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Program

Book Festival Events 

September 23, 2023, 10:30am to 5pm 

Featured Authors

Location:

  • Campus Center West
    Auditorium, Boardroom
    Multi-Purpose Room 

  • Campus Center Assembly Hall

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Author Signings

Location:

  • Campus Center West Great Hall

  • Campus Center Fireside Lounge

Local Authors

Location:

  • Campus Center Ballroom

  • Campus Center West Great Hall

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Exhibitors

Location:

  • Campus Center Ballroom

  • Campus Center West Great Hall

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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

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11:45AM-12:30PM

Roosevelt Panel with Jeff Shaara and Nell Irvin Painter
Moderated by Paul Grondahl

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12:45PM-1:30PM

Hoop Muses with Kate Fagan and Seimone Augustus 
Moderated by Colleen Mullen

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1:45PM-2:45PM

Annie Proulx
on Fen, Bog, and Swamp
Moderated by Judith Enck

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3:15PM-4:30PM

Russel 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

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11:30AM-12:15PM

Conversation with Piasecki Award Winner
Moderated by Courtney Ryan

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12:30PM-1:15PM

Mystery Panel with Kellye Garrett & Valerie Wilson Wesley
Moderated by Frankie Bailey

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1:30PM-2:15PM

Novelists Angie Cruz
and Jimin Han

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2:30PM-3:15PM

Serhii Plokhy on
The Russo-Ukrainian War
Moderated by Nadieszda Kizenko

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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

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11:45AM-12:45PM

Working Class Fiction with Andre Dubus III, Sidik Fofana,
& Jennifer Haigh, mod. Ed Schwarzschild

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1:00PM-1:45PM

Fathers Panel with Susan Faludi and Mary Gordon
Moderated by Elisa Albert

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2:00PM-3:00PM

Holocaust Panel with Jai Chakrabarti, Karen Baum Gordon, and Kim van Alkemade
Moderated by Mark Koplik

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3:15PM-4:15PM

American Rascals Panel with Greg Steinmetz and Gary Weiss
Moderated by David Pietrusza

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Campus Center West
Multi-Purpose Room

Children's Events

10:30AM-11:30AM

Children’s activities available from Skribblers Magazine and Albany Public Library

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12:00PM-1:00PM

Skribblers and Capital District Writing Project
Open Mic Reading

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SPECIAL DEMO/PRESENTATION

2:30PM-3:30PM

Demo/Presentation on How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies with Amy Wallen

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The Orb Stage

Open Mic

1:00PM-2:00PM

Shaker Pointe Creative Elders Open Mic Reading

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2:00PM-3:00PM

Young Writers
Open Mic Reading

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