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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!

06/18/2026

Youth art drop-off is today from 3:30 to 5:00PM at the Petoskey District Library! Note the time change!
Festival Assistant Director Alex D. will be in the small meeting room on the main level, from 3:30 to 5:00PM, ready to collect art submissions!
For more information on the call for youth art, visit cslewisfestival.org/festival-schedule/
We can’t wait to display all the youth art at the Community Arts Night at Great Lakes Center for the Arts on Friday, October 2!

06/17/2026

Festival Event Spotlight!
On Thursday, October 1, we are kicking off the 2026 C.S. Lewis Festival with a documentary screening of “Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & The Quest for Meaning,” which will perfectly set the tone as our weekend focuses on the theme “Remember Your Fairy Tales: Finding Hope with Lewis & Tolkien.”
The screening starts at 7PM with opening remarks by documentary producer and Festival Co-founder David Crouse.
There will be a suggested donation at the door.

06/16/2026

Don’t forget, we’re still accepting youth art and poetry submissions for our fall festival!
Art submissions can be dropped off at the Petoskey District Library on Thursday, June 18, between 3:30 and 5:30PM: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PxozQ60-b0Mk4AHOjw6P5BOdVrVLT7ig-UdPLZ9s4Bc/edit
Poetry may be submitted now through Friday, July 31: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11wbORRDunVGO-2dAM5J_kyFXvDN2_60UwRVzmLhilGg/edit
All youth submissions must focus on C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, or fairy tales in general to support our 2026 theme, “Remember Your Fairy Tales: Finding Hope with Lewis & Tolkien.”
For more information, check out the above links or visit cslewisfestival.org/events.

06/15/2026

Festival registration is now open!
Sign up for the pay-what-you-can Community Arts Night tickets and the combo Saturday Seminar & Keynote Address ticket. The fee for attending the documentary screening at the Lyric Theatre will be a suggested donation at the door.
https://www.cslewisfestival.org/festival-schedule/
If you have questions, send us an email at [email protected].

06/12/2026

We asked our three featured speakers to create a video introducing themselves and sharing their interest in C.S. Lewis—here’s our first one!
Meet Griffin Gooch!

06/08/2026

We’re one week away from Festival registration opening—Monday, June 15, is the big day!
We can’t wait to experience the Festival lineup with you in October!
If you have questions, send us an email at [email protected].

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!

Address

P. O. Box 2026
Petoskey, MI
49770

Website

http://www.cslewisfestival.org/

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