Taylor Breig
Staff Writer
The book festival hosted by NISD, Library Palooza, will be held at Brandeis High School on February 23,The event involves multiple authors and graphic novelists coming in to host panels to discuss their books, writing, and on how they became authors.This year’s event will be hosting the authors Tomi Adeyemi, Don Brown, Cinda Williams Chima,Ally Condie, Tahereh Mafi, and Jennifer E. Smith, all of which have written big name novels such as the Matched Series, Children of Blood and Bone, and A Very Large Expanse of the Sea.The event has also been known to bring back young readers’ love for books and authors.
“It lets them either be with other book lovers and or it reminds them of love for books they used to have that maybe, they get in high school they have kinda forgotten cause they’re so, busy with school work and work and stuff, that you know they loved it in middle school and they’ve kinda, let it drift away, and so going to Library Palooza reminds them of all their love for books,” Librarian Mrs. Stoeck said.
This event is going on its sixth year of being held and the event grows larger and larger with the amount of student excitement towards the idea of holding an event and meeting their favorite authors in an interactive environment. With interactive seminars and chances to buy books from favorite authors and have them be signed is a highly anticipated event to behold.
Many big name authors have been to the event in the past couple of years, James Dashner came back in 2015 and just last year Jason Reynolds came to the event as well to promote his writing process and novels.
Major authors and graphic novelists have also attended in past Library Paloozas such as Jay Asher, author of Thirteen Reasons Why, Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down and Miles Morales: Spider-Man, James Dashner, author of the Maze Runner series, and Kendare Blake, author of the Three Dark Crowns series. Library Palooza has caught the eyes of multiple big name authors throughout the past years and is growing bigger by each year the event takes place.
Library Palooza is completely free and the only payments made are to food and novels.There will also be schools there for fundraising. If you can’t make it to Library Palooza, the next novel related event coming up this year will be the San Antonio Book Festival which will be another free event for meeting novelists and to inspire writers. At Library Palooza you can enjoy live music, get novels signed by authors, and have the opportunity of getting free books and prizes, Library Palooza also lasts from 10 AM till 4:30 PM.
The Literary Magazine and Creative Writing group will also be there selling concessions to raise funds for this year’s Literary Magazine. Events that revolve around the common goal of bringing together book lovers and aspiring authors can bring forth a new generation of writers from across the United States. Inspiring writers, artists, and those with big dreams to believe in their hopes of being published and what it takes to reach that goal.