Virginia Festival of the Book

📚 @VAHumanities program celebrating and promoting books, reading & literacy for all Virginians
🎉 #VABookFest is March 20–24, 2024
👇 Join us!

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@VAHumanities 📆 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 can’t wait to see you all in #Charlottesville from March 20 to 23! 🎉 📚 #VaBookFest

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‼️ ICYMI, our social posts have moved over to @VaHumanities! If you want to stay up-to-date on the 2025 Virginia Festival of the Book, be sure to follow Virginia Humanities on all social channels. You can also sign up for our newsletter at https://t.co/XJqMvEsGHH.

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ICYMI, we’ve moved to @VAHumanities! Join us over there to stay up-to-date on everything Virginia Festival of the Book. Plus, learn more about all the other exciting work Virginia Humanities is doing 💡💭

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@VAHumanities This account will officially become an archive on November 30, so don’t drag your feet! You won’t want to miss what we’ve got in store.

See you over at @VAHumanities! 👋

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WE’RE MOVING! 🚚 📦 But don’t worry: We aren’t going far...

Starting today, November 1, you can find us (and our posts) on @VAHumanities’ feed. We’ll still be sharing all the same content you love, just in a different place.

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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.

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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

🔗: https://t.co/ZbOoDJGFCL

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We had so much fun representing #Virginia at @librarycongress #NationalBookFestival! 📚 We hosted #GreatReads author Mojgan Ghazirad for a book signing, met readers across the country, and shared Festival goodies, including over 2,500 pieces of #VirginiaBeach saltwater taffy 🍬

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Reading the submissions guidelines and FAQs before sending in your application? Very mindful! Very demure!
https://t.co/qdB8or0k2s

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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

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Announcing Virginia's #GreatReadsForGreatPlaces!

Each year, as part of the #NationalBookFestival, the @LibraryCongress's 56 affiliates select books from their state to celebrate the people and places around our nation. Both of our picks were part of the '24 #VAFestivalOfTheBook

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Join us for the launch of “MORNINGSIDE” 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

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Amor Towles has received wide acclaim since the release of #RulesofCivility. #AGentlemanInMoscow spent 59 weeks on the #NYTbestseller list. Amazon named #TheLincolnHighway Best Book of 2021.

Don't miss him in #Charlottesville on October 16th!

🔗 https://t.co/k99jSX05Nz

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📚✨ Join us for an engaging conversation between bestselling author @AmorTowles and @UVA President Jim Ryan!

🎟 Tickets are available now at https://t.co/W63dUOhbZC

#Virginia #Humanities #Charlottesville #UVA #VirginiaFestivaloftheBook #Literature

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The Virginia Center for the Book is thrilled to present TWO #literary events in #Charlottesville this October! 📚✨Learn about year-round events and reserve tickets for popular events
🔗 https://t.co/gyoA6FEQHl
#Virginia #Humanities #BookLaunch #History #Fiction #NYTbestsellers

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@UVA Professor Claudrena Harold’s 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.

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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

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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 Virginia’s highest honor.

Freedom Reads has opened more than 300 Freedom Libraries in prisons nationwide.

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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 📚🎉 Cast your ballot at https://t.co/LXNI4QO9CO

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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.