Thursday, March 01, 2007

Love Letter to a Favorite Book

What has constituted your most memorable reading experience - a book, a character, an author? Is it the first book you read all by yourself? The first time a story really spoke to your life's experience? The first author of whom you could not get enough? Here's an opportunity to honor that memory. Newburyport's Literary Festival is soliciting Love Letters to Favorite Books or Authors. Letters will adorn the walls of the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Market Square in the 2 weeks surrounding the event which will be held April 27 - 29.
There are a few guidelines. Letters should be on 8 1/2 by 11 paper held vertically. Include the title and author. As your letter will be hanging with many others, choose a way to make it stand out visually. Don't fold it. It can be dropped off at the Newburyport Public Library or mailed in a large envelope to Love Letters, Newburyport Literary Festival, Box 268, Newburyport, MA 01950. You could even turn your letter into us and I'd drop it off on my evening walk. The deadline is April 7. (More information at the Literary Festival.)
I am looking forward to writing mine. Jane Austen and I have been together for 4 decades and a year now since that fateful moment in 7th grade when Mr. Sprague handed me a copy of Pride and Prejudice. She's my letter. What will be the subject of yours?

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