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Specific Funds

You may also consider designating your gift to a specific fund in support of the Virginia Festival of the Book:

Authors Fund

The Authors Fund provides much-needed funds for author travel and lodging, thus enabling us to recruit and bring to the Festival:

• highly sought-after authors with international name recognition,
• compelling authors from under-represented backgrounds, and
• up-and-coming authors before they’re generally well known.

With initial funding from David Baldacci, Renee and John Grisham, Jan Karon, and Lee Smith, we have created the Authors Fund as a way to ensure the Festival’s financial sustainability and to continue building the level of excellence audiences have come to expect. By contributing to the Authors Fund, you support the Festival’s continued excellence in the caliber and diversity of authors we recruit, the programs we host, and the audiences we engage in discussion of critical topics. To designate a gift to the Authors Fund, please make a note of this on your check or online donation form.

Literary Leaders

We invite you to consider an investment of $2,500 to the Virginia Festival of the Book. By making this level of investment, Literary Leaders support the ongoing vitality of our programming each year as well as one of the most important components of the Festival: author visits to local public and private K-12 classrooms. Literary Leaders are recognized in our print publication Views, in the Festival’s printed guide, on the Festival website, and at the Festival’s annual kickoff event, the Read & Lead Lunch. They also receive a Festival tote with a curated selection of five books featured at the upcoming Festival, two tickets to the Read & Lead Lunch, and two tickets to the Saturday evening Authors’ Reception. To designate a gift as a Literary Leader, please make a note of this on your check or online donation form.

Carol Troxell Fund

To honor the memory of Carol Troxell, thirty-year owner of New Dominion Bookshop, we invite you to support the Carol Troxell Fund–celebrating voracious reading. Each year, the Festival features an author as the Carol Troxell Reader, featuring him or her in a solo reading at New Dominion in addition to their regular program. By contributing to this fund, you will help support this ongoing effort and the selected authors, this year and in the future. We hope you can help us honor Carol’s memory in this way. To designate a gift to the Carol Troxell Fund, please make a note of this on your check or online donation form.

Sponsorships

As a community-driven effort, the Virginia Festival of the Book relies on the generous support of sponsors to make possible high-quality and free public programming that broadens attendees’ thinking.

Your sponsorship allows us to present exciting speakers in unique conversations, offer hybrid programming that is accessible, and reach audiences across Virginia and around the world. Whether you are interested in sponsoring a specific program or our programming as a whole, we offer sponsorships for any budget and interest.