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The Write Women Book Fest 2021 Is HER/THEIR/ZE/OURstory!

 


The 4th annual The Write Women Book Fest is scheduled for Saturday, October 8, 2022! 
Meanwhile, TWWBF2021 participants have plenty of bookish goodness to satisfy you until next year.












Experience TWWBF2021 at your leisure. 

Panels and interviews too! 



Buy our participating authors' books at your favorite bookseller and/or borrow them from the nearest branch of Prince George's County Memorial Library System pgcmls.info if you're a resident of Prince George's County (or an "interlibrary loan" through Marina for Maryland residents outside of P.G. County). 





Jayne Allen 
Eden Appiah-Kubi 
Camille Baker 
Pamela D. Beverly 
Cardyn Brooks 
C. X Brooks 
H.L. Brooks 
Patricia A. Crews 
F.M. Deemyad
Tia Fanning 
Marita Golden 
Selina Goodman 
Mijiza Green 
Guy G. Gunn 
Andrea Hylen 
Karen Janowsky 
Keturah Kendrick 
Thien-Kim Lam 
Anita Nahal (coming November 2021) 
Saralyn Richard 
Saeida Rouass 
Summer Amaya 
Kumari Talley 
Cecilia Tan 
Lynn Thorne 
Cheryl Woodruff-Brooks 


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