and Saturday, 2:30 p.m., 300 Third Tower 18th Floor garden guru, designer, author, TV personality, and public speaker. In his new book, 5 Seasons, he shares his PATRICIA C. MCKISSACK and her husband, landscape and gardening knowledge along with his unique Frederick, have written more than one hundred books for fl air for home decor and design. He is a member of the NATE POWELL is a graphic novelist whose work includes young readers about the African American experience. Association of Professional Landscape Designers. Swallow Me Whole (Eisner Award Winner), Please Release, Their collaboration has led to the publication of several Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Darragh Center Sounds of Your Name, and the forthcoming books Any award-winning titles, including the Coretta Scott King Empire and The Silence of Our Friends. From 1999-2009, Honor books, Days of Jubilee and Black Hands, White Powell worked full-time supporting adults with developmental Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers. She and disabilities. He was a founding member of Arkansas punk her husband live in Chesterfi eld, Missouri, a suburb of St. legend Soophie Nun Squad. Nate lives in Bloomington, SHIN YU PAI is the author of eight books, including Indiana. Powell is sponsored by Pulaski Technical College. Louis. McKissack is sponsored by the Clinton Foundation. Adamantine, Works on Paper, Sightings, The Love Hotel Thursday, Clinton Presidential Center Tuesday, 12:15 p.m., Pulaski Technical College Grand Poems, Unnecessary Roughness, Equivalence, and Ten Hall, NLR Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers. Saturday, 11:30 a.m., THEA Center for the Arts, NLR PHILLIP MCMATH is a native Arkansawyer who resides RAUL RAMOS Y SANCHEZ was born in Cuba in Little Rock. In addition to being a trial lawyer, he has and began his controversial debut novel in 2004 with the produced a body of work in fi ction, drama, and journalism. His input of scholars from Latin America, Spain, and the United fi ctional trilogy consists of Native Ground, Arrival Point, and States. America Libre was released in July 2009, and its Lost Kingdoms. He recently published The Broken Vase, a sequel, House Divided, in 2011. historical novel about the Holocaust. He won the Arkansiana TOM PARADISE is a professor at the University Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Main Library 5th Floor Fiction Award for Lost Kingdoms and was inducted into the of Arkansas, and comes from a diverse background in Arkansas Writer’s Hall of Fame in 2009. McMath will receive cartography, geology, architecture, and Mediterranean the Worthen Prize during the 2011 Festival. geography. His expertise on architecture and cartography Friday, 6:00 p.m., Main Library Darragh Center has been requested by countries and agencies including the Saturday, 10:00 a.m., The Creative Space, NLR State Department, Italy, UNESCO, Morocco, the Vatican, Jordan, and Egypt. He has written three best-selling atlases, including the award-winning Atlas of Hawai‘i. His newest ARL ONEYHON OAN AY a professor of English at the University C M is a professor in the History book is Arkansas: An Illustrated Atlas. J R , of Colorado, Colorado Springs, was president of the Jane Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Historic Arkansas Museum Austen Society of North America and has published many A specialist in the history of the American Civil War and Ottenheimer Theatre Reconstruction and author, co-author, or editor of some fi fteen scholarly articles on Jane Austen and other writers. Jane books, his writing has focused particularly on Arkansas and DARCY PATTISON, author of picture books, Austen for Dummies (think “Smarties”!) is her fi rst trade book. Texas during this period. His most recent work, Edmund novels, and how-to-write books, has been published in Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Historic Arkansas Museum J. Davis of Texas: Civil War General, Republican Leader, eight languages. As a writing teacher, she is in demand Ottenheimer Theatre Reconstruction Governor, tells the little-known story of a nationwide to teach her Novel Revision Retreat. Her latest general who remained loyal to the Union, fought in the Union children’s book is The Scary Slopes, a graphic novel for army, and later became governor of his state. fi rst graders about snowboarding fun. Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 Saturday, 10:30 a.m., Main Library Youth Services Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 BOB REISING is supervisor of the Academic Success ALANNA NASH is a New York Times bestselling Center at University of Central Arkansas. His doctoral ghostwriter and author. She has also written scores of JANIS PERCEFULL earned an MA in public history dissertation at Duke University was about Literature and magazine articles for Vanity Fair, People, USA Weekend, from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Since Sports. The former head baseball coach at University of Entertainment Weekly, Ladies Home Journal, and then she has authored a regional history, Curiosity, and Southern California, he has published two books on Jim Reader’s Digest. Her latest book is Baby, Let’s Play two juvenile historical fi ctions, Three Strangers Come To Thorpe, the American Indian athlete, and is the co-author House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him. Call, and newly released Cedar Glades Express. She is of Chasing Moonlight, winner of four awards. She lives in Kentucky. currently working on the third book of her 1895 series. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Main Library 5th Floor Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Historic Arkansas Museum Ottenheimer Theatre

PAUL REYES is the former editor-at-large of the Oxford JOSH NEUFELD is the writer/artist of the New York STACY PERSHALL is a native Arkansan whose fi rst American and currently is a contributing editor with Virginia Times bestseller A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, a book, Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Quarterly Review. He began his career in journalism as a fact- nonfi ction graphic novel about Hurricane Katrina. Neufeld is Girl, was chosen for the Barnes and Noble 2011 Discover checker for such magazines as Lingua Franca, the New York currently at work illustrating The Infl uencing Machine, written Great New Writers program. She now lives in New York City, Times Magazine, and Harper’s. His writing has appeared in the by Brooke Gladstone, co-host of NPR’s “On The Media.” where she is a belly dancer and mental health advocate. New York Times, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Details, Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library Youth Services and Men’s Vogue. He is a 2009 National Magazine Award fi nalist for Feature Writing, and a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow. His fi rst book is Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida’s Great Recession. Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library 5th Floor AUTHORS & PRESENTERS

LEE RICHARDSON attained a psychology degree CALEB SMITH, a native of Fayetteville, is associate KANE WEBB is executive editor of Arkansas Life from the University of Colorado and returned to his native professor of English at Yale University, a scholar of magazine. A veteran Arkansas journalist for a quarter- New Orleans, where he learned from top chefs including American literature and culture, and the author of The century, he began his career as a sportswriter for the Kevin Graham, Emeril Lagasse, and John Besh. Hurricane Prison and the American Imagination. Arkansas Democrat and later the Arkansas Gazette. He Katrina led Richardson to Little Rock’s Capital Hotel. He Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library 5th Floor has served as associate editor and editor of Arkansas serves as Executive Chef for Ashley’s and the Capital Business. Webb has also worked in Minneapolis and Bar and Grill, presenting the bounty of Arkansas in an New Orleans. He has had stories published in a variety of imaginative, innovative style. Featured in numerous national regional and national publications, including the Wall Street publications including Gourmet, Food Arts, Esquire, Garden Journal, National Review, and the Oxford American. and Gun, and Bon Appetit, Richardson has been a three- Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor time semifi nalist nominee for a prestigious James Beard Award. His latest honor is being featured in Wild Abundance, a cookbook anthology celebrating the ritual, revelry, and MARK SPITZER is the author of fourteen books recipes of the South’s fi nest hunting clubs. ranging from literary translations to novels to studies of ISABEL WILKERSON is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Saturday, 11:30 a.m., 300 Third Tower 18th Floor fi sh. He is a writing professor at the University of Central writer who is currently professor of journalism and Arkansas, where he edits Toad Suck Review. Spitzer can director of narrative nonfi ction at Boston University. Her fi rst book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story JOHN G. RODWAN JR. is the author of Fighters also be found on reruns of the “Alligator Gar” episode of the Animal Planet series River Monsters. Spitzer is of America’s Great Migration, is the fi rst major work to & Writers, a collection of essays on boxing and literature chronicle the Great Migration and its aftermath on a that combines literary criticism, journalism, and memoir. sponsored by the Witt Stephens Jr. Nature Center. Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Witt Stephens Jr. Nature Center national scale, over the course of nearly a century. She Raised in Detroit, Michigan, he has also lived in Geneva, was born and raised in Washington, D.C., graduated Switzerland, and Brooklyn, New York. He currently resides with a degree in journalism from Howard University, and in Portland, Oregon. has worked at the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Room 124 Post, and the New York Times. She is the fi rst black woman to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism and KEITH SUTTON’S resumé lists more than 3,200 the fi rst black American to win for individual reporting. magazine, newspaper, and website articles about fi shing, She received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to hunting, wildlife, and conservation. As one of the country’s complete the research for The Warmth of Other Suns. SHELDON RUSSELL’S work has won the Langum best-known outdoor writers, he has written eleven Wilkerson is sponsored by the Mosaic Templars Cultural Prize for Historical Fiction and the Oklahoma Book Award. books, co-authored fi ve, served as editor for twelve, Center and Philander Smith College. The Insane Train, from the Hook Runyon Mystery Series, and contributed to fi fty-seven. The Alexander resident Saturday, 5:30 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center has been selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best will speak about his book, Pro Tactics Catfi sh. Sutton is mysteries of 2010. The New York Times calls it “a terrifi c sponsored by the Witt Stephens Jr. Nature Center. historical crime novel.” Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Witt Stephens Jr. Nature Center Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor CURTIS WILKIE, an award-winning Mississippi native, spent twenty-fi ve years with the Boston Globe, including time as a White House, national, and foreign correspondent. He covered several wars, revolutions, MICHAEL TAKIFF’S Bill Clinton biography, A and confl icts overseas, including the Israeli invasion of Complicated Man, was praised by historian Rick Perlstein, Lebanon, Lebanon civil war, fi rst Palestinian intifada, DAVID SEDARIS has become one of America’s pre- Nixonland, as “a historic contribution to the biographical Romanian revolution, fi rst Gulf War, and Somalia civil eminent humor writers with sardonic wit and incisive social record which will stand for generations.” Takiff’s last war. He has written for the Nation, the New Republic, critiques. He is the author of Barrel Fever and Holidays book was Brave Men, Gentle Heroes: American Fathers Newsweek, Playboy, George Washington Journalism on Ice, as well as collections of personal essays, Naked, and Sons in World War II and Vietnam. His writing has Review, and Garden & Gun. He co-authored Arkansas Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Mischief with Jim McDougal and City Adrift with six other and Denim, and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, each Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Nation, Salon, and writers. His books include Dixie: A Personal Odyssey of which became a bestseller. There are a total of seven Huffi ngton Post. Through Events That Shaped the Modern South and The million copies of his books in print, and they have been Saturday, 11:30 a.m., Main Library Darragh Center Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America’s translated into twenty-fi ve languages. He was the editor of Most Powerful Trial Lawyer. Wilkie is sponsored by the Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology Clinton School of Public Service. of Outstanding Stories. His pieces appear regularly in New Thursday, 6:00 p.m., Clinton Presidential Center Yorker and have twice been included in Best American Choctaw Station Essays. