This year's Kansas Book Festival will move from its usual venue at the Kansas Statehouse to Mabee Library at Washburn University.
The festival is scheduled for 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 18 and will feature free presentations by 40 authors, outdoor performances, a book-art exhibit, food vendors and exhibitor tents with publishers from around Kansas.
The event will kick off 4 p.m. Sept. 17 with a presentation by Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award winner Rebek Taussig who will speak about her memoir "Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body."
Aimee Nezhukumatahil, author of "World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments," will headline the festival, according to a news release from Kansas Book Festival executive director Tim Bascom.