We can bring in a lot of stuff, but we also can include the book stores in the footprint. “The advantage we have in Waverly is that we have this concentration, so we can do a festival. “This is an area where there are a lot of bookstores, and they’re very diverse,” Ramos said. Ramos, whose council district contains at least eight bookstores, said Waverly Main Street is working in conjunction with her office, participating book stores, the Central Baltimore Partnership, and others. Last May, to help fill the void left when BOPA didn’t produce a book festival, Greedy Reads owner Julia Fleischaker organized a literary gathering in Remington called the Lost Weekend Festival, featuring author appearances, poetry, a photography panel, a small press showcase and other free events over three days. Officials disclosed in April that the agency wouldn’t put on a book festival in 2022 or 2023 either but would put on a book festival after that. Not far away are Busboys and Poets Baltimore, Bird in Hand and Barnes & Noble Johns Hopkins in Charles Village Atomic Books in Hampden Greedy Reads in Remington, the Johns Hopkins University Press offices on North Charles Street and others.īOPA, a quasi-public agency designated the city’s “events producer,” didn’t put on a book festival in 2020 or 2021, citing restrictions on crowd gatherings due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Waverly’s bookstores include: Urban Reads Bookstore, Normal’s Books & Records, Book Thing of Baltimore, and Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse. They’re aiming to make the festival an annual event. Ramos and Emerson said Waverly is an ideal place for a book festival because it has four book stores plus the Waverly branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library. Activities will be rescheduled in case of bad weather. Emerson said Sunday will be “more of the traditional festival component that folks are used to” if they’ve been to past book festivals in Baltimore.Įmerson said the book festival will use the lot on Sunday only, so it won’t interfere with the popular Farmers Market, which takes place from 7 a.m. On Sunday, the booksellers and other vendors will come together in one outdoor location - the large lot where the 32nd Street Farmers Market takes place, at 32nd and Barclay streets, and nearby Waverly Commons, parallel to Greenmount Avenue. In 2023, Independent Bookstore Day is April 29, making the dates for the Waverly Book Festival April 28 to 30, 2023.Įmerson said programming on Friday and Saturday will be held in various indoor locations around Waverly, including the participating book stores in the area and Peabody Heights Brewery, for author meet-and-greets, panel discussions, a Friday night kick-off event, and more. Emerson said the event will be called the Waverly Book Festival and will be held the same weekend as Independent Bookstore Day, a national event that always falls on the last Saturday in April.
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