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May 17, 2025
| Start | End | Program | Genre | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | Workshop: Unlocking a Lifelong Love of Reading: A Workshop for Families | Children's Workshops | Children's Village - Workshops Tent | Join Elizabeth Gray Boachie-Ansah, for an interactive and inspiring workshop that will showcase a framework for cultivating literacy. |
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | Workshop: Finding Healing Through Writing | Adult/Teen Workshops | Adult/Teen Workshop Pavilion | In this workshop, Diane C Pomerantz, Ph.D. will explore how sharing our stories gives sense and meaning to our lives. |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Aggie Blum Thompson, Christine Gunderson | Fiction | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Thompson will present "You Deserve to Know." Gunderson will present "Friends with Secrets." Moderated by Liza Achilles |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Essie Chambers, Tara Karr Roberts | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Chambers will present "Swift River." Roberts will present "Wild and Distant Seas." Moderated by Tayla Burney |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Evan Friss | Non-fic | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Evan Friss will present, "The Bookshop." He will be in conversation with Hannah Oliver Depp. |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Barbara Bradley Hagerty | Non-fic | James Michener Pavilion | Hagerty will present "Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice." She will be in conversation with Allison Leotta. |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Paul M. Sparrow | Non-fic | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Sparrow will present "Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh—and the Battle to Save Democracy." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Agustín Fuentes | Non-fic | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Fuentes will present "Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary." He'll be in conversation with Rick W. A. Smith. |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | High School Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony and Reading | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | High School Poetry Contest Awards Ceremony and Reading |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Debra Kempf Shumaker, Susan Stockdale, Gaia Cornwall | Children's | Jim Henson Pavilion | Shumaker will present "Wind Is a Dance." Stockdale will present "Don't Eat the Cleaners!: Tiny Fish with a Big Job." Cornwall will present "Fairy Walk." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Vera Brosgol, Dianne K Salerni, Angela Dominguez | Children's | Willa Cather Pavilion | Brosgol will present "Return to Sender." Salerni will present "The Tontine Caper." Dominguez will present "Gabby Torres Gets a Billion Followers." |
| 10:15 AM | 11:05 AM | Katherine Marsh, Meera Trehan | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Marsh will present "The Gods' Revenge." Trehan will present "Snow." |
| 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Workshop: POEMS IN A SNAP: Writing Ekphrastic Poetry from Photos | Children's Workshops | Children's Village - Workshops Tent | Read and write short poems written from photographs. |
| 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Workshop: The Polished Proposal: Crafting a Nonfiction Book Proposal That Gets Attention | Adult/Teen Workshops | Adult/Teen Workshop Pavilion | Nonfiction authors seeking to get a book contract need to distinguish themselves from among a crowd of writers. Dr. Sherri M. Williams will help you focus your pitch on what makes your book distinct. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Sarah Pekkanen, Alex Finlay | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Pekkanen will present "House of Glass." Finlay will present "Parents Weekend." Moderated by Colleen Shogan. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | John Scalzi | Sci-Fi | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Scalzi will present "When the Moon Hits Your Eye." He'll be in conversation with Andrea M. Pawley. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Judith Viorst | Non-fic | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Viorst will present "Making the Best of What's Left: When You're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered." She'll be in conversation with Nora B Krug. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Casey Burgat | Non-fic | James Michener Pavilion | Burgat will present "We Hold These Truths: How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back." He'll be in conversation with MD State Delegate Marc Korman. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Jinwoo Chong | Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Chong will present "I Leave It Up to You." He'll be in conversation with Susan Coll. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Gregg Jones | Non-fic | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Jones will present "Most Honorable Son." He'll be in conversation with Sally Mott Freeman. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Amuchechukwu Nwafor, M. Nzadi Keita, Steven Leyva | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | Embracing Black History and Identity poetry panel. Moderated by Jessica G Simon. |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Alan Katz, David LaRochelle | Children's | Jim Henson Pavilion | Katz will present "Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs." LaRochelle will present "Mr. Fox's Game of "No!" |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Cheryl Willis Hudson, Wade Hudson | Children's | Willa Cather Pavilion | Cheryl Hudson will present "When I Hear Spirituals." Wade Hudson will present "The Day Madear Voted." |
