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9 am – 5 pm
Four informative panels. Representatives from Xlibris, BN.com, Amazon, iPublish, Peanut Press, Booklocker.com, Previewport, Phoenix Color, the University of Virginia’s eText Center, and more will join successful e-Authors M. J. Rose, Douglas Clegg and Pauline Jones in discussing the industry and opportunities for established and potential e-Authors and e-publishers. Hosting the presentation of the first Independent e-Book Awards, judged by affiliates of the Mystic-Ink community. Luncheon co-sponsored by Xlibris and BN.com. ($35 tickets required for this event; luncheon included; call 804-924-6890).
10 am – 2 pm
Charlottesville Ice Park
Fun for the whole family with authors, storytellers and performers.
10 am – Poet, "The Sugar Lady," Arlene Carter/Pounds
10:45 am – Author Kathy May, Molasses Man
12 noon – Mark Teague, illustrator, and Josef Beery, making
books
12:45 – Akaela S. Michels-Gualtieri and her mother, Dia Michels, Born to Be a Sister
1:30 – Phil Hoose, author and songwriter
11:15 – AlbemarleKids.com Junior Journalist Workshop: Join your friends at AlbemarleKids.com for the 2nd annual Junior Journalist Workshop! Kids ages 4-18 are invited to be Junior Journalists and create the summer issue of The Clubhouse Times, a special pull out page written and illustrated by kids for kids. Junior Journalists will don press badges to interview writers, poll the audience, take photographs and more during this fun workshop on making a newspaper! (This workshop is very popular with limited space. Please register online at www.AlbemarleKids.com to guarantee participation.)
10 am – 11:30 am
UVa Bookstore
Making Anthologies
With anthologists Deborah Baker, Michele Slung, Jim Shepard and Suzanne Jones.
UVa Rotunda
John Brown at Harper’s Ferry
R. T. Smith will read poems from his book But With Blood, focusing on Brown’s historic raid.
UVa Zehmer Hall
Confederate General’s Memoir —
A Detective Story
The personal recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander with Gary W. Gallagher.
UVa Bayly Art Museum
With Paintbrush and Shovel
Author Nancy Kober and panelists Betty Steele, Bettie Guthrie and Donna Ware discuss wildflowers, watercolors and women’s history (University Press of Va, Bayly).
Student Bookstore
The Jefferson-Hemmings Legacy
Descendant, Byron Woodson, and Shannon Lanier, and photographer Jane Feldman discuss their books, A President in the Family and Jefferson's Children.
City Council Chambers
Impossible And Necessary
The art of translation with Joel Agee, Michiko Niikuni Wilson, Kandioura Dramé and Katharine MacNamara.
McIntire Room Central Library
Fiction Reading
With Carrie Brown, John Gregory Brown, Maud Casey and Geoff Schmidt. (WMRA)
Village School
Joy of Writing
LVA students and tutors read from an annual publication of their writings (Literacy Volunteers of America / Blue Ridge ESL Council, Sprint Yellow Pages).
New Dominion Bookshop
Larger Than Life
Memoirs of larger-than-life family members with Lois Gould, Richard Wertime, Elizabeth Hodges and Charles Marsh.
Tastings
State of the Grape
A presentation with Felicia Warburg Rogan and Bill Curtis discussing Virginia Wines (Howell Press). Followed by a tasting.
McGuffey Art Center
From Memory to Book
Barbara Nordin talks about translating personal memories into handbound books. Followed at 12 noon by "Grow a Book," Rosamond Casey’s bookmaking workshop. Participants will collaborate on an 8-page book to take home; pre-register by calling 293-8733.
Piedmont Virginia Community College
Animal Grace
Author Mary Lou Randour examines spiritual connections between animals and humans.
Boars Head Inn
For Gourmets and Gourmands
Chefs Wayne Nish, Jimmy Sneed, Alfred Payne and moderator Helen Worth discuss cooking books which influenced them.
11 am
Mincer’s
Author Coy Barefoot signs The Corner: A History of Student Life at UVA.
11 am - 3 pm
Oakley's Gently Used Books (York Place)
Children's Book Swap
12 pm – 1:30 pm
McGuffey Art Center
Grow A Book
Rosamond Casey's bookmaking workshop. Participants will collaborate on an 8-page book. Preregister by calling 293-8733.
UVa Bookstore
Science and Sensibility
Authors Rebecca Goldstein and Joan Richards discuss how science influences their writing.
UVa Rotunda
Shenandoah’s Best
A reading hosted by Shenandoah literary magazine featuring novelist Heather Ross Miller and poet Kathryn Stripling Byer.
UVa Zehmer Hall
Editing the "Truth" of Civil War History
Challenges of editing the papers of Jed Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson’s mapmaker and topographer, with William J. Miller.
City Council Chambers
Hired Pens
With freelance writers Elizabeth Howard, Kathleen Phalen, Gail Ross and moderator Deborah M. Prum.
McIntire Room, Central Library
Writing the Historical Mystery
With Elizabeth Foxwell, Ann McMillan, Miriam Grace Monfredo and Daniel Stashower.
