Note: Full schedule is listed blow this press release and is also available at the event.
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 Premanand Fine Arts Theater.
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 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.
2026 Normandale Writing Festival Schedule
10-10:50 a.m.
Letters Alive: Feeling the Power of Immigrant Letters - Gengwu Wang (Room C 2020)
From Page to Print: Book Publishing in 2026 - Kris Bigalk, Roy Guzman-Chuderski, Steve Woodward (Room L 2790)
11-11:50 a.m.
Write Now! Interactive Poetry - Heidi Czerwiec, Anna George Meek (Room C 2020)
G.O.T Setting? World-Building for Speculative Writers – Thomas Maltman (Room L 2790)
Keynote Speaker 12-12:50 p.m. – Keynote Autor – Mubanga Kalimamukwento (Premanand Fine Arts Theater)
1-1:50 p.m.
Birding: An Antidote to Writer’s Block – Jennifer Miller (C 2030)
Playing with Words: Poetry Writing for Non-Poets – Emily Swanson (C 2103)
2-2:50 p.m.
Ideologies of Outrage: How to Write a Manifesto – Dan Darling (C 2030)
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