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.