What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? On my table, festival goers will find “Bogustan: An Adventure in Diplomatic Misunderstanding,” a comic novel which takes place in a fictional country, but is inspired by my real-life work overseas as an AntiCorruption Advisor at a U.S. Embassy. The book recounts […]
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David Bell is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels for adults and young adults. Try Not to Breathe is a story about an ex-cop who sets out to find her missing sister and discovers the shocking truth about her family.
Dancing on the Page, a memoir in verse, is an homage to the soundtrack of the process of a poet becoming herself.
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? A Play for Revenge – Lily Kimura returns to her hometown of Starlight Cove with her twelve-year-old daughter, fresh out of a divorce. She’s committed to starting over, starting with her role as theater manager at the Starlight Cove Playhouse. The playhouse […]
Presented by The Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Humanities, this program is part of the main festival on November 2. Crystal Wilkinson Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts Recipient of a Writing Freedom fellowship, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, an O. Henry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Fellowship, a USA Artists Fellowship, and […]
Fans of poetry won't want to miss Kentucky's Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson, author of Perfect Black, and Frank X Walker, author of Black Box: Poems in conversation with Jeremy Paden, author of world as sacred burning heart on the Main Stage. Join at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, or watch the livestream from here on Saturday, November 6. […]
What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table? Four of my five books will appear on my table but I also hope folks will stop by the register at Joseph Beth and preorder Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir which will be released in January 2024. 1. […]
Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the nationally recognized Spalding low-residency MFA in Writing program, this anthology collects essays from the MFA faculty blog from 2014 to 2021. These works offer a trove of insights and accumulated wisdom from fifty faculty members, directors, staff, and alumni-each dedicated to the Spalding ethos of creativity and compassion.
Join author/illustrator Rachel Elliott for this fun, generative workshop! Participants will use a game called "animal + emotion + occupation" to create comic characters, with Rachel leading the way with prompts and ideas.
Listen as novelist and memoirist Maryanne O'Hara tackles the subject of writing memoir while discussing her book, Little Matches: A Memoir of Grief and Light in the Writer's Room with author Kim Edwards. Join at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, or watch the livestream from here on Saturday, November 6. Thanks to our Writer's Room sponsor, UK HealthCare!
Listen as novelist and playwright Angela Jackson-Brown, author of "When Stars Rain Down" and novelist Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, author of "Even As We Breathe," discuss writing historical fiction with a southern twist. Michael A. Almond, author of "The Tannery," will act as moderator. This session takes place in the Writer's Room. Join at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, or […]
Come dressed as your favorite character and compete for first prize: a $100 Joseph-Beth gift card! All ages are invited to participate. The costume contest will be judged by four authors of books for kids: Kristin O'Donnell Tubb, Shawn Pryor, Julie Whitney, and Laura Krantz.