๐ @VAHumanities program celebrating and promoting books, reading & literacy for all Virginians
๐ #VABookFest is March 20โ24, 2024
๐ Join us!
@VAHumanities ๐ The full festival schedule is available now at https://t.co/B3We4a4HlF, featuring 100+ authors and 65+ FREE literary events for readers of all ages. We canโt wait to see you all in #Charlottesville from March 20 to 23! ๐ ๐ #VaBookFest
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WEโRE MOVING! ๐ ๐ฆ But donโt worry: We arenโt going far...
Starting today, November 1, you can find us (and our posts) on @VAHumanitiesโ feed. Weโll still be sharing all the same content you love, just in a different place.
Virginia Festival of the Book authors reunited Saturday at the first annual Crozet Book Fest, hosted by Bluebird & Co!
Festival Director Kalela Williams joined Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Kathleen Grissom, and Jody Hobbs Hesler for "Building Empathy", moderated by Kirsten Gelsdorf.
Tomorrow: join @NDBookshop 7-8pm for a reading by Luisa A. Igloria (@ThePoetsLizard) from her new poetry collection, "Caulbearer."
Igloria will be in conversation with David Bearinger, who directed our grants program for 38 years!
#Reading#Poems
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We're still accepting submissions to the 2025 Virginia Festival of the Book!
Apply by August 29th. For guidelines and the submissions portal, visit https://t.co/egJqozWzHm
Join us for the launch of โMORNINGSIDEโ with author Aran Shetterly, in conversation with Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. This event is free and open to the public.
Learn more: https://t.co/ITTcat20A9
@UVA Professor Claudrena Haroldโs book, When Sunday Comes, takes us to the Black record shops, churches, and businesses that transformed gospel after the Civil Rights era and nurtured the music that was an essential cultural and political expression for African Americans.
We're headed to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, August 24th, for the 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival! Hope to see you there! #NationalBookFest
The @LibraryofVA announced that poet and lawyer @dwaynebetts, founder and CEO of Freedom Reads, will be awarded the honorary Patron of Letters degree, the Library of Virginiaโs highest honor.
Freedom Reads has opened more than 300 Freedom Libraries in prisons nationwide.
Hey Charlottesville! If you had fun at the 2024 Virginia Festival of the Book, It's not too late to vote for us as your favorite local festival ๐๐ Cast your ballot at https://t.co/LXNI4QO9CO
This past weekend, @vabookcenter members travelled to Cumberland County's Juneteenth celebration for the launch of Veronica Jackson's "A Permanent Record". Visit https://t.co/EweE356tDv to learn more about this monumental project.