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2024 Festival Details & Locations | Sunshine State Book Festival

2024 Sunshine State Book Festival

January 26-27

Festival Highlights

Student Essay Contest Scholarship Awards

Middle and high school student winners of the essay contest were awarded a total of $1000 in scholarships.

Panel Discussion “Freedom to Read”

Panelists included Mary Bahr, Joe Courter, Carolyn Edwards, Judith Weaver, and moderator John Reiskind.

Keynote
speaker Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack E. Davis

Jack E. Davis is a professor of history at the University of Florida. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. His latest book, The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice.

Literary Heritage Program “A
Conversation with Frederick Douglass and Captain John Brown.”

Featuring award-winning actor, director and playwright Timothy “Shamrock” McShane, Television host and author Pamela Marshall-Koons, and actor and Alachua County Poet Laureate, E. Stanley Richardson.

Author’s Attendance 200

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