Wednesday
March 20

Wednesday, March 20

10 – 11 a.m.

Opening Ceremony

With the Poet Laureate of Virginia, Grace Simpson (Dancing the Bones) and the Flashbacks Jazz Ensemble.

Omni Charlottesville Hotel

11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Festival Luncheon

With National Book Award Nominee Marie Arana (American Chica, Two Worlds, One Childhood). Doors open at 11:15 a.m.

Omni Charlottesville Hotel

4 – 5:30 p.m.

An Afternoon with Dorothy Allison

Poet, storyteller and feminist essayist discusses her work (UVa Women's Center).

Culbreth Theatre

You Can Get There from Here

Moseley Writers Group gives tips on how to get manuscripts ready for editors and agents with Deborah M. Prum, Lucy Sankey Russell, Andy Straka, Mara Rockliff and Jennifer Riesmeyer Elvgren. Moderated by Kate Hamilton.

McIntire Room, Central Library

Lincoln's Virtues: An Ethical Biography.

Author William Lee Miller discusses his new book on Abraham Lincoln.

Miller Center

On the Downtown Mall

Gary Kessler discusses his new book featuring stories, photography and a historical essay on Charlottesville's downtown and its people. (Albemarle County Historical Society)

New Dominion Bookshop,
on theDowntown Mall

6 – 7:30 p.m.

Going for Broke

Authors Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and Ben Cheever (Selling Ben Cheever) describe their books and efforts to illuminate working class wages and standards of living.

UVa Bookstore

Cussing and Dancing

Poetry reading with Stephen Cushman (Cussing Lesson) and Virginia Poet Laureate Grace Simpson (Dancing the Bones).

Barnes & Noble

World Change Through Self-Change

Susan Thesenga addresses how self-responsibility, -knowledge and -acceptance build toward world change and greater peace.

Quest Bookshop

Saving Monticello

A discussion of the Levy Stewardship of Monticello with author Marc Leepson.

Congregation Beth Israel

7– 8:30 p.m.

Youth & Family Night

Our Young Country. With National Book Award Nominee Phil Hoose (We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History), Pamela Duncan Edwards (Boston Tea Party, Barefoot : Escape on the Underground Railroad ) and illustrator Henry Cole. Emcee Peter Jones of "Tell Us a Tale."

UVa Culbreth Theatre

Getting in Print

Manuscript strategizing with authors Jack Mingo, Erin Barrett, Andy Straka and publicity specialist and editor Jane Rafal.

McIntire Room, Central Library

Memoirs

Willie Tee (The Winds of Destiny), Robert Sanabria (Stewing in the Melting Pot) and Nesta Ramazani (The Dance of the Rose and the Nightingale) and Indar Rikhye (Trumpets and Tumults).

Piedmont Virginia Community College

Fishing in the New River Valley: An Angler's Guide

With author Mike Smith.

Blue Ridge Mountain Sports

8 – 9:30 p.m.

The Caged Owl

Gregory Orr reads from his New and Selected Poems (1973-2002).

UVa Bookstore

Philosophers' Club

Author Christopher Phillips (Socrates Café) discusses his new children's book promoting philosophy.

Barnes & Noble

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