| 11:15 AM | 12:05 PM | Jonathan Auxier, Cinda Williams Chima | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Auxier will present "The Vanished Kingdom: The War of the Maps." Chima will present "The Runestone Saga: Bane of Asgard." |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Workshop: History, Her Story, YOUR Story! | Children's Workshops | Children's Village - Workshops Tent | This interactive workshop will explore how to craft a story that is uniquely YOU: one that no one else can write. |
| 12:00 PM | 1:00 PM | Workshop: Mapping Stories for Structure and Revision | Adult/Teen Workshops | Adult/Teen Workshop Pavilion | In this workshop, author Melissa Scholes Young will show you how to consider craft approaches to structure in stories and the role of revision. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | David Ellis, Chris Pavone | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Ellis will present "The Best Lies." Pavone will present "The Doorman." Moderated by K.T. Nguyen. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Louis P Bayard | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Bayard will present "The Wildes." He'll be in conversation with John Williams. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Joe Posnanski | Sports | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Posnanski will present "Why We Love Football: A History in 100 Moments." |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Alan Weisman, Malcolm Harris | Non-fic | James Michener Pavilion | Weisman will present "Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future." Harris will present "What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis." Moderated by Elizabeth H. McGowan. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Andie Burke, Lindsay Hameroff | Romance | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Burke will present "Fall for Him." Hameroff will present "Never Planned on You." Moderated by Jeffrey Dale Lofton. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Keith Donohue, Anna Rasche | Fantasy | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Donohue will present "The Girl in the Bog." Rasche will present "The Stone Witch of Florence." Moderated by Laura Scalzo. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | John Amen, Courtney LeBlanc | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | Mental Health and Grief panel, moderated by Gregory Luce. |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Brian Lies, Steve Light | Children's | Jim Henson Pavilion | Lies will present "Meet the Mini-Mammals: A Night at the Natural History Museum." Light will present "A Spider Named Itsy." |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Fred Bowen, Hena Khan | Children's | Willa Cather Pavilion | Bowen will present "Extra Innings." Khan will present "We are Big Time." |
| 12:15 PM | 1:05 PM | Tracey Baptiste, Craig Kofi Farmer, Sayantani DasGupta | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Baptiste will present "Moko Magic: Carnival Chaos." Farmer will present "Kwame Crashes the Underworld." DasGupta will present "The Ghost Forest (Secrets of the Sky, Book Three)." |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Workshop: Animal Haiku: Poems on Favorite Creatures | Children's Workshops | Children's Village - Workshops Tent | This workshop will review haiku techniques to create animal cards with a haiku about a favorite pet, wild animal or animal sculpture. |
| 1:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Workshop: Find the Right Editor for You | Adult/Teen Workshops | Adult/Teen Workshop Pavilion | Editor and author Katherine Pickett walks you through the 5 steps you need to take to make sure you are working with the right editor. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Mary Robinette Kowal | Sci-Fi | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Kowal will present "The Martian Contingency." She'll be in conversation with Mariko Hewer. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Sara Goodman Confino, Linda Holmes | Romance | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Confino will present "Behind Every Good Man." Holmes will present "Back After This." Moderated by Sarah Adler. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Dave Barry | Humor | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Barry will present "Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up." He'll be in conversation with John Williams. