The Georgia Literary Festival is a "moveable feast" that celebrates the rich literary heritage of the state in a location each year. We are pleased to announce that the eighth annual Georgia Literary Festival will be hosted in 2007 by the town of Blue Ridge in Fannin County in the beautiful North Georgia mountains. The festival observance will be Friday September 28 - Sunday September 30.
The honored writer at this year's festival will be the late Appalachian poet and novelist Byron Herbert Reece, whose 90th birthday falls in the month of the literary festival. More information on Reece, his life and his work is available from the Byron Herbert Reece Society
Among the featured Georgia authors with speaking roles at the 2007 event are Bettie Sellers, former Poet Laureate of Georgia and author of nearly a dozen books of poetry and essays; Philip Lee Williams, prize-winning author of A Distant Flame, Blue Crystal and The Heart of a Distant Forest; Amy Blackmarr, award-wining author of Going to Ground, Above the Fall Line and Dahlonega Haunts; Joe Dabney, author of Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread and Scuppernong Wine: The Folkore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking; Dr. Helen Lewis, Appalachian scholar and activist and author of a number of books; poet Dana Wildsmith; and Ethelene Jones, a poet, editor, newspaper columnist and author of Facets of Fanin: A History of Fanin County, Ga. Programming details will be announced soon.
The Festival is sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book with funding assistance and support provided by the Georgia Humanities Council.
For more detailed information, please visit: www.georgialiteraryfestival.org.
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