EVENTS
AUTHORS
Come join us at the Heartland Book Festival to meet authors and find books you want to read. We have scheduled events for elementary, middle, and high school students on Friday and writer workshops for Saturday.
EVENTS
Come join us at the Heartland Book Festival to meet authors and find books you want to read. We have scheduled events for elementary, middle, and high school students on Friday and writer workshops for Saturday.
This festival is for everyone. Come one, come all to this fun event.
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
James S. Owens Building
600 College Street Road
Elizabethtown, KY 42701
Friday, September 20, 2019
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Heartland Book Festival welcomes Hardin County Students for Student Day at the festival. It is also open to the general public.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Visitors to the Heartland Book Festival have the opportunity to attend free presentations and workshops offered by authors from a wide range of backgrounds. Novel writing, short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children’s and songwriting are all represented in these 45-minute sessions. Presentations and workshops address various stages of the writing process, everything from building a foundation to submitting work for publication. Additionally, visitors can attend a special poetry panel discussion.
Times | RPC Auditorium - 212 | RPC Room 202 | RPC Room 205 | RPC Room 210 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
9:00 - 9:45am | Building Your Novel's Foundation (Fiction) Sue Ballard | A Survivor's Guide for the New and Not-So Newlywed (Non-Fiction) Sakinah Bunch | Reading (Poetry) Nina Murray | Crafting Poetry (Poetry) Jen Selinsky |
10:00 - 10:45am | How to Write Your Community History and Their Figures (Non-Fiction) Bryan Bush | Methods of Manipulation: A Guided Poetry Workshop (Poetry) Sara Hughes | Ghosts, Goblins, and Little Green Men: Making the Unbelievable Believable (Middle Grade) William Wolfe | |
11:00 - 11:45am | Song, memory, poetry (Poetry) Jared Pearce | Universe and Human: Creating a Community in a Collection of Stories (Fiction) Teresa Stores | Non-Fiction: Writing What’s Interesting (Non-fiction) Anthony Clemons | |
12:00 - 12:45pm | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
1:00 - 2:15pm | Kentucky State Poetry Society Panel Discussion (Poetry) Libby Jones and Others | |||
1:00 - 1:45pm | Half Notes: Beginner Basics on Songwriting (Songwriting) Jim Corbit | |||
2:30 - 3:15pm | Dialogue Balloons (Poetry) Tom Hunley | How to Submit Your Fiction and Poetry for Publication (Fiction/Poetry) Robert Villanueva |