The second Fredonia Literary Festival, to celebrate all things literary, is slated for Friday, April 26th at the State University of New York at Fredonia. The event will run from 12:00-4:30 PM in the Williams Center Blue Lounge and Multipurpose Room. The festival is free and the public is invited to attend.
Three panels will feature the importance of student creative publications, promote the work of regional and alumni professional writers, and host area librarians discussing threats from recent book bans, especially on young readers. The festival will also include an open mic session, and conclude with a memorial reading, hosted by English 400 Senior Seminar students, to honor department faculty who have passed.
Vendors featuring creative and book arts for sale will join representatives from campus publications and writing-based groups; signed books will be available for sale by our guest and faculty writers. Fredonia's Next Chapter Bookstore will also have a table of gently used books for sale. Vendors, book sales and signings and other tabling will be held in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room. Light refreshments will be available.
The festival is sponsored and funded primarily by the Department of English and its Mary Louise White Fund established with the Fredonia College Foundation, with additional support from Fredonia's chapter of Sigma Tau Delta English honor society and the Next Chapter Bookstore (Literacy Volunteers) in Fredonia.
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