We are looking for approximately 100 friendly, responsible and enthusiastic volunteers to help us make the 2010 Festival a fantastic success! A great opportunity for community service, cultural promotion, making contacts in the literary community and having great fun!


Festival Volunteers perform the following important tasks:

• Help with Festival promotion by hanging posters and distributing programs
• Warmly welcome Festival patrons
• Answer any questions our attendees may have regarding the Festival
• General crowd control and audience headcounts
• Ensure the audience of your assigned venue is seated on schedule
• Work together with venue staff to keep the venue space clean
• Distribute and collect audience surveys for each event
• Process surveys and other information post-Festival

To volunteer at the Wisconsin Book Festival, we ask that you:

• Attend a Volunteer orientation training session
• Work two or more shifts during the Festival dates (shifts are typically four to six hours)
• Have a friendly and outgoing personality - volunteers are the face of the Festival!
• Spread the word about the Wisconsin Book Festival to friends, family and community groups!

Comments from past WBF Volunteers:
"My favorite was Lynda Barry’s panel. Tears were running down my face."

"I had a blast. From my perspective, it ran smoothly. I was well briefed for whatever I had to face and enjoyed the other volunteers."

"As a volunteer, I think the friendliness of everyone involved was a big highlight for me -- from our tech guy, to my co-volunteer, and including the staff who stopped by to see how things were going. I never felt as if I were being taken for granted, and in fact, I felt that people went out of their way to let us know that they appreciated our help."



We'd love to have you join us this year. To sign up, please fill out the form below!
Questions may be directed to volunteercoordinator (at) wisconsinbookfestival (dot) org. Thanks!

Volunteer Form

If you'd like to help the 2010 Wisconsin Book Festival, please let us know by filling out the form below.

Please complete all required fields.

First Name

Last Name

Email

I want to help with promotion work pre-Festival (poster/program guide distribution, etc.).  Yes!

I want to help with ushering at Festival events.  Yes!

I want to help with post-Festival audience survey processing (I have my own laptop).  Yes!

Please select which one of the following volunteer trainings you will attend (locations will be announced later):  Sunday, September 26, 6:00 - 7:30pm  Monday, September 27, 7:00 - 8:30pm

Anything else you'd like us to know?

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