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Victoria Redel

To Register

Register online,

or send a check to:

Inside Books

Main 216, CSB

37 South College Avenue

St. Joseph, MN 56374


or call 320-363-5399.

Registration: $195
Lodging/meals: $110

You qualify for a 10% registration fee discount and pay $175.50 if you are in at least one of the following:

  • CSB/SJU Alum
  • MPR Member
  • Book Club Member (with three or more members)
  • We have also added discounts for several other groups including Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library, for The Rake, for teachers and for Pen Pals.  Please use the option that includes the 10% discount if you are responding to these offers. 

View the brochure. 

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Inside Books

Where readers meet authors . . .

July 7-9, 2005

Readings by the lake, Minnesota Public Radio broadcast of "A Writer's View," and movies inspired by books on the beautiful campus of the College of Saint Benedict campus in Minnesota lake country

Join authors Nick Flynn, National Book Award finalist Charles Baxter, Alison McGhee, Bart Schneider, John Coy and Victoria Redel.

(Charles Baxter, left)

Teachers get 10 CEU's for attending this program. More information on CEU's with the so-sponsorship of the Education Department of CSB/SJU

The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University have long and rich tradition in all aspects of the literary arts.  While here for Inside Books, visitors will be able to visit the Book Arts Studio, the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, The Saint John’s Bible, and Arca Artium

A limited amount of financial aid is available to pay one-half the cost of registration.  Write to us at insidebooks@csbsju.edu and tell us, in 250 words or less, why you would like to attend.

Sponsored by the Literary Arts Institute and Project Logos
Funding from Target, the Star Tribune Foundation and the Musser Fund.

Please send questions to us at insidebooks@csbsju.edu.