WATCH the Bookfest Virtual Event
Schedule
(Approximate timing for the video above)
–5:00: Welcome to the First Ever Virtual Literary Hill BookFest
Unfortunately, the welcome and orientation by Board members Elizabeth Cogan and Tim Krepp happened before the director remembered to hit record on the video. Thank yous to our sponsors (down at the bottom of this page), this humble web designer (Sensical Design), and our Istagram guru Canden Schwantes were sadly not recorded but were much appreciated by the live audience.
0:00: Panel Discussion
Words to Live By: How Literature Can Sustain Us During a Crisis, moderated by Dr. Alison Steier. Panelists include Louis Bayard (Courting Mr. Lincoln), Abby Maslin (Love You Hard), Chris Datta (Fire & Dust), and E. Ethelbert Miller (If God Invented Baseball).
31:00: Virtual Children's Corner
Join beloved children’s authors Katy Kelly (the Lucy Rose and Melonhead series), Allison McGill (The Adventures of Duke, the Therapy Dog), Eva Pell (ResQ and the Baby Orangutan), and author/illustrator Rashin Kheiriyeh (Story Boat) in our first ever virtual Children’s Corner!
1:04:30: Author Discussion
From Juris P. Prudence to Abe Lincoln: Making Characters Come Alive in Both Fiction and Nonfiction, moderated by E. J. Wenstrom (Chronicles of the Third Realm War series). Participants include Louis Bayard (Courting Mr. Lincoln), Colleen Shogan (the Washington Whodunit series), James Mann (The Great Rift: Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, and the Broken Friendship That Defined an Era), Jessica Childress (the Juris P. Prudence series for children), and David Rapp (Tinker to Evers to Chance).
1:36:00: Poetry on the Patio (Virtually)
Holy Haiku, our verse is going virtual! Join our featured poets for poetry readings sure to inspire and delight you! Hosted as always by Jonathan Lewis at Tunnicliff’s Tavern (or at least, that’s his Zoom background).