Southern Book Festival OCT 12 - 14

I'm really excited about this book festival coming up. I have attended Writer's Conventions but have never had the pleasure of attending a book festival. More importantly this celebration focuses on Southern authors and interests.

This would make a great extra credit project. Attend the festival and write about your experience. Extra credit will be awarded to students who write about specific authors they meet and the overall experience. A finished draft should be in the format of a letter to the editor for publication in local newspapers the Tennessean and Leaf Chronicle. We will also send a copy to the school newspaper and CMCSS newsletters for possible publication.

Why attempt to publish it? The community needs to hear that our youth are partaking of events from the community and that Northwest High students do positive things and have a bright future ahead of them.

Why attend? When I attended Writer's Conventions I got a chance to meet authors in person. I enjoy reading books so much more when I know a bit about them and have a face to go with the words on the page- it is like taking a peek into a diary except I get to peer into the imagination of someone I've meet. I've included the information on the event below. If you click on the title of this blog entry you will be taken to the Humanities TN website for more information as to authors and appearance times. I hope to see you there.

2007 Southern Festival of Books
The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word® brings readers and writers together for its 19th anniversary October 12-14 at the Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

Southern Festival of Books hours are Friday, October 12 from noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, October 13 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, October 14 from noon to 5 p.m.

The Festival is free and open to the public and welcomes more than 200 authors and more than 50 exhibitors to this year's Southern Festival of Books. The festival schedule will be posted approximately three weeks before the event.

Book lovers have the opportunity to hear from and meet some of America's foremost writers in fiction, history, mystery, biography, travel, poetry and children's literature. Each author on the program participates in a panel discussion or offers a solo presentation, and each has a book signing immediately following his/her session.

Special events for children are planned including appearances by favorite characters and birthday parties to celebrate the anniversaries of great children's books.

The festival will also feature two performance stages in addition to a Cooking Stage. The Café Stage features exceptional musicians, and the Children's Stage features children's storytellers, writers, performers and musicians. The Cooking Stage will highlight talented chefs preparing and discussing recipes from the latest food and cookbooks.

Over the course of this three-day event we need and welcome approximately 400 volunteers. Please consider sharing your time and talents to help make this Festival a success.