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The 2010 Arkansas Literary Festival to be held on the Central Arkansas Library System's Main campus and in multiple downtown Little Rock venues. The seventh annual festival is guaranteed to be a stimulating mix of authors, panels, special events, performances, workshops and more.
The detailed schedule will be posted in Mid March, so check back with us then, and mark your calendars for April 8-11, 2010.
You won't want to miss it.
Author Marcus Sakey has committed to participating in the 2010 Arkansas Literary Festival. Sakey has been called "one of the hottest young crime writers in the country." His novels include The Amateurs, The Blade Itself, At the City's Edge and Good People. A Chicago resident, Sakey is the recipient of the Strand Critic's Award. His books have been translated into numerous languages
Author Staceyann Chin has committed to participating in the 2010 Arkansas Literary Festival. A proud Jamaican National, Chin's poetry has seen the rousing cheers of audiences everywhere including the Nuyorican Poets' Café, one-woman shows Off-Broadway, and writing-workshops in Sweden, South Africa, and Australia.
She is best known as co-writer and original performer in the Tony award winning, Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway, and made her film debut in Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe. Chin, who was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, has three one-woman shows, HANDS AFIRE, UNSPEAKABLE THINGS, and BORDER/CLASH that all opened to rave reviews. She is the author of the memoir, The Other Side of Paradise.
Author Margaret McMullan has committed to participating in the 2010 Arkansas Literary Festival. McMullan's new book Sources of Light will be published in April by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. McMullan, who studied at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, lives in Indiana.
A trailer for her new book may be found here »
An interview with the author may be found here »
Margaret McMullan is the author of five novels including In My Mother's House, Cashay, and When I Crossed No-Bob, a 2008 Parents' Choice Silver Honor, a 2007 School Library Journal Best Book, a 2008 finalist for the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction, and a 2008 Horace Mann Upstander Honor book. Both When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong won the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Best Fiction (in 2004 and 2008) and the Indiana Best Young Adult Book (in 2005 and 2008). How I Found the Strong also won the 2006 Award for Fiction from the Mississippi Library Association, was named an ALA 2005 Notable Social Studies Book, and a Booklist's Top Ten First Novel for Youth.
Her essays and short stories have appeared in Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, Southern Accents, the Indianapolis Star, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, The Southern California Anthology, Mississippi Magazine, Other Voices, Boulevard, Ploughshares, The Pinch, and The Sun among several other journals and anthologies. She received a Special Mention in the 2005 Pushcart Prize collection and twice she received the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was the 2007 Eudora Welty Visiting Writer at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and she received her M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
McMullan is currently a board member of the New Harmony Project and a professor of English at the University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, Patrick O'Connor and their son, James.
The full roster of authors who will be appearing at the 2010 Arkansas Literary Festival will be announced in February.
The seventh annual Arkansas Literary Festival will be held April 8-11, 2010 in many downtown Little Rock venues. With an exciting mixture of readings, panels, workshops, activities and special events, the Festival offers participants multiple opportunities to interact with bestselling authors and emerging writers. And best of all, most of the events are FREE to the public.
