Festival
Here a a list of panel discussions:
30 a.m.: “Gender Across Genres,” about how gender influences the creative process, with Elijah Nealy, Susan Strecker and Tarnapol Whitacre, moderated by Mary Collins.
30 a.m.: “Hometown Muse: How Writers Bring Their Roots Home to the Page,” with Dolores Hayden, Jose B. Gonzalez and Frederick-Douglas Knowles, moderated by Leslie McGrath.
30 p.m.: “Families Living Between Two Worlds,” about writers of color, with Chandra Prasad, Okey Ndibe and Ines Rivera Prosdocimi, moderated by Sergio Troncoso.
2:30 p.m.: “Eyeing the Winner’s Circle: A Talk with the 2019 Bruce Fraser Spirit of Connecticut Award Nominees,” with Michael Belanger, Katharine Weber and architectural historian Christopher Wigren, moderated by Lisa Comstock from Connecticut Center for the Book.
3:30 p.m.: “The Lives of Others: Writing About the Real World,” with Yelizaveta Renfro, Lary Bloom and Sonya Huber, moderated by Lucy Ferriss.
4:30 p.m.: “Keeping It Real in YA Fiction,” with Michael Belanger, Cindy Rodriguez and Melissa Thom from Connecticut Association of School Librarians, moderated by Sarah Darer Littman.
A café will be set up with half-hour reading sessions by these authors:
Luisa Caycedo-Kimura and Ciaran Berry at 11 a.m.
Nelson and Daniel Diaz-Villafane at 12:30 p.m.
Frederick-Douglass Knowles and Margaret Gibson at 2:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Thomas and Daniel Donaghy at 4 p.m.
Edmond Chibeau at 5 p.m.
Between readings, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts’ jazz band will perform. A Mini Munch food truck will be in the parking lot.In one gallery, eight vintage typewriters will be set up with paper inside.
“I think of it as a ‘living exhibit’,” Burrello says. “People can use a typewriter to write something that comes into their mind and then hang it on the wall.”
Why old typewriters and not computers, like people use in the 21st century? “I just love the sound of them. It really feels like you’re doing work. There’s a sense of permanency. You’ve got one shot to get it right,” he
says.