The annual In Print Festival of First Books includes readings, discussions, and classroom visits with authors who have recently published their first books. The two-day event typically features three emerging authors and an editor or publisher.

The In Print Festival also marks the release of The Broken Plate, which features pieces by the guest authors as well as interviews with them conducted by The Broken Plate staff.

You can read “A Brief History of In Print” by Jill Christman, which was featured in our 2020 issue.

In Print 2025

Featured fiction writer Jay Coles,

poet Matt Hart,

creative nonfiction writer Alysia Sawchyn,

and creative nonfiction writer and editor Gretchen Stelter.

In Print 2024

Featured poet Kemi Alabi, 

creative nonfiction writer  Brittany Means, 

and fiction writer Oindrila Mukherjee,

with special guest editor Anne Trubek 

In Print 2023

Featured poet Michael Kleber-Diggs, 

fiction writer Jasmine Sawers,

and creative nonfiction writer Prince Shakur,

with special guest editor Ira Sukrungruang.

In Print 2022

Featured poet Ananda Lima,

fiction writer Dionne Irving,

and creative nonfiction writer J.R Jamison,

with special guest Abigail Cloud from Mid-American Review.

In Print 2021

Featured poet Joy Priest,

fiction writer Nancy Wayson Dinan,

and creative nonfiction writer Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn,

with special guest Suzi F. Garcia from Noemi Press.

In Print 2020

Featured poet Jake Skeets,

fiction writer Hadley Moore, 

and writer Noam Dorr.

In Print 2019

Featured poet Chen Chen,

nonfiction writer Dustin Parsons,

fiction writer Maria Romasco Moore,

and author and editor Allison Joseph.

In Print 2018

Featured poet Carolina Ebeid,

nonfiction writer Jan Shoemaker,

fiction writer Nick White,

and editor Kristen Elias Rowley.

In Print 2017

Featured poet Iliana Rocha, 

fiction writer Sequoia Nagamatsu,

nonfiction writer Daniel Raeburn, 

and author and editor Mary Biddinger.

In Print 2016

Featured fiction writer Gabriel Urza, 

nonfiction writer Sarah Einstein,

poet Sarah Blake,

and editor Keith Tuma.

In Print 2015

Featured author Celeste Ng, 

editor-in-chief Tyler Gobble,

essayist Kerry Howley, 

and editor Jodee Stanley.