7 Weeks Until TWWBF2022!

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!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-write-women-book-fest-2022-tickets-288300343087

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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