Kentucky’s oldest book festival, founded in 1981 by Carl West, is debuting a Louisville Edition. The Kentucky Book Festival will be held in Louisville on June 14 in Paristown Point (700 block of Brent St.) in partnership with Carmichael’s Bookstore.
Kentucky Poet Laureate Kathleen Driskell will attend the event along with 30 – 40 other authors, including Meg Shaffer, Former Kentucky Poets Laureate, Crystal Wilkinson and Richard Taylor, former CJ columnists Bob Hill and Byron Crawford, and more.
Former Congressman John Yarmuth will be in conversation with author Michael Tackett about his biography of Senator Mitch McConnell on the KCTCS mainstage.
“Books, and the love of reading, transcend the challenges of any particular moment,” said Kentucky Humanities Executive Director Bill Goodman in a release. “That’s why we’re in Louisville for this new event, why we will continue the Kentucky Book Festival in Lexington, and why we serve the Commonwealth through all our programs. The Kentucky Book Festival: Louisville Edition is one more example of how investing in the humanities makes for a better Kentucky.”
Louisville hosts its own book festival each year, produced by DeeDee Pecchioni Cummings. This year’s event will be held on Oct. 11 at the Kentucky International Convention Center
Both events are free.
