The Farmington Author & Book Festival (FAB) celebrates the diversity of Michigan’s stories and storytellers and is a collaboration between KickstART Farmington and the Farmington Community Library. FAB Fest takes place on June 1st, 2024, during Art on the Grand in Memorial Park near the Masonic Hall in downtown Farmington. The festival features author readings, book signings, discussions, workshops, and more, along with a book marketplace offering publications by over fifty area authors and publishers.
We are pleased to announce that award-winning poet and National Book Award finalist Carolyn Forché will be the keynote presenter at the 2024 Farmington Author & Book Festival!
2024 FAB Fest Schedule
11:00-11:45 am: Children’s Book Readings with authors Molly David (My Mischievous Wheelchair), Martha Johnston (Iki and his Mighty Friends), Jeffrey Roy Ford (Steadman Squirrel)
1:00-1:45 pm: The MacGuffin 40th Anniversary Reading
2:00-2:45 pm: A Conversation and Reading with Poets Joy Gaines-Friedler and Keith Taylor
3:00-3:45 pm: Romance Writers Roundtable, featuring D.A. Henneman, Isabelle Drake, and Natalie Dunbar, hosted by Rebecca Brown
4:00-4:45 pm: Author Reading with Award-Winning Writers Kathe Koja & Stephen Mack Jones
5:00-6:30 pm: Keynote Presentation/Reading and Conversation with Carolyn Forché
7:00-9:00 pm: Afterparty at KickstART Gallery
Carolyn Forché’s first volume, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. Her most recent collection is In the Lateness of the World. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Random House, 2019), a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others, which was nominated for the 2019 National Book Awards. She has translated Mahmoud Darwish, Claribel Alegria, and Robert Desnos. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice,” and is followed by the 2014 anthology The Poetry of Witness. In 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture.
FAB Fest is generously sponsored by the Farmington Friends of the Library and The MacGuffin, a national literary journal produced at Schoolcraft College.
