For the past three years, the Ames Writers Collective has featured Iowa authors at the Swift Literary Festival held annually during the Octagon Art Festival. As part of our FREE outreach programing, authors are invited to join us to mingle with festival attendees and to sell their books. We are grateful to the Octagon Center for the Arts for providing us with space to host authors, and to the City of Ames Capital Grant that provided us with funds to purchase our fabulous tent.
If you are an author who has stumbled upon our website and would like to be a featured on our Author Spotlight page or you’d like to join us for the 4th Annual Swift Literary Festival in 2025, please click here to send us an email. It is our goal to help authors promote themselves and their books, and to establish Ames and Central Iowa as a literary destination.
2024 Swift Literary Festival
Featured Authors
Marilyn J Baszczynski – Poetry
Paul Brooke – Poetry
Stephen L. Brayton – Mystery and horror
William Bortz – Poetry
Shannon K. Evans – Spiritual nonfiction – Memoir
Deb Kline – Memoir
Charles R. Kniker – Nonfiction
Jennifer L. Knox – Poetry
Kim Mosiman – Christian nonfiction
Eva Newcastle – Magical realism
Charlie R. North – Poetry
Steve Semken – Ice Cube Press
Dawn Terpstra – Poetry
Pat Underwood – Poetry
