The Eastgate branch of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library will focus on local authors during September, with book readings and discussion every Saturday at 2 p.m.
“I wanted the people in this area to know you have some talented people here,” said branch manager and librarian Margaret Curtis. “You don’t realize how many people actually publish, are writers, are authors. You walk past them every day. You wouldn’t think so.”
The Eastgate branch of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library will focus on local authors during September, with book readings and discussion every Saturday at 2 p.m.The weekly author events will feature an array of local writers working in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s literature.
Curtis said feedback from surveys conducted by the Eastgate Library Bookmarkers, a Friends of the Library group, has led the branch to organize monthly activities centering around a theme.
She said the local authors series is one of a few things the library is doing to bring in members of the community.