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PAST
AUTHORS
 2008
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Charles Baxter, author
of The Soul Thief, read from this featured novel as well
as from his popular novel The Feast of Love. Mr. Baxter
also taught the Writers' Workshop.
James Devita read from his young adult novel, The Silenced,
and compared writing and acting in his discussion on Saturday morning.
Honor Moore
shared her memoir and memories of her father as she read from The
Bishop's Daughter.
2007—Claudia
Emerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors for her book of
poetry, Late Wife, read from this featured book, talked in
depth about her writing process, and read from works in process. Ms.
Emerson also led the 2007 Writers Workshop. Michael
Perry read from his featured book for 2007, Truck: A Love
Story, and gave participants an insight into the world of a
freelance writer from the Midwest. 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning
journalist, Anthony
Shadid, read from his featured book, Night Draws Near,
and spoke about his new project: writing about restoring his
grandparents' home in Lebanon.
2006 — Mary
Relindes Ellis read from her 2005 Banta Award winning debut novel, The
Turtle Warrior. And world-famous author Kent
Haruf featured his book, Eventide, which continues the story
of Holt County, Colorado. Detroit-born Dean
Bakopoulos featured his first novel Please Don’t Come Back From
the Moon, which The New York Times named as one of the 100
Notable Books of 2005. Bakopoulos led the 2006 Writers Workshop.
2006 featured the fundraising
raffle by the Literary Festival Board of Directors of a handmade Serenity
canoe by local manufacturer, Tranquility
Canoes.
2005 — Wisconsin Poet Laureate Denise
Sweet read from her book of poetry, Songs of
Discharming. Tenaya
Darlington, editor, columnist, and teacher, read from her book, Maybe
Baby, and a work-in-progress. Kellie
Wells, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award, read from her
collection of short fiction, Compression Scars, and led the 2005 Writers Workshop.
Kellie Wells (middle) and her partner (right)
share a moment in the sunshine with a LitFest registrant
The Spring Green Literary Festival awarded a $1,000
scholarship to a student from the River Valley High School in Spring
Green for her written response to one of Ms. Sweet's poems. Funds for
the scholarship were donated by members of the board of directors.
2004 — Larry
Watson talked about his book, Montana, 1948, as well as his
process of writing. Pulitzer Prize winning writer David Maraniss read
from They Marched into Sunlight, a book detailing one day in both
Vietnam and Madison, Wisconsin. The Writers Workshop was led by writer
Charles Allen Wyman, who is the editor-in-chief of the alternative
literary magazine, Absinthe
Literary Review.
2003 — Author Patricia
Henley discussed In the River Sweet. Poet Max
Garland discussed Postal Confessions, and David
Cates read selections of his work-in-progress.
Max Garland reading from Postal Confessions
2002 — Celebrating the
Ordinary: Beloved Wisconsin author Jane
Hamilton read from and discussed her novel Short History of a
Prince, and poet and University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Ron
Wallace discussed his work in The Uses of Adversity.
2001 — Spirit
Earth: Wisconsin
writers Ellen
Kort and Justin
Isherwood were the featured authors. Kort, Wisconsin’s first Poet Laureate, read from Sing Back My Bones and
Isherwood from Book of Plough.
2000 — Life in Place:
Washington author Rosina
Lippi read from her award-winning novel, Homestead. She was
joined by Yi-Fu
Tuan, cultural geographer who now makes his home in Madison,
Wisconsin, with his acclaimed autobiography, Who am I?.
1999 — Sacred Ground:
Writers Diane
Glancy and U
Sam Oeur graced the literary festival. Novelist Glancy, of Cherokee
ancestry, read from Pushing the Bear: a Novel of the Trail of Tears,
and Khmer poet Oeur read from Sacred Vows.
U Sam Oeur in the afternoon session
1998 — The Rural Character:
The featured authors for the first Spring Green Literary Festival were
Nancy Willard, a Newbery Medal winner and author of novels, stories,
essays and poetry; Carol
Bly, author of collections of essays and short stories including The
Passionate, Accurate Story, and Norbert
Blei, author of the award-winning trilogy, Door Way, Door
Steps, and Door to Door, among many other books.
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