Indiana University Press, Bloom Magazine, WFIU and WTIU will co-host the second annual Quarry Festival of Books on Saturday, September 2. The festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Dunn Meadow on the IU Bloomington campus.
Over 20 authors of fiction and general interest titles will be present to autograph books and meet readers with more than 100 individual books available for purchase. Special giveaways and discounts of up to 50% will be offered to all Festival attendees, and a kid’s coloring area will also be part of this year’s event.
“Indianapolis and several other large cities around the country regularly host book festivals to provide local residence a chance to meet and talk to authors,” said Dave Hulsey, Associate Director of Indiana University Press. “With the thriving publishing community in Bloomington, we believe our community would appreciate the same opportunity”

The Quarry Festival of Books will be the same day as the Fourth Street Festival of the Arts & Crafts and the Garlic Festival. It will be a tented event.

The first 100 book purchasers will receive a complimentary copy of Shrubs Large and Small.

Current list of authors participating in the festival include:
• Ray E. Boomhower: Dispatches from the Pacific
• Scott Russell Sanders: Stone Country: Then and Now
• Keven McQueen: Horror in the Heartland
• Jane Simon Ammeson: Hauntings of the Underground Railroad & Murders that Made Headlines
• Lee Mandrell & DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell: Indiana Across the Land
• Edward E. Curtis IV: Muslim Americans in the Military
• Jennifer Meta Robinson & James Robert Farmer: Selling Local
• Abraham Aamidor: Chuck Taylor, All Star
• Steven Higgs: Guide to the Natural Areas of Southern Indiana
• Carol Peachee: Straight Bourbon
• James Alexander Thom: Fire in the Water
• Douglas A. Wissing: Hopeless But Optimistic & IN Writing
• Daniel Orr: Earth Eats
• Emily Weisner Thompson: But What If There’s No Chimney & Letters to Santa Claus
• Michael Murphy: The Kimberlins Go To War
• John Gastineau: The Judge’s Brief

The Spoken Word Stage is a 2-day performance tent at the 4th Street Festival,
featuring poetry, fiction, and storytelling performers from Bloomington and all over
Indiana, from high school teens to tenured IU faculty. There is also a smaller Poetry On
Demand tent, where festival-goers can request a poem crafted specially for them.

SATURDAY Sep 2
10:30 Shana Ritter (poetry)
11:00 5 Women Poets (poetry)
11:30 Merry MAC Players (theatre)
12:00 Merry MAC cont’d
12:30 Butch D’Ambrisio (sonnets)
1:00 Alex Hollett (poetry)
1:30 Abegunde (poetry)
2:00 Matt Hart (poetry)
2:30 Wil Gibson (poetry)
3:00 PrideSlam Showcase (poetry)
3:30 Bloomington High School South Poetry Out Loud (poetry)
4:00 Fig Tree Fellowship Radio Players (audio theatre)
4:30 Fig Tree cont’d
5:00 Steve Henn (poetry)
5:30 Shakespeare’s Monkey (poetry band)

SUNDAY Sep 3
10:00 Tony Brewer (poetry)
10:30 Eric Rensberger (poetry)
11:00 Joan Hawkins (fiction)
11:30 New Leaf New Life volunteers (poetry and fiction)
12:00 Adam Henze (poetry)
12:30 Shayne Laughter (fiction)
1:00 Jack Ramey (poetry)
1:30 Jasper Wirtshafter (poetry)
2:00 Wil Gibson (poetry)
2:30 Arbutus Cunningham (storytelling)
3:00 Cricket’s Bone Caravan (audio theatre)
3:30 James Dorr (horror fiction)
4:00 Lisa Kwong (poetry/personal essay)
4:30 Bloomington Storytellers Guild (storytelling)

All-ages sensory celebration of healthy, local living. Bloomington GarlicFest features great food and local arts and crafts for sale, live music, a KidZone, cooking competitions, healthy eating education (Michael Hicks), yoga (Ekah Yoga), local beers in the beer garden and more.
An annual festival designed to bring the community together to offer all ages an opportunity to celebrate healthy lifestyle choices, support local artists and musicians, and participate in interactive areas of the festival.

The Vallures bring you sweet soul and Motown music with a twist and shout! Listen to the sounds of summer 1966 while you’re dancin’, shakin’, groovin’, and movin’ it. Old hits, rarities, and originals with a nod to sixties girl groups make you wanna Boogaloo, Shingling, Jerk, Watutsi, and Mashed Potato.

Featuring some of the best of Motown, R’n’B, and Soul from then and now!

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