Kentucky Women's Book Festival Saturday February 16, 2008

The Women's Center at the University of Louisville would like to announce the second annual Kentucky Women's Book Festival which will bring together Kentucky women writers and their readers to meet, discuss, and share their love and appreciation of the written word. The event is free and open to the public and will highlight and honor the outstanding accomplishments of women writers in and from the Kentucky area, expand the readership of women's works, encourage those engaged in creative writing and inspire a rising generation of readers and writers as an extension of our community-wide focus on literacy.

The festival is intended to be a celebration of women's reading and writing.

Plenary speakers include: Affrilachian Poet and writer Crystal Wilkinson, author of Blackberries, Blackberries (2000) and Water Street (2002); short story writer and novelist Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter; and columnist and novelist Betty Winston Bayé, an editorial writer and columnist for The Courier-Journal in Louisville, KY.