Posted on behalf of Wisconsin Center for the Book:
Dear Wisconsin literary friends:
The Wisconsin Center for the Book invites you to join us in representing our state’s authors, illustrators, publishers and literary organizations at this year’s National Book Festival.
The 16th annual National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, will take place from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC. Free and open to the public, the Festival features more than 100 award-winning authors, poets, and illustrators in pavilions dedicated to book subjects ranging from history and biography to mysteries, thrillers, poetry and prose, and books for families and young people. The many thousands of festival goers meet and hear firsthand from their favorite authors, get books signed, and participate in a variety of learning activities.
At the Festival’s Pavilion of the States, people from every state provide information and answer questions about their states’ writers, libraries, book festivals, book awards, and reading promotion activities. The Wisconsin Center for the Book will be there to feature Wisconsin publishers and literary organizations. As always we’ll have room on the table for a limited number of small giveaways – books, bookmarks, flyers, pencils, posters, etc. (Small trinkets that kids and families like to pick up work best; all items will be given away by the end of the day.) Along with small giveaway items, if you would like us to display a featured book/magazine/journal we can mark them “for display only” until the end of the day.
Please help the Wisconsin Center for the Book promote our state’s excellent books, writers, and literary heritage to the rest of the nation. And seize this opportunity to highlight your books or programs for a captive, captivated audience of more than 200,000 booklovers.
Mary Lou Santovec
Wisconsin Center for the Book
Email: santovec@gmail.com
Phone: 920/945-0610
The Wisconsin Center for the Book is an all volunteer organization that celebrates books and the book arts, encourages the joy of reading and writing, and honors Wisconsin’s literary heritage. We are affiliated with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and with theUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Information Studies.