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Local Author Showcase

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Program

6:30-8:00 PM Meet the authors, book signings, refreshments, book sales by Bookie’s

7:00 Readings and panels

8:00 Prize drawing at 8:00 PM in Meeting Room A/B

 

Details about Readings and Panels

Meeting Room C

Mary Nelson Room at the End of the Hallway

7:00 Reading: Memoir/humor Sheila Lamb-Gabler & Rose Gabler

7:20 Reading: Chicago Sports Memoirist Tom Dobrez

7:30 Panel: Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors Myah Bawadi, Nubia Shambee, and Jennifer Worrell

7:40 Reading: YA fiction/humor Rebecca Garner

20 talented writers from A-Z!

  • Alanna Turner

  • Emily Hornburg                                                

  • Emily VanderBent                                          

  • Farrell McNulty                                                

  • Jennifer Worrell                                                               

  • John Crivellone writing as Jack Crivalle   

  • Joseph Weisz                                                    

  • Mark Edward Langley                                    

  • Melanie Holmes                                                

  • Myah Bawadi                                                    

  • Nubia Shambee                                                 

  • Pat Camalliere                                                  

  • Ralph Rosenbrock                                           

  • Rebecca Garner                                               

  • Rose Gabler & Sheila Lamb-Gabler          

  • Sheila Maloney

  • Stephanie Wilson-Coleman, Ph. D.                                           

  • Tom Dobrez                                                      

  • Z. Jeffries

Date:
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Time:
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Time Zone:
Central Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Mary Nelson Room, Meeting Room A (Rotary Room), Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C
Audience:
  Adults  
Categories:
  Adult Program  
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