Students in grades 5-12 share their winning entries in the Book Festival Student Writing Competition.

Hosted by WVPT -- Your Source for PBS and More!.

Sponsored by St. Anne's-Belfield and the Village School.

Moderated by: Proal Heartwell

Novelists Ed Falco, (Saint John of the Five Boroughs) , Michael Mewshaw (Lying with the Dead), and John Pritchard (The Yazoo Blues) write of families, religion and politics.

Moderated by: Paul Shepherd

Featuring:
Edward Falco, Michael Mewshaw, John Pritchard

Featuring Annette Dunlap (Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America's Youngest First Lady), Lawrence Johnson (Reclamation), Julius Thompson ( Philly Style and Philly Profile),( John Trippel (Japan Remembered), and John Wills (Gripped by Fear).

Hosted by Piedmont Council of the Arts and Charlottesville Parks & Therapeutic Recreation.

Moderated by: Stephen Pfleiderer

Featuring:
Annette Dunlap, Lawrence Ernest Johnson, Julius Thompson, John Trippel, John M. Wills

Lois Shepherd (If That Ever Happens to Me: Making Life and Death Decisions after Terri Schiavo) and Paul Shepherd (More Like Not Running Away: A Novel) share their compatibilities as writers of very different genres in the same family.

Moderated by: Sandy Hausman

Featuring:
Lois Shepherd, Paul Shepherd

Memoirists and novelists Lucinda Franks (My Father's Secret War), Dara Horn (All Other Nights), and Kaylie Jones (Lies My Mother Never Told Me) discuss family secrets real and fictional. NOTE: Ticket required pre-sale via Culbreth Box Office or free while they last the day of the event. Details here.

Moderated by: Caroline Rody

Featuring:
Lucinda Franks, Dara Horn, Kaylie Jones

Graphic Designer Noah Scalin (A Skull a Day) and steampunk novelist Nick Valentino (Thomas Riley) explore creativity in "visual literacy" with talk and images from their work.

Moderated by: Trey Mitchell

Featuring:
Noah Scalin, Nick Valentino

Therese Fowler (Reunion: A Novel), Tim Poland (The Safety of Deeper Water: A Novel), and Christine Hale (Basil's Dream) on their novels of change.

Moderated by: Karenne Wood

Featuring:
Therese Fowler, Christine Hale, Tim Poland

Author of Four Corners of the Sky: A Novel and Ten other novels, collections of short stories and two non-fiction works, winner of an Edgar, an O. Henry and an Emmy Award for his work as head writer in the 1990's for the daytime drama One Life to Live. With Pre-luncheon music by the Flashbacks.

Sponsored by WVPT--Your Souce for PBS and More!.

Moderated by: Victor Luftig

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.

Featuring:
The Flashbacks, Michael Malone

With Clifford Garstang (In an Uncharted Country)and Jason Ockert (Rabbit Punches.)

Moderated by: Mitzi Ware

Featuring:
Clifford Garstang, Jason Ockert

Masha Hamilton (31 Hours) and Sujatha Hampton (As It Was Written), and Larry Baker (A Good Man) write of families and emotional conflict.

Moderated by: Mariflo Stephens

Featuring:
Larry Baker, Masha Hamilton, Sujatha Hampton

With novelists Tanya Gibson (How to Buy a Love of Reading), Dylan Landis (Normal People Don't Live Like This), Alison Larkin (The English American: A Novel) and Alan DeNiro (Total Oblivion, More or Less).

Moderated by: Jeanne Siler

Featuring:
Alan DeNiro, Tanya Egan Gibson, Dylan Landis, Alison Larkin

Katharine Weber (True Confections) and Max Watman (Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw's Adventures in Moonshine) discuss the often-crossing paths of immigrant Jewish candymakers and bootleggers.

Moderated by: Bella Stander

Featuring:
Bella Stander, Max Watman, Katharine Weber

John Casey (The Half-Life of Happiness), Maud Casey (Genealogy), Alice Randall (Rebel Yell), and Elizabeth Benedict (Mentors, Muses & Monsters) discuss the influences on their writing. NOTE: Ticket required pre-sale via Culbreth Box Office or free while they last the day of the event. Details here.

Sponsored by The City of Charlottesville.

Moderated by: Elizabeth Benedict

Featuring:
Elizabeth Benedict, Maud Casey, John Casey, Alice Randall

With Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Kamikaze Diaries), Dean King (Unbound: a True Story of War, Love and Survival), and David L. Robbins (Broken Jewel: A Novel).

Moderated by: Mary McConnell

Featuring:
Dean King, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, David L. Robbins

Christine Blevins (Midwife of the Blue Ridge), Pamela De Leon (The Savage River Valley), Lenore Hart (Evermore), and Siri Mitchell (Love's Pursuit) discuss their historical fiction.

Moderated by: Mitzi Ware

Featuring:
Christine Blevins, Pamela De Leon, Lenore Hart, Siri Mitchell

Laura Brodie (The Widow's Season), Shelia Curran (Everyone She Loved), Masha Hamilton (31 Hours), and Mary Sharratt (Daughters of Witching Hill) read from their discussable stories.

