10 am - Author tables open

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11:00 am - Young Writer & Artist Competition Awards

Award presentation in the Reading Room by Rachael Hanel and Joy Riggs, DVBF

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12:30 pm - Getting Started: Identifying Your Writing Instincts to Write Your Novel, Memoir, or Poetry Collection-in-Progress

Presented by Adelia Gregory in the Reading Room

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Teaching artist Adelia Gregory will lead a forty-five-minute writing workshop entitled “Getting Started: Identifying Your Writing Instincts to Write Your Novel, Memoir, or Poetry Collection-in-Progress,” aimed at engaging beginning and intermediate writers alike. The workshop will start with a succinct overview of writer’s block and some of the key reasons why it happens. Participants will receive a handout with three prompts adapted from a workshop with award-winning creative nonfiction writer Melissa Febos, a list of narrative techniques for the three genres discussed, and a few one-to-two-page follow-up readings. Adelia will guide participants through the three prompts and provide opportunities to share. Writers will walk away with an idea of their first and second instincts and may find it helpful to adapt exercises into longer scenes for their books.

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1:30 pm - The Tips of the Trade - Author Panel

Presented in the Reading Room

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The Deep Valley Book Festival welcomes back four past keynote authors for a special author panel. Here's your chance to have your literary questions answered by these bestselling Minnesota authors. This discussion will uncover each author's personal route to publication as well as tips of the trades in various areas of literary perspectives ranging from humor and suspense to children's literature. Come curious because questions for the panel participants will also be taken from the audience.

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3 pm - Author tables close

 

3 pm - Apple Recipe Contest Awards and DVBF Drawings in the Reading Room

Take your seats in the Reading Room for Keynote Author Beth Dooley's program.

Note reserved seats are for 2024 Festival Friends. ​

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3:30 pm - A Writer in the Kitchen: The Art and Craft of Cookbooks

Presented by Keynote Author Beth Dooley in the Reading Room

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Join Beth Dooley, James Beard Awarding winning food writer and author/co-author of over a dozen books for a presentation and discussion of food lit. She’ll share stories of covering today’s food scene, working with chefs, researchers, agronomists, ethnobotanists, food justice advocates. We’ll consider the art and craft of creating a  good cookbook and food memoir, one to cook with and to read.

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