[OPLINLIST] 2010 Ohioana Book Festival

[Janet Ingraham Dwyer]

(Posting on behalf of Linda Hengst at Ohioana Library Association.
Please excuse cross-postings.)

 

 

To: Ohio Library Community: 

 

Ohioana is proud to announce the ten featured authors around which we
will be creating our 2010 Ohioana Book Festival program and community
outreach programs. We have a great line-up of featured authors who will
surely make this festival our most successful yet!  (See attached) 

 

The featured author line-up includes a Grammy Award nominee, two
Pulitzer Prize nominees, a MacArthur Foundation genius grant recipient,
two National Book Award finalists, a nine-time Cox award for editorial
cartooning and illustration winner, and a three-time Ohio Associated
Press Writer of the Year in prep sports.  Of course, each author has
many other awards that could be listed, but this will give you an idea
of the wonderful writers that will be given top billing this year.  In
addition to the ten featured authors we will have approximately eighty
festival fair authors who will also be involved at the festival. They
will be signing books, meeting fans, and in some cases taking part in
panel discussions and readings.  

 

This week, the Ohioana Book Festival web site,
www.OhioanaBookFestival.org <http://www.ohioanabookfestival.org/> , was
updated, and now the names, photos, and bios of this year's featured
authors, as well as some of the book fair authors are available to the
public. I encourage you to help spread the word about the festival to
your friends through email, web sites, twitter, and Facebook. 

 

We are also planning a Writer's Conference on Friday, May 7th, the day
before the Book Festival. Watch your email and the (www.Ohioana.org
<http://www.ohioana.org/>  and www.OhioanaBookFestival.org
<http://www.ohioanabookfestival.org/>  ) web sites for more information.

 

The purpose of the Ohioana Book Festival and Writers' Conference is to
increase awareness of the importance of Ohio writers and their
contributions to the literary arts and to encourage and celebrate
reading, writing, and literacy. 

 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Ohioana for more
information - phone (614) 466-3831 or ohioana at ohioana.org 

 

Linda R. Hengst, Executive Director

Ohioana Library Association 

274 E. First Ave., Ste. 300

Columbus, OH 43201

Ph: (614) 466-3831

Fax: (614) 728-6974

Website:  www.ohioana.org <http://www.ohioana.org>  

Ohioana email: ohioana at ohioana.org <mailto:ohioana at ohioana.org>   

You can support Ohioana by using GoodSearch for your internet seaches
www.GoodSearch.com <http://www.goodsearch.com/>  or GoodShop for online
holiday shopping www.GoodShop.com <http://www.goodshop.com/> 

The mission of the Ohioana Library Association is to: recognize and
encourage the creative accomplishments of Ohioans, preserve, and expand
a permanent archive of books, sheet music, manuscripts, and other
materials by Ohioans and about Ohio, and disseminate information about
the work of Ohio writers, musicians, and other artists to researchers,
schools, and the general public.

 

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Janet Ingraham Dwyer 
Library Consultant 
State Library of Ohio 
jdwyer at library.ohio.gov 

614.644.6910 
http://library.ohio.gov

http://library.ohio.gov/youthservices 

The State Library of Ohio provides services and resources to assist
state government and libraries in providing the best service to all.

 

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