GBF Blog
Take our Survey and Win!
We are always trying to improve our Festival, and one of the best ways for us to do so is to listen to our most important audience: YOU! The five minutes it takes you to fill out one of our surveys can make a big difference for us, so we’re giving out prizes! (It also [...]
Did You Know We’re Part of Children’s Book Week?
It’s true. This year, we’re an official Children’s Book Week event. What does that mean for you? It means we were able to recruit children’s authors like the beloved Walter Dean Myers, who is the U.S. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. It means great giveaways, including a limited edition Children’s Book Week poster for [...]
Planning Your Day: GBF Author Schedule.. and More
With so many great authors, we know many of you want the opportunity to put together your gameplan in advance. Which is why we’ve created a one-page schedule of author speaking times. This schedule at a glance will allow you to see what authors are speaking during each block of time during the day so [...]
Comedy at the GBF
If you like to laugh (and who doesn’t?) we have two Dyn-O-Mite panels for you on Saturday! – The Stand-Up Comedy Writers panel – 3:15pm – Gertrude Stein Pavilion: This is for those of you who love jokes and enjoy insight into the world of stand-up comedy. Sylvia Traymore Morrison is a master of impressions. John [...]
5 Reasons to Buy a Book at the GBF
The GBF is FREE and fun for all to enjoy. But, if you’re able to buy our Featured Authors’ books at the event, even better! Why? Here are 5 reasons: 1. Helps our ability to continue to attract the world’s best authors. While the purpose of the GBF is to provide a fantastic cultural [...]
Q&A with Sheila Turnage
Sheila Turnage’s first novel for children, “Three Times Lucky,” is a Newbery Honor Award winner. She has written nonfiction for adults, “Haunted Inns of the Southeast” and “Compass American Guides: North Carolina,” and one picture book, “Trout the Magnificent,” illustrated by Janet Stevens. Sheila is from eastern North Carolina. What are the [...]
Q&A with Elizabeth Winder
Elizabeth Winder is the author of the biography “Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953″ and one poetry collection. Her work also has appeared in the Chicago Review, the Antioch Review, American Letters, and other publications. She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and earned an M.F.A. in [...]
Meet the World’s Best Children’s and YA Authors in Gaithersburg
No exaggeration, no hyperbole: This is one of the greatest lineups of children’s and teen authors you’ll ever find in one place on one day! Think about it: Jon Scieszka, legend and former National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, is actually going to be speaking twice! First, he’ll be joining superstar Mac Barnett in our Picture Book [...]
Q&A with ex-MTV VJ Mark Goodman
Mark Goodman, along with MTV’s other three VJs who helped launch the music network in 1981, has written about his experiences at MTV in the early 1980s in “VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave.” Mark has been in the radio and music business for 35 years, beginning in his hometown of Philadelphia at [...]
