SEPT 26, 2021
OSWEGO LITERARY FESTIVAL
PRODUCED BY THE OSWEGO CULTURAL ARTS COMMISSION
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WHEN /
SEPT 26, 2021
TIME TBD
WHERE /
OSWEGO VILLAGE HALL 100 PARKERS MILL, OSWEGO IL 60543
ABOUT THE EVENT /
NINTH ANNUAL LIT FEST FEATURING MORE THAN 50 ILLINOIS AUTHORS PLUS READINGS, RAFFLES, FOOD, ENTERTAINMENT, CHILDREN'S AUTHORS AND ACTIVITIES, AND MORE.
SCHEDULE /
TIME TBD
MEET AUTHORS, BUY BOOKS, TALK CRAFT, HEAR LIVE MUSIC, EAT FOOD, GET AUTOGRAPHS
TIME TBD
AUTHORS-ONLY SOCIAL HOUR. DRINKS, FOOD, AND NETWORKING WITH OTHER LOCAL AUTHORS. REMEMBER SOCIAL HOURS? IT'S LIKE ZOOM, BUT IN PERSON, WITH PEOPLE YOU LIKE.
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PAST AUTHORS /
NIC JOSEPH
Featured author of suspense thrillers, including The Night in Question: A Novel
ALICE B. McGINTY
Award-winning author of more than 40 children's books, including The Girl Who Named Pluto: The Story of Venetia Burney
JO FREDELL HIGGINS
Local historian and author of several titles chronicling the history of Naperville, Aurora, Geneva and Montgomery
JOAN AUBELE
Author of memoir The Dance: A Story of Love, Faith and Survival, now in its second edition.
YANET PLATT
Author of the YA fantasy trilogy Forbidden Fairytales
JEN CULLERTON JOHNSON
Author of several children's books, including the non-fiction Seeds of Change
JOHN EVERSON
Author of modern occult thriller The Devil's Equinox
SHANNA SIMPSON
Author of children's book Payton is Afraid of Dirt
KAREN SJOBLOM
Author of One: Single Mothering, Full Circle, nominee for the 2018 Christian Literary Award
TOM ROGAL
Author of sci-fi fantasy novel Brinks in Time: The Unification
LAUREN McCOMBE
Author of the poetry collection Monachopsis
GHOST RESEARCH SOCIETY
Get your copy of The Field Guide to Haunted Highways and Bridges, a nationwide collection of haunted stories from all fifty states.
MICHAEL HAUPT
Author of Aviation Chicago Timeline, a history of Chicago's role in the aviation industry
PAULINE GRUBER
Author of YA novel The Girl and the Demon, book three in the Girl and the Raven series, to be released January 2020
NANCY J. CAVANAUGH
Feature author of middle-grade children's fiction including This Journal Belongs to Ratchet, Always, Abigail and Elsie Mae Has Something To Say
BAMBI HARRIS
Sci-Fi and fantasy author of 1930s supernatural mystery thriller The Room
KERRILY SAPET
Author of more than 25 nonfiction books for elementary readers, including the most recent Futuristic Electric Airplanes
KIMBERLY GABRIEL
Author of YA thriller Every Stolen Breath that releases November 2019
ELIZABETH WHEELER
Get your three-minute poem written from your own story, by the author of The Asher Trilogy.
CAROLE MADRZAK
Author of YA novel Ashamed about teen depression and the power of family love
L.A. ROSS
Playwright of the acclaimed Survivors and A Little Bit of Both
SONGJU MA DAEMICKE
Award-winning author of Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant, available in six languages
LAURA YOUNG
Author of dystopian sci-fi novel The Ways
STEVE DECKER
Author of the novel Cambridge Street
MELONIE JOHNSON
Author of the Sometimes in Love contemporary romance series
LAUREN MANSY
Author of the YA fantasy novel The Memory Thief
RANIA ZEITHAR
Author of English-language memoir America Through My Eyes as well as multiple titles in Arabic
MELANIE WEISS
Author of Spoken, a winner of the 2019 Readers' Favorite International Book Award Bronze Medal
AMANDA ADAMS
Author of Don't Hold Your Breath: A Protagonist's Poetic Catharsis
BARBARA KEATON
Author of 14 romance novels, including Thirty Days.
LOLAH LACE
Screenwriter and author of several romance novels, including the recent Badder Boss
LUISA BUEHLER
Author of On My Honor, a Boy Scout adventure novel for middle-grade readers
MARIE SUNSHINE
Author of children's nonfiction book, The Divine Nine
GEORGANN PROCHASKA
Author of Murder Comes to the Grindstone, the fifth in the Snoopypuss series.
MARY HENNEN
Author of The Peregrine Returns, a richly illustrated conservation success story from the University of Chicago Press.
C.L. GIBSON
Author of psychological thriller The Urge, an installment of The Devil's Rules series
MATTHEW THOMAS MEADE
Writer of more than a dozen short stories, including The Bedwetters
JENNIFER GULBRANDSEN
Author of thriller fantasy novel Some Die Just To Live
PAULINE GRUBER
Author of YA fantasy romance novel The Girl and the Raven
KELLY SCIDMORE-SIEVERS
Author of YA sci-fi fantasy novel Purgatory One
TS RHODES
Professional pirate reenactor and author of Pirates of the Golden Age and several other swashbuckling titles
MARILYNN FARMER
Author of Pressed, an off-beat tale about a guy, a girl, a lost ring, a pond full of angry swans and one very long weekend.
AMY LOGAN
Children's author of The Girl with the Cape
DAVID W. BERNER
Author of the memoir The Consequence of Stars
MIKE GROSSO
Author of I Am Drums, an Illinois Reads Award Winner
RAY ZIEMER
Author of coming-of-age ghost story set in the Chicago west suburbs The Ghost of Jamie McVay
ROBYN BACHAR
Author of paranormal romance novel Blood, Book and Candle
ANDREA CLADIS
Author of poetry collection Forgotten Coffee and the forthcoming Fearless Stride.
NORM COWIE
Humorist and author of Helliburton, the third in the Adventures of Guy trilogy
GREG STOLZE
Author of paranormal second-person novel You.
PATRICIA ROCKWELL
Publisher at Cozy Cat Press and author of Firecrackered, part of the Essie Cobb Senior Sleuth mystery series
KATE GINGOLD
Local history author, and author of Book Rookie: Tips for First-Time Authors
HOLLY COOP
Poet and author of A Cup of Inspiration to Go, Please.
LEEANN WERNER
Blogger and author of the novel The Illusion of a Girl, based on a true story
LEO ZARKO
Prolific author of books for children and adults, including the recent Just A Thought, poetry and photos
MOLLIE
BOZARTH
Illustrator of whimsical children's books, including Oak Street Treehouse and curriculum books for Tyndale Press
SPECIAL THANKS TO /
