The Story Center’s 11th annual Local Author Fair features over 50 authors from the greater Kansas City area. Bring your holiday shopping list, sip some hot cocoa or cider, and choose from the best of what your local authors have to offer. The Fair will also feature several Resources for Writers booths with free library services that benefit both emerging and established writers.
The Local Author Fair coincides with the annual Johnson County Library Writers Conference. With a mutual commitment to the local writing community, both libraries are offering collaborative programming at each other’s events: a Local Author Panel at the JCL Conference on Friday, November 15, and a reading featuring winners of JCL’s writing contests at the Local Author Fair on Saturday, November 16. See below for details.
Schedule of Events
Friday, November 15: The Story Center Local Author Panel at the Johnson County Library Writers Conference
JCL Central Resource Library
9875 W 87th St, Overland Park, KS 66212
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Everyone experiences the writing life differently. Listen as three Kansas City writers—Daniel Biegelson, Catherine Browder, and A.L. Davidson—discuss their writer origin stories, their journeys thus far, and what it means to be a writer here specifically. Facilitated by Story Center Program Manager Melanie Pierce. Followed by a Q & A.
Saturday, November 16: The Story Center Local Author Fair
Woodneath Library Center
8900 NE Flintlock Rd, Kansas City, MO 64157
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Author booths are located in the Woodneath Community Rooms and the Woodneath Auditorium, and authors are grouped by the age of their intended audience: adults, teens, and children.
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.: Johnson County Library Writing Contest Reading
Johnson County Library has offered monthly writing contests since late 2015. Past contest winners will share how they approach writing prompts, read their winning pieces, and field questions about their writing lives. The reading will take place on stage at the Woodneath Auditorium.
Authors for Adults
Vanessa Kramer
Vanessa Kramer
Authors for Teens
D.C. Jeanes
D.C. Jeanes
Authors for Children
Missy Medellin
Missy Medellin
Sarah Plott
Sarah Plott
Kimberly Tanskanen