BOOKMARKS 2009 Moving to Downtown
Winston-Salem, NC
Saturday, September 12
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
BOOKMARKS will present our annual community book festival on Saturday, September 12, 2009, from 9:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. This fifth book festival will be held in downtown Winston-Salem, in the Arts District, centering on Trade and Sixth Streets.
Author venues will be presented in a combination of enclosed tents and interior spaces generously donated by Arts District studios, galleries, and businesses. BOOKMARKS’ content will remain the established mix of local, regional and nationally renowned authors encompassing the range of literary genres, performers, reading-related exhibitors, plus a variety of food vendors. Click here for press release,
Confirmed 2009 authors, chefs & storytellers include:
NON FICTION
Allen Barra, Yogi Berra: The Eternal Yankee
John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and The City of Falling Angels;
Jim Dodson, A Son of the Game, Ben Hogan: An American Life, Beautiful Madness - One Man's Journey Through Other People's Gardens
Justin Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market
(catch Fox's 7/1/09 appearance on The Daily Show)
Daniel Walker Howe, recepient of 2008 Pulitzer for History, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Jo Maeder, When I Married my Mother: A Daughter's Search for What Really Matters-and How She Found It Caring for Mama Jo
William McKinney, HOLY SMOKE: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue
Laura Shapiro, Julia Child (Penguin Lives)
Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
FICTION
Martin Clark, The Many Aspects of Moble Home Living; Plain Heathern Mischief; The Legal Limit
Marisa Estelrich, Naked Souls / Desnudos del alma: A Bilingual Anthology / Antología bilingüe (Translated by: Graciela Lucero-Hammer)
Marianne Gingher (w/contributors Amy Knox Brown and John McNally), Long Story Short
Emyl Jenkins, The Big Steal, Stealing in Style
Cassandra King, Queen of Broken Hearts, Same Sweet Girls, Sunday Wife
Ed Southern, Parlous Angels
POETRY
Poetry Slam, by Piedmont Poetry Slam
STORYTELLING
Willy Claflin, Storyteller
CULINARY VENUE
Frank Stitt, Bottega Favorita: A Southern Chef's Love Affair with Italian Foodand Frank Stit's Southern Table: Recipes and Gracious Traditions from Highlands Bar and Grill
Christiane Jory, The Only 99 Cent Store Cookbook
Chris Smith, The Diabetic Chef's Year-Round Cookbook
YOUNG READERS CENTRAL
AUTHORS
Frances O'Roark Dowell, The Kind of Friends We Used to Be; Phineas L. MacGuire series
Laura Malone Elliott, Under a War-Torn Sky, A Troubled Peace, Annie, Between the States, Hunter's Best Friend at School
Sonia Manzano, “aka Maria of Sesame Street” A Box Full of Kittens
Kim Underwood, The Wonderful World of Sparkle Girl and Doobins
Carole Boston Weatherford, Becoming Billie Holiday, The Library Ghost, Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane
COMMUNITY EXHIBITORS — interactive reading-related activities all day long
Children's Theatre
Forsyth County Public Library
SciWorks
Smart Start of Forsyth County
BOOKMARKS - create bookmarks & reading passport to book prizes
WORKSHOPS
Megan Bryant, Getting Published: Children's Books
Joseph Mills, Exploring Creating Titles for Your Work
Garnet Goldman & Kim Underwood, Author & Illustrator
EXHIBITORS
Winston-Salem Journal
Leigh Somerville McMillan, It All Started with a Dog
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Check back to see how our programming list grows.
(Last year's 2008 Festival of Books drew 7,500+ readers to experience 48 authors, illustrators, presenters and performers. Click here to review 2008 authors, program and activities. )
Become a Member
BOOKMARKS initiated our membership program at the 2008 festival. Readers and writers join today! Download a Membership Brochure.
Volunteer
Share your talent and enthusiasm for books with BOOKMARKS. Join our Planning Committee; assist on festival day Saturday September 12, 2009; or check out additional opportunities. Inquire about available volunteer opportunities.
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This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts
Council with funding from the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment from the
Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. |