the festival

The Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College is a biennial conference that brings together writers, editors, publishers, musicians, artists, and readers for three days of discussing and celebrating insightful writing that explores, in some significant way, issues of faith.

The Festival began in 1990, and since that time we have welcomed to Calvin thousands of attendees and hundreds of speakers—including John Updike, Elie Wiesel, Maya Angelou, Salman Rushdie, Donald Hall, Katherine Paterson, Madeleine L’Engle, Annie Dillard, and many more. 

Festival 2012 will take place on April 19-21, 2012, and will feature dozens of presenters, including Marilynne Robinson, Jonathan Safran Foer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Shane Claiborne, Craig Thompson, Gary Schmidt, Luci Shaw, Li-Young Lee, and Clare Vanderpool. To stay up to date on the latest information, please subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, Festival News, or follow us on Twitter: ffwgr.