Join us to celebrate this year’s finalists and hear who the winners are!
All events are FREE and open to the public.
Books will be available for sale at all events, and authors will be happy to sign/inscribe them. Book sales are provided by This House of Books.
Author Panels – Billings Public Library Community Room
11am-12pm – Fiction: Better for the Brain? (Jeanette Lynes, Brady Harrison, Leslie Greentree, Julie Sellers)
12pm-1pm – Literature & the Land (Elise Atchison, Bob Budd, David Carpenter, Taylor Brorby)
1pm-2pm – Writing as Social Commentary (Dorothy Bradley, Mandy Smoker, Natalie Peeterse, Zarqa Nawaz, Erika T. Wurth)
2pm-3pm – Poetry Reading & Discussion (Tom Vandel, Ruth Maus, Katherine Lawrence, Charles Finn)
3pm-4pm – Words & Pictures: Putting Them Together (Penelope Kaye, Lynne Harley, Shann Ray, Craig Hergert, Barbara Michelman, Charles Finn)
4pm-5pm – Recording Forgotten History (Thomas Minckler, Michele Corriel, Juliana Hoolihan Clayton, Nate Schweber)
Read Reviews of the 2023 Finalists
The Billings Public Library is located at 510 N Broadway in downtown Billings. The Community Room is on the left just after entering the doors from the parking lot, before going through to the main part of the library.
Awards Ceremony Announcing Winners
8pm in the Glacier Room at MSUB
The Glacier Room is across the ground-floor atrium from Petro Theater in building #12 on the map below. Parking is available in lots off of Rimrock Road and near McMullen Hall off of Poly Drive.
