Arts & Entertainment

Gaithersburg Book Festival Back In Person This May At Bohrer Park

The Gaithersburg Book Festival was virtual in 2020 and 2021, but will return in person in 2022. It'll be held May 21 at Bohrer Park.

Colleen Martin's profile picture
Colleen Martin, Patch StaffVerified Patch Staff Badge
|
The Gaithersburg Book Festival will feature authors such as Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando, Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice at Emerson College Jabari Asim, and National Geographic explorer Clare Fieseler.
The Gaithersburg Book Festival will feature authors such as Montgomery County Councilmember Will Jawando, Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice at Emerson College Jabari Asim, and National Geographic explorer Clare Fieseler. (Colleen Martin/Patch)

GAITHERSBURG, MD — The Gaithersburg Book Festival is back in person with a long list of featured authors.

The festival — which has the intention to "foster an interest in reading, writing, and literary conversation — will be May 21 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Bohrer Park.

"Since its inception in 2010, the Festival has quickly become one of the nation’s top literary events, attracting hundreds of award-winning and best-selling authors, poets and songwriters from across the country to its beautiful park setting," the festival's website says.

Find out what's happening in Gaithersburgfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

There will be authors representing the genres of children's books, fiction, mystery/thriller, non-Fiction, poetry, SciFi and teen/YA.

Learn more about the festival.

Find out what's happening in Gaithersburgfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

List of featured authors:

Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.

More from Gaithersburg