KBC hosts Festival of Literary Readings in conjunction with writers' conference - June 10–12, 2017

The Festival of Literary Readings, in conjunction with the 16th annual Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference, will be held the evenings of June 10-12 in Homer. Sixteen nationally-recognized visiting and Alaskan novelists, essayists and poets will read from their work each evening. (Download a PDF schedule to share or print.)

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist Jane Smiley will read at 8 p.m. on June 10 at Homer High School's Mariner Theater.

On Sunday, June 11, 7:30 p.m. at Alice's Champagne Palace, the following authors will read from their work: Kevin Clark, Kate Carroll de Gutes, Erin Coughlin Hollowell, David Huddle, Linda Martin, Rebecca McClanahan, Nina McConigley and Don Rearden.

Held at Land's End Resort at 7:30 p.m., Monday, June 12, the Festival's last evening of readings feature: Rich Chiappone, Brendan Jones, Thomas Larson, Nancy Lord, Susan Fox Rogers, Rachel Rose and Peggy Shumaker.

Biographical information can be viewed at the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference website.

All readings are open to the public with support from Alaska Airlines, First National Bank Alaska, Caroline Musgrove Coons Endowment, Atwood Foundation, University of Alaska, Homer Bookstore, Homer News, KBBI, Usibelli Foundation, University of Alaska Anchorage, Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College, as well as many individual donors.

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