Presenters
Authors, Poets Featured at Annual Event
Each year, the South Dakota Festival of Books features more than 50 presenters who speak about their work during solo presentations and panels. The lineup includes writers from various genres, including fiction, non-fiction, history/tribal, poetry, children’s/YA, and writers’ support.
Festival presenters are selected via a competitive process for a limited number of slots, with decisions made between January and May. If you are an author who is interested in being considered to present at the 2021 festival, look for the application on this page next January.
The Virtual 2020 South Dakota Festival of Books has ended. Presentations will be available for viewing at sdbookfestival.com/virtual. For the latest Festival news, subscribe to our e-newsletter.
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Young ReadersSamuel Morse, That’s Who! -
Non-FictionThe World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books -
Young ReadersBink & Gollie: Three for One -
Non-Fiction, Poetry, TribalBury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s -
Non-FictionNew Prairie Kitchen: Stories and Seasonal Recipes from Chefs, Farmers and Artisans of the Great Plains -
Film, TribalReturn to Rainy Mountain -
History, Illustrators, South Dakota Authors, Tribal, Young ReadersTatanka & Other Legends of the Lakota People -
Fiction, South Dakota Authors, Writers SupportBehold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders -
Non-Fiction, South Dakota AuthorsDear County Agent Guy: Calf Pulling, Husband Training, and Other Curious Dispatches from a Midwestern Dairy Farmer -
History, Illustrators, Tribal, Young ReadersRed Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender -
Non-FictionNeither Wolf nor Dog -
FictionThe Things They Carried -
South Dakota Authors, Young ReadersLong-armed Ludy and the First Women's Olympics -
Non-FictionInforming the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism -
HistoryThe Frontier Army: Episodes from Dakota and the West -
Non-Fiction, South Dakota AuthorsUnfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church -
FictionFirst Star I See Tonight -
History, Poetry, South Dakota Authors, TribalTribal Justice: 25 Years as a Tribal Appellate Justice -
Film, Non-FictionGood Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft of Screenwriting through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in History -
Illustrators, South Dakota Authors, Young ReadersBut Nana, Who Was Wild Bill? -
History, Non-Fiction, South Dakota AuthorsImperfect Union: A Father’s Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg -
Non-Fiction, Poetry, South Dakota AuthorsBone Chalk -
Poetry, South Dakota AuthorsThe Book of Crooked Prayer -
South Dakota Authors, Tribal, Young ReadersPet’a Shows Misun the Light -
Crime/Mystery, Fiction, Tribal, Young ReadersGirl Gone Missing -
Poetry, South Dakota Authorstsunami vs. the fukushima 50 -
Poetry, South Dakota AuthorsCowman -
Fiction, South Dakota AuthorsCobblered to Death -
History, South Dakota AuthorsEquality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains -
History, South Dakota AuthorsDeadwood’s Mount Moriah Cemetery -
Crime/Mystery, Fiction, Writers SupportThe Murder List -
History, South Dakota AuthorsAbraham Lincoln’s Statesmanship and the Limits of Liberal Democracy -
Fiction, Non-FictionThe Lovely Bones -
Non-Fiction, South Dakota Authors, TribalThe Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen -
Young ReadersBilge Rat, Pirate Adventurer: Demon Pirate -
Tribal, Young ReadersAt the Mountain’s Base -
Poetry, South Dakota AuthorsBluewords Greening -
Fiction, Writers SupportLaurentian Divide -
FictionThe Lager Queen of Minnesota -
Fiction, Writers SupportHeart Land -
FictionRuby & Roland -
HistoryRustler on the Rosebud: The Legend of Jack Sully -
Non-Fiction, South Dakota AuthorsSouth Dakota Wine: A Fruitful History -
Illustrators, South Dakota Authors, Young ReadersPorter the Hoarder and the Ransacked Room -
History, South Dakota AuthorsOn This Day in South Dakota History -
Poetry, South Dakota AuthorsKintsukuroi -
Non-Fiction, South Dakota AuthorsFifteen Minutes Ago: A Vietnam War Memoir -
History, South Dakota AuthorsCalvin Coolidge in the Black Hills -
Non-Fiction, Poetry, Writers SupportMy Life as a Foreign Country -
Illustrators, Young ReadersAdventures on Deckawoo Drive, Volumes 1-3 -
Non-FictionZoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream -
Non-Fiction, South Dakota AuthorsThe Women’s Suffrage Movement -
Fiction, Writers SupportThe Promise -
Crime/Mystery, Fiction, Writers SupportHunting the Five Point Killer -
Poetry, TribalNew Poets of Native Nations -
Crime/Mystery, Fiction, Non-Fiction, South Dakota Authors, Writers SupportVacant Eyes -
Poetry, South Dakota Authors, TribalSurvival Songs -
Fiction, South Dakota AuthorsEden to Orizaba -
Poetry, South Dakota AuthorsContinuity -
Poetry, South Dakota AuthorsPoetry of Presence -
Fiction, South Dakota Authors, Writers SupportOf Fathers and Fire -
Illustrators, Young ReadersSecret Coders: Secrets & Sequences -
FictionDog Watches: Stories from the Sea -
Fiction, South Dakota Authors, Writers SupportThe Lassoed by Marriage Romance Collection -
Non-Fiction, South Dakota Authors“The Question is ‘Why?’” Stanford M. Adelstein: A Jewish Life in South Dakota
