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Swift Literary Festival 2023

On Sunday, September 24th, the Ames Writers Collective hosted the 2nd Annual Swift Literary Festival—a pop-up event held annually at the Octagon Art Festival.

At the event, festival-goers visited with and purchased books from local Iowa authors.

2023 Swift Literary Festival Authors

Bi Ayers | Hallie Baur | Paul Brooke | Joe Geha | Tom Geraty | Jackie Haley | Stephanie Hansen | Pattie and Kevin Kimle | Deb Kline | Dennis Maulsby | Clara McKenna | Pamela Riney-Kehrberg | Moriah Rose.

Information about all these authors can be found here.

Additionally, we hosted two Community Stories where passerby’s contributed a story-thread to both of our stories. Below is an example of one:

Thank you to our authors who participated, the Ames Community and visitors to Ames, and the Octagon Art Festival for hosting us at their annual event.