PRESS RELEASE FROM MALAPROP’S:
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY marks its second year of celebrating independent bookstores nationwide on April 30th, 2016, with 420 independent bookstores in 48 states hosting literary parties around the country.
MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE/CAFÉ will be celebrating with our first-ever Poetry Upon Request event. We’ll feature local poets writing poems for customers using a lovely vintage typewriter or actual pen and paper! We plan to compile all the poetry and publish a one-of-a-kind chapbook.
10:00-11:00 a.m.: Maria Fire
11:00 a.m.-noon: Ann Dunn
12:30-1:00 p.m.: Tina Barr
1:30-2:30 p.m.: Tracey Schmidt
2:30-3:00 p.m: Emoke B’Racz
3:00-3:30 p.m.: Holly Iglesias
3:30-4:00 p.m.: Katherine Soniat and Peter CopleyWe’ll also offer limited edition, unique items created especially for Independent Bookstore Day by major publishers and authors that will be available only at participating IBD bookstores like Malaprop’s on April 30. Not before. Not online. And not in chain stores.
“I love Bookstore Day because it is a large-scale communal event that joyously celebrates the literary ecosystem and shows how symbiotic the relationship is between readers, writers, and bookstores, and how essential they all are in sustaining the contemporary written word,” noted Lauren Groff, 2016 Bookstore Day Author Ambassador. Groff is the author of Fates and Furies, Arcadia, Delicate Edible Birds, and The Monsters of Templeton.
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