In light of Bo Burlingham’s April 2 visit to Drury University, part of Drury’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation Convocation Series, the Missouri Literary Festival is proud to announce that Burlingham will join forces with fellow business authors Jack Stack and Norm Brodsky to present Business by the Book, a business-focused seminar and luncheon, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 2. Tickets will be $35.

Burlingham, the author of “Small Giants: Companies that Choose to be Great Instead of Big” and an editor-at-large for Inc. magazine, collaborated with Springfield ReManufacturing Co. founder and open-book management pioneer Jack Stack on his books “The Great Game of Business” and “A Stake in the Outcome.” Burlingham has also collaborated with Norm Brodsky, who writes the Street Smarts column for Inc. and The Morning Norm at Inc.com.

The business authors’ seminar is one of several special events slated for the three-day literary festival, a first-time event which will be held Oct. 2-4 at Hammons Field and The Creamery Arts Center. The festival will feature programs, panels and book signings by writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry, including novelists Daniel Woodrell and Katie Estill, children’s author David Harrison, women’s issues expert Nancy O’Reilly, Missouri Poet Laureate Walter Bargen and 2001 U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. The festival will also offer a full slate of children’s authors, programs and activities; live music, theater and dance performances; a poetry slam and workshops by Top 10 spoken-word poet Joaquin Zihuatanejo; an appearance by author and recording artist Jennifer Rothschild; and of course, books, books, books.

Besides Business by the Book, special ticketed events during the festival will include an Authors Gala with the festival writers and Saturday Brunch with Laura Shapiro, who will discuss her new biography of Julia Child.

The Missouri Literary Festival, a Celebration of Arts, Literature and Literacy, is a nonprofit event focused on raising funds to benefit arts programming and literacy organizations. General admission will be $5 for ages 11 and up; children 10 and under get in free. Festival beneficiaries are Springfield Regional Arts Council, Ozarks Literacy Council, Family Literacy Centers of Springfield, the R-12 Title I Schools and the Writers Hall of Fame scholarship program.

For information on sponsorships and booth rental, please contact William Brandon Bowman, festival chair, at (417) 865-0450.