UntitledTown is getting closer! UW-Green Bay has many organizers and partners. Events will take place from Thursday, April 23 to Sunday, April 26, 2020. In order to bring top talent to the community for free, the festival relies on generous donations from the community. A Leap Day fundraiser starts on Saturday, Feb. 29, and the goal is to raise $15,000. Please donate if you can.

The 2020 Festival theme is community, which raises questions of identity, art, citizenship, caretaking and craft-making for readers and writers in Northeastern Wisconsin.Programming will include stories of adoptive families, domestic violence survivors and immigrant experiences.

In anticipation for the full schedule of 100+ readings, workshops, panels and discussion for all ages to be revealed in March, heres a reminder of the headliners that will be at UntitledTown for this years festival:

Top Ten Headliners of 2020For Young Readers

Rosemary Wells: illustrator and writer creator of Max & Ruby series about quarrelsome sibling bunnies published 120 childrens books over 40 years

Jonah Larson: seventh grader from La Crosse, Wisconsin crochet prodigy author of Hello, Crochet Friends!: Making Art, Being Mindful, Giving Back: Do What Makes You Happy appearances on The Today Show, NPR youngest-ever UntitledTown Festival headliner

-Adult NonfictionLulu Miller: science journalist co-founder Invisibilia, an NPR program about unseen forces of human behavior founding producer of Radiolab podcast first book, Why Fish Dont Existabout nature, science, history, and Millers experiences debuts in April 2020

Donna Hylton: author, A Little Piece of Light: A Memoir of Hope, Prison, and a Life Unbound advocate for incarcerated women and girls and the impact of prison on communities featured speaker at 2017 Womens March

Adult FictionTayari Jones: novelist, author of An American Marriage, which was selected for Barack Obamas 2018 year-end reading list and Oprahs Book Club, and won the international 2019 Womens Prize for Fiction

Laila Lalami: novelist, author of The Other Americans, a 2019 finalist for the National Book Award forthcomingnonfiction exploration of immigrant and American identity, Conditional Citizens, debuts in April 2020

Lisa Wingate: author, historical fiction novel about black-market adoption, Before We Were Yours, sold over 2 million copies and spent 54 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list next novel, The Book of Lost Friends, debuts in April 2020

Peter Geye: novelist, author of Minnesota-set family epics novel, Wintering, won the Minnesota Book Award and the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award final book in Lake Superior trilogy, Northernmost, debuts in April 2020

Poetry/Spoken-Word PerformanceDasha Kelly Hamilton: Poet Laureate of Milwaukee Arts Envoy for the US Embassy performed on HBOs Def Poetry Jam commissioned production, Makin Cake, is making a national tour author of four books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry

Jos Olivarez: debut collection, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/ Jean Stein Award, winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize, and selected by the New York Public Library and National Public Radio as a best book of 2018 next book, BreakBeat Poets: Latinext, re-mixes the soundtrack of the Latinx diaspora in poetry, and debuts in April 2020

Read more here:
Come see some great authors at UntitledTown 2020 and donate to help the cause - UWGB