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!):
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- Julia Kuo, Jenn Koiter, Courtney LeBlanc, Kristin Ferragut, Emily Perez
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- Me, Cris, Shellie and her husband
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- High School Poetry Final Judge Gregory Luce
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- Poet and Moderator Fran Abrams
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- Kristin Ferragut and friend
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- Courtney LeBlanc, Me, and Cris
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- Jenn Koiter
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- Jay Hall Carpenter
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- Jay Hall Carpenter and Kristin Ferragut
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)
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- Lesley Wheeler
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- Jay Carpenter, Lisa Stice, Lucinda Marshall
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- Courtney LeBlanc
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- Kristin Ferragut
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- Lesley Reading Useful Junk by Erika Meitner
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- Emily Perez & Meg Eden
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- Jenn Koiter, Tara Campbell, Laura Costas
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- Alan King, Luther Jett, Gregory Luce
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- Indran Amirthanayagam
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.
Gaithersburg Book Festival High School Poetry Contest Winners and Finalists 2022 (taken by city staff)
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.
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