A New Year, and A New Look
to Celebrate 10 Years
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 If you've been paying attention lately, you've probably noticed some changes...
To mark a decade of the Gaithersburg Book Festival, we've debuted a new look and new logo. Visit our website to see who you can expect at our 10th annual Festival.
And to help us celebrate this milestone, we'd love to hear your memories or see your favorite photos from past Festivals. Share them on our Facebook wall, or on Twitter or Instagram, and tag us with #GBF10.
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Exhibitor and Vendor Applications
Now Available Online
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Whether you’re an author, poet, publisher, literary non-profit, rock star food vendor or have a business that relates to reading or the book industry… the Gaithersburg Book Festival provides you with a great opportunity to connect with book lovers.
As an exhibitor or vendor, you’ll have your own space for the day where you can meet and interact with thousands of attendees and showcase your work, literary-related wares, services, programs and delicious dishes
Download your application to be an Exhibiting Author, Literary Vendor or Food Vendor.
The application deadline is March 25, 2019. All applications postmarked or delivered after that date must include a $25 late fee; late applications that do not include the fee will not be accepted. Applications received after April 17, 2019 will not be considered.
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Authors, Authors and More Authors!
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It seems like every day we have yet another great author join our line-up for the 2019 Festival. Here's a look at the latest:
~ Children's ~
 Alex Graudins is a a Rhode Island-based cartoonist and illustrator of "Science Comics: The Brain." She graduated from the School of Visual Arts’ Cartooning program in 2016 and has since contributed comics to sites like The Nib and CollegeHumor. Alex loves drawing memoirs and YA fiction focusing on mental illness and friendship. When she’s not working, she challenges her social anxiety with improv comedy.
 Kimberly Willis Holt stopped talking about wanting to be a writer 23 years ago and started to pursue her dream. Because of her family's Louisiana roots, she considers herself a southerner, but her father's military career took her to places beyond the South, including Paris and Guam. She's the author of more than 15 books for a wide range of ages, many of which have won awards and honors. Her third novel, "When Zachary Beaver Came to Town," won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She writes and gardens in Texas.
 Cheryl Willis Hudson is an author and co-founder/editorial director of Just Us Books, Inc., an independent company that focuses on Black interest books for young people. Cheryl has authored more than two dozen books for young children, including "Bright Eyes, Brown Skin" (with Bernette Ford); "AFRO-BETS ABC Book," "Come By Here Lord," "From Where I Stand" and "Clothes I Love to Wear;" "Hands Can" and "Construction Zone" and "My Friend Maya Loves to Dance." She also co-edited "How Sweet the Sound: African American Songs for Children." Her latest book, "We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices," is an anthology co-edited with her husband Wade. Cheryl is a member of the Children’s and Young Adult Committee of PEN America. Apart from her full-time immersion in children’s books, Cheryl enjoys singing and creating handmade story quilts.
 Katherine Marsh grew up in Yonkers, N.Y. After majoring in English at Yale, she spent a year as a high school English teacher before becoming a journalist for Rolling Stone, The Washington City Paper and The New Republic. Her first book, "The Night Tourist," won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery. Her third book, "Jepp, Who Defied the Stars," was a New York Times Notable. Her latest multi-starred novel, "Nowhere Boy," is based on her family’s experience living in Belgium and was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. Katherine currently lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, two children, two cats and a small flock of chickens.
 Jonathan Roth is the author-illustrator of the chapter book series “Beep and Bob,” which chronicles the adventures of the new kid at space school and the devoted little alien who won't leave his side. “Beep and Bob” is aimed at elementary kids who like funny and exciting stories, and has been recommended by School Library Journal, Booklist, Scholastic Teacher Magazine and Washington Parent. Jonathan is also an elementary art teacher in Montgomery County Public Schools and lives in Rockville, Md., with his wife, two kitties and three (or more!) bicycles.
 Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr are an author/illustrator and husband/wife duo who spend all day, every day, making stuff together, including the Real McCoys series and their picture books "Everywhere, Wonder" and "Babies Ruin Everything." In addition to speaking and leading workshops on collaboration and creative entrepreneurship, raising four small children, and fishing commercially for sockeye salmon on the Alaskan tundra each summer, Matthew and Robbi run Bobbledy Books (an indie press offering picture books and music for kids) from the hayloft of their home/barn/studio on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
~ Teen/Young Adult ~ 
Mia García was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She moved to New York, where she studied creative writing at The New School, worked in publishing and lived under a pile of to-be-read books. She is the author of "Even If the Sky Falls" and "The Resolutions" from Katherine Tegen books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
 Megan Whalen Turner is an award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of fantasy for children, adults and young adults. Her first novel, "The Thief," won a Newbery Honor in 1997. She has since been awarded a Horn Book Honor, been shortlisted twice for the Norton Award and won both the Mythopoeic Award and The Los Angeles Times Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Her books are filled with political machinations, divine intervention, dangerous journeys, battles lost and won, friendship, love and deception. Her most recent book, "Thick As Thieves," is the fifth set in the world of the Queen’s Thief.
~ Fiction ~
 Caroline Bock's debut short story collection, "Carry Her Home," is the winner of the 2018 Fiction Award from the Washington Writers' Publishing House. Forty-seven stories – from flash fiction to full-length works, deeply felt, autobiographical fiction – unfold across the decades from the 1960s to present day. Bock is also the author of the young adult novels, "Lie" and "Before My Eyes" from St. Martin's Press. In 2018, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County awarded her an Artists & Scholars grant for her novel-in-progress. She teaches at Marymount University and at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Md.
