Giveaway: Gaithersburg Book Festival 2022 Is a Wrap!

The 2022 Gaithersburg Book Festival was a resounding success at its new location, Bohrer Park. It had far more shade and the tents seemed to be full from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. We had a lovely reception at Asbury Methodist Village for the authors and presenters, and I’ll share those photos here (Thanks to Photographer Bruce Guthrie!): Here are some of the photos I took from the Edgar Allan Poe tent where the poetry programming was located. We had 2 mixed genre panels as well — one with short stories (brilliant Tara Cambell’s Cabinet of Wrath) and poetry and another with nonfiction/memoir (brilliant Leslie Wheeler’s Poetry’s Possible Worlds) and poetry. (these are my own photos, except for the one with Jay Hall Carpenter, Lisa Stice, and Lucinda Marshall) We also announced the winners of the High School Poetry Contest. While the first and second place winners were not available for the ceremony, we did have a good crowd with the third place winner and the other honorable finalists.

GIVEAWAY: Win a package of poetry books from the book festival. The books are:

• Inheritance of Aging Self by Lucinda Marshall (my review)
• Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart by Courtney LeBlanc (my review)
• Little Wars by W. Luther Jett (my review)
• Poetry’s Possible Worlds by Lesley Wheeler (she was a phenomenal speaker and I plan to read my copy later this year)
• Riffs & Improvisations by Gregory Luce (my review)

Deadline to enter is June 3, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. EST. You must be 18 years old and up to enter. Leave a comment below with your email to be entered