Book Festival
7th Annual Book Festival​
October 5, 2024 @ 10am - 2pm
200 W Oak Ave, Visalia, CA 93277
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Tulare County Library is hosting our 7th annual Book Festival 10 am - 2pm on Saturday, October 5, 2024!
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The library is proud to continue our annual tradition of growing literacy and connectivity in our community with the Book Festival. This festival includes author events, story telling, community partners, vendors, food trucks, the Friends of the Tulare County Library book sale, and more. This FREE festival features books and fun for all ages.
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Interested in being a sponsor or exhibitor?
Learn about sponsorship opportunities here and how to become an exhibitor here.
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If you have questions, you can reach us at foundation@tularecountylibrary.org
​Check out what happened during our
previous book festivals:
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2022 Mystery Book Festival
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2019 Book Festival (YouTube link)
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2018 Book Festival (Vimeo link)
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Last Year's Book Festival
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Ana Ot grew up reading, which led to her love for writing. When she’s not doing either, she’s dreaming up new stories filled with heart and whimsy. Ana enjoys traveling and discovering special books in quirky bookstores. The Heart Never Forgets is her first picture book.
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Works by Venita Blackburn have appeared in the NYTimes, New Yorker, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Story Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and several Pushcart prize nominations. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes, in 2017. In 2018 she earned a place as a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions award among others. Blackburn’s second collection of stories is How to Wrestle a Girl, 2021, finalist for a Lambda Literary Prize and was a NYTimes editor’s choice.
Her debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, published January of 2024 and is about the mania of grief, all of human history and a lesbian assassin at the end of the world. She is the founder and president of Live, Write, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color: livewriteworkshop.com. Her home town is Compton, California, and she is an Associate Professor of creative writing at California State University, Fresno.
This year we have a wide variety of tees and pullovers for purchase from Bonfire as a fundraiser to support The Tulare County Library Foundation!
We are happy to have children's sizes this year. All purchases will be sent to your home address.