NWA Ebook Fest sweeps downtown Rogers on Saturday

The primary ever NWA Ebook Fest — co-presented by Underbrush Books and The Cozy Librarian — is that this Saturday, April 1. Hosted outdoors Ozark Beer Firm in downtown Rogers, the free, family-friendly competition guarantees 26 Arkansas-based writers and round 40 distributors, together with native bookstores and publishers, writer cubicles, book-adjacent small companies and meals vans.

“We weren’t planning on doing it at this scale,” mentioned Courtney Ulrich Smith, proprietor of Underbrush Books and one of many competition’s founders. “However as soon as we opened up functions, we had like 50 authors apply.”

From 10 a.m. to five p.m., a strip of Arkansas Avenue between Walnut and Chestnut can be overtaken by two phases for writer readings, youngsters’s storytelling and bookseller suggestions. Established, rising and unpublished writers in about each conceivable style (poetry, literary fiction, nonfiction, science fiction/fantasy, thriller/thriller, youngsters’s, center grade and younger grownup) can be current.

“Rising up, there was like one impartial e-book retailer in our space,” Smith mentioned. “During the last three years, we’re now as much as no less than one in each main metropolis. And so this began out simply as a celebration … that now we have a group that helps bookstores a lot that we’re in a position to have that many thriving in what looks as if a fairly small-distance space.”

For a full listing of members and biographical details about every writer, take a look at the competition’s Fb event page.

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