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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Ohioana Library Association, which collects, preserves, and celebrates Ohio literature, is presenting the 2021 Ohioana Book Festival from April 22 through
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<p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">As we did last year, we decided to present the festival virtually to keep everyone safe as we continue to fight the pandemic. Thanks to technology, we will still be able to share
all the things people have come to love about the festival: panel discussions, conversations, and readings. There will be story times and activities for children. And an online book fair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">This year marks the festival's 15th anniversary, which has grown from ten authors and a few hundred attendees in 2007 to become the state's
largest event dedicated to Ohio literature. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Nearly 140 Ohio authors and illustrators are participating in the festival, among them<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><i>Funky
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Other authors include National Book Award and NAACP Image Award winner Jacqueline Woodson,<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><i>Goosebumps<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span></i>creator
R.L. Stine, essayist David Giffels, <i>New York Times </i>best-selling novelist Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ohio's new Poet Laureate, Kari Gunter-Seymour. The complete list of authors can be found at this link:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We will be providing updates on our website,<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ohioana.org">www.ohioana.org</a>, and on our Facebook
and Twitter pages. A complete schedule of festival programming will be released next Friday.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please email me if you have any questions or would like further information.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">I hope you will share this with your members and patrons, and that many of them will join us for this celebration of books, reading, and Ohio
authors. We hope to see you there, too. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Thank you!</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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