The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books is a free community-wide event organized by the UW-Waukesha Foundation in cooperation with community groups that include the Waukesha County Federated Library System, the Waukesha Public Library, the Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha and Martha Merrell’s Bookstore.  The Festival will be held June 15-16,2012 at the UW-Waukesha campus.

The Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books has as its mission an affordable, intergenerational event that promotes creativity and literacy by supporting local and national authors with community exposure and opening a dialogue on how the arts and written word in all genres help shape our present and future.  It will feature hundreds of local and national authors presenting sessions about their work, including an area dedicated to Children’s and Young Adult authors and activities.   The Festival will also be home to an exhibition of authors, publishers and book sellers.

Other special features include:

• Book signings and readings
• Special programming
• Cookbook stage and demonstrations