Gaithersburg Book Festival

The Gaithersburg Book Festival is an annual celebration of great books and great writing that has made its mark as one of the nation-s top literary events. More than 100 featured best-selling and award-winning authors ? including Kwame Alexander, Maureen Corrigan, Jeffrey Deaver, Anne Enright, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Clarence Page, Nora Pouillon, Robert Sabuda, Gene Luen Yang and more ? will participate in panel discussions and book signings at the festival on May 16, 2015. Other activities include free, interactive writing workshops, a Children-s Village, a hall of exhibiting authors, announcement of short story contest winners, exhibitors with literary wares, onsite book sales by Politics & Prose. Admission, parking and handicap-accessible shuttle buses from Shady Grove Metro and Lakeforest Mall are FREE.