AuthorFest blossoms

Posted 8/21/12

HAWLEY, PA — Sponsorship from Dime Bank has enabled AuthorFest to grow this year, with a dinner on Friday, June 17 and an expanded meet-and-greet event at the Hawley Silk Mill on Saturday, June 18. …

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AuthorFest blossoms

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HAWLEY, PA — Sponsorship from Dime Bank has enabled AuthorFest to grow this year, with a dinner on Friday, June 17 and an expanded meet-and-greet event at the Hawley Silk Mill on Saturday, June 18. The festival, now in its third year, is a celebration of one of our area’s great resources: its arts community, in this case, with a focus on literature.

As in previous years, local published authors will participate and mingle with the public. The free Saturday program will begin with workshops for authors, aspiring authors and the public. This year’s topics are “First Line, First Look, First Hook” from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., and “Creating and Developing a Story,” from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m.

On Saturday afternoon, from 12 noon to 3 p.m., the public is invited to meet a variety of published regional authors, who will chat about their books, as well as sell and autograph them for the booklovers in attendance.

The Friday evening dinner, new this year, is at The Settlers Inn, and is a fundraiser for next year’s Authorfest 2017. The keynote speaker will be Suzanne Fisher Staples, who started writing professionally as a news reporter, working in New York, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is the author of several books for young adults that also have meaning to older readers and will also participate in the Saturday meet-and-greet. Other participating authors include Clara Gillow Clark, Will Wyckoff, Lucia Dailey and Gayle Krause.

Dinner tickets cost $50 per person. For more information email yannster@ptd.net or call 570/253-5468.

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