Bookmarks 2010

If you're in the Winston-Salem, NC, area this weekend, be sure to stop by their famous yearly book festival. Bookmarks 2010 features big-name authors and up-and-coming stars. On Saturday, September 11 from 10 am to 5 pm, you can see many of your favorite writers in person at ten different downtown venues.

For a brochure of the event, click here.

Here's a list of the authors who are speaking:

2010 BOOKMARKS FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Sixth Street Stage – Billy Collins
Young Readers Central – Tim Tingle
Red Room, Millennium Center Basement – Jade Teta and Keoni Teta
Speak Easy, Millennium Center Basement – Charlie Pierce
Food for Thought, Millennium Center Dock – Joan Nathan

10:30 am. – 11:15 a.m
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Artworks – Trudier Harris
5ive and 40rty – Alexander Ewing
Urban Artware – Rachel Keener

11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.

Young Readers Central – Carol Crane
Signature – Workshop with Carol Roan, “Speak Up: The Public Speaking Primer”
Red Room, Millennium Center Basement – Panel Discussion: Emerging Voices with Erica
Eisdorfer, Kathleen Grissom and Kim Wright
Blue Room - Millennium Center, Basement – Panel Discussion: The Art of Mystery with Bonnie
Doerr, John Hart and Erica Spindler

11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Sixth Street Stage - Christopher McDougall
5ive and 40rty - Jack Riggs
Food for Thought, Millennium Center Dock – Lulu Powers

12 noon – 12:45 p.m.

Young Readers Central - Storytime (will only last approximately 20 minutes)
Artworks - Robert Leleux
Speak Easy, Millennium Center, Basement – Frank Deford
Blue Room, Millennium Center, Basement – Christopher Cardinale

12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Young Readers Central - Melissa Conroy
Signature – Workshop with Anjail Rashida Ahmad, “The Essence of Poetry Writing: A
Workshop for Beginners”

1:00 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.

Sixth Street Stage – Diana Gabaldon
Artworks - Watts Wacker
5ive and 40rty - Patricia Phillips Marshall & Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll
Red Room, Millennium Center, Basement – Ursula Vernon
Blue Room, Millennium Center, Basement - Erica Spindler
Food for Thought, Millennium Dock – Aviva Goldfarb

1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

Young Readers Central- Irania Macias Patterson
Urban Artware - Emily Herring Wilson

2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Signature – Workshop with Judith Geary, “Publication Pathways 2010”
Speak Easy, Millennium Center, Basement – John Hart
Blue Room, Millennium Center, Basement - Kathy Patrick

2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Sixth Street Stage – Patrick McDonnell
Young Readers Trade Street Stage- Linda Beatrice Brown
Artworks - Zee Edgell
Food for Thought, Millennium Dock – Fred Thompson

3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

5ive and 40rty - Wanda Urbanska
Urban Artware - Anna Fields

3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Sixth Street Stage- Panel Discussion, Sense of Place: Diana Gabaldon, Rachel Keener and John
Kerr
Young Readers Central - Major Brian Dennis
Signature – Workshop with Andrew Leslie, “Finding Your Voice in Oral Literature: The Basics
of Storytelling”
Speak Easy, Millennium Center, Basement – Kenneth Posner

4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Artworks - Panel: Future of the Book and Publishing: Barry Miller, Carolyn Sakowski, Lee
Thompson and Myles Thompson
Red Room, Millennium Center, Basement – Getting Immigration Right with David Coates,
Hernando Ramírez-Santos, and Peter Siavelis

A Special Performance held by Choctaw Storyteller, Tim Tingle, will be held at the Center
for the Arts beginning at 4 p.m.


Programs will be held in the following venues:

Sixth Street Main Stage, Young Readers Central at the City Market Stands / Downtown School, 601 North Cherry Street; Artworks Gallery, 654 North Trade Street; 5ive and 40rty, 541 North Trade Street; Urban Artware, 207 West Sixth Street; Signature, 534 North Trade Street; the Red Room, the Speak Easy and the
Blue Room, the Millennium Center Basement, 101 West Fifth Street – Entrance is off of Trade
Street; Food for Thought, Millennium Center Dock – Entrance is at the back of the building.