Village School
Lyrical Liaisons: Narrative and Lyric Speak to Each Other
With poets Robin Becker and Katherine Soniat (Charlottesville Writing Center).
New Dominion Bookshop
Parlor Politics
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women’s politics discussed by authors Catherine Allgor and David Mattern.
Vinegar Hill Theater
Kudzu Grows on Charlottesville
Political cartoonist Doug Marlette shows slides and discusses his work. (WMRA)
Barnes & Noble
Fiction Reading
With Joe Ashby Porter and Martin Clark.
Kenneth Coles Salon (1117 Market Street)
Shoptalk
African American authors Patricia Elam and Gloria Taylor Edwards discuss their craft.
1 – 3 pm
Albemarle High School
Very Special Arts Workshop on Poetry Reading and Writing
With "The Sugar Lady" Arlene Carter-Pounds.
2 pm – 3:30 pm
UVa Bookstore
Post Meridian
A literary afternoon with Meridian magazine featuring John Casey, Gregory Orr, Christie Hodgen, Eric Pankey, Jennifer Kronovet and Jane Shippen.
Zehmer Hall
Sex, Docs and Civil War
New research on "the stories the soldiers wouldn’t tell" and the court-martial of 50 Union surgeons, with Thomas P. Lowry and Michael G. Mahon.
City Council Chambers
Tube Talk
Novelists Writing for TV and movies with Mark Richard, Matt Witten, Elwood Reid and moderator Avery Chenoweth.
McIntire Room, Central Library
Picturing Charlottesville
Coy Barefoot, Ed Lay and Mary Motley Kalergis "picture" Charlottesville/Albemarle in photo, print and CD-Rom.
Village School
Spanish Poetry
A Spanish-language reading of classic poems and originals by poet Fernando Operé.
County Office Building
Depression and Creativity
Discussion of the relationship by authors Nell Casey, Virginia Heffernan, Martha Manning, Maud Casey, and Joshua Wolf Shenk.
New Dominion Bookshop
The Art of the Short Story
With Dwight Allen, Wayne Wilson and George Singleton.
Vinegar Hill Theater
Zap! Kapow! Literature!
A discussion by acclaimed graphic novelists Jessica Abel, Matt Madden and Ben Katchor, moderated by Calvin Reid.
Barnes & Noble
Ladies' First
With first novelists Patricia Elam, Karen Shepard and Julianna Baggott.
Quest Bookshop
The Life and Teachings of Jesus
Author Preston Thomas condenses the life and sayings of Christ.
Northside Library
Journey on the James
Reporter Earl Swift tells the story (with slides) about his new book on canoeing the James River (University Press of Virginia and Virginia Museum of Natural History).
Student Bookstore
Don Berard, artist, will discuss and sign his newest book of local satirical cartoons.
4 pm – 5:30 pm
UVa Bookstore
True Grits
A reading by African American Cave Canem poetry fellows from Virginia and the Carolinas, including Angela A. Williams, Kendra Hamilton, Lenard D. Moore, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Patricia A. Johnson, Toni Wynn, Karen Wade and Carrie Allen McCray.
UVa Old Cabell Hall
Jewish Musicians in Nazi Germany —
The Judische Kulturbund
Author Martin Goldsmith discusses his memoir of family and music. Recital to follow (Music Suppressed by the Third Reich).
City Council Chambers
Electronic Publishing
with John Feldcamp of Xlibris, Laura Miller of Salon.com, Katherine McNamara of Archipelago.org and e-Author Charlie Clark.
McIntire Room, Central Library
Jewish Poets
Rick Chess, Myra Sklarew, Alan Shapiro and Robin Becker read and discuss how being Jewish affects their writing.
County Office Building
Our Bodies Our Selves
A new edition of this women’s health classic with co-author Judith Norsigian. (Breast Health Coalition).
New Dominion Bookshop
Fiction reading
With novelists John Searles, Graciela Limón and N. M. Kelby.
Barnes & Noble
Culture Clash, East and West
Readings and discussion by novelist David Wong Louie, Dana Sachs and Donovan Webster. (WMRA)
Quest Bookshop
Breakthrough Intuition
Put your intuitive powers to work with intuition expert and author Rosemary Ellen Guiley.
Ivy Creek Natural Area
For Crying Out Loud
A group reading by writers Kristen Rembold, Susan Imhof, Charlotte Matthews, Susan Hull, Dan Bieker and Judy Longley (formerly Apple Mountain Poets).
6 pm – 7:30 pm
Carr’s Hill
Hosted by novelist Jan Karon and poet Fernando Operé at UVa President John Casteen’s home. Enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres with festival authors. Tickets $30; please call 924-3296.
7:00 pm
Gilmer Hall
Social Constructions of Deafness
Harlan Lane explores historical meanings of disability and its application to deaf individuals (American Sign Language/Deaf Culture Lecture Series).
8 pm – 9:30 pm
Culbreth Theater
International Novelists
Readings by John Banville and Amitav Ghosh. (WMRA)
8:15 pm
Old Cabell Hall
Music Suppressed by the Nazis: A Concert
Conclusion of a two-day symposium on Music Suppressed by the Third Reich.
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