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Edgerton Sterling North Book and Film Festival

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Real Patch Adams Featured at Edgerton Book Festival

Gesundheit! doesn’t mean God bless you. The accurate German translation is Good Health!

And actor Robin Williams isn’t doctor/clown/author Patch Adams, even though Robins portrayed Adams in the movie of that name.

The real Adams will be featured along with “the strange and unusual” aficionado Chad Lewis and several other renowned authors at the Edgerton Sterling North Book and Film Festival, Sept. 28, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Edgerton High School, 200 Elm High Drive Edgerton, 53534.

The event, funded by the Wisconsin Humanities Council, will include presentation of the Sterling North Literary Legacy Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature.

Details are at http://www.sterlingnorthbookfestival.com/

More information and news about Wisconsin authors and poets is at www.wiswriters.org.

 

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Up-Coming Writer-Related Events

The following list of events is shamelessly lifted from the most recent issue of the Wisconsin Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators newsletter:

Mark your calendars for these upcoming Wisconsin book festivals:

 September 28-30, 2012: Wisconsin Writers Association fall conference in Wisconsin Rapids. Miranda Paul will give a presentation. See the web site at www.wiwrite.org.

 Saturday, September 29, 2012: 2012 Edgerton Sterling North Book and Film Festival and annual Book Fair, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Edgerton High School. SCBWI-Wisconsin will have a booth where we [Wisconsin SCBWI] can sell members’ books. Volunteer if you can help staff the booth. More information is at edgertonbookfestival.com/Book_Fair.html.

 October 12-14, 2012: Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival. For kids, teens, families, and booklovers of all ages. The theme for this year’s Sheboygan Children’s Book Festival is Family. [Wisconsin SCBWI] Members Lisa Albert, Ilsa Bick, Jacqueline Houtman, and Rebecca Hogue Wojahn are speaking. See the web site at sheboyganchildrensbookfestival.org.

 November 7-11: The Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison will feature a number of Wisconsin SCBWI members, including W.H. Beck, Ilsa J. Bick, Bridget Birdsall,
Kathleen Ernst, Janet Halfmann, E. M. Kokie, Pat Schmatz, and Kashmira Sheth. For more details, see www.wisconsinbookfestival.org.

 February 7-9, 2013: The Wisconsin State Reading Association Annual Convention, Frontier Airline Center, Milwaukee. The theme is “Literacy Lifts Lives –Heart…Mind…Voice.” Exhibit viewing times are Thursday, February 7, from 7:30 to 4:30 and Friday, February 8, from 7:30 to 3:00. SCBWI-Wisconsin will have a booth where we can distribute members’ literature and sell members’ books. Watch for information on sending your literature for distribution; volunteer if you can help staff the booth.