10th Annual Inklings Festival

Celebrating literature, local culture & over three decades of Eighth Day Books.
The Inklings Festival is a three-day, family-friendly celebration of a group of writers who have shaped the faith and imagination of countless people through The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings, and many other life-changing books. Join us as we feast and learn from our favorite authors.

This year the annual Inklings Lecture will include three lectures.

Schedule of Events

Inklings Oktoberfest

12:30-6 p.m. - Inklings Festival behind Eighth Day Books

Children's Activities

12:30-5 p.m. - Archery, Bounce Castle and Inflatable Joust at Eighth Day Books back parking lot
1:30 p.m. - Inklings Reading in The Ladder
2:30 p.m. - Drawing Contest (theme TBA soon). Winner Announced at 5:30

Live Local Music

1-2 p.m. - Matthew Ebberwein
2:30-3:30 p.m. - Christena Graves
4-5:30 p.m. - The Jack Korbel Confluence

Seminars

1-1:30 p.m. - When I Forget the Words: Poetry Reading by Linda Lobmeyer at Eighth Day Books
2-2:30 p.m. - Dante's Quest for a Beauty that Could Save the World by Jason Baxter at Eighth Day Books
3-3:30 p.m. - The Art of Imitating Heaven: A Cosmology of Lewis & Tolkien by Joshua Sturgill at Eighth Day Books
4-4:30 p.m. - The Violent & the Numinous: Arthur Machen as Myth-maker by Christopher Tompkins at Eighth Day Books

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