Events

Join us at the historic Kirk Family YMCA in downtown Kansas City for Terrain.org’s final 25th Anniversary Reading: KC @ AWP, featuring Taylor Brorby, Kurt Caswell, Elizabeth Dodd, Sean Enfield, Suzanne Frischkorn, CMarie Fuhrman, Renata Golden, and John T. Price.

Refreshments will be served.

This event is held in conjunction with the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair. As an offsite event, you do not need to be registered for AWP to attend, and there is no cost to join us–so please do!

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2/9/24, AWP, Friday from 10:00-11:00am, handingout free ARCs and pre-sale cards at the Terrain.orgbookfair table #3025, with Nicole Walker

Lunch and Learn with Michael Thurmond and his book James Oglethorpe.



Bring your lunch and join us at the Georgia Archives for Lunch and Learn, 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm. Lectures will be made available on our YouTube channel after the event.


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Friday, February 9th, 2024, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm (CT),Signing Beware the Tall Grass ARCs, AWP Bookfair,Kansas City, MO

2/9/24, AWP, Friday, from 4:00-5:00pm, free ARCs,signing, at the UGA Press bookfair table

Oglethorpe Day honors our university’s namesake, James Edward Oglethorpe. Held in February, Oglethorpe Day commemorates the anniversary of General Oglethorpe’s arrival in the new world in Savannah, Ga.

Each year the festivities begin with the exciting Petrels of Fire race. Modeled after a race in the movie Chariots of Fire, a select group of Oglethorpe students runners circle the quad in hopes of making a full lap before the carillon bells’ twelfth and final chime. This amazing feat has only been accomplished one time!

Oglethorpe Day 2013 (1)Then the crowd, traditionally led by a bagpiper, processes to the Conant Performing Arts Center and the festivities close with a reception.

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The Savannah Book Festival is an annual event, freeand open to the public, in celebration of the written word and its role inimproving the human experience. Our mission is to promote reading, writingand civil conversation. Since the first Savannah Book Festival in 2008, SBF haspresented an array of nationally-acclaimed authors to crowds ofbook-loving attendees through our ticketed Headline Addresses andour free Festival Saturday.

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Virtualreading from Beware the Tall Grass, Soulbone LiteraryFestival 

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An Unflinching Look is an examination of a unique North American ecosystem in decline, investigated through eighty-five duotone photographs, scientific analysis, and critical interpretation. The project’s focus is the area of the Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge on Florida’s Gulf Coast and the history and fate of its wetlands.

Dimmitt began photographing in the salt-damaged sawgrass savannas and spring creeks there as a way of examining and reckoning with the ecosystem loss and of understanding what was becoming of his native Florida. He narrowed his focus to a small, remote area that he knows well and loves. Dimmitt’s intention in bearing witness to this loss has been to portray the ruined landscape with respect and beauty. To document the progress of the saltwater intrusion, Dimmitt has rephotographed landscapes that he first photographed more than forty years ago. His photographs reveal the impact of several factors that are causing the loss of an entire ecosystem: rising sea levels caused by global warming, excessive pumping from the underground aquifer, and the contamination of limited natural resources.

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Book talk with Lauren Braun-Strumfels, author of Partners in Gatekeeping.

The Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room and the Athens Historical Society invite you to an afternoon with the author, Michael L. Thurmond in celebration of his book James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist. This event is on Sunday, February 25, 2024, from 3-4:30pm at the Athens-Clarke County Library.

For accessibility requests, contact events@avidbookshop.com. Please submit your request at least two weeks before the event.

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This event is a ticketed event. Purchase Tickets Here 

$5 for DHC Members, $10 for Non-members

DeKalb Library Foundation will be providing complimentary light bites and snacks. Beer and Wine drink tickets will be available for purchase.

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Talk with Michael Thurmond, author of James Oglethorpe, Father of Georgia: A Founder’s Journey from Slave Trader to Abolitionist at Atlanta History Center

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