Previous Speakers

2014-Lisa Scottoline

2015-Stewart O'Nan

2016-Alexander McCall Smith

2017-Joyce Carol Oates

2018-Lisa See (main event), Marie Benedict, Patrick Winn, Hilde Østby and Ylva Østby, Mary Hogan, Anna Bikont, Nikki Kapsambelis, and Maxwell King

2019-Erik Larson (main event), Heidi Sopinka, Brad Felver, Lezlie Lowe, Amy Stewart, Kathleen George, Sophie Perinot, Jack Hersch, and Stewart O'Nan

2020-Colleen Oakley, Jonathan Putnam, Mary Alice Monroe, Susan Meissner, Angie Cruz, Deesha Philyaw, Stephen Heyman, Clare Beams, Leah Hager Cohen, Douglas Cooper, and Susan Zurenda

2021-Marie Bostwick, Caroline Kim, Susan Meissner, Ethel Rohan, Cameron Barnett, Madeleine Henry, Matthew Clark Davison, Joe Okonkwo, Beth Kissileff, Kathleen W. Buechel, Ed Steck, Shaun Slifer, Tuhin Das, and Dorit Sasson

2022-Amor Towles