By Elaine Lee
The Bay Area Book Festival was back in Berkeley on June 1st and 2nd for its 10th annual weekend-long book party. BATW had a booth on Sunday the 2nd. Our volunteers yapped with the dozens of folks who stopped by our booth and wanted to learn more about BATW’s anthologies as well as our fav subject TRAVEL!!! Hopefully we awakened some global hearts!
I so appreciated the opportunity to coordinate the scene this year. I am hoping that I can create an opportunity for us to present a travel writing panel at the festival next year, in addition to having a booth.
Special thanks to Ginny Prior for recruiting the volunteers and thanks to the following volunteers for showing up and showing out!!!Anne Breedlove, Alec Scott, Bob Cooper, Shelly Rivoli, Lalit Kumar and Susan Alcorn. Special thanks to Andrea Granahan for serving a an alternate and Laurie Armstrong Gossy for lending us her canopy.