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk, his newest book, BROCK THOMPSON received his PhD in American features illustrations by Ian Falconer. He and his sister, Amy, studies at King’s College, University of London. A native INDA ILLIAMS is the author of nonfi ction books for have written half a dozen plays. His original radio pieces can Arkansan, he now lives in Washington, D.C., and works L W children on science, medicine, and the environment that often be heard on This American Life, distributed nationally at the Library of Congress. His book, The Un-Natural have been translated into nearly a dozen languages. by Public Radio International and produced by WBEZ. He State, is a one-of-a-kind study of gay and lesbian life A second edition of her book Chemistry DeMystifi ed is has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best in Arkansas in the twentieth century that deftly weaves being released. Dedicated to bringing cutting-edge science Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. together Arkansas history, dozens of oral histories, and to the general public, she founded the Little Rock Science Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., Pulaski Academy’s Connor Thompson’s own story. Thompson is sponsored by the Café and works with researchers at the University of Performing Arts Center Stonewall Democrats. Arkansas for Medical Sciences. When not talking science, Saturday, 4:00 p.m., Cox Creative Center 3rd Floor Williams enjoys hiking, drawing, and photography. DANIEL SEDDIQUI failed to receive an offer after Saturday, 10:30 a.m., Main Library Youth Services more than forty job interviews following graduation from the University of Southern California, so he decided to explore America’s diverse cultures and industries on a seemingly IMI ANCE a native of Louisiana, is a life-long impossible 50 week quest. Based on his experiences as M V , language specialist who is passionate about using American a baseball scout in Massachusetts, a coal miner in West THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS is the Sign Language with hearing babies. She served for nearly a Virginia, a meteorologist in Ohio, and more, 50 Jobs in 50 author of the memoir, Losing My Cool: How a Father’s decade as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State. Her States shares lessons about perseverance, risk taking, Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture. He Words by the Handful series helps teach preverbal babies adaptability, networking, endurance, and the extraordinary holds a BA in philosophy from Georgetown University and their families sign language. Vance lives in Houston. kindness of strangers. He has been featured on World News and a master’s degree from the Cultural Reporting and Saturday, 10:30 a.m., Main Library Youth Services Tonight, CNN, Fox News, Today, the Weather Channel, Criticism program at New York University. His writing Yahoo, AP, and MSNBC, just to name a few. has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Main Library Youth Services Journal, the American Scholar, the Root and n+1. He lives in New York City. Williams is sponsored by the JEFF SHARLET is a bestselling author who has written Mosaic Templars Cultural Center. two works of literary journalism about religion and politics Saturday, 2:30 p.m., Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in America, The Family and C Street, and the forthcoming Sweet Heaven When I Die, a collection of nonfi ction stories JAN WOLFE became obsessed with puppetry while ALEX VERNON is an associate professor of English about prophets, promoters, revolutionaries, and other restless at Hendrix College in Conway. In addition to Hemingway’s working on the fi nal for her Arts in Education class, a souls. He is co-author, with Peter Manseau, of Killing the Second War, he is the author of two war memoirs, two puppet show. Captivated by bits of felt and foam, she Buddha: A Heretic’s Bible, named by Publishers Weekly as works of literary-cultural criticism, and several essays, and pursued performing with puppets because they “sold” one of the best religion titles the year it was released. He and is the editor of two books of criticism. reading so effectively. Her shows promote the fun of Manseau also co-edited Believer, Beware, and created the Sunday, 3:00 p.m., Main Library 5th Floor literacy and books. She tours Arkansas with Wolfe at the online literary magazine KillingTheBuddha.com. Sharlet is a Door puppets. contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine and Rolling Stone. Saturday, 10:00 a.m., Main Library Youth Services He teaches creative nonfi ction at Dartmouth College. Saturday, 1:00 p.m., Argenta Community Theater, NLR PAID SESSIONS BEHIND THE SCENES AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS Festival Chair Gina Kokes A must! The Festival closes with the incomparable humorist in a return visit to central Arkansas. Tickets Talent Committee Chair Jay Jennings can be purchased online, at all CALS branches, by Festival