Bonus Episode: Ohioana Book Festival Preview

This bonus episode celebrates the return of an in-person Ohioana Book Festival on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Main Library. The day will include panel discussions, readings, activities, an on-site book fair, and a live Page Count podcast recording, among other offerings.

 

Festival authors featured in this episode who are scheduled to participate in the live Page Count panel, “Turning Points in a Writing Career,” include:

 

• Mindy McGinnis, author of the YA mystery A Long Stretch of Bad Days
• Ric Sheffield, author of the memoir We Got By: A Black Family's Journey in the Heartland
• Judith Turner-Yamamoto, author of the novel Loving the Dead and Gone
• Andrea Wang, author of the picture book Luli and the Language of Tea
• Felicia Zamora, author of the poetry collection I Always Carry My Bones

 

Additional authors mentioned in this episode: Abby Collette, Amanda Flower, Brad Ricca, Tom Batiuk, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Cinda Williams Chima, Tricia Springstubb, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Prince Shakur, and Will Hillenbrand.

 

For the full list of more than 150 participating authors and illustrators, visit Ohioana’s 2023 Festival Authors page. For more information about the festival, visit the Ohioana Book Festival page. We hope to see you in Columbus on April 22!

 

Page Count is produced by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library. For a transcript of this episode, visit the episode page. To get in touch, email ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org (put “podcast” in the subject line) or follow us on Twitter or on Facebook.