Four weeks from today, the Field Arts & Events Hall fills up with writers.
The Port Angeles Book Fest is Saturday, October 24, one to four in the afternoon. Dozens of tables tables of authors, small presses and bookish things spread through the whole building — mystery, romance, fantasy, horror, local history, children’s books, poetry. The people who wrote them will be sitting right there, and they would like you to ask them something.
- Nellie Bridge, Clallam County’s poet laureate, opens the day.
- Gregg Olsen comes up from Olalla to discuss two of Washington’s notorious women — one of them Lyda Trueblood, the subject of his new book, Ordinary Wife, co-written with his daughter Morgan. It officially publishes on the 27th, but we’ll have copies on our table three days early for Gregg to sign.
- Alice Derry brings together eight Olympic Peninsula writers for an hour of poetry and prose.
- There will be a panel for anyone who has ever wondered how a book actually gets published.
We’ll have a table as well, for Peninsula writers who don’t have one of their own. If you don’t know where to start, start there and we’ll point you somewhere.
It’s free. All of it, all afternoon.
The one thing we’d ask is that you RSVP. It takes about ten seconds, it costs nothing, and it tells the people setting up that room how many chairs to put out.