 Bob Levey is a prize-winning journalist who has covered the Washington scene since the Johnson Administration. For 23 years, he wrote the daily “Bob Levey’s Washington” column for The Washington Post. Earlier in his 36-year career at The Washington Post, he covered Presidential politics, Congress, local news and sports. Currently he writes a monthly column for Senior Beacon Newspapers. In 2000, Washington Post Books published "Washington Album: A Pictorial History of the Nation’s Capital," a 200-page illustrated history of the local city. Levey co-authored the book with his wife, Jane F. Levey, a historian. Levey is the author of two other books, one a collection of columns, the other a look at local Washington. His latest book is “Larry Felder, Candidate.”
 Arkady Martine is a speculative fiction writer and, as Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, a historian of the Byzantine Empire. Under both names, she writes about border politics, rhetoric, propaganda and the edges of the world. Her short fiction has appeared in leading speculative fiction magazines. Arkady grew up in New York City, and has lived in Turkey, Canada and Sweden. She now lives in Baltimore with her wife, the author Vivian Shaw. "A Memory Called Empire" is her debut novel.
 Alice Stephens’ debut novel, "Famous Adopted People," was published in 2018 by Unnamed Press. Her work has appeared in LitHub, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Margins, Banana Writers and other publications. She is a contributing editor to Bloom and writes book reviews and a column, Alice in Wordland, for the Washington Independent Review of Books.
~ Poetry ~
 Jessica Mehta, born and raised in Oregon and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is the author of more than a dozen books. She’s received several writer-in-residency posts around the world, including the Hosking Houses Trust with an appointment at The Shakespeare Birthplace (Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K.), Paris Lit Up, the Women’s International Study Center, Acequia Madre House post (Santa Fe, N.M.), and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts (Nebraska City, Neb.). Jessica received a Halcyon Art Labs fellowship in 2018-19 to curate an anthology of poetry by incarcerated and previously incarcerated indigenous women.
 E. Ethelbert Miller is a literary activist and author of two memoirs and several books of poetry, including "The Collected Poems of E. Ethelbert Miller," a comprehensive collection that represents more than 40 years of his work. For 17 years, Miller served as the editor of Poet Lore, the oldest poetry magazine published in the U.S. Miller is often heard on National Public Radio, is host of the weekly WPFW morning radio show “On the Margin with E. Ethelbert Miller” and host and producer of “The Scholars” on UDC-TV. Miller’s most recent book is "If God Invented Baseball.
~ Non-Fiction ~
 Susan Page is the Washington Bureau chief of USA Today, where she writes about politics and the White House. Susan has covered six White House administrations and 10 presidential elections. She has interviewed the past nine presidents from Richard Nixon through Donald Trump – and reported from six continents and dozens of foreign countries. She has appeared as an analyst on the "PBS NewsHour," "Face the Nation," "Fox News Sunday," "Meet the Press," "State of the Union," "CBS This Morning" and other TV and radio programs. She lives in Washington, D.C. Her latest book is "The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty."
 Chris Wilson is an artist, speaker, advocate and social entrepreneur dedicated to supporting citizens returning from prison. He is the owner and founder of the Barclay Investment Corporation, a multi-service social enterprise specializing in residential and commercial contracting work. Barclay works closely with local workforce and social service providers to connect unemployed Baltimore City residents with clients who are in need of services. His other business ventures include the House of DaVinci, a high-end furniture restoration and design company, and Master Plan Productions, a social impact content development company. His book is entitled "The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose."
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10th Annual Gaithersburg Book
Festival
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Saturday
May 18, 2019
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On the Grounds of
City Hall in
Olde Towne Gaithersburg, Md.
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Upcoming Deadlines
Workshop Proposals and Poetry Contest
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There are some deadlines approaching for teachers and students.
~ February 1 ~
Workshop Proposals Due
Each year, the Festival offers attendees the chance to take free classes led by professional teachers, authors and publishers from around the region. Topics range from poetry and building suspense in a mystery story, to college essay tips and comic book basics.
Submit your application for proposed workshops.
~ February 21 ~
High School Poetry Contest Submissions Due
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The Gaithersburg Book Festival thanks the organizations
that have recently pledged
their support of our
10th annual event.
~ Partners ~
Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce, Inc
Homewood Suites by Hilton - North Gaithersburg
Politics & Prose Bookstore
RIO/Washingtonian Center
~ Festival Sponsors ~
Johns Hopkins University, MC Campus
Maryland State Arts Council
Washington Parent
~ Literary Sponsors ~
Asbury Methodist Village
~ Book Lovers ~
Gail Norris; Independent PR Consulting
Redfin
SAMS Club Gaithersburg
The Epoch Times
~ Festival Friend ~
Walmart
Sponsoring the Gaithersburg Book Festival is a great way to show your company's support of the community and the arts, while gaining visibility with our attendees, who are among the region’s best-read and most well-educated individuals.
We offer sponsorships to fit a variety of budgets, or we can tailor a sponsorship plan to fit your needs.
Visit our website for more information and to see sponsorship options.
call 240-805-1635.
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~ Partners ~
~ Festival Sponsors ~
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