By Erin Wood
Mark your calendars for the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival, which will take place in Little Rock on April 26–28.
Notable authors, including Pulitzer Prize and James Beard Award winners, television producers, artists, and one of the Little Rock Nine are among the diverse roster of presenters who will be providing sessions at the Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) sixteenth annual festival. There is programming for every age and interest.
I am proud to be among this year’s presenters with my book Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives (forthcoming in April from Et Alia Press). Together, these women will challenge and change the way you think about making, identity, entrepreneurialism, community, and what it takes to lead a creative life.
Three women who are part of Women Make Arkansas will also be presenting at the festival. Anita Davis will discuss What’s Inside? A Century of Women and Handbags, 1900–1999 (Et Alia, 2018). Crystal C. Mercer will discuss her poetry collection, A Love Story Waiting to Happen. Randi M. Romo will share her poetry collection, Othered, which was selected by the American Library Association as a top-five book in poetry/fiction for 2018 and a top-ten book of 2018 overall in its annual Over the Rainbow list of recommended LGBTQ reading.
For the full list of 2019 Authors & Presenters as well as the full schedule of adult and children’s programming, visit arkansasliteraryfestival.org.
A Hot Springs native, Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs Et Alia Press (etaliapress.com). She is author of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives (April, 2019) and editor of and a contributor to “Scars: An Anthology.” Wood’s work has appeared in Catapult, The Rumpus, Ms. Magazine’s Blog, Psychology Today, Tales from the South, and elsewhere, and was a Best American Essays notable.
