The 14th annual 2012 Georgia Literary Festival will be held November 9-10 at the Jekyll Island Convention Center. Free author programs will be held on Saturday with additional special events Friday and Saturday at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. The event is sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book with funding from the Georgia Humanities Council and local sponsors.
The festival celebrates writers and writing in a different part of the state each year.
The 2012 event of more than 30 authors includes Georgia's own Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey, an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in June 2012 and begins her official duties in September. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard and is also the Poet Laureate of Mississippi. She holds the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University and is the Louis D. Rubin Writer-in-Residence for 2012 at Hollins University in Virginia.
Also at the Literary Festival will be Judson Mitcham, Georgia's new Poet Laureate, and environmentalist and author Janisse Ray, who will be reading and signing her new book, "The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food" at the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library on Friday, August 10, 2012 (more information to come on this blog).
Other authors at the Jekyll Island event include: Hugh Acheson, Mary Kay Andrews, Tina McElroy Ansa, Daniel Black, Doraine Bennett, Steve Berry, Stacy Cordery, Stephen Corey, Janice Daugharty, Nathalie Dupree, Damon Lee Fowler, Alice Friman, Jane Garvey, Cynthia Graubart, Gail Karwoski, Daisy King, Brenden Martin, June McCash, Jack McDevitt, Pamela Bauer Mueller, Crystall Ball O'Connor, Joe Randall, William Rawlings, Michele Ross, Lola Schaefer, Danny Schnitzlein, Charles Seabrook, Jeffrey Small, Jesse Tullos, Anita Zalenski Weinraub, and Jane Wood.
Now why would you want to miss a free event like that? From my house to Jekyll, it's about a three and a half hour drive. Why not consider car-pooling? Take the gang and enjoy the event. It only comes once a year.
But be sure to watch for more information about our Janisse Ray book event AND her next-day writing workshop. It's coming soon!
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