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The Northern Michigan C. S. Lewis Festival welcomes you to our annual celebration of the life and works of the man who created Narnia. The C.S.

To listen to the Lewis Festival Scholar Series, follow this link:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1288832 Lewis Festival takes place annually in the Fall in beautiful Petoskey, Michigan. The 2021 Festival will feature keynote speaker, Philip Yancey the weekend of September 10th-12th. Details about registration will be available on our website, cslewisfestival.org, soon!

06/04/2026

In our May edition of the News from Narnia, the North & Beyond e-newsletter, we announced our 2026 Festival Event lineup!
Our website now lists our three featured speakers—Dr. Malcolm Guite, Pete Peterson, and Griffin Gooch—and the Festival weekend events, which include a documentary screening at the Lyric Theatre, a Community Arts Night showcasing artistic talent, the Saturday Seminar, and the Keynote Address.
We are also working on a few other additions to the lineup, so stay tuned for more! Also, mark your calendars—Festival registration is set to open on Monday, June 15!
For details on the upcoming events and to learn more about our featured speakers, visit cslewisfestival.org.

06/02/2026

Youth art drop-off today at Gaylord’s North Life Church from 4:00–5:00PM!

05/29/2026

Invaluable advice from C.S. Lewis himself from “An Experiment in Criticism.”

05/28/2026

Announcing our 2026 Keynote Speaker! Returning scholar, Dr. Malcolm Guite!
Dr. Malcolm Guite is a poet and priest, and Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. He lives in Norfolk, England, and lectures widely in England and North America on Theology and Literature. His books include “Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year,” “The Singing Bowl: Collected Poems,” “Parable and Paradox,” “Mariner: A Voyage with Samuel Taylor Coleridge,” “After Prayer,” “The Word Within the Words,” and “Lifting the Veil.”
In 2023, Malcolm was awarded the Archbishop Lanfranc Medal for Education and Scholarship by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Malcolm’s work is characterized by his deep engagement with the Christian faith, his love of traditional poetic forms, and his ability to make ancient wisdom accessible to contemporary readers. With “Merlin’s Isle: Galahad & the Grail,” Malcolm embarks on his most ambitious project: a four-volume epic reimagining the Arthurian legends.
We’re thrilled to have Malcolm returning to Petoskey to help us expound upon “Remember Your Fairy Tales: Finding Hope with Lewis & Tolkien” this fall!

05/26/2026

The Lewis Festival Scholar Series has released a new episode featuring Reverend Andrew Lazo, our 2025 Keynote Speaker!
To tune in, visit cslewisfestival.org and click “Podcast” on the top menu or copy & paste this direct link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1288832/episodes/19244394
We hope you enjoy this season’s delightfully informative episodes!

05/19/2026

Attention, youth poets!
The C.S. Lewis Festival is seeking poetry to feature at its Community Arts Night on October 2, 2026.
Youth, up to 18 years of age, are invited to submit a poem about C.S. Lewis, his “The Chronicles of Narnia,” J.R.R. Tolkien, his “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, or fairy tales, all to fit our 2026 theme: Remember Your Fairy Tales—Finding Hope in Lewis & Tolkien. Poems may not exceed one page of double-spaced, 11-point font content.
The two top poems selected will be featured on the C.S. Lewis Festival’s social media accounts, announced in our monthly e-newsletter, and the winner will receive a curated book bag made possible through an educational grant awarded by the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation. The winning poets will also be invited to read their poems on stage during the Community Arts Night.
Poems must be submitted by Friday, July 31, 2026.
For more information, visit https://www.cslewisfestival.org/festival-schedule/

05/13/2026

Youth art drop-off is tomorrow from 11:30AM to 2:30PM at the Petoskey District Library!
Festival Assistant Director Alex D. will be in the small meeting room on the main level, ready to collect art submissions!
For more information on the call for youth art, visit cslewisfestival.org/festival-schedule/
P.S. The next youth art drop-off will be Thursday, June 18, from 3:30PM to 5:30PM, at the Petoskey District Library 😊

05/04/2026

Last Saturday, the C.S. Lewis Festival sponsored a table at the inaugural Storykeepers Ball at The Boathouse on Lake Charlevoix in East Jordan—and the centerpiece turned out perfectly!
Focusing on Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, and especially the one that started it all—The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—C.S. Lewis Festival Assistant Director Alex Dailey put her creativity to work with fairy lights, a miniature wardrobe, greenery, an Aslan representative, and, of course, books!
We were excited to promote Lewis, his works, and the 2026 Festival by participating in this bookish ball celebrating all genres of reading. We hope to see some familiar faces from Saturday night at our Festival this fall!
Cheers to community events, camaraderie amongst readers, and a love for story!

04/30/2026

Spring is coming! 🤞🏻☀️🌷

04/23/2026

Here at the C.S. Lewis Festival, we deeply value our partners, donors, and sponsors who help us keep the magic of C.S. Lewis alive in Northern Michigan and beyond!
And with those in mind, we have revamped our donation system, developing tiers with benefits for all giving levels! These tiers will streamline and clarify how you can be involved and integrally a part of our year-round programming.
Check out our new donation tiers in this post, and if you have any questions or want to learn more about donor benefits, don’t hesitate to reach out at [email protected].

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P. O. Box 2026
Petoskey, MI
49770

Website

http://www.cslewisfestival.org/

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