Guides Chair Laura Stanley calling (501) 918-3009, or at the door. Finance Committee Chair Martha Perry Wednesday, 7:00 p.m., Pulaski Academy’s Connor Hospitality Chair Literacy Action of Central Arkansas Performing Arts Center Logistics Chair Eric Paxton Moderator Chair Amy Bradley-Hole AUTHOR! AUTHOR! Toast the Festival authors at this bash featuring Niche Marketing Chair Rhonda Thornton hors d’oeuvres and libations. Books will be Youth Programs Co-Chairs Darcy Pattison, Bettye Kerns available for purchase during this party geared for North Little Rock Liaison Paula Morrell adults. Tickets are $25 in advance and $40 at the Talent Committee Kevin Brockmeier, Laura Parker door. Order online, by phone at (501) 918-3009, or Castoro, Jan Emberton, Rod Lorenzen, purchase at any CALS branch. Bob Razer, Skip Rutherford, Marc Friday, 7:30 p.m., Arkansas Studies Institute Smirnoff, Annie Stricklin, David Stricklin, Concordia Hall Spirit Trickey, Alex Vernon, Katherine Whitworth, Debra Wood, Paul Yoder BAKED Yummy! Indulge in some sticky and scrumptious Festival Guides Kirk Bradshaw, Mary Ford, Carla Koen, new desserts from the cheeky and imaginative Joel Mroczkowski, Dawn Teer, Sharea Brooklyn bakers Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafi to. Wheeler, Cary Wilson The duo will whip up sinfully delicious treats from Finance Committee Nate Coulter, Susan Hill Gelé, Nancy their second cookbook, Baked Explorations: Classic Bellhouse May, Bobby Roberts, Sherry Walker American Desserts Reinvented. Tickets are $15, and may be purchased by calling (501) 918-3009. Niche Marketing Lee Ann Blackwell, Amy Bradley- Saturday, 2:30 p.m., 300 Third Tower 18th Floor Committee Hole, Philip Buck, Michelle Cauley, Jan Emberton, Quantia Fletcher, Becca Gardner, Susan Hill Gelé, Kathryn Heller, COOKING WITH VIKINGS Jay Jennings, Michelle Bailey Keahey, Don’t expect horns or Eric the Red. Elizabeth Meg Matthews, Neal Moore, Ann Owen, Heiskell, lead culinary instructor at the Viking School, Laura Stanley, Dana Venhaus is paired with Lee Richardson, executive chef at Youth Programs Ginger Beebe, Kay Bland, Tiffany the Capital Hotel, whose professional kitchen uses Committee Dabbs, Lisa Donovan, Carla Viking products. Get ready for some simple and McClafferty, Amy Miller, Joyce Willis spectacular Southern dishes. Tickets are $15, and Special Thanks Paul S. Austin, David Barker, Jeff Baskin, may be purchased by calling (501) 918-3009. Sarah Razer Carnahan, Troy Deal, Nikolai Saturday, 11:30 a.m., 300 Third Tower 18th Floor DiPippa, Quantia Fletcher, Angie Gilbert, Hazel Hernandez, Phillip Rex Huddleston, Vince Insalaco, Ty Jaeger, William Jeffs, Jajaun Johnson, Shareese Kondo, David VENUE MAP Koon, Paul Leopolus, Mary Ruth Marotte, Cathie Matthews, Sarah Mattingly, Becki Arkansas River Moore, Karen Mullikin, Gary Newton, Patrice O’Donoghue, Drue Patton, Tina Witt Stephens Jr. Pike, Chad Rodgers, Tricia Spione, Shelby Parking Nature Center Tate, Louise Terzia, Scott Walters, Will LaHarpe Boulevard Whiting, Betsy and Howard Woodyard Central Arkansas Brad Mooy, Festival Coordinator; River Market Library System Lee Ann Blackwell; Kay Bland; Lisa Markham President Clinton Avenue Donovan; Patrice Edwards; Jan Emberton; Madelyn Ganos; Susan Hill Big Arkansas Gelé; Linda Halbrook; Rita Mitchell- Whiskey’s Studies Harvey; Michelle Bailey Keahey; Bettye Institute Parking Kerns; Scott Kirkhuff; Mollie Savage; (ASI) Alex Zacny Parking Vendors Row Vendors

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CreativeCox William Jefferson Clinton Main Center The Festival will provide a free shuttle between Little Rock and Rock Street Rock Scott Street Scott Main Street Library North Little Rock on Saturday. Shuttle stops are Shuttle Sherman Street Choctaw Stop in front of the Main Library (Rock Street) in Little Rock and Cumberland Street Parking Parking Station at 4th & Main in North Little Rock. River Market Boulevard Market River 2nd Street You must show your Festival program for a free ride.

Downtown Little Rock Historic 300 Downtown 5th Street Arkansas Third W. 9th Street North Little Rock Museum Tower Mosaic (HAM) Templars Starving Downtown Little Rock Cultural Artist Parking Big Center Café 5th Street Whiskey’s 3rd Street Argenta Zin Christ Street Broadway Community Parking Wine Bar Episcopal Main Street Church TheaterBig Main Street NLR Whiskey’s Tent THEA In addition to the downtown venues shown here, Street Scott 4th Street there are two venues that are not downtown: Shuttle Stop Creative Pulaski Technical College is located in North Little Rock; Pulaski Academy is located in West Little Rock. Space