The wonderful Bookstock Festival in Woodstock, Vermont, is May 16-18! Don’t miss this festival of words featuring many authors, including fourteen Rootstock authors and poets. Here’s the schedule of when to meet your favorite author at the Rootstock table on the Green:

Friday, May 16

• Ginny Sassaman, author of Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World, signing 1-3 pm; reading 3:15 pm.

• Ian McCoog, author of Leadership Bites: An Approachable Handbook for Emerging Leaders, signing 3-5 pm; reading 4:15 pm.

• Kim Ward, author of Fire on a Circle: Poems, signing 4:15-5 pm; reading 4 pm.

THESE EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS Saturday, May 17

• Gary Wright, author of Striding Rough Ice: Coaching College Hockey and Growing Up in the Game, signing 9-11 am

• Bernie Lambek, author of Uncivil Liberties: A Novel and An Intent to Commit: A Novel, signing 11 am-1 pm; reading 12 noon.

• Roberta Harold, author of Portrait of an Unseen Woman: A Novel of Annie Shaw, signing 11 am-1 pm, reading 12:15 pm.

• Michael Freed-Thall, author of Horodno Burning: A Novel, 1-3 pm.

• Joyce Thomas, author of Some Things in This World: Poems, signing 1-3 pm.

• Tamara Mathieu, author of All Who Believed: A Memoir of Life in the Twelve Tribes, signing 3-5 pm.

• Sallyann and Rebecca Majoya, authors of Uncertain Fruit: A Memoir of Infertility, Loss, and Love, signing 3-5 pm.

THESE EVENTS HAVE BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THUNDERSTORMS Sunday, May 18

• Peter Cobb, author of Some Things Aren't Meant to Be: A Novel, signing 10-11:30 am.

• Liza Ketchum, author of The Last Garden: A Memoir, signing 11 am-1 pm; reading 10:30 am.

• Melissa Perley, author of The Violin Family, signing 11:30 am-1 pm; reading 10:15 am.

• Publisher Samantha Kolber, author of Birth of a Daughter, signing all morning; reading 10:45 am.

For more information about the event, visit bookstockvt.org.