For bibliophiles everywhere, this promises to be a fun event!The Wyoming Book Festival will be held in Cheyenne, Sept. 14-15, 2007. It will celebrate Wyoming's rich literary heritage, promote Wyoming's books and support the state's authors, encourage reading, broaden people's reading choices, and provide educational opportunities for Pre-K – 12 students. More than fifty authors will be invited to read, discuss and sign their work; most will have lived in or written about Wyoming.
This will be the only major book festival within a radius of 120 miles: an area home to 3 million people, including two-fifths of Wyoming's population. Events will take place in downtown Cheyenne, both in indoor venues and outside. The festival goal is to generate an audience of 10,000 to 15,000 attendees and to reach beyond the core audience of avid readers to casual readers and even non-readers.
Wyoming Book Festival events will include:
Author readings, book signings and panel . An on-site bookstore will be provided through the Wyoming State Museum.
Author programs for Pre-K – 12 students that will support state education standards.
Hands-on activities and demonstrations.
Book-related movies
Book arts
A Wyoming Libraries booth that will offer local library information, library card sign-ups and a children's storytelling stage.
Wandering appearances by costumed book characters and PBS characters such as Elmo, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Leona the Lion from Between the Lions.
Poetry slams and writing workshops for teens.
Living history presentations.
Planned focus areas include history, Wyoming women, sports and outdoors, rodeo and ranching, home and garden, railroads and transportation, genre fiction, children's and young adult literature, poetry and literary fiction.
Why would anyone miss this?
1 comment:
I agree! Who would miss this HUGE event - with so many Wyoming authors!
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