Savannah Book Festival
The Savannah Book Festival is a free annual book event that draws nationally-known and local bestselling authors and thousands of their readers to Savannah’s Telfair Square and the historic buildings around the square. The Festival begins on Friday afternoon at 5:30 pm with a keynote address. On Saturday, the all-day Festival features individual talks by more than 40 authors representing fiction and diverse nonfiction genres. The Festival features book sales and author signings, exhibitors, a local author marketplace, food vendors and family activities in Telfair Square. The Festival concludes Sunday with a fundraising brunch.
Friday and Saturday events are free and open to the public.
For more Information, visit: www.savannahbookfestival.org
Or call 912-358-0575.
Volunteers needed
Volunteers are always needed and appreciated. Volunteers should plan to attend one training session. Each volunteer receives a free Tshirt. Download a volunteer form at www.savannahbookfestival.org/volunteer or contact amyrhodes@savannahbookfestival.org or call 912-358-0575.
Local Authors, Exhibitors Wanted
Exhibitor categories include individual authors, publishers, booksellers and literary
non-profit groups. Download the application form at www.savannahbookfestival.org/exhibit
or contact amyrhodes@savannahbookfestival.org
or call 912-358-0575.
2010 Savannah Book Festival
Keynote Speaker for Friday, February 5th, 2010
The Third Annual Savannah Morning News Savannah Book Festival is proud to announce that internationally renowned and bestselling thriller writer Vince Flynn will kick off the 2010 Festival with a Keynote Speech on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 5:30pm. Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Dick Eckburg, hosted by Trinity United Methodist Church and free and open to the public, this exciting keynote talk will feature a presentation by Mr. Flynn, author of several New York Times bestselling novels including his latest, Pursuit of Honor. Mr. Flynn’s novels feature counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp, who proves himself to be a hero unafraid "to walk the fine line between the moral high ground and violence" (The Salt Lake Tribune) for our country's safety, for the sake of freedom, for the pursuit of honor.
Mr. Flynn will also appear during the Festival itself on Saturday, February 6th, 2010, again in the sanctuary of Trinity Church, to talk about his life in letters and his eleven novels, several of which are a part of the beloved Mitch Rapp series. Mr. Flynn, who overcame dyslexia and went on to fame and fortune as a writer, supports many worthy charities, including Tee it Up for the Troops and the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.
Sunday Brunch Speaker, Sunday, February 7th, 2010
The Festival is also thrilled to welcome back Festival favorite Julia Reed as Sunday Brunch Speaker. Ms. Reed is the author of Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena; Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns and Other Southern Specialties: An Entertaining Life (with Recipes), a collection of her essays on food for the New York Times Magazine; and The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story, a memoir. The fundraising Sunday Brunch and talk by Ms. Reed, a much-anticipated event in Savannah’s social calendar, will be held in the Jepson Center for the Arts at 11:30 am.
Set in and around moss-draped Telfair Square in historic Savannah, Georgia, the Savannah Book Festival, which will take place February 5-7, 2010, is an annual, free and open to the public celebration of the written word and its role in improving the human experience. Our mission is to promote, reading, writing and civil conversation. For each of the past two years, the Festival has attracted dozens of popular and critically acclaimed authors and thousands of readers from all over America to Savannah’s Telfair Square and the culturally significant buildings that surround it—Telfair Academy, Trinity Church and Jepson Center for the Arts. Within this beautiful venue, the Festival’s authors and their readers experience the intimacy and hospitality for which Savannah is famous.
This year’s Festival features more than thirty nationally-known and local bestselling authors, from historians, novelists, poets and biographers to cookbook authors and humorists. The Festival begins on Friday, February 5, 2010, at 5:30 pm with a keynote address by bestselling novelist Vince Flynn in the sanctuary of Trinity Church. On Saturday, February 6, 2010, beginning at 10:00 am and ending at 5:00 pm, authors will make hourly presentations at six different venues in and around Telfair Square:
• Fiction Sanctuary of Trinity Church
• History & Biography Rotunda of the Telfair Academy
• Contemporary Issues Telfair Academy’s Sculpture Gallery
• Lifestyle Neises Auditorium of the Jepson Center for the Arts
• Poetry Fellowship Hall of Trinity Church
• Free Speech Spoken Word and other Poets, Storytelling and New Authors and more in Telfair Square
Like the National Book Festival, the Savannah Book Festival follows a one-author/one-audience format: each author speaks informally and directly to his or her audience, followed by questions from the audience and book signing, with book sales managed by Follett/Ex Libris, the bookstore of Savannah College of Art & Design.
In addition to the Free Speech venue, Telfair Square will host food vendors featuring local favorites and exhibitors comprised of major university presses and emerging and self-published authors.
On Sunday, February 7, 2009, Savannah’s southern charm is on display as the Savannah Book Festival concludes with a ticketed brunch featuring Festival favorite and beloved food writer and memoirist Julia Reed.
The 2009 Book Festival was held February 6-8, 2009.
The inaugural Savannah Book Festival took place February 1-3, 2008 at several locations in downtown Savannah including the Telfair Academy, the Jepson Center for the Arts, Trinity Church at 225 W. President Street, Telfair Square, the Lucas Theatre at 32 Abercorn Street, and the First African Baptist Church at 23 Montgomery Street.
Local authors as well as authors from around the globe participated in the event by meeting the public, answering questions, giving presentations, and signing copies of their work.
The Friday night opening of the 2008 3-day event was hosted by John Berendt, well-known author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; and the keynote speaker was Terry Kay. The main programs were scheduled all day Saturday. The event concluded Sunday morning with a marvelous champagne brunch at the First City Club at 32 Bull Street, with a presentation by Nathalie Dupree.
2008 Authors included:
Mary Kay Andrews
Tina McElroy Ansa
John Berendt
Helen Maddox Bost
Kathryn Stripling Byer
Erik Calonius
Rosemary Danielle
Cora Daniels
Deborah Davis
Natalie Dupree
Starkley Flythe, Jr.
Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Jr.
Michael A. Fletcher
William C. Harris, Jr.
Paul Hemphill
Hugh Howard
Charles J. Johnson
Terry Kay
Daniel Kilbride
James Kimbrell
Cassandra King
Matt and Ted Lee
Michael Malone
Foley McLeod Mattox
Kevin Merida
Kate Morrissey
K.W. Oxnard
Julia Reed
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Alan Shapiro
Charles J. Shields
James L. Swanson
Michael Trachtman
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Rosemary Danielle talked with her fans and signed copies of her work following her presention
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