Grant Faulkner

Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month; Co-Founder of 100 Word Story; Co-Host of Podcast "Write-minded"

Nothing Short Of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story

Nnedi Okorafor

International Award-Winning Fantasy & Science Fiction Author

Writing for a Broken World: A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor

Dolores Barclay

Author, Professor at Columbia School of Journalism & Former National Writer and Arts Editor of The Associated Press

Beth Clark

Founder of Thinkspot Communications

Thomas King

Award-Winning First Nations Writer

Manuel Muñoz

Latino-American Author

Jenny Blake

Career & Business Strategist; Author of "Pivot: The Only Move That Matters is Your Next One"

Tim Federle

Award-Winning Writer, Former Broadway Dancer

Stuart Dybek

Poet, Fiction Writer & Professor at Western Michigan University

William Kuhn

Historian & Author of Reading Jackie

Greg Garrett

Author & Professor of Creative Writing, Film, Literature, & Theology at Baylor University

Laura Munson

New York Times Best-Selling Author

B. Gentry Lee

Chief Engineer for Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Bruce Sterling

Futurist; Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Author; Journalist; Editor; Critic

Donald McCaig

Essayist / Poet / Author

John Mailer

Writer & Playwright

James Patterson

NY Times Best-Selling Author & Reading Champion

Robert Kingett

Writer; LGBTQ and Disabled Activist; Motivational Speaker

Steven Levy

Technology Journalist & Author

Kinky Friedman

Political Satirist & Musician

Alice Walker

Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award-Winning Author; Best Known for "The Color Purple"

Judith Viorst

Poet, Writer & Children's Author

Michael Rogers

MSNBC's 'The Practical Futurist' & Technology Expert

Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky revolutionized the mystery world when she introduced her private detective, V.I. Warshawski, in her 1982 novel, "Indemnity Only."

John Nance

New York Times Best-Selling Author

James McBride

New York Times Best-Selling Author & Musician

Linda Fairstein

Criminal Lawyer & Best-Selling Crime Novelist

James Carroll

Boston Globe Columnist & Author

Robert Olen Butler

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Edna Buchanan

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & author