Humanities at the Schools: Your Story Matters
Bringing the Kentucky Book Festival to Schools
The School Days Program brings authors to dozens of schools across Kentucky to meet students in an exciting, interactive learning experience. Schools awarded incur no charges for these visits thanks to support from our sponsors.
List of 2025 Authors and Speakers Coming Soon!
How to Apply…
K-12 teachers in Kentucky are invited to apply for an author or speaker visit by filling out the form below. Applications received will subsequently be reviewed and considered by the program director.
The selected schools will then be matched with an author or a speaker based on physical proximity, school schedule, speaker availability and teacher’s interest in the specific topics that the authors or the speakers are offering.
Two types of school visits will be offered in 2025:
- Type One: Speaker with presentation.
School visits, speakers will meet with an assembly of students and will present a topic or engage the students in an interactive learning experience. If the speaker is an author and if so appropriate, Kentucky Humanities will purchase a set of books as a gift for the library of the school.
- Type Two: Speaker with presentation plus free books for all children attending the event. School visits, speakers with presentation plus free books will meet with an assembly of students and will give a presentation or engage the students in an interactive learning experience, much like in the previous case, but after the presentation, each student will receive a personalized, signed book by the author to add to their reading collections at home.
This year, high schools will be eligible only for Type One visits, while elementary and middle schools can apply for both Type One and Type Two visits.
Questions? Email us at katerina.stoykova@uky.edu.