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The 4th annual The Write Women Book Fest is on Saturday, October 8th! 
You're invited to join us for all kinds of creative bookish, poetic, artistic, musical, foodie fun and more from 12 noon to 5 p.m. on the grounds of Marietta House Museum at 5626 Bell Station Road, Glenn Dale, Maryland 20769. 

It's FREE TO ATTEND. 
Please request free tickets using this Eventbrite link so we'll know you're coming! 


Reading (borrowed from Prince George's County Memorial Library System https://pgcmls.info/) that's helped distract me from my event-planning stress: 
  • Being Haunted 
After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez 
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston 
Some of It Was Real by Nan Fischer 
  • New Beginnings  
The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery  
Harlem Sunset (early 20th c.) by Nekesa Afia  
Twice a Quinceanera by Yamile Saied Mendez 
  • Adversaries Join Forces 
The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola 
Stirring Up Love by Chandra Blumberg 

  • Dangerous Secrets 
All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris 
The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembga 
A Duke for Diana by Sabrina Jeffries 
Nobody's Princess by Erica Ridley 
Something Good by Vanessa Miller 
 













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