SEATTLE RAINBOW BOOKFEST 2008

Time

Event

Room

8:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m.

Registration for Drop-In

Coffee/Tea

Multi-purpose

9:00 a.m. – noon

World Café- Facilitated discussion to strategically plan Rainbow Bookfest’s future. Authors of color and allied literary community welcome, including readers, publishers, editors, booksellers, et al. Pre-register please by emailing Belinda.chin@comcast.net or calling 206-684-5999

Multi-purpose

Noon

Lunch for World Café Participants

12:45 p.m.

Welcome to Afternoon Program

Featured Speaker: Shawn Wong, author of “American Knees”

Theatre

1:15 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.

Finding a Publisher: The publishing experience from the author’s point of view :
Bharti Kirchner, Lensey Namioka, Juan Carlos Reyes, and Flor Fernandez Barrios

Theatre

1:15 p.m.- 2:00 p.m.

Writer’s Workshop: Himanee Gupta Carlson

Classroom

1:15 p.m.–  4:30p.m.

Author/Reader meet and greet at genre tables

Book sales, signings, readings

Multi-purpose

2:00 p.m.- 2:15 p.m.

Break

2:15 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.

Hedgebrook Panel: The joys and challenges of English translation: Maria de Lourdes Victoria Muguira, Paula Casla Taylor  

Panel hosted by Hedgebrook, a rural retreat on Whidbey Island where women writers come from all over the world to write, rejuvenate and be in community with each other

Theatre

2:15 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.

Publishers Seeking Authors: Learn what publishers are looking for from authors, and an introduction to Amazon’s Kindle, a new wireless reading device, and self-publishing services: Gary Luke, Sasquatch Books; Dan Slater, Amazon.

Classroom

3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.

Thematic Writing Panel: authors read work inspired by the idea of “new beginnings”:  Ken Mochizuki, Nisi Shawl, Antonio Hopson, Fred Su, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Janine Vance

Theatre

3:15 p.m.- 4:15 p.m.

Young Writer’s Workshop: Paul Harding

Classroom

4:15 p.m.- 4:30 p.m.

Break

4:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m.

A New Day – Readings from Young Writers

Presentation of Essay Contest Finalists & Awards

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Quintard Taylor, author of several books and other writings on western African American history, 20th Century African American history, African and Afro-Brazilian history. Titles include -  The Forging of  Black Community: A history of  Seattle’s Central District; African-American Women Confront the West, 1870 through the Civil Rights Era; In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West

Theatre