#readers, #writers, anyone wildly impassioned by scheduling logistics: please help me order the seven sessions for my little local writers fest :)

Current:
11am children’s literature talk for adults
12pm fanfiction workshop for teens
1pm worldbuilding in fantasy discussion panel
2pm build a hero for romance and romantasy fans
3pm researching family histories for adults (memoirs and historical fic)
4pm short story workshop for beginner writers
5pm open mic

Constraints:
- the teen workshop has to be one of the first two sessions
- the same author is doing the teen workshop and the discussion panel; at the moment I’ve got them together as at least some teens might stay for both sessions, but the author might need a gap between her sessions for book signing and a break. Teens might need a break too 🤷‍♀️
- in which case, which session would best go between?
- I feel like i want the three fantasy-related sessions kept together, but that can be sacrificed
- the build a hero session works best with a glass of wine, so skews a bit later in the day (I’d prefer 3 or 4 — pm, that is, not glasses of wine 😊)
-the open mic has to go last. Also goes well with wine.

That kidlit session in particular is bothering me, it’s aimed at adults so feels like it should after the teen stuff, but the topic doesn’t feel like it goes late in the day, but I think putting it between the two teen-friendly sessions could scare them off because then they’ll feel grouped with the “kid stuff”

(The website’s here for more info about each session if it helps, but the order might change from that given above as I fiddle with it: https://bridgetownwritersfest.au/)

#books #LitFest #advice #scheduling

#WritersCoffeeClub 16 May. What's a writerly risk you've taken recently? Did it pay off?

I finally bit the bullet and committed to organising a little local lit fest during my town’s winter festival (we are a popular Western Australian winter destination for forest hikes and cosy firesides).

A local children’s author has agreed to do a session, I’ve asked a local crime writer to do a session, I’m going to do a fun one for romance/romantasy fans on “design your own hero” using HeroForge and wine, and a friend of a friend *might* come down to talk about her book set on the Bibbulmun track (long shot). If needed, I’ll run a session on cosy reads for a cosy town but I hope to get enough other people running sessions that I don’t have to.

In typical small town fashion, everyone’s still a bit hung up on the fact that someone else used to do this years ago, and called it “Words in the Valley” whereas I think it’s important to have the placename in the name (not that Bridgetown Writers Festival is particularly inspired but at least you know where and what it is at a glance…)

Don’t know that it’ll pay off in a writerly way, but I’ll find it personally satisfying if it goes well.

#writing #LitFest

Island Prize selectee and Holland House author Andile Cele will be at the Festival on Thursday, in an event packed with authors, books, discussion panels on all things literary - are you there?

Check them out:

https://www.instagram.com/ms_andilecele/

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Hindi is an alien, Apabhramsa language, says Author B Jeyamohan

South First spoke to #Tamil & #Malayalam writer, B Jeyamohan on the sidelines of the Book Brahma Literature festival 2024.

#bookbrahma #hindi #sanskrit #hindiimposition #litfest #Indianlanguages

https://youtu.be/oTs1tY8JAZ8

Bring your #kids for a #storytime with me at the #BostonBookFestival!

I'll be in the children's room on 10/14 at 11:30AM.

Please note that since there are so many wonderful authors traveling to Boston for the book fest, the time for my event may change as the date moves closer. So please check the website for updates!

https://bostonbookfestival2023.sched.com/event/1SMl0/storytime

#BBF2023 #childrensliterature #litfest #newengland #boston #books #bookfestival #picturebook