📚 DIY book festival! 📚

with guest presenter: dian seidel 

November 11, 2025  7 PM EST via Zoom

Book festivals are a great way to promote your book and meet both readers and other authors. But participating isn't always easy due to competition for slots, entry fees, and inconvenient locations and times. So what's a writer to do? Build your own! Participants in this workshop will learn how to organize a local book festival and will be given a practically foolproof, step-by-step recipe that minimizes effort and expense and maximizes sales, community, and joy.

Dian Seidel is the author of Kindergarten at 60: A Memoir of Teaching in Thailand (Apprentice House Press, 2023) and has published short essays and stories in Bethesda Magazine, Washington Family, Pen in Hand, Passager, Halfway Down the Stairs, Lucky Jefferson, Anak Sastra, and The New York Times. She has participated in book festivals in Maryland, Virginia, and Massachusetts, but had the most fun at the first-ever Town of Chevy Chase Book Festival last April, which she organized. Before turning to writing, Dian was a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She teaches English as a second language and Iyengar yoga in the Washington DC area. www.DianSeidel.com