2020 North Carolina Book Festival

11/18/2019

2020 North Carolina Book Festival

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Hello Gemmies! The first wave of authors for the 2020 North Carolina Book Festival, along with Season Two of the North Carolina Book Festival and Quail Ridge Books Arts & Lecture Series has been announced!

The 2020 North Carolina Book Festival is February 21st-23rd in Raleigh, NC and will feature literary sensation Katya Apekina, author of The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish (finalist for the 2019 LA Times Book Award), poet Jericho Brown (finalist for the 2019 National Book Award), New York Times Bestseller and Raleigh author Kwame Mbalia (author of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky), New York Times bestseller Taylor Jenkins Reid (author of Daisy Jones & the Six), multiple-time Hugo and Nebula Award winner Kim Stanley Robinson, Hugo Award winning author and podcaster Mur Lafferty, Quail Ridge Books favorites Belle Boggs, Tyree Daye, Tupelo Hassman, Jeff Jackson, Mesha Maren, M. Randal O'Wain, Daniel Wallace and many more to be announced in the coming days!

Tickets for the Quail Ridge Books Arts & Lecture Series can be purchased here.

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