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | David Hajdu | Non-fic | James Michener Pavilion | Hajdu will present "The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI." |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Madeline Martin, Laura Morelli | Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Martin will present "The Booklover's Library." Morelli will present "The Keeper of Lost Art." Moderated by Carrie Callaghan. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | John Kenney | Fiction | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Kenney will present "I See You've Called in Dead." He'll be in conversation with Nicole Hertvik |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Jubi Arriola Headley, Tanya Olson, Chanlee Luu | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | Building Space for the True Self panel. Moderated by Joseph Ross. |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Michael Sampson, Laura Numeroff, Amy Timberlake | Children's | Jim Henson Pavilion | Sampson will present "Rainbow Bear." Numeroff will present "Max and Mama." Timberlake will present "Skunk and Badger." |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Erin Entrada Kelly, Grace Lin | Children's | Willa Cather Pavilion | Kelly will present "The First State of Being." Lin will present "The Gate, the Girl, and the Dragon." |
| 1:15 PM | 2:05 PM | Laura Malone Elliott, Amanda McCrina, Kim Johnson, Yohuru Williams | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Elliott will present "Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between." McCrina will present "I'll Tell You No Lies." Johnson will present "The Color of a Lie." Williams will present "King: A Life (Young Adult Edition)." |
| 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Workshop: Comic Character Creation | Children's Workshops | Children's Village - Workshops Tent | Join cartoonists Dave Roman (“Unicorn Boy”) and John Gallagher (“Max Meow”) for a fun-filled workshop about developing unique characters. |
| 2:00 PM | 3:00 PM | Workshop: Playwriting By Any Means Necessary | Adult/Teen Workshops | Adult/Teen Workshop Pavilion | Learn seven proven approaches for writing a dynamic play script. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Jeffery Deaver | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Deaver will present "South of Nowhere." He'll be in conversation with Jennifer Bort Yacovissi. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Jeanine Cummins | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Cummins will present "Speak to Me of Home." She'll be in conversation with Donna Hemans. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Glory Edim, Erika J. Simpson | Non-fic | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Edim will present "Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of Books that Saved Me." Simpson will present "This is Your Mother." Moderated by Jordan Hernandez. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Russell Shorto | Non-fic | James Michener Pavilion | Shorto will present "Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America." He'll be in conversation with Paula Tarnapol Whitacre. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | David Gessner, Jessica Roux | Non-fic | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Gessner will present "The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird." Roux will present "Ornithography: An Illustrated Guide to Bird Lore & Symbolism." Moderated by Lacey N. Dunham. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | P. Djèlí Clark, Asha Greyling | Fantasy | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Clark will present "The Dead Cat Tail Assassins." Greyling will present "The Vampire of Kings Street." Moderated by Mariko Hewer. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Nancy Naomi Carlson, Katherine E. Young | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | Art of Translation panel. Moderated by Majda Gama. |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Carole Lindstrom | Children's | Jim Henson Pavilion | Lindstrom will present "The Gift of the Great Buffalo." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Jonathan Roth, Leland Melvin, Charles F. Bolden, Jr. | Children's | Willa Cather Pavilion | Roth will present "Rover and Speck: It's a Gas!" Leland Melvin will present "Space Chasers." Charles F. Bolden, Jr. will present "Star Sailor: My Life as a NASA Astronaut." |
| 2:15 PM | 3:05 PM | Sharon G. Flake, Tracey Baptiste, Tony Keith Jr., Gia Gordon | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Flake will present "The Family I'm In." Baptiste will present "Boy 2.0." Keith will present "Knucklehead: Poems." Gordon will present "My So-Called Family." |
| 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Workshop: Art Journaling: Stories Through Words and Pictures | Children's Workshops | Children's Village - Workshops Tent | This workshop, led by poet and storyteller Jennifer-NeToi Claiborne, combines poetry, song lyrics, quotes and visual storytelling to help you create meaningful journal pages. |
