The 2015 South Dakota Festival of Books has come to a close and has set its sights on Brookings for the fall 2016 Festival.

View our up-to-the-minute schedule updates in the 2015 Festival of Books Survivor’s Guide.

The Festival features a long list of more than 70 local, regional and national authors across nine genres of writing.

Award-winning mystery author William Kent Krueger is finishing the final leg of his One Book SD author tour, culminating in a keynote appearance in Deadwood.

Thousands of writers and readers converge in the Black Hills to share their stories at the 13th annual South Dakota Festival of Books, Sept. 23-27.