Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

Rob Drew comes to AADL to discuss his new book Unspooled: How the Cassette Made Music Shareable.

Since their publication in the first half of the twentieth century, the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder have sold millions of copies. The television show “Little House on the Prairie” has thrilled viewers for fifty years. Based on his eight years of research, John J. Fry will discuss how Laura’s down-to-earth faith and Christian morality influenced her life and work. A Prairie Faith, Fry's biography of Wilder, was published this year by Eerdmans publishers.

Graphic novelist Nate Powell will discuss his new books, FALL THROUGH and LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION, highlighting different creative approaches to fiction and nonfiction.

Come with questions, a work in progress, or an empty notebook. All writers are welcome in this casual, supportive environment.

Authors Bethany Neal and Alex Kourvo will be on hand to answer questions and give encouragement. Bethany and Alex will also provide private, one-on-one critiques if you choose to have them read your work. Sharing your writing with other attendees is not required and is completely voluntary.

It was family separation and “kids in cages” that drove Sarah Towle to the border. On discovering the many-headed Hydra that is the US immigration complex, she could never look away again. In Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, Sarah exposes, layer by “broken” layer, a system failing everyone—save the profiteers and demagogues who benefit from it. Yet she also finds hope: in the everyday acts of ordinary people who daily model a better way.