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Literary Festivals

© Ella Robinson

Do you like to "do" something on your vacations? Educational vacations are becoming more and more popular. By attending literary festivals you will have many opportunities to actively learn about your favorite author and his or her works. Here is a list of some of the annual literary festivals that you can enjoy.

Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities
Eatonville, Florida
Annual event--last weekend in January

Hemmingway Days Festival
P. O. Box 4045
Key West, FL 33041
(305) 294-4440
Annual event

Joel Chandler Harris Birthday Celebration
Wren's Nest
1050 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd., SW
Atlanta, GA 30310
(404) 753-7735
December 9

Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home
207 East Charlton Street
Savannah, GA 31401
(912) 233-6014
Annual literary events October-May

Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
New Orleans, LA
(504) 286-6680
Last weekend in March

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Barnard Observatory
University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
(601) 232-5993
Annual event--August

Thomas Wolfe Festival
Thomas Wolfe Memorial
P. O. Box 714
Asheville, NC 28802
(704) 253-8304
Last weekend in September

Hampton Plantation Spring Festival
1950 Rutledge Road
McClellanville, SC 29458
(803) 546-9361
Last Saturday in March

O Henry Pun Off World Championship
409 East 5th Street
Austin, TX 78767
(512) 472-1903
Annual event--May

Pearl Buck Writer's Festival
Pearl Buck Birthplace Museum
Hillsboro, WV 24946
(304) 653-4430
Annual celebration--September

Copyright 2000 by Ella Robinson