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5 Mar 2025
‼️ ICYMI, our social posts have moved over to @VaHumanities! If you want to stay up-to-date on the 2025 Virginia Festival of the Book, be sure to follow Virginia Humanities on all social channels. You can also sign up for our newsletter at VaBook.org/subscribe.
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5 Mar 2025
📆 The full festival schedule is available now at VaBook.org/schedule, featuring 100 authors and 65 FREE literary events for readers of all ages. We can’t wait to see you all in #Charlottesville from March 20 to 23! 🎉 📚 #VaBookFest
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13 Nov 2024
ICYMI, we’ve moved to @VAHumanities! Join us over there to stay up-to-date on everything Virginia Festival of the Book. Plus, learn more about all the other exciting work Virginia Humanities is doing 💡💭
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1 Nov 2024
WE’RE MOVING! 🚚 📦 But don’t worry: We aren’t going far...
Starting today, November 1, you can find us (and our posts) on @VAHumanities’ feed. We’ll still be sharing all the same content you love, just in a different place.
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1 Nov 2024
This account will officially become an archive on November 30, so don’t drag your feet! You won’t want to miss what we’ve got in store.
See you over at @VAHumanities! 👋
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28 Oct 2024
Virginia Festival of the Book authors reunited Saturday at the first annual Crozet Book Fest, hosted by Bluebird & Co!
Festival Director Kalela Williams joined Jeffrey Dale Lofton, Kathleen Grissom, and Jody Hobbs Hesler for "Building Empathy", moderated by Kirsten Gelsdorf.
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27 Sep 2024
Tomorrow: join @NDBookshop 7-8pm for a reading by Luisa A. Igloria (@ThePoetsLizard) from her new poetry collection, "Caulbearer."
Igloria will be in conversation with David Bearinger, who directed our grants program for 38 years!
#Reading #Poems
🔗: loom.ly/rsozh4w
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29 Aug 2024
We had so much fun representing #Virginia at @librarycongress #NationalBookFestival! 📚 We hosted #GreatReads author Mojgan Ghazirad for a book signing, met readers across the country, and shared Festival goodies, including over 2,500 pieces of #VirginiaBeach saltwater taffy 🍬
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18 Aug 2024
Reading the submissions guidelines and FAQs before sending in your application? Very mindful! Very demure!
VaBook.Org/Submit
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16 Aug 2024
We're still accepting submissions to the 2025 Virginia Festival of the Book!
Apply by August 29th. For guidelines and the submissions portal, visit VaBook.org/submit
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9 Aug 2024
Announcing Virginia's #GreatReadsForGreatPlaces!
Each year, as part of the #NationalBookFestival, the @LibraryCongress's 56 affiliates select books from their state to celebrate the people and places around our nation. Both of our picks were part of the '24 #VAFestivalOfTheBook
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7 Aug 2024
Join us for the launch of “MORNINGSIDE” with author Aran Shetterly, in conversation with Dr. Andrea Douglas, Executive Director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. This event is free and open to the public.
Learn more: loom.ly/RGX1Uno
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20 Jul 2024
Amor Towles has received wide acclaim since the release of #RulesofCivility. #AGentlemanInMoscow spent 59 weeks on the #NYTbestseller list. Amazon named #TheLincolnHighway Best Book of 2021.
Don't miss him in #Charlottesville on October 16th!
🔗 loom.ly/NL1SmII
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18 Jul 2024
📚✨ Join us for an engaging conversation between bestselling author @AmorTowles and @UVA President Jim Ryan!
🎟 Tickets are available now at TheParamount.net
#Virginia #Humanities #Charlottesville #UVA #VirginiaFestivaloftheBook #Literature
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17 Jul 2024
The Virginia Center for the Book is thrilled to present TWO #literary events in #Charlottesville this October! 📚✨Learn about year-round events and reserve tickets for popular events
🔗 vabook.org/subscribe/
#Virginia #Humanities #BookLaunch #History #Fiction #NYTbestsellers
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10 Jul 2024
We're headed to Washington, D.C. on Saturday, August 24th, for the 24th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival! Hope to see you there! #NationalBookFest
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9 Jul 2024
The @LibraryofVA announced that poet and lawyer @dwaynebetts, founder and CEO of Freedom Reads, will be awarded the honorary Patron of Letters degree, the Library of Virginia’s highest honor.
Freedom Reads has opened more than 300 Freedom Libraries in prisons nationwide.
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27 Jun 2024
Hey Charlottesville! If you had fun at the 2024 Virginia Festival of the Book, It's not too late to vote for us as your favorite local festival 📚🎉 Cast your ballot at vote.c-ville.com
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20 Jun 2024
This past weekend, @vabookcenter members travelled to Cumberland County's Juneteenth celebration for the launch of Veronica Jackson's "A Permanent Record". Visit loom.ly/LZWyNCo to learn more about this monumental project.
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17 Jun 2024
Juneteenth celebrations are just around the corner. Have you read Kalela William's blog post yet? Check out her list of reading recommendations before the launch of 'A Permanent Record' this Wednesday, in Cumberland.
loom.ly/fRd0gHw
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