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2026 Festival of Faith and Writing

Kristin Kirkland

Boston, MA

https://kristinkirkland.substack.com/

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About me

It’s my first FFW! I’m so excited to be here. I’m a public health trained family medicine physician and I write about identity, spirituality, justice, and public health through my lens as an adult adoptee raised in evangelicalism. My agent is Morgan Strehlow of The Bindery Agency.

9:00am EDT

Registration Prince Conference Center, Fireside Room

11:00am EDT

Boxed Lunch pickup (pre-orders only) Knollcrest Dining Hall

12:30pm EDT

Opening Plenary Session - Speaking the Hard Truths Van Noord ArenaLaurie Halse Anderson

2:30pm EDT

The Beauty in Broken Things: Writing Sadness with Grace Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital HallTodd Davis • Kiki Petrosino

4:00pm EDT

Writing in Place Gezon AuditoriumAmanda Held Opelt

5:30pm EDT

Evening Plenary Session - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World Van Noord ArenaRobin Wall Kimmerer

8:59am EDT

Exhibit Hall Open Prince Conference Center, Great HallNavPress • Plough • Eighth Day Books • Englewood Review of Books • Lake Drive Books • Broadleaf Books • Slant Books • The Christian Century • Eerdmans Publishing Company • Taylor University: Making Literature 2027 Conference • Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith • Evelyn DeKorte/Diane Ford • Baker Publishing Group • Redbud Writers Guild • Collegeville Institute • PLNU M.A. in Writing Program / Last Syllable Journal • Reformed Journal • The Windhover Literary Journal • Orion Magazine • Leslie Leyland Fields/Memoir Masterclass • Mark Mattison • Moody Global Media • Healing Medicine • Whitworth University MFA • Read. Pray. Write. Podcast • Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry • Baylor University Press • Menno Media / Herald Press • InterVarsity Press • Solum Literary Press • The Perkipery Press • Kregel Publications • Wipf and Stock Publishers • Wildhouse Publishing • The Rabbit Room • Wesley Theological Seminary • Western Theological Seminary • Religion News Service • Ashland University, MFA in Creative Writing

9:00am EDT

Beyond Nostalgia: The Art of Remembering Prince Conference Center, Willow RoomDana VanderLugt

10:30am EDT

A Language for Grief: Words for What the Heart Must Speak  Covenant Fine Arts Center, AuditoriumJ. S. Park

11:45am EDT

Holy Hurt Covenant Fine Arts Center, AuditoriumHillary McBride The Power of Parable: Personal Story-telling as a Tool for Advocacy in the Church Gezon AuditoriumLeyla K. King

2:30pm EDT

How to Pitch Your Nonfiction Book Prince Conference Center, Willow RoomMargot Starbuck

4:00pm EDT

Making and Meaning: The Creative Rhythm of Courage and Reflection ChapelLanta Davis • Scott Erickson

5:30pm EDT

Evening Plenary Session - The Garden Has Faith in You Van Noord ArenaRoss Gay

11:45am EDT

From Manuscript to Marketplace Covenant Fine Arts Center, Recital HallAlexis DeWeese • Pete Ford • Jeremy Wells

4:00pm EDT

Sacred Traces: Writing the Texture of Religious Experience ChapelAaliyah Bilal • Melody S. Gee

5:30pm EDT

Closing Plenary Session - Coming Down to Earth: The Embodied Word Van Noord ArenaBarbara Brown Taylor