| 3:00 PM | 4:00 PM | Workshop: Start in the Middle: Writing Memoir Now | Adult/Teen Workshops | Adult/Teen Workshop Pavilion | Author Seema Reza will guide you through several writing prompts that help mine your current experiences to discover connections to past stories you’re trying to tell. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Lauren Francis-Sharma | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Francis-Sharma will present "Casualties of Truth." She'll be in conversation with Holly Smith. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Eric Puchner | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Puchner will present "Dream State." He'll be in conversation with Melissa Scholes Young. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | David Aldridge | Sports | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | Aldridge will present "The Basketball 100." He'll be in conversation with Joe Yasharoff. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Colleen Long, Amanda Becker | Non-fic | James Michener Pavilion | Long will present "I'm Sorry for My Loss." Becker will present "You Must Stand Up." Moderated by Sofia Resnick. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Zeeva Bukai, Elaine Neil Orr | Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Bukai will present "The Anatomy of Exile." Orr will present "Dancing Woman." Moderated by Melanie S Hatter. |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Alison Palmer, Indran Amirthanayagam, Esther Lin | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | What Is Love panel. Moderated by Courtney LeBlanc |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Michael Hall, Bob Shea, Phuc Tran | Children's | Jim Henson Pavilion | Hall will present "Punch!: A Story About Kindness." Shea will present "Bearsuit Turtle Makes a Friend." Tran will present "Cranky Makes a Friend." |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Jacqueline Davies, JoHo, Kami Garcia | Children's | Willa Cather Pavilion | Davies will present "The Lemonade War Graphic Novel" JoHo will present "Saphie the One-Eyed Cat." Garcia will present "Mixed-Up." |
| 3:15 PM | 4:05 PM | Rachel Renée Russell, Nikki Russell | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | The Dork Diaries team will present "Dork Diaries 16: Tales from a Not-So-Bratty Little Sister." |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Workshop: Tell Amazing Stories in Impossible Worlds | Children's Workshops | Children's Village - Workshops Tent | Author and educator Hildie Block will lead you through the process of using wacky prompts to tell truly far out stories with fantastic characters. |
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Workshop: The Write Path: Understanding Your Publishing Options | Adult/Teen Workshops | Adult/Teen Workshop Pavilion | Explore different publishing paths available today: traditional, hybrid and self-publishing. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Carter Wilson, Matt Goldman | Mystery/Thriller | Dashiell Hammett Pavilion | Wilson will present "Tell Me What You Did." Goldman will present "The Murder Show." Moderated by E.A. Aymar. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Erin Crosby Eckstine | Fiction | F. Scott Fitzgerald Pavilion | Eckstine will present "Junie." She'll be in conversation with Shannon Sanders. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Matthew and Mark Jacob | Sports | Frederick Douglass Pavilion | The Jacob brothers will present "Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports." They'll be in conversation with Joe Yasharoff. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Rick Atkinson | Non-fic | James Michener Pavilion | Atkinson will present "The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780." He'll be in conversation with James A. Percoco. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Rosa Kwon Easton, Frances Park | Fiction | Gertrude Stein Pavilion | Easton will present "White Mulberry." Park will present "Blue Rice." Moderated by Megan Wessell. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Megan Doney | Non-fic | Rachel Carson Pavilion | Doney will present "Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir." She'll be in conversation with Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | W. Luther Jett, Lynne Schmidt, Holly Karapetkova | Poetry | Edgar Allan Poe Pavilion | Awakening to Reality & Hope panel. Moderated by Melanie Figg. |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Sarah Albee, Kerry Aradhya | Children's | Jim Henson Pavilion | Albee will present "The Painter and the President: Gilbert Stuart's Brush with George Washington." Aradhya will present "Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube." |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | John Patrick Green, Dave Roman, Alexis Frederick-Frost | Children's | Willa Cather Pavilion | Green will present "Agents of S.U.I.T.: Wild Ghost Chase." Roman will present "Unicorn Boy." Alexis Frederick-Frost will present "Team Unihorn and Woolly #2: Revenge of the Unicorn." |
| 4:15 PM | 5:05 PM | Zakiya N. Jamal | Teen/YA | Ogden Nash Pavilion | Jamal will present "If We Were a Movie." |