Nationwide Activities

Arkansas

The Arkansas Center for the Book will promote the National Book Festival at a series of storytelling programs organized by the Arkansas Center and presented at six of Arkansas's major bookstores on four Saturdays in September (Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28). The bookstores are in Little Rock (Wordsworth Books), Blytheville (That Bookstore in Blytheville), Conway( That Bookstore at Mountebanq Place), Fayetteville (Barnes & Noble), Harrison (Books Galore), and El Dorado (Jefferson Street Books). Each participating bookstore will display and distribute National Book Festival posters and bookmarks. Using both professional and amateur Arkansas storytellers, each store also will adapt its program to its own clientele and circumstances, e.g. pure storytelling, panel discussions, presentations in connection with a city-wide arts festival. Program partners include August House Publishers in Little Rock and 250 public libraries throughout Arkansas.

Contact: Jane Thompson, phone: 501-682-5288, fax: 501-682-1693, e-mail: jthompso@asl.lib.ar.us