Festival Saturday is the busiest day of the South Dakota Festival of Books, with a large variety of workshops, panels and more all day in downtown Sioux Falls.
A donation to the SDHC gives back to the community and ensures the continuance of this event and funding to bring in authors– plus you could leave with a prize.
I won the interview lottery with mystery/suspense writer Sandra Brannan. She answered my professional (read: stiff) email with a reply bordering on effusive.
For Sneve’s greatest motivation for writing, she tells a story. “I want to make history live and be interesting. …to tell that Indians are still here…”
They all live in Sioux Falls, they all are authors — but that is where the similitude ends. These authors, like the city, offer a little bit of everything.
This year’s Festival focuses on the theme of literature for children and young adults with the inaugural South Dakota Festival of Books for Young Readers.