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Wisconsin Book Festival is Wisconsin's premier literary event with events year-round and an annual fall celebration. 📚❤️#wibookfest
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October may be over, but we’re still buzzing from all of the joy, conversations, and unforgettable moments from this year’s 25th Annual #WIBookFest Fall Celebration! Over the four-day weekend, we welcomed more than 4,300 attendees to see 80+ featured authors, and we gave away more than 600 books. Come Sunday, our 1,000-piece community puzzle was complete, and seemingly everyone in Madison was rocking a piece or two of limited-edition festival merch.
Swipe through to see all of our record-breaking statistics!
02 Nov 2026
Fight the winter dark with the Wisconsin premiere of the thriller GASLIGHT, presented by Forward Theater Company (@forwardtheater) from October 29 to November 22. GASLIGHT is a new adaptation of the thriller that gave us a word for danger far, far too close to home. Bella Manningham is frightfully happy. Except: she’s been seeing things. Losing things. Forgetting things. Alone in a gloomy house in Gilded Age New York, as the gas lamps dim and flicker around her, Bella begins to wonder whether her hold on reality is slipping, and who among the people around her she can truly trust.
Get your tickets at the link in our bio.
04 Nov 2026
The #WIBookFest made the @publisherswkly 'gram! Last week, our event with Chad Harbach for THE BRIGHTNESS in conversation with Jeff Oloizia (@jeffoloizia) was featured in Publisher Weekly’s newsletter and Picture Of The Day! Over 150 people joined us and received free, pre-signed copies of the book, courtesy of the festival. We’re so thrilled to be able to celebrate this highly anticipated sequel from Harbach. Swipe through to revisit some highlights from the evening!
03 Nov 2026
Here are a few more photos from a wonderful evening celebrating Wisconsin voices!
We loved gathering to hear from the 2026 winners of the Wisconsin People & Ideas Writing Contest. If you couldn't join us, you can watch the full recording of the reading on our website and experience the evening for yourself!
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For our writers out there: the 2027 Writing Contest submission window opens on January 15, 2027. And we have BIG NEWS! There will be a special nonfiction category inviting writers to reflect on Our Waters, offered in partnership with Write On, Door County! Visit our website to learn about the 2027 poetry, fiction, and nonfiction contest guidelines, prizes, and lead judges.
Images taken by @myamicol
#WisconsinAcademy #WisconsinPeopleandIdeas #WisconsinWriters
02 Nov 2026
Surveys, surveys, surveys! If you’ve ever been to a #WIBookFest event, you know that we are dedicated to collecting your feedback and finding ways to make our programming the best it can be. If you attended an event this fall and forgot to fill one out, fear not! Head over to the link in our bio to retroactively share your input by this Sunday, November 1.
30 Oct 2026
Happy publication date to @levitanstu! Volume 2 of MADISON: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, covering the years 1932–1979, is out today.
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Learn more: https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/M/Madison-Volume-2
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Madison, WI: we hope to see you at the @wibookfest launch event TONIGHT, October 27!
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Book sales and signing will start at 5 PM, with an author talk and slideshow from 5:30-6:30, and additional book sales and signing afterwards! Many thanks to @wibookfest and @mysterytomebooks!
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Details: https://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/madison-illustrated-history-1932-1979-vol-2
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#newbook #MadisonWI #MadisonTheIllustratedHistory #civichistory #illustratedhistory #booklaunch
27 Oct 2026
We are thrilled to welcome Chad Harbach to the #WIBookFest stage for THE BRIGHTNESS. In conversation with @writingforward podcast host and Book Fest ambassador Jeff Oloizia, the two will discuss this urgent, deeply felt story of friendship, art, love, and grief, following two young women on the brink of irrevocable change.
Pre-signed copies of THE BRIGHTNESS will be distributed for free to all attendees courtesy of the festival. There will not be a post-event signing line nor personalizations.
See you tomorrow (10/28) at Central Library at 6 p.m.!
27 Oct 2026
Madison, don’t forget to join the #WIBookFest for a walk down memory lane as we host Stu Levitan for his book MADISON: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, 1932-1979. Ahead of the event, read an excerpt from the book that was recently published in @isthmusmadison at the link in our bio.
See you tomorrow (10/27) at Central Library at 5:30 p.m.!
NOTE: This event has an early start time of 5:30 p.m. Book signings will take place at both 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
26 Oct 2026
Our Fall Celebration may have wrapped up, but this party isn’t over yet! We were thrilled to welcome the winners of this year’s Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry & Fiction contest winners! We are so grateful for our partnership with @wisconsin_academy that allows us to uplift Wisconsin voices year after year.
24 Oct 2026
As readers, there are few things more rewarding than finding out one of your favorite books has a sequel. Don’t miss an opportunity to hear from THE ART OF FIELDING writer Chad Harbach about his energetic, funny, and deeply human, and much-anticipated follow-up work, THE BRIGHTNESS.
Parties and weddings, messy hookups and marred friendships, art and love and grief—The Brightness follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way out of sleepy, Midwestern Westish College and into a larger world that will upend their connection and everything they thought they understood about their own place within it.
See you on Wednesday, October 28 at 6 p.m. at @madisonpubliclibrary’s Central Library!
NOTE: This event will start at 6 p.m.. Pre-signed copies of THE BRIGHTNESS will be distributed for free to all attendees courtesy of the #WIBookFest. There will not be a post-event signing line nor personalizations.
Learn more at the link in our bio.
22 Oct 2026
Ever wonder what our town looked like in the 1940s? The 70s? Join the #WIBookFest as we travel back in time with Stu Levitan for MADISON: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY: 1932–1979 (Vol 2) next week.
This second volume in the acclaimed illustrated civic history of Madison, Wisconsin, tells the story of this iconic midwestern city in the middle years of the twentieth century. Like the rest of America in this period, Madison was buffeted by a boom-and-bust economy, hot and cold wars abroad, and social and cultural changes on the homefront. Levitan offers a decade-by-decade visual and narrative account of the city’s transformation—as well as that of its major public university. Featuring hundreds of illustrations, this volume also highlights the local legends and luminaries who shaped the city, from bootleggers to world-famous architects to radicals and revolutionaries.
See you on Tuesday, October 27 at 5:30 p.m. at @madisonpubliclibrary’s Central Library.
NOTE: Books will be for sale and Levitan will be signing books before the event starting at 5 p.m., and again at 6:30 p.m.
Learn more at the link in our bio.
22 Oct 2026
WATCH NOW! 🔥 Hear from poet and professor Erika Meitner (@uwmadisonenglish) as she discusses her new book, Assembled Audience: “What does it mean to gather together?”, and explores how poetry invites us to look a little closer at the world around us!
Erika is the author of seven books of poems—including Holy Moly Carry Me, winner of the 2018 National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Useful Junk; and Assembled Audience, published by Milkweed Editions in the fall of 2026. She is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she also directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Conney Project on Jewish Arts.
Listen to the full podcast: https://youtu.be/tiVS3aHet-g
Learn more about Badger Talks' "Hot Off The Press" series: https://badgertalks.wisc.edu/hot-off-the-press/
In partnership with @wibookfest!
#statewideoutreach #WisconsinIdea #BadgerTalks #UWConnects #HotOffThePress
21 Oct 2026
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