Boxed Lunches $10. with fountain drink, potato salad, & dessert Chicken Club wrap with Bacon, Romaine, Cucumber, Avocado, and Pesto Cream Dressing Garden Caesar wrap with Romaine, Cucumber, Red pepper, Tomato, Carrots, and Caesar Dressing orders can be emailed to zacsanger@gmail.com

Moderated by: Barbara Drummond Mead

Featuring:
Laura Brodie, Sheila Curran, Masha Hamilton, Mary Sharratt

Alice Randall, author of Rebel Yell and The Wind Done Gone, shares her novels from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era and beyond.

Hosted by African American Authors Book Club of Charlottesville.

Moderated by: Jane Hansen

Featuring:
Alice Randall

Readings and discussion by the translators Mehr Farooqi (Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature), Jason Grunebaum (Uday Prakash's Girl with the Golden Parasol) and Robert Hueckstedt (Manohar Shyam Joshi's Perplexity of Hariya Hercules).

Moderated by: Robert Hueckstedt

Featuring:
Mehr Afshan Farooqi, Jason Grunebaum, Robert A. Hueckstedt

With C. M. Mayo (The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire), A. Roger Ekirch (Birthright: The True Story of the Kidnapping of Jemmy Annesley), Mary Sharratt (Daughters of the Witching Hill) and Ben Farmer (Evangeline).

Moderated by: Larry Baker

Featuring:
A. Roger Ekirch, Ben Farmer, C. M. Mayo, Mary Sharratt

With novelists Peter Neofotis (Concord, Virginia: A Southern Town in Eleven Stories), Sheri Reynolds (The Sweet In-Between), and Josh Weil (The New Valley).

Moderated by: Caroline Preston

Featuring:
Peter Neofotis, Sheri Reynolds, Josh Weil

Charles McCain (An Honorable German), David Poyer (The Crisis), Robert Schultz and James Shell(We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War) share their naval war stories.

Moderated by: Michael Zbailey

Featuring:
Charles McCain, David Poyer, Robert Schultz, James Shell

Novelists Carleen Brice (Children of the Waters), Heidi Durrow (The Girl Who Fell From the Sky), and Kathleen Grissom (The Kitchen House) share their incredible stories of race and family.

Hosted by University Community Action for Racial Equity.

Moderated by: Frank Dukes

Featuring:
Carleen Brice, Heidi W. Durrow, Kathleen Grissom

With novelists Matthew Goodman (Hold Love Strong, Sheri Reynolds, (The Sweet In-Between) and Amanda Gable (The Confederate General Rides North).

Moderated by: Deborah Prum

Featuring:
Amanda C. Gable, Matthew Aaron Goodman, Sheri Reynolds

Sheila Curran (Everyone She Loved), Sarah Pekkanen (The Opposite of Me), Emilie Richards (Happiness Key), and Katharine Weber (True Confections) discuss their new novels.

Moderated by: Jenny Gardiner

Featuring:
Sheila Curran, Sarah Pekkanen, Emilie Richards, Katharine Weber

Kathy Erskine (Mockingbird), Fran Cannon Slayton (When the Whistle Blows), Sara Lewis Holmes (Operation Yes), Sue Corbett (The Last Newspaper Boy in America), and Irene Latham (Leaving Gee's Bend) share their stories.

Moderated by: Barbara Kanninen

Featuring:
Sue Corbett, Kathryn Erskine, Sara Lewis Holmes, Irene Latham, Fran Cannon Slayton

With Adam Bradley (Co-editor, Three Days Before the Shooting: The Unfinished Second Novel of Ralph Ellison), novelists Carleen Brice (Children of the Water) and Heidi Durrow (The Girl Who Fell From the Sky) and poet Major Jackson (Hoops, Leaving Saturn).

Moderated by: Tamyra Turner

Featuring:
Adam Bradley, Carleen Brice, Heidi W. Durrow, Major Jackson

Laura Rennert (Buying, Training and Caring for Your Dinosaur), Deborah Heiligman (Charles and Emma), Bonnie Doerr (Island Sting), Emily Ecton (Night of the Living Lawn Ornaments), and Ruth Spiro (Lester Fizz, Bubble-Gum Artist) share their stories.

Moderated by: Fran Cannon Slayton

Featuring:
Bonnie Doerr, Emily Ecton, Deborah Heiligman, Laura Joy Rennert, Ruth Spiro

Featuring Edward M. Lerner (Small Miracles), Steve White (Forge of the Titans), and David Louis Edelman (Infoquake)

Moderated by: James Beall

Featuring:
David Louis Edelman, Edward M. Lerner, Steve White

Would you like to see Atlantis rise? Taste the true grit of a rodeo? Touch the warmth of a dragon's nest? Five authors divulge their secrets on designing worlds as riveting as these and more.

Moderated by: Sara Holmes

Featuring:
P.J. Hoover, Keri Mikulski, Stacy Nyikos, Barrie Summy, Suzanne Morgan Williams

David Macinnis Gill (Soul Enchilada), Jennifer Hubbard (The Secret Year), Amy Brecount White (Forget-Her-Nots), and Paula Chase Hyman (Flipping the Script) read from their Young Adult and Teen books.

Moderated by: Anne Marie Pace

Featuring:
Paula Chase, David Macinnis Gill, Jennifer Hubbard, Amy Brecount White

Lee Smith (Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger), E. Ethelbert Miller (The Fifth Inning), Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge), and Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin). $10 general admission. Additonal Paramount box office fees may apply.

Moderated by: Sarah McConnell

IMPORTANT - This is a ticketed event. You must purchase tickets in order to attend.

Featuring:
Colum McCann, E. Ethelbert Miller, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Strout