The Savannah Book Festival, which will take place February 5-7, 2010 in and around Telfair Square, is an annual, free and open to the public celebration of the written word and its role in improving the human experience. Our mission is to promote, reading, writing and civil conversation. For each of the past two years, the Festival has attracted dozens of popular and critically acclaimed authors and thousands of readers from all over America to Savannah’s Telfair Square, and the culturally significant buildings that surround it—Telfair Academy, Trinity Church and Jepson Center for the Arts. Within this beautiful venue, the Festival’s authors and their readers experience the intimacy and hospitality for which Savannah is famous.
As renowned historian Charles Bracelen Flood, observed, after the 2009 Savannah Book Festival:
As the author of 12 books and a former president of the American PEN Center, I have attended every kind of book-related gathering here and abroad. In recent years I have appeared at the Texas Book Festival and the LA Times Book Festival, as well as giving talks at the Smithsonian and the National Archives. The Savannah Book Festival is as good a forum for an author as any to which I’ve been. My wife and I were treated royally. My own talk was attended by perhaps 150 people in an attractive hall that had excellent acoustics. The introduction was informed and gracious, the questions were all knowledgeable, and the atmosphere was stimulating. The signing of my books after my talk and at one of the general welcoming parties was very well handled.
No one can be blasé about the beauty of Savannah [and] its synthesis of history and architecture. Charles Bracelen Flood
For the last two years, booksales have been handled by Ex Libris, the bookseller of the Savannah College of Art & Design and a valued collaborator in the 2010 Savannah Book Festival. To order books by any of our authors in advance, please click here.
For more information about the Savannah Book Festival, please contact Katherine Oxnard at 912-358-0575 or info@savannahbookfestival.org.
Recycling at the Festival by Green Life Space
Green Life Space is providing recycling for the 2010 Festival, with recycling bins placed in and around Telfair Square for our guests. Please help us green this event by placing your aluminum cans and plastic bottles in the appropriate bins!
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