Events: Springfield Celebrates Authors

Springfield Celebrates Authors is presented annually and brings in a range of local, national and international authors for live book talks/signing events. If you are interested in past events and authors, have a look at the YouTube video playlist below!

Events held this year

Local Author, David Turner, Talks about Documenting Local History. Join us at 1PM Saturday May 13th at the Springfield Public Library.

Current recordings available include:

• Local author and hiking guru William Sullivan discusses: 'Hiking Trails of the Pacific NorthWest'
• Learn about the early years of the Oregon Country Fair with local author Suzi Prozanski and her book 'Brigadoon of the Sixties, Revelry and Kerfuffles at the Oregon Country Fair'.
• The five finalists for the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction (Oregon Book Awards 2021) all read from their nominated works.
• Local author Danuta Pfeiffer and her book: 'Libertas'
• Oregon Literary Fellow Kesha Ajose Fisher and her Ken Kesey Award for Fiction 2020 winner: 'No God like the Mother'
• Oregon Book Awards Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Nonfiction nominees: Allison Cobb: "Plastic: An Autobiography" and Aaron Gilbreath: "The Heart of California"