Texas Book Festival 2021 Update<\/p>\n

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FROM THE TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\n Out of concern for the safety of our community, we are significantly scaling back the in-person portion of this year\u2019s Texas Book Festival and greatly increasing the number of virtual sessions that people can participate from anywhere.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n We love hosting our huge, rambling, open Festival at the State Capitol but, after much deliberation, we have decided it is safest to host the in-person portion of the Festival in venues where we can better monitor attendee numbers and enact proper safety guidelines.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/p>\n We are thrilled to partner with Waterloo Greenway\u2019s Symphony Square<\/span><\/strong> and the Austin Public Library<\/span><\/strong> on the Festival this year. Texas Book Festival will host children\u2019s storytime programming at Symphony Square\u2019s outdoor amphitheater on Saturday, October 30, and adult programming at APL\u2019s Central Library on Sunday, October 31, for a limited number of in-person sessions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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\n All in-person sessions are free, but please note that capacity will be limited at our in-person venues. Attendees must RSVP for each session on a first-come, first-served basis in advance of the Festival. RSVPs will be available online once the schedule is announced in the first week of October. There are no attendance limits for our robust lineup of virtual sessions featuring authors for all ages and genres. We will be offering a small number of ticketed virtual events with the featured author\u2019s book included in the ticket price.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n  <\/p>\n Visit our <\/span><\/span>website<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> and follow us on <\/span><\/span>Instagram<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span><\/span>Facebook<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>, and <\/span><\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span> for the most up-to-date information about the lineup, schedule, and registration dates.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Revised Hybrid Festival Dates<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Virtual<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Oct. 23 \u2013 24:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \n Children\u2019s programming<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n Texas Teen Book Festival: Young Adult Authors and panels<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Oct. 25 \u2013 31:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Adult fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and cooking<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n  <\/p>\n In-Person<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Oct. 30<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \n Read Me A Story children\u2019s picture book authors at Symphony Square<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n \n Lit Crawl at Symphony Square<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Oct. 31:<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Adult programming at Austin Central Library<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\n\n\n  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Texas Book Festival 2021 Update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[813,830,1097],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lone-star-literary-life","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-texasbookfestival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}