May
5/27 - New Island Book Launch @ Heron House
5/28 - Fire Rescue Boat Benefit
June
6/3 - Island School Book Drive Kickoff, All Day
September 24 (2PM)
Winifred Bird Foraging Walk & Tasting @ Folk Tree Farm w/ Casey Dahl
Tickets $15 - register by Sept 23rd at the bookshop or by phone or email
The theme for the 2021 Festival is "A World Apart."
Our 9th annual Washington Island Literary Festival will include the following authors:
For More information about the schedule including workshops, author presentations and the free creative lab please visit the festival website at:
https://writeondoorcounty.org/events/conferences/wilf/
Past Washington Island Literary Festival authors:
Previous Event Authors:
(Signed copies available while they last)
2021
May 30th Sunday 1:30-3:30, Patrica Skalka
Patricia Skalka, the author of the award-winning Dave Cubiak Door County Mysteries, will be under the tent signing her new book Death Washes Ashore on Sunday from 1:30 to 3:30pm. Come meet our local author and pick up a signed copy.
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M.C. Collins, Out the Door2015-2017
We are sorry but we have had to cancel due to current conditions. We will have some signed copies available.
Wisconsin historical mystery author and shop favorite Kathleen Ernst will come by to sign her new book, The Weavers Revenge.
Muna Shehadi will be with us signing her Fortune’s Daughters trilogy, Private Lies, Hidden Truths and Honest Secrets. Hidden Truths is set on Washington Island.
Lisa Wiemer will be signing her latest book, The Assignment and her book set on the Island, Hello?. Drop by and meet our Wisconsin author and pick up a signed copy.
Poet Moheb Soliman will be in the shop signing his new book of Great Lakes poetry HOMES. Stop by meet Minnesota interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest and pick up a signed copy.
Our own Thomas Davis from Sturgeon Bay and author of a shop favorite Unsettled Homeland of Dreams, will be launching his new book, Apples for the Wild Stallion. Visit with Tom and pick up a signed copy.
TRANSLATING NATURE: Words and Images of Place
Door County artist, author and Sign Ferry, Jill Harding will join us to sign and chat with folks about her latest book, Earth Messages.
Nature by the Book - A book discussion of John Green's "The Anthropocene Reviewed" with Professor Elizabeth Sachs". At the Art and Nature Center.
10% of sales donated to this long standing island charity!
Door county author Judy DuCharm signs her book about Pilot Island lighthouse keepers, Lainey of the Door Islands from 1:30 to 3:00.