PROGRAM
Book Festival Events
September 23, 2023, 10:30am to 5pm
Featured Authors
Location:
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Campus Center West
Auditorium, Boardroom
Multi-Purpose Room -
Campus Center Assembly Hall
Author Signings
Location:
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Campus Center West Great Hall
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Campus Center Fireside Lounge
Local Authors
Location:
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Campus Center Ballroom
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Campus Center West Great Hall
Exhibitors
Location:
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Campus Center Ballroom
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Campus Center West Great Hall
Online Workshops
Location: Available Online only
SCHEDULE
Local Author/ Exhibitor Tabling in CC Ballroom (2nd Floor) and Great Hall/Area near Starbucks (Ground Floor)
Campus Center West Auditorium
Book Signings in Great Hall
10:30AM-11:30AM
Conversation with
STATE AUTHOR / STATE POET
Moderated by Paul Grondahl
11:45AM-12:30PM
Roosevelt Panel with Jeff Shaara and Nell Irvin Painter
Moderated by Paul Grondahl
12:45PM-1:30PM
HOOP MUSES with Kate Fagan and Seimone Augustus
Moderated by Colleen Mullen
1:45PM-2:45PM
ANNIE PROULX
on Fen, Bog, and Swamp
Moderated by Judith Enck
3:15PM-4:30PM
RUSSELL BANKS TRIBUTE featuring Andre Dubus III, Jennifer Haigh, William Kennedy, Nell Irvin Painter,
and Annie Proulx
Campus Center West
Boardroom
Book Signings in Great Hall
10:30AM-11:30AM
Conversation with Memoirists Ava Chin & Carmen Rita Wong
Moderated by Heather Murphy
11:30AM-12:15PM
Conversation with Piasecki Award Winner
Moderated by Courtney Ryan
12:30PM-1:15PM
Mystery Panel with Kellye Garrett & Valerie Wilson Wesley
Moderated by Frankie Bailey
1:30PM-2:15PM
Novelists Angie Cruz
and Jimin Han
2:30PM-3:15PM
Serhii Plokhy on
The Russo-Ukrainian War
Moderated by Nadieszda Kizenko
3:30PM-4:15PM
Howard Fishman in conversation with Michael Eck on Music Writing
Campus Center
Assembly Hall
Book Signings in Fireside Lounge
10:30AM-11:30AM
Belief in the 21st Century with Kate Cohen and Elizabeth Passarella
Moderated by Mark Koplik
11:45AM-12:45PM
Working Class Fiction with Andre Dubus III, Sidik Fofana,
& Jennifer Haigh, mod. Ed Schwarzschild
1:00PM-1:45PM
Fathers Panel with Susan Faludi and Mary Gordon
Moderated by Elisa Albert
2:00PM-3:00PM
Holocaust Panel with Jai Chakrabarti, Karen Baum Gordon, and Kim van Alkemade
Moderated by Mark Koplik
3:15PM-4:15PM
American Rascals Panel with Greg Steinmetz and Gary Weiss
Moderated by David Pietrusza
Campus Center West
Multi-Purpose Room
Children's Events
10:30AM-11:30AM
Children’s activities available from Skribblers Magazine and Albany Public Library
12:00PM-1:00PM
Skribblers and Capital District Writing Project
Open Mic Reading
SPECIAL DEMO/PRESENTATION
2:30PM-3:30PM
Demo/Presentation on How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies with Amy Wallen
The Orb Stage
Open Mic
1:00PM-2:00PM
Shaker Pointe Creative Elders Open Mic Reading
2:00PM-3:00PM
Young Writers
Open Mic Reading