The Georgia Literary Festival, one of the premier book events in Georgia, is coming
to the Golden Isles for the first time, hosted by the College of Coastal Georgia,
the Golden Isles Convention and Visitors Bureau, and
the Jekyll Island
Authority.
Sponsored by the Georgia Center for the Book and the Georgia
Humanities Council, the Festival has celebrated exceptional writing in a different
part of the state since 1999. The 2012 Georgia Literary Festival at the Golden Isles
will be held November 9-11. A full day of free programs will be held on November
10 at the new Jekyll Island Convention Center. Additional Festival activities will
be held at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel, the historic Ritz Theatre in Brunswick,
in schools, and in private homes. Profit generated by the Festival activities will
stay in this community, benefiting Baby Steps, a local childhood literacy program.
To receive updates about the 2012 Georgia Literary Festival at the Golden Isles,
please contact us at literaryfestival@ccga.edu
List of Featured Authors and Books
| Hugh Acheson | A New Turn in the South | Culinary |
| Mary Kay Andrews | Spring Fever; Summer Rental | Fiction |
| Tina McElroy Ansa | Taking After Mudear | Fiction |
| Doraine Bennet | Sing, Dance, Shout; James Oglethorpe; Tomochichi; Mary Musgrove | Children’s Literature |
| Steve Berry | The Columbus Affair | Fiction |
| Daniel Black | Twelve Gates to the City | Fiction |
| Stacy Cordery | Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts | History |
| Janice Daugharty | Going to Jackson; Heir to the Everlasting; The Little Known | The Georgia Review |
| Natalie Dupree & Cynthia Graubart | Southern Biscuits, Mastering the Art of Southern Cooking | Culinary |
| Damon Fowler | Classical Southern Cooking; The Savannah Cookbook | Culinary |
| Alice Friman | Vinculum | The Georgia Review |
| Jane Garvey | Wine columnist | Culinary |
| Gail Karwoski | The Tree That Owns Itself | Children’s Literature |
| Daisy King | Meet Me on Jekyll Island | Culinary |
| June Hall McCash | The Jekyll Island Club Hotel, Plum Orchard, Almost to Eden | History |
| Brenden Martin | The Jekyll Island Club Hotel | |
| Jack McDevitt | The Cassandra Project; Firebird; Going Interstellar | Fiction |
| Judson Mitcham | A Little Salvation: Poems Old and New; The Sweet Everlasting; Sabbath Creek | The Georgia Review |
| Pamela Bauer Mueller | Splendid Isolation | Fiction |
| Crystal Ball O’Connor | Jake and the Migration of the Monarch; Katherine’s Quilt Made for Dreaming; Sing with Me Brennan | Children’s Literature |
| Joe Randall | A Taste of Heritage: The New African American Cuisine | Culinary |
| William Rawlings, Jr. | The Mile High Club | Fiction |
| Janisse Ray | The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food | Nature |
| Michele Ross | Literary critic | Fiction |
| Lola Schaefer | One Special Day | Children’s Literature |
| Danny Schnitzlein | The Monster Who Ate My Peas; The Monster Who Did My Math | Children’s Literature |
| Charles Seabrook | Cumberland Island: Strong Women, Wild Horses; The World of the Salt Marsh (Access Atlanta Review | UGA Press Review | Florida Times Union Review) | Nature |
| Jeffrey Small | The Breath of God | Fiction |
| Natasha Trethewey | Thrall | The Georgia Review |
| Jesse Tullos | The Red Terrors | History |
| Anita Zaleski Weinraub | Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History; Trip Around the World: A Country Quilt Block Travelogue | History |
| Jane Wood | Trouble on the St. John’s River | Nature |
