These 5 days of mostly free literary events are open to the public as we honor book culture and promote reading and literacy.
Ticketed Events
Festival Luncheon - ($50)
with Michael Malone
Thursday March 18th - 11:45 am
Author of Four Corners of the Sky: A Novel and seven other novels, collections of short stories and two non-fiction works, winner of an Edgar, an O.Henry and an Emmy for his work as head writer in the 1990's for the daytime drama One Life to Live... Buy Tickets>
Crime Wave Luncheon - ($50)
with Julia Spencer-Fleming
Saturday, March 20 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Agatha award nominee and author of seven mysteries, including the most recent One Was a Soldier... Buy Tickets >
Business Breakfast - ($30 or $350/table)
with Michael Gelb
Wednesday March 17 7:30 am
Author of How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci, will speak on "Thinking Creatively In Tough Times." A pioneer on creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership, he is a Batten Fellow at the U.Va. Darden School this spring... Buy Tickets >
Authors Reception - ($35)
Saturday March 20 - 6:00 pm
This is your chance to rub elbows with some of your favorite authors. Located at the "CitySpace" (Charlottesville Community Design Center) on the second story of the Market Street Parking Garage overlooking the east end of the Charlottesville Downtown Mall... Buy Tickets >
News & Announcements
- More Exciting Authors Sign On For VABook! - Early Signers
- Program Applications - Now Available
- 2009 Book Festival Statistics - (pdf)
- Attendance Tops 20,000 for Sixth Straight Year - Press Release
- Get Your Own 15th Anniversary Book Bag
2009 HighLights
- Video: Rita Dove & Boyd Tinsley
- Slideshow: Storyfest - Youth
- Slideshow: Adriana Trigiani & David Baldacci
- Video: Americans in Iraq
- Video: Covering the Courts
- More 2009 Highlights


Virginia Festival of the Book is a program of the