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12 noon – 2 pm
Tell Us A Tale
Join WTJU (91.1 FM) Tell Us A Tale Host Peter Jones and the Third, Fourth, and Fifth grade students from Free Union Country School as they share some of the classic stories and poems we all loved as children.
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Hamilton’s at First and Main
Breaking Through Genre Barriers
With writers Deborah M. Prum, Lucy Sankey Russell, Kate Hamilton, Andy Straka and Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren (Moseley Writer’s Group).
McIntire Room, Central Library
Growing Together Through Books
Using Children’s Books and Stories to Strengthen Family Spirit. With Susie Straub, Morgan Simone Daleo, Elizabeth Gibson, Kathy Coleman and Dr. Thomas Milam.
New Dominion Bookshop
Voices of the Piedmont
Janis Jaquith, Rosa Knapp and Sharon Leiter read from their work (Virginia Writers Club, Charlottesville).
Village School
Jews View Christianity - Christians View Jews
With Peter Ochs and Jonathan Freedman.
City Hall
Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
Celebrated in photos and prose by authors Craig Marberry and Michael Cunningham — wear your hat!
Quest Bookshop
The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt
Presented by author Rosemary Clark.
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
UVa Bookstore
Carolina African American Writers Collective Reading
With Angela Belcher, Victor E. Blue, Beverly Fields Burnette, Chezia Thompson Cager, Christian A. Campbell, L. Teresa Church, Paula White Jackson, Candice M. Jenkins, Patricia A. Johnson, Lenard D. Moore, Gaye L. Newton, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Wendell W. Ottley III, Odessa Shaw, Gina M. Streaty, Evelyn Shockley and Karen Wade.
3 pm – 4:30 pm
UVa Rotunda
Self in the World
Global connections in art, literature and second language for K-6 students by author Gail McEachon and educator Ames Morton-Winter.
New Dominon Bookshop
Men at Work
Short stories with Thomas Glave, William Tester and Geoff Schmidt. (WMRA)
Village School
Jambalaya
A reading by contributors to Jambalaya magazine, produced for and by middle school girls.
Buford Middle School
The Land Without Liberty
A children’s musical about a place where books are not allowed (Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression).
Charlottesville Coffee Company
The Writer Next Door
Poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction by students and faculty of the Charlottesville Writing Center including Browning Porter, Heather Burns, Beth Schrank and Aoibheann Sweeney.
3:30 pm
The Covenant School Lower Campus, 500 Old Lynchburg Road
Writing about Insects
The real story about how The Glitterbug Story was written, with author Judy Schrecker.
4:00 pm
McIntire Room, Central Library
"Are We There Yet?"
Journalist William Lohmann shows slides and discusses a three-month cross-country trip he took with his wife and children.
5 – 6:30 pm
McIntire Room, Central Library
Hors d’oeuvres, conversation and the 2001 Altrusa Club poster contest awards. (Friends of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library)
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