There will be four sessions of 20 panels featuring more than 50 authors covering topics that include poetry, history, travel, mystery, current events, food, popular culture, and contemporary literature. All panels will take place in Rankin Hall on the Carroll University Campus.

The lunch break, held in the Campus Center Cafeteria, will feature Cabaret with Candy Decker and Phil Smith. The musical dramatists will be singing and playing an original program based on The Seed Keeper, the Waukesha Reads book this year. If you missed it in October or if you loved it October, you can enjoy it here while you enjoy lunch.

Rankin Hall will also be the site of the Books & Company sales of all the presenting authors books and the Don Taylor Writers’ Marketplace where authors sell the books they have written.

The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books is free and open to the public at Carroll University, Waukesha. Parking is free in designated campus lots.