The mission of the Literary Hill BookFest is to celebrate books and authors on Capitol Hill. Join us on Sunday, October 6, 2024 at Eastern Market!

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Meet authors @aranama (LatinoLand) & Jon Grinspan (Wide Awake) on Sunday, Oct. 6 @EasternMarketDC where they'll discuss their new books & our complex American story. #LHBF2024 #history #HispanicHeritageMonth #Reading #books
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Moderated by @RBoggsRoberts (Untold Power)
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Join us on Oct. 6 @easternmarket Our renowned children's authors discuss writing for young readers amid book bans & other challenges in our complex cultural moment. Deepa Iyer @dviyer Caroline Kusin Pritchard @CarolinePritch Hena Khan @henakhanbooks & Liz Kleinrock.
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Don't miss our panel "Sleuths, Spies and Suspects" on October 6 @EasternMarketDC It's a killer. With I.S. Berry @isberryauthor Stephen Spotswood @playwrightsteve K.T. Nyugen & Austin S. Camacho #thriller #mystery #fiction
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Many thanks to @capitalcommnews & @HillRagDC for highlighting @theliteraryhill - we can’t wait to see you on Oct. 6!!
Michelle LaFrance interviews the Board President of @theliteraryhill bookfest about the free event Oct 6. It features Hill authors and books, with a kids corner, panel discussion, readings and more --- Interview: The 2024 Literary Hill BookFest hillrag.com/2024/09/18/inter…
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Come join us for our annual celebration of books and authors on Sunday, October 6 from 11 am to 3 pm at Eastern Market! Meet your favorite authors of fiction, history, politics, children's literature, poetry, memoir and more. @EasternMarketDC
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Featured authors include Shannon Sanders @ShandersWrites Stephen Spotswood @playwrightsteve Amanda Becker @AmandaBecker Kaitlin Calogera @atourofherown Ginger Park @GingerPark_ Philip Reari @re_ari and many more!
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Literary Hill Bkfest retweeted
🙏 to stores who've made PEACOCK a staff pick, highlighted it, or otherwise helped it fly! @BNCarlePlace @bnHendersonNV @PagePalette @charmcitybooks @ParnassusBooks1 @TheGDBookShop @BNFairfax @BNfburg @bnrestonva @WincBkGallery, @poisonedpen @TheMysterious, etc. @AtriaMysteryBus
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Don’t wait to pick up your copy! @isberryauthor sold out EARLY @theliteraryhill last Sunday & her panel on spies & lies in literature was SRO!
Thanks to @BNFairfax for this awesome display of so many peacocks and sparrows. 🦚 Still some signed copies left! @BNBuzz @AtriaMysteryBus @AtriaBooks @simonschuster #thepeacockandthesparrow @ITWDebutAuthors
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Today is the book birthday for KIN: ROOTED IN HOPE, a verse novel that sheds light on our ancestors and their contemporaries at Maryland’s Wye House plantation. @simonkids #black history #black studies #childrensbooks #yalit #youngadult books #genealogy#roots #family
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"As Meghan travels throughout Birmingham to meet and interview citizens who can help her case, she paints a vivid picture of the intricate communities, deep and often buried trail of history, and the delicious food you can almost taste as you read." ~Kami Tei, Amazon #paperback
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An absolute honor & pleasure to speak to the @UVA Club of Tidewater about THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW and life as a spy. Thanks to everyone, esp. @mikemather at @UVaToday, who started it all. UVA alum are the best! Wahoowa! @AtriaMysteryBus @ITWDebutAuthors @UVA_Alumni #wahoowa
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Join me and @hiphopshope 11-3 Sunday Sept. 17 in Eastern Market's North Hall for #LHBF23. We'll be singing our new verse novel KIN: ROOTED IN HOPE. We hope to see you there. @theliteraryhill
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Our first panel of the day tomorrow: "Diversity in Children's Literature: Progress, Not Perfection." Featuring Carole Boston Weatherford @poetweatherford Ciera Burch, Frances Park @FPbooks77 Ginger Park @GingerPark_
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Moderated by award-winning educator and bestselling author Liz Kleinrock
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SO glad you’ll be there @EJWenstrom
TOMORROW! Join me and many other DC authors at @theliteraryhill! We'll be at Eastern Market from 11am-3pm. fb.me/e/tzw05qWHd
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Thanks, @KidlitInColor for featuring KIN: ROOTED IN HOPE, my new book with @hiphopshope.
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Come meet this charming group in person! Sun, Sep 17 @EasternMarketDC @JeffreyDLofton @isberryauthor @atourofherown @CoachKaitCal @BradKading @SunuChandy @tom_dunkel @BrennamMaloney @mchoukasbradley, Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, & many more! literaryhillbookfest.org
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Did you miss us? We missed you too! Join us on Sunday, September 17 to meet celebrated authors & rising stars. @chbooksdc & @eastcitybooks will be there! @EasternMarketDC @Busyvegkitchen
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"Tour de Force: Uncovering Our Hidden Histories," another must-see BookFest panel with DC's most clever historians & tour guides @petridishes @candendc @DCbyFoot @atourofherown @CoachKaitCal &JoAnn Hill. Hosted by the inimitable @timkrepp Sun Sep 17 @ 2:20 @EasternMarketDC
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