Book Festival Bringing Authors to Schools

Kelly Starling Lyons

 

Each year, many of the writers participating in the Bookmarks book festival drop by schools in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system in the days leading up to the festival.

This year’s festival is scheduled for Sept. 8, and many writers will once again participate in the Authors in Schools program. Most of the visits are scheduled for Friday Sept. 7.

Here’s a list of visits scheduled so far:

Kiera Cass - Mount Tabor High

Amy Ephron - East Forsyth High

Kevin Fox - Reynolds High

Tilda Balsley & Ellen Fischer - Brunson Elementary

Alan Gratz – Philo-Hill Magnet Academy & Northwest Middle

Betty Hicks - Union Cross Elementary & Piney Grove Elementary

Joan Holub - Old Richmond Elementary & Petree Elementary

James King - Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy

Kelly Starling Lyons - North Hills Elementary & Meadowlark Elementary

Jacqueline Ogburn - Clemmons Elementary & Morgan Elementary

Esmeralda Santiago - West Forsyth High

Augusta Scattergood - Moore Magnet & Clemmons Middle
Sherrilyn Kenyon - John K. Kennedy High
Cate Tiernan - Mineral Springs Middle

For more information about the festival go to Bookmarks