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was held at Somerset Community College (Somerset, KY) on Friday, April 11, 2008. The theme of this year’s event was “One Hundred Years: Celebrating Harriette Arnow’s Enduring Themes.”
Special guests and workshop leaders this year included Sidney Saylor Farr, poet & professor Marianne Worthington, EKU Professors Charlie Sweet & Hal Blythe, UK Faculty member and author Gurney Norman, Professor & Appalachian Journal editor Dr. Sandra Ballard, Arnow scholar and author Dr. Haeja Chung, and Silver Creek Writers Mary Owens and Linda Caldwell, among others.
Sidney led a discussion on writing and publishing, in addition to reading from her memoir and signing books for an appreciative audience.
One of the unusual highlights of the conference was spending an hour in the basement when a tornado came through!
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The Book Fest, named one of Kentucky's Top 10 Events, is our state's largest literary event, and was presented by the Bowling Green Public Library, WKU Libraries, and Barnes & Noble Booksellers. This year the event was held at Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green on April 19th. Sidney joined authors Mitch Albom, Harlan Coben, Marc Brown, Leatha Kendrick, Kathleen Ernst, Garry Barker, Beth Dotson-Brown, Normandi Ellis, and over 160 other writers.
The event featured speakers on topics ranging from political thrillers to women's poetry. Readings, book signings, Q&A sessions, and a wonderful Author's Reception made this a valuable, as well as enjoyable, event.
Winners of the 2007 Kentucky Literary Awards were named at the convention:
Finalist: Fresh-Fleshed Sisters by Normandi Ellis
Finalist: Pax Intrantibus: A Meditation on the Poetry of Thomas Merton by Frederick Smock
Poetry Winner: Dismal Rock by Davis McCombs
Finalist: Bucolics by Maurice Manning
Contact Sidney at saylorfarr@windstream.net
2008 EVENTS:
SIDNEY SAYLOR FARR
The festival this year was held at Joseph Beth Booksellers and the adjacent Hilton Suites on Lexington Green, May 16th and 17th. Sidney joined authors George Ella Lyon, Jan Watson, Steve Flairty, Phyllis EagleTree, Frank X Walker, Beth Dotson Brown, and many other great Kentucky writers at this event, which featured book signings, speakers, and special events for children.
Emmy Award winning writer and former CBS news correspondent David Dick attended with his 11th book, A Journal For Lalie, which "chronicles their journey together through the medical maze of cancer treatment and, more importantly, through lives devoted to one another, to family, to writing and publishing and teaching, and to sustaining an outlook on the world that gives meaning to the word "life." (Quoted from their website.) At the festival he was awarded the Dr. Thomas Clark Award for Literary Excellence, and honored us with a short speech.
Lalie Dick, in addition to being indispensible to David, is a columnist for the Kentucky Farm Bureau's newspaper All Around Kentucky. Her column "Kentucky Women" can be read online at the KY Farm Bureau site.
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26th Annual Kentucky Book Fest - Nov 07
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Writing For Social Change
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