SOUTHAM BOOK FESTIVAL – SUNDAY OCTOBER 24TH
Southam Book Festival is going ahead again this year at the Graham Adams Centre on Sunday 24th October.
It will run from 11am to 4pm.
Last year the event was on-line. But this year, subject to any Covid-19 restrictions, the organisers are planning to fill the GAC main hall with authors, illustrators, story-tellers, publishers, book sellers, book collectors, bookbinder/restorer – in fact anyone who supports the written/spoken word as an art form.
And I will be there, on a stall for Coventry Writers’ Group with their new anthology – Telling Tales. I will also be bringing copies of my new novel Silent Echoes, based in Coventry and published specially to coincide with the city being the UK City of Culture for 2021. Plus a few other books.
There will be plenty of book related activities going on throughout the day and entry is free to both the exhibition and to speaker sessions
11:00 Festival opens – 30 stalls / exhibitions
11:30 “How to Publish Your First Novel” – talk by Andrew Thomas
12:15 “Sue Moorcoft in Conversation with Bella Osborne”
12:45 Flash Fiction competition winner announced
13:00 “Illustration for Children: Draw Your Own Felix the Fox” with Simon Lucas
14:15 “Behind the Scenes for A Hundred Years to Arras” with Jason Cobley
15:00 “How I build a Poem” with Chris Burleigh
15:30 Book in a Window competition winner announced
16:00 Festival closes
Entry is free to the speaker sessions – first come first served, but you can sign up on the day on arrival.
Here is the link to find out more about the writers who will be in the hall, selling, and no doubt also buying, books from over 30 stalls.
https://www.southambookfest.co.uk/copy-of-authors-speakers
There will be a range of books on offer to suit every. Great Christmas gifts – with suitable books ready to go under the tree, you can tick a pile of people off your present list by the end of October 24th. All done at a leisurely pace and absolutely no need for panic buying.
