Chimamanda to feature at Maryland Inaugural Book Festival
The much anticipated Maryland inaugural book festival is set to hold tomorrow. The Downtown Columbia Partnership presents ‘Books in Bloom’, in celebration of the city’s 50th anniversary.
The book festival is aimed to bring together renowned writers for a daylong festival celebrating the joy of books and reading. Some of the activities to look out for at the festival will be readings by popular authors, panel discussions, a poetry wall and pop-up bookstores.
The festival is to hold tomorrow Sunday, June 11, 2017; 12 Noon – 5 p.m.
Here are the participants and their categories:
Chrysalis Stage Authors
- Chimamanda Adichie author of Dear Ijeawele
- David Ebershoff author of A Danish girl
Discussion: Race in America
- Micheal Eric Dyson author of Tears we cannot stop
- April Ryan author of At Mamas Knees
- DeRay Mackesson, Civil Right Activist
- Karen Branan author of Family tree
- Mikita Brottman author of The maximum security book club
- Jennifer Close author of Hopefuls
- Laurie Frankel author of This is how is always is
- Katherine Heiny author of Standard Deviation
- Eric Pucher author of Last Day on Earth
- Feminism in Young Adult Fiction Panel Authors
- Sonia Belasco author of Speak of Me As I Am
- Christina June author of It Started With Goodbye
- Media Panel: Your Summer Reading
- Tayla Burney – WAMU
- Carrie Callaghan – Washington Independent Review of Books
- Petra Mayer – NPR
- Mary McCauley – Baltimore Sun
Children’s Author- Mary Amato author of Our Teacher is A Vampire
- Karen Leggett Abouraya author of Malala Yousafzai
- Debbie Levy author of I Dissent
- Jerdine Nolen author of Calico Girl
The festival is free and open to the public of all ages by registering at booksinbloom.eventbrite.com
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