Friday

5:00 - 8:00

FESTIVAL BOOKSTORE
Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center

Meet and greet with authors, regional publishers,
featuring book sales and signings. Runs through 6pm on Saturday.

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5:00 - 8:00

LITERARY FASHION DESIGN
Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center

Our literary fashion design contest will be on display throughout the weekend in the Visitor’s Center. Runs through 6pm on Saturday.

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5:00 - 8:00

EVERY PAINTING TELLS A STORY
Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center

Greenbrier Artists, our local artisan group, displays works in the Visitors Center Gallery through the month of August

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5:00 - 8:00

THE BOOK OF US
The Ascend Building in Stratton Alley

Celebrate with local creatives at a zine-signing event at Ascend Building, 447 S Court Street, Lewisburg from 5 to 8 pm, and view ’the book of us’, with live music, fun food and bev, an interactivity, and, of course, creative people.

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5:00 - 9:00

IF I KEPT ONE BOOK
Green Space

If you could keep one book forever, what would it be? This community chalkboard is a literary fest staple! Runs through end of event on Saturday.

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5:00 - 6:00

MEMOIR WORKSHOP
Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center

Diane Tarantini and Renee Nicholson will lead this journey into writing about one’s past through the method of memoir.  How do memoirs differ from autobiography? What are the common tools used in the process?  How can using the techniques common to fiction benefit the telling of one’s own story?

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6:00 - 7:00

PORCH POETS
Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center

The Lewisburg Literary Festival will present a one-hour reading by these four Porch Poets, featuring not only a few of the poems they wrote for Porch Poems, but a sampling of some they have penned together since that book’s publication.

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7:30 - 9:00

RONNI LUNDY
The Lewis Theatre

The double James Beard Award-winning author of Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes, 2016's Best American Cookbook and Cookbook of the Year, is interviewed on stage by Josh Baldwin.

Saturday

9:30 - 10:30

POETRY WORKSHOP
Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center

Sherrell Runnion Wigal presents “Some Assembly Required.” Through brief discussions and hand-outs, followed by timed, hands-on writing exercises, participants will begin to create their own poems and will be given the opportunity to share their drafts within the safety of this writing workshop.

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11:00 - 12:00

CREATING COZY MYSTERIES
Greenbrier Valley Visitors Center

Should you write cozy mysteries? In this session, Heather Day Gilbert discusses what cozies are and how to develop a series that will please this hungry readership. Heather will also discuss aspects of how she came to set one of her own cozy mystery series in Lewisburg itself.

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1:00 - 2:30

PATRICK BRINGLEY
Carnegie Hall

Patrick Bringley is the author of All the Beauty in the World, a memoir about his decade working as a guard at Metropolitan Museum of Art. In conversation with Greg Johnson, book signing to follow.

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3:00 - 4:30

VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY
Carnegie Hall

Victoria Christopher Murray is the New York Times and USA Today best selling author of more than 30 novels, including the New York Times Instant Best Sellers, The Personal Librarian and The First Ladies, cowritten with Marie Benedict. In conversation with Shaye Gadomski, book signing to follow.

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7:00 - 9:00

DAVID BALDACCI
Carnegie Hall

To date, author David Baldacci has published 50 novels for adults; all have been national and international bestsellers, and several have been adapted for film and television. In conversation with Eric Fritzius, book signing to follow.

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9:00 - Midnight

AFTERPARTY
Briergarten

Enjoy our afterparty at The Briergarten in downtown Lewisburg.