Normandale Community College will welcome award-winning author and keynote speaker Mubanga Kalimamukwento as it hosts the 16th annual Normandale Writing Festival on Wednesday, April 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The free daylong event features hourly presentations between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. around campus. Kalimamukwento’s keynote session will take place at 12 p.m. in the Dale Lorenz Auditorium.
As a multi-award-winning novelist and Zambian-born attorney, Kalimamukwento will share her story, discuss the art of creative writing, and read excerpts from her latest novel, The Shipikisha Club.
Normandale instructors and published authors will be featured during the Writing Festival, as they conduct hourly sessions during the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. timeframe. Sample topics include “Pathways to Publishing”, “Write now: Interactive Prose Poetry”, “Murder! Victims, Victors, and Violence in Art and Myth”, “The Mythic Imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby”, and many more.
Normandale instructors and published authors will conduct other hourly sessions during the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. timeframe. Sample topics include: “Page to Print: Book Publishing in 2026,” “Birding: An Antidote to Writer's Block,” “The Art of Writing Manifestos,” “Letters Alive: Feeling the Power of Immigrant Letters,” and many more.
The Normandale Writing Festival is cross-curricular, including professional, literary, and creative modes of writing. The final schedule of session will be available as we get closer to the Writing Festival at normandale.edu/news.
For more information contact Normandale English Instructor and author Thomas Maltman thomas.maltman@normandale.edu.
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