Six Bridges Book Festival

Join us for Six Bridges Book Festival 2024!

Schedule of Events:

Anne Byrn
10:00am - 11:00am
Williams Library
Age group:   Teens ages 12-19  Adults
event type:  Literature & Language, Food & Drink
Anne Byrn is a New York Times bestselling food writer and cookbook author. She writes the weekly newsletter Between the Layers, one of the top 20 food and drink newsletters worldwide on Substack.

Gwenna Laithland  and Jess H.Gutierrez
10:00am - 11:00am
UA Little Rock Downtown
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language
Parenting tips, and/or fails, from Gwenna Laithland (Momma Cusses) & Jess H. Gutierrez (A Product of Genetics (and Day Drinking)).

Garrard Conley
10:00am - 11:00am
Rock It! Lab
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language
Garrard Conley is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Boy Erased, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast UnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America.

Alice Driver and Boyce Upholt
10:00am - 11:00am
Ron Robinson Theater
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Science & Nature, Literature & Language, History & Genealogy
Discussion with Alice Driver (Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America's Largest Meatpacking Company) & Boyce Upholt (The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi).

Crystal Wilkinson
11:30am - 12:30pm
 Williams Library
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language, Food & Drink
Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky's Poet Laureate from 2021 to 2023, is the award-winning author of Perfect Black, The Birds of Opulence, Water Street, and Blackberries, Blackberries.

Myrah Ariel and Susie Dumond
11:30am - 12:30pm
 UA Little Rock Downtown
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language
Add a little romance to your like with this joint session of Myah Ariel (When I Think of You) & Susie Dumond (Looking for a Sign).

Debbie Urbanski and Jedediah Berry
11:30am - 12:30pm
 Rock It! Lab
Age group:   Teens ages 12-19  Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language
Join us for a session with Debbie Urbanski (After World) & Jedediah Berry (The Naming Song).

Samuel G.Freedman and Randall Woods
11:30am - 12:30pm
 Ron Robinson Theater
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language, History & Genealogy
Presidential history in this dual session with Samuel G. Freedman (Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights) & Randall Woods (John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People).

Lana Williams(Gardening Workshop)
1:00pm - 2:00pm
 UA Little Rock Downtown
Age group:   Teens ages 12-19  Adults
event type:  Science & Nature, Literature & Language, Fun & Play
Lana Williams is the owner of the Tender Gardener, a plant shop and design company that opened in 2020 in Oakland, California.

Phyllis R. Dixon, Jen Fawkes, & Margot Livesey
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Rock It! Lab
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language, History & Genealogy
A can't miss session with Phyllis R. Dixon (A Taste for More), Jen Fawkes (Daughters of Chaos), & Margot Livesey (The Road from Belhaven).

Bettina L. Love
1:00pm - 2:00pm
 Ron Robinson Theater
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language, History & Genealogy
In the New York Times bestseller Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it.

Elliott West
2:30pm - 3:30pm
 UA Little Rock Downtown
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language, History & Genealogy
Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, is a specialist in the social and environmental history of the American West and of western Native peoples.

John Vercher & Phillip B. Williams
2:30pm - 3:30pm
 Rock It! Lab
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language, History & Genealogy
Discussion with authors John Vercher (Devil Is Fine) & Phillip B. Williams (Ours).

Eli Cranor & Gabino Iglesias
2:30pm - 3:30pm
 Ron Robinson Theater
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language
Thrills and chills with Eli Cranor (Broiler) & Gabino Iglesias (In House of Bone and Rain).

Kamilah Cole
4:00pm - 5:00pm
 UA Little Rock Downtown
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Literature & Language
A graduate of New York University, Kamilah Cole worked as a writer and entertainment editor at Bustle for four years, and her nonfiction work has appeared in Marie Claire and Seventeen.

Marcela Fuentes & Santiago Jose Sanchez
4:00pm - 5:00pm
 Rock It! Lab
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language, History & Genealogy
Hear emerging voices with Marcela Fuentes (Malas) & Santiago Jose Sanchez (Hombrecito)

Brian Fairbanks & Stephen Koch
4:00pm - 5:00pm
 Ron Robinson Theater
Age group:   Teens ages 12-19  Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Music, Literature & Language, Art
Let the music speak with Brian Fairbanks (Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever) & Stephen Koch (Almeda to Zilphia: Arkansas Women Who Transformed American Popular Song).

Ilyon Woo
5:30pm - 6:30pm
 Ron Robinson Theater
Age group:   Adults
event type:  Society & Culture, Literature & Language
Ilyon Woo is a Pulitzer Prize winning, New York Times bestselling author whose writing has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and the New York Times.

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