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  • Reception for 2024 Sunshine State Book Festival

    The 2024 Sunshine State Book Festival begins on Friday evening, January 26 at 7:00 p.m. with a meet and greet reception for the 200 authors registered for the Saturday book sale. The Friday night reception and the book sale on Saturday will be held in the Hilton UF Conference Center, … Read More

  • 2024 Sunshine State Book Festival

    Bringing Readers and Writers Together For details, go to this website: https://sunshinestatebookfestival.com/

  • Writing Accurately About Mental Health Issues – Kassandra Lamb

    Millhopper Branch, Alachua County Libraries 3145 NW 43rd St., Gainesville, FL, United States

    Kassandra Lamb, a retired psychotherapist/college professor turned mystery writer, will speak at the Millhopper Branch of the Alachua County Library at 2:30 p.m. on February 11, 2024. In her talk, she will clarify several misconceptions and misrepresentations she has encountered as a reader of fiction. While most writers are astute … Read More

  • Marketing Coalition Meeting

    Zoom

    Our next meeting is at 10:00 a.m., February 19, 2024, by Zoom. The Marketing Coalition was established to help authors who are members of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) to market their works. Most authors prefer to just write! But marketing is a necessary aspect of the business of … Read More

  • Writer’s Talk: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park 18700 S CR 325, Cross Creek, FL, United States

    Cathy Salustri, the author of Back Roads of Paradise: A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida, will speak on Saturday, February 24, at the Rawlings house. Meet and greet the author at 1:30 p.m. Her talk begins at 2:00 p.m. Her book retraces the routes followed by Federal Writers’ Project authors … Read More

  • Books at Spring Arts Festival at Thornebrook

    Thornebrook Village 2441 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville

    WAG will participate in Thornebrook’s 2024 Spring Arts Festival on Saturday and Sunday, March 2-3, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Plan now to attend this fun event, held in a park-like setting. Dozens of books will be available in WAG’s tent, and many other vendors will be … Read More

  • Blogging 101 – by Andy Adkins

    Millhopper Branch, Alachua County Libraries 3145 NW 43rd St., Gainesville, FL, United States

    On Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 2:30 p.m., author and active blogger Andy Adkins will give a talk at the Millhopper Branch of the Alachua County Library entitled “Blogging 101.” A glance at his blog, A Veteran's Journey, reveals that he has been an active blogger since 2019. He writes … Read More