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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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
We're Walking to Jekyll
I always wanted to work for a library or a bookstore. There's just something about books that leaves me with tingles. I guess you could say I'm easy to please, huh?
Anyhow, those of us who work here at the library are doing something different this month that has nothing to do with books. And again, I'm left with tingles.
We are walking to Jekyll Island!!!
Yep, that's right. Every Wednesday (and we started February 1st), however many miles we walk during the week will be recorded as a group on a map of Georgia that hangs on the back of our break room door. The map shows the highways and byways from Moultrie to Jekyll. Everyone turns in the number of miles they walked during the week, and Aileen posts the total on the map. Todate we have walked 39 miles and we are one mile east of Ray City. Of course, that reflects only the first five days of February and that was a short week.
Now, I imagine some of you think walking to Jekyll is a silly thing to do, but it's really not. The endeavor was created by Aileen to help those of us who need to MOVE. Most of us sit quite a bit. Some of us are overweight. Others of us just need to keep Mr. Arthritis from setting in. So, Aileen dreamed up the walk to Jekyll as a health endeavor.
Of course, anytime you have an endeavor like this, you need to have a payoff. No one wants to walk to just get healthy, right?
Well, when we finally tally up enough miles to get us to Jekyll Island, we're going to have a big, heart-healthy potluck lunch. Everyone will bring a good-nutrition dish to share, and we'll enjoy the fellowship of having done something really rewarding.
That doesn't mean the food. That means we actually got up and MOVED, got our bodies out of that chair and exercised. Good for our heart. Good for our lungs. Good for our legs. Good for US!
And you know what? It also means that I have another reason for loving to work at the library. It's all the people I work with and the enjoyment of sharing good times with them. More tingles!!!
Anyhow, those of us who work here at the library are doing something different this month that has nothing to do with books. And again, I'm left with tingles.
We are walking to Jekyll Island!!!
Yep, that's right. Every Wednesday (and we started February 1st), however many miles we walk during the week will be recorded as a group on a map of Georgia that hangs on the back of our break room door. The map shows the highways and byways from Moultrie to Jekyll. Everyone turns in the number of miles they walked during the week, and Aileen posts the total on the map. Todate we have walked 39 miles and we are one mile east of Ray City. Of course, that reflects only the first five days of February and that was a short week.
Now, I imagine some of you think walking to Jekyll is a silly thing to do, but it's really not. The endeavor was created by Aileen to help those of us who need to MOVE. Most of us sit quite a bit. Some of us are overweight. Others of us just need to keep Mr. Arthritis from setting in. So, Aileen dreamed up the walk to Jekyll as a health endeavor.
Of course, anytime you have an endeavor like this, you need to have a payoff. No one wants to walk to just get healthy, right?
Well, when we finally tally up enough miles to get us to Jekyll Island, we're going to have a big, heart-healthy potluck lunch. Everyone will bring a good-nutrition dish to share, and we'll enjoy the fellowship of having done something really rewarding.
That doesn't mean the food. That means we actually got up and MOVED, got our bodies out of that chair and exercised. Good for our heart. Good for our lungs. Good for our legs. Good for US!
And you know what? It also means that I have another reason for loving to work at the library. It's all the people I work with and the enjoyment of sharing good times with them. More tingles!!!
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