2024 Sunshine State Book Festival
January 26-27
Festival Highlights
Student Essay Contest Scholarship Awards
Middle and high school student winners of the essay contest were awarded a total of $1000 in scholarships.
Panel Discussion “Freedom to Read”
Panelists included Mary Bahr, Joe Courter, Carolyn Edwards, Judith Weaver, and moderator John Reiskind.
Keynote
speaker Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jack E. Davis
Jack E. Davis is a professor of history at the University of Florida. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. His latest book, The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice.
Literary Heritage Program “A
Conversation with Frederick Douglass and Captain John Brown.”
Featuring award-winning actor, director and playwright Timothy “Shamrock” McShane, Television host and author Pamela Marshall-Koons, and actor and Alachua County Poet Laureate, E. Stanley Richardson.
Author’s Attendance 200
