2025 Attendee Dashboard

Each session has a brief online evaluation for you to complete. You can access the evaluation here. If you prefer to fill out a paper evaluation, they are available at each venue and also at the Festival Merchandise Table at Irish Boat Shop.

Watch your inbox for our more in-depth Festival evaluation the week of September 29th.

Pre-order Arshay Cooper’s new book, Let Me Be Real with You: Inspiring Lessons on Living a Life of Service, here.

We are testing a new system for submitting questions during the 2pm and 3:30 pm Marina Park sessions. Click here to submit your question.

Name badges are required for admittance to General Sessions and can be picked up at Irish Boat Shop during the Festival Weekend:

• Thursday 1 - 5 pm

• Friday 9 am - 5 pm

• Saturday 8 am - 3:30 pm

• Sunday 8:30 - 10:30 am

The Festival printed program is available at Registration.

Registration is SOLD OUT and all online ticket sales have ended. Happy Hour Drink tickets will be sold at the door.

Pre-ordered Bag Lunches are available for pick up at Irish Boat Shop beginning at 11:15 AM on Friday and Saturday.

Beverages are NOT included. Please bring your own water bottle.

You are permitted to bring a lunch to all venues hosting sessions from 11:45 am - 1:15 pm.

Maps:

The Festival Map is on page 2 of the printed program. And is also available digitally here.

Festival Venues (with links to Google Maps):

• Zorn Park Tent -131 W Main St
  

• The New York Restaurant - 101 State St
  

• HSFOTB Office - 160 State St (not wheelchair accessible)

• Marina Park Tent - 250 E Bay St
  

• Harbor Springs Library - 206 S Spring St
  

• Lyric Theatre - 275 E Main St
  

• Harbor Springs High School Performing Arts Center - 500 N Spring St

• Harbor Springs History Museum - 349 E Main St

• Irish Boat Shop - 400 E Bay St

• Shay Park Tent - E Main & Judd Sts

• The Highlands, 600 Highlands Drive

• Birchwood Farms Golf & Country Club - 600 Birchwood Dr

All venues except the Festival office are wheelchair accessible. Indoor venues have restrooms. Public restrooms are also available at the Harbormaster Building next to Marina Park Tent.

Parking is available throughout downtown Harbor Springs and at the Harbor Springs High School.

Saturday Shuttle | 8- 10 am , 12 - 1:30 pm. 3 - 6:00 pm

The PARKING SHUTTLE route is a continuous loop with stops at:

• Harbor Springs High School front entrance

• Shay Park Tent

• Irish Boat Shop

• Harbormaster Building near the Marina Park Tent

• Corner of Bay & State Streets

The route is less than 3⁄4 of a mile round trip, so you will never have a long wait.

Look for the shuttle (Nub’s Nob bus) and the sandwich board signage at each stop.

Golf Carts are available along Bay Street only 30 minutes BEFORE & AFTER each scheduled session. Pick-up & Drop-off locations:

• Shay Park Tent

• Irish Boat Shop

• Harbormaster Building near the Marina Park Tent

• Corner of Bay & State Streets

Look for the sandwich board signage at each stop.

The complete schedule of events is available here (or on pages 5-16 in your program).

ALL EVENTS ARE ONE HOUR, EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE NOTED.

Each session is followed by 30 minutes for book signing and transitioning to the next event.
Featured titles will be available for purchase after each event.

There will be no signings immediately following the final 3:30-4:30 PM Saturday afternoon sessions. Those presenters will be signing at the All-Presenter Signing & Happy Hour.

The helpful suggestions (on page 4 of your program) can get you ready to participate in sharing an excellent Festival with our presenters, moderators, and all participants.

Between the Covers is the official bookstore vendor of the Festival and sponsors the Pop-Up Bookstore at Irish Boat Shop and the book sales after each session.

Hours:

• Thursday 1 - 5 pm

• Friday 9 am - 5 pm

• Saturday 8:30 am - 6:30 pm

• Sunday 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

All featured titles will be sold with presenters available to sign their books at venues immediately following their sessions. (Catherine Newman will NOT be available to sign after her Sunday morning session.)

Keynote books will NOT be pre-signed. Please bring your copies to have signed following the keynote presentation. John Vaillant will also be available to sign following his public session on Saturday or during the All-Presenter Signing & Happy Hour on Saturday evening.

Tiffany D. Jackson will not be in attendance at the All-Presenter Signing on Saturday evening. Please get your copies of her books signed following her Saturday session.

No signed books will be available to purchase after the Festival weekend.

Cash, check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover & American Express are accepted at all locations. Apple Pay and Tap to Pay are also available at the Irish Boat Shop pop-up bookstore.

Festival merchandise and pop-up bookstore sales must be separate transactions.

Between the Covers donates 20% of their weekend Festival book sales to the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book.

Located at the Festival Merchandise Table at Irish Boat Shop.

Available for sale at Irish Boat Shop or online!

There are new items this year - pocket notebooks, bandanas and stickers!

Along with many old favorites - tote bags, water bottles, hats, tiles and posters.

Presenter bios are in your Festival Program (pages 26-33).

Our online Presenter page also includes bios as well as featured book summaries and links to follow presenters online and on social media.