2026 Inklings Festival (Free Admission Friday & Saturday)

FOR THE STORYTELLER,

THE SCHOLAR, AND

THE CHILD IN EVERYONE


The Inklings Festival is a three-day, family-friendly celebration of the spirit, lessons, and inspirations of The Inklings through local food and drinks, games, live music, and learning.

For an institute that honors thoughtful and prayerful engagement with culture, there are perhaps no better modern examples of this than the literary friends known as The Inklings. C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield created imaginative and deeply sacramental works like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings that are still shaping culture in profound ways, more than half a century after they were written. If we want to further culture the way they continue to do, we have to follow in their footsteps and this means not only learning together, but having a lot of fun, too.

We have purposefully made this year's festival as free as possible! If you'd like to make a donation with your Free Admission ticket, you are enabling us to continue offering events like this to as many people as we can. 

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Friday, October 23, 2026, 7:00 PM –
Sunday, October 25, 2026, 6:00 PM, (EDT)

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Friday, October 23, 2026

5:00 PM, EDT

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Free Admission

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Your Free Admission ticket gives you access to all of the events below:


Friday, October 23, 2026

6-7 pm - Keynote Lecture 1: “Chesterton and the Paradoxes of Pragmatism”, Landon Loftin

7:30-8:30 pm - Christine Perrin Poetry Reading (from Dark Gospel, by Eighth Day Press)


Saturday, October 24, 2026

11 am-12 pm - Keynote Lecture 2: "Hume's Faith and Chesterton's Doubt,” Landon Loftin

6-7 pm - Storyteller Reading with Clare Vanderpool (Newberry Award-winning author of Moon Over Manifest and Navigating Early)

7 pm-close - Eighth Day Books Anniversary Party

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