** ALL SATURDAY EVENTS ARE AT THE HOLTER MUSEUM OF ART**

Thursday Sept 24
6:30 pm - Literary Heritage Lecture:

Not Always Happy Endings: Thomas and Elizabeth Savage
Montana Historical Society
Alan Weltzien (UM-Western) gives a talk on Thomas Savage’s The Pass, just reissued from Drumlummon/Riverbend Press.
This lecture is also the kickoff event for the Montana Historical Society's “Pages in History” series.

Friday Sept 25
12:00 noon Humanities Panel
Montana Historical Society
This panel on the life and work of novelist Thomas Savage features Alan Weltzien (who introduced the new edition of The Pass), Sue Hart (author of Thomas and Elizabeth Savage), and librarian Karl Olson (who has written extensively about Savage).

2:00 pm Women in Montana History
Montana Historical Society
This panel features scholars Sarah Carter (Univ. of Alberta), author of Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own (Farcountry Press), and Mary Murphy (MSU), who introduced the new MHS Press book, Border to Border: Quilts and Quiltmakers of Montana.

4:00 – 5:00 pm Student readings
Holter Museum of Art
Come hear local high school students reading polished works that have won awards or been included in literary magazines

6:00 pm – Welcoming Reception and Book Fair
Holter Museum of Art
Mingle, browse, sip, greet, and buy books by the armload.

7:00 – 9:00 Gala Readings:
Holter Museum of Art
Chris Dombrowski – By Cold Water
Wendy Parciak – Requiem for Locusts
George Economou – Greek-American poet – reading from numerous works
9:00 – Social time

Saturday Sept 26
9:00 – 11:00 am Writers workshops:
Holter Museum of Art
$25 fee is charged
Chris Dombrowski - How to Write a Political Poem
Samual Ligon – The Short-Short Story
Fred Haefele – Memoir and Method
Heather Bruce – “Sherman Alexie in the Classroom” – a special workshop for teachers

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1:00 – 2:00 Poetics Lecture

Holter Museum of Art
George Economou – “Adventures in Translation Land”

2:30 – 3:30 Good Words Lecture

Holter Museum of Art
Jim Rains - professor of Native American studies at Montana State University–Billings, on D’Arcy McNickle’s book The Surrounded (Humanities Montana’s 2009 One Book Montana Selection)

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Gala Readings: 7:00 – 9:00

Holter Museum of Art
Samuel Ligon – Drift and Swerve
Laurie Lamon – Without Wings
Steven Rinella – American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
9:00 – Social time