Bookstock and Bookstock Junior

On Saturday, October 6 the Bookstock Festival will be held at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library. This event encourages reading for all ages and gives local and aspiring authors a platform to showcase their work. Event coordinators plan to make this year's Bookstock the most festive it has ever been! There will be children's activities, music, food, and more.

About 50 authors will be showcased this year and only one session will be held (10:30 am-4:00 pm) to allot attendees ample time to meet authors and participate in the various activities held all over the library.

Thanks to the support of the Friends of the Library and the Memphis Library Foundation for assistance in booking more well-known authors and provide services for those in attendance while Junior League is providing volunteers.

Save the date – October 6th Bookstock, where book lovers rock!

Bookstock Activities:

10:00am - 12:30pm

Teen Writing Workshop (Humanities Dept. 2nd Floor)

10:30am - 11:30am

All About Memphis (Memphis Room 4th Floor)

Want to know who is who in Memphis? Come meet our fiction and nonfiction writers whose books feature truth or tales about Memphis.

11:00am - 12:00pm

Award-winning author Alice Faye Duncan will read and lead an activity for children, in the Children's Department

Storytime Room, and will sign her newest book, The Delta Blues: A Coloring Book.

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Author Barry Wolverton will read from his book Neversink in Children's Department Storytime Room. Stay for the Q & A with this first time author whose book is receiving critical acclaim.

11:15am - 12:00pm

Need a motivational boost? Be inspired and invigorated as author Candace Spicer shares a message on how to be professionally and personally fulfilled. (Conference Room A)

12:00pm - 12:40pm

What's Love Got to Do with It? Panel discussion by Romance authors. (Conference Room A)

11:30am - 12:00am

Local cookbook authors Paul and Angela Knipple will make corn salsa and discuss the origin of other recipes from their book World in a Skillet. (L-56)

11:30am - 2:30pm

Memphis Food Trucks-Memphis Munchies and Stickem (Library parking lot)

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Sushi making demonstration with Marisa Baggett, author of Sushi Secrets. (L-56)

11:30am - 12:30pm

Live Music by Stereo Joe (Front of Library)

1:30pm - 2:30pm

12:45pm-1:00pm

Congressman Steve Cohen will speak on the importance of literacy and love of reading.

1:00pm - 1:30pm

Keynote speaker Kristen Iversen (Conference Rooms A - C)

Ms. Iversen will discuss A Passion for Story: From Book Idea to Finished Manuscript and her book Full Body Burden: Growing Up In The Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats.

1:30pm - 2:00pm

Book signing

1:00 - 2:00pm

Art for Life's Sake (Children's Department Storytime Room) Dr. Hattie Isen will bring her young music scholars for a poetry and spoken word performance.

2:00pm- 3:00pm

Magic Mr. Nick (Children's Department Storytime Room) Magic Mr. Nick, author of Magic Tricks You Too Can Do, will astonish all with his magic , and speak to children about reading, writing, and publishing

2:00pm - 2:30pm

Cooking Demo by B.J. Chester Tamayo from Alcenia's (L-56)

2:30pm - 3:15pm

Come Experience the Ultimate Makeover! Learn practical tips on how to enhance your outer beauty with Megan Mottley. (Conference Room A)

3:15pm - 4:00pm

Join Charlie Lambert for some Oscar film trivia from his book Capturing The Reel World. (Conference Room A)

1:00pm-2:00pm

Get a behind-the-scenes look at national teen magazine, Justine

2:00pm -4:00pm

Make Your Own Teen Zine (Humanities Dept. 2nd Floor)

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Performance artist Patty Carreras (Children's Department Storytime Room) Nationally renowned performer Patty Carreras is sure to delight with her presentation of Anansi Stories. Be prepared for participatory fun as she brings the trickster to life!

Ongoing:

10:00am - 4:30pm

Author's Scavenger Hunt. Complete the questions, get authors signature and enter drawing great prizes! Purchase and have your book signed by authors.

10:00am - 2:00pm

Create a Book- Children's Department (write/ draw/ bind a book to keep!)

10:00 - 4:00pm

Make a rubbing from the public art sculpture at the library entrance

10:00am - 3:30pm

Mural Making (Children's Courtyard)

10:30am - 12:30pm

Balloon Artist (Children's Courtyard)

12:30pm - 2:30pm

Face Painting - (Children's Courtyard)