2025 Washington Island Literary Festival: Holding Time(Copied)

Sep 20, 2025

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Sep 18, 2025

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Trueblood Performing Arts Center

Free

Adult Classes & Workshops

All-Genre Writing

Join us for our annual celebration of writers and readers on beautiful Washington Island. This year’s theme is  Holding Time. Presenters include fiction writers Nickolas Butler, Dionne Irving, and William Kent Krueger, nonfiction writer Marcia Bjornerud, and poet Heather Swan. Additional faculty include Albert DeGenova, Marianne Fons and Alessandra Simmons Rolffs, and Ann Heyse.

FULL FESTIVAL REGISTRATION - $280 

  • Thursday 9/18 - Creative Lab Noon - 3 pm
  • Friday 9/19 - Choice of one morning workshop 
  • Friday 9/19 - Choice of one afternoon workshop
  • Friday 9/19 - Evening Welcome Reception and Open Mic
  • Saturday 9/20 - Panel Discussion and Author Presentations

SATURDAY ONLY REGISTRATION - $125 

  • Saturday 9/20 - Panel Discussion and Author Presentations  Does not include workshops

YEAR-ROUND ISLAND RESIDENTS REGISTRATION - $80 

  • Saturday 9/210 - Panel Discussion and Author Presentations

WORKSHOP  REGISTRATION - $80 

  • Individual Friday workshops will be open for registration based on space availability.

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