Coffee Time: Bookmarked Literary Arts Festival to celebrate the written word Oct. 9-11 in Lander

(Lander, WY) – The KOVE 1330 AM / 107.7 FM Today in the 10 interview series Coffee Time continued today with host Vince Tropea, who recently spoke with Nona Schrader and Oakley Boycott. The duo stopped by to talk about the 2026 Bookmarked Literary Arts Festival taking place in Lander, October 9 through 11.

Schrader gives details on the festival, which opens at 5 PM on October 9 with the Youth Fiction Awards at the Lander Art Center, and also includes the Bookmarked Book Fair from 3:30 to 5:30 PM Saturday at the Lander Senior Center, and poetry, nonfiction, and memoir readings on Sunday.

Boycott shares info on the Keynote presentation, “Scaling Adaptation: Taking Chomolungma from Stage to Screen,” which will be hosted in the Carnegie Room at the Lander Library on opening night Friday at 6:30 PM. Boycott was a performer in the stage production in New York, and chats about the adaptation process that updates the setting of the story to Wyoming, in addition to turning the play into a narrative short film.

Check out the full Coffee Time interview with both below for all the details!

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