Steamboat Springs Arts Council, Steamboat Springs Writers’ Group, Off the Beaten Path Bookstore and Bud Werner Memorial Library present a Festival of Local Authors to coincide with the All Arts Festival.

Written Art: Festival of Local Authors will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18 in Library Hall and will include book signings and sales, as well as engaging panels of author interviews and discussions.

Join the authors for one of the 20-minute interactive talks moderated by Off The Beaten Path bookstore owner Ron Krall. Authors will talk about craft, where they get their ideas, getting published and more.

10:30 a.m.      Recording History: Research, Writing, Photography
                         Sylvia Duncan, Harriet Freiberger, Ken Proper,
                         Sureva Towler, Daniel Tyler
11:30 a.m.      Novel Ideas: A chat with five fiction writers
                         Veronica Blake, John Grassby,
                         Kathleen Cunningham Guler,
                         J.L Hardesty, Cesare Rosati
12:30 p.m.      Nonfiction: Writing Life's Adventure from the Land and the Sea   
                          Mary Kurtz, Bonnie McGee, Dagny McKinley
1:30 p.m.        Poetic License
                         A conversation and reading with Ann A. Stranahan

Written Art's Participating Local Authors
Veronica Blake
Ali Boehm
Eugene Buchanan
Mary Calhoun
Patrick Curran
Tom Dawson
Sylvia Duncan
Harriet Freiberger
John Grassby
Kathleen Cunningham Guler
Barbara Gueldner
J.L. Hardesty
Mary Kurtz
Bonnie McGee
Dagny McKinley
Dawn Obrecht, M.D.
Joyce Phillips
Ken Proper
Ambrose Richardson
Steven Richheimer
Cesare Rosati
John Sant'Ambrogio
Mark Scott-Nash
Mayling Simpson
Ann A. Stranahan
Sureva Towler
Daniel Tyler
Christy Elise Woodland
John Wilkinson
Chris Zuschlag

All of the authors will have their books for sale on site during the festival. The Written Art bookstore is courtesy of Off The Beaten Path!