The Voices of the Middle West Festival brings together students and faculty of the university, as well as writers and presses from all over the Midwest, in order to provide a framework of this region and to showcase the magnificent work being produced here, the stories that need to be told, the voices that need to be heard. In addition to a bookfair this year, which will include the likes of Poets & Writers, cream city review, Curbside Splendor, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, and Two Dollar Radio, among others, Ross Gay, a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in poetry, will be welcomed as the keynote speaker. There will also be panels throughout the day featuring Angela Flournoy, Peter Geye, Emily Schultz, Amber Sparks, Jared Yates Sexton, Erika T. Wurth, and other exciting authors and poets who are certain to be a draw.

Please visit their website for more information: http://midwestgothic.com/voices/