SATURDAY, Sept. 21 KEY: CHILDREN’S/Y.A. | FICTION | HISTORY/TRIBAL WRITING | NON-FICTION | POETRY | WRITERS’ SUPPORT
Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel Event Center
Masonic Temple
Prospector Rm
Conference Rm
Main Floor
Second Floor
Third Floor
Pine Beetles & Tar Sands: Writing about Environmental Issues (Andrew Nikiforuk)
European Interest in Western American Literature (Craig Johnson & Kent Meyers)
Writing What You Don’t Know: The Art Forger (B.A. Shapiro)
Early Day Water Rights & Water Fights in the LeadDeadwood Area (Steven T. Mitchell)
Unforgettable vs. Unforgiveable Villains (Sandra Brannan)
10 – 10:45 am Life & Writing in the
The Best of Youth (Michael Dahlie)
A Separate Country: PostColoniality & American Indian Nations (Elizabeth Cook Lynn)
The State of Media (Bob Garfield)
Deadwood Dead Men (Bill Markley)
Real People, Real Places, Fictional Stories (Natalee Caple & Ann Charles)
11 – 11:45 am The Long-Shining Waters
The Scientist Detective: Using Science to Solve Mysteries (Karen Hall)
Spirituality & the Earth: An Indigenous Philosophy (Linda Hogan)
On Conan Doyle: Or the Whole Art of Storytelling (Michael Dirda)
The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History (Jon Lauck)
Writing About Lies, Spies & Government Secrets (Marcia Mitchell)
12 – 12:45 pm Western Crime Wave
Zombies & Vampires: The Lure of Fantasy (Rhiannon Frater)
Stories from 30 What to Read Now Years at USA Today (Tammy Barrows, (Craig Wilson) Dave Strain & Bob Minzesheimer) TICKET REQUIRED ($10 for boxed meal, FREE for reserved seat only)
8 – 8:45 am 9 – 9:45 am
EXHIBITORS’ HALL OPENS Writing for Teens (Walter Dean Myers & Margaret Peterson Haddix) FREE TICKET REQUIRED Mountain Time Zone (C.J. Box) FREE TICKET REQUIRED
(Danielle Sosin) FREE TICKET REQUIRED
(C.J. Box, Craig Johnson, Lori Armstrong, Sandra Brannan, Ann Charles, C.M. Wendelboe) TICKET REQUIRED ($10 for boxed meal, FREE for reserved seat only)
1 – 1:45 pm
Mass Book Signings in the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel Event Center!
2 – 2:45 pm
From Fact to Fiction: The Dog Stars (Peter Heller) FREE TICKET REQUIRED
Ocean & Shoreline as Character in the Exiles (Allison Lynn)
Filmmakers on Filmmaking (Charles Nauman & Thomas Pope)
Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life (David Treuer)
A Divided Heart: Exploring the Immigrant Experience Through a Collection of Family Letters (Jane Torness Rasmussen)
Longmire: From Page to Screen (Craig Johnson) FREE TICKET REQUIRED
3 – 3:45 pm
What’s Next for News? (Bob Calamity Jane in Garfield, Bob Minzesheimer Fiction & Reality & Craig Wilson) FREE (Natalee Caple) TICKET REQUIRED
Granite Island, Amber Sea: How to Publish an Anthology (Black Hills Writers Group)
Is Writing Really “Torture”? (Pete Dexter, Rob Fleder & Marilyn Johnson, moderator)
Captain Jack Crawford & the Black Hills Gold Rush (Paul Hedren)
Plot is a Verb (B.A. Shapiro)
4 – 4:45 pm
4 pm EXHIBITORS’ HALL CLOSES
Open Mic (Black Hills Writers Group)
A Message from the National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature: Reading Is Not Optional! (Walter Dean Myers) FREE TICKET REQUIRED
The Western Movie (Thomas Pope)
SATURDAY EVENING EVENTS at the Deadwood Mountain Grand Hotel 5:30 – 7 pm P oetry Cafe with Ted Kooser,
Event Center Naomi Shihab Nye, Heid Erdrich & Christine Stewart-Nuñez (Sponsored by SD State Poetry Society) FREE TICKET REQUIRED 28 • SOUTH DAKOTA FESTIVAL OF BOOKS
5:30 – 9 pm D eadwood Paint-Out Event Center Wet Sale
7:30 – 9 pm It’s the End of the World as We
Event Center Know It: The Appeal of Apocalyp-
5:30 – 9 pm Bill’s B oxed Meals Available Backstage Bar TICKET REQUIRED ($10)
tic Literature (Peter Heller, Rhiannon Frater & Richard Van Camp) FREE TICKET REQUIRED