2024 Inaugural OC Book Fair Schedule

MAIN STREET STAGE

Located Outside on El Camino Real at Main Street

10:00AM- Evoking Place in Prose with Marytza K. Rubio, Mary Vensel White, E.P. Tuazon & Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Moderator: Candi Sary

11:00AM- From Page to Screen: Adapting for the Screen with James Cox, Hart Hanson & Anna Liza Bella

Moderator: Nizar Anjanovic

12:00PM- Authors in Conversation: Michael Scott Moore & Tom Zoellner

1:00PM- Romance Writers Panel with Isabella Kamal, Victoria Lum, Jeannie Choe & Jenifer Wood

Moderator: Michelle Pierce

2:00PM- In Conversation with Featured Author, Justinian Huang

Moderator: Haylee Slusser

3:00PM- Performance Poetry with Jeremiah Cobra, Raundi Moore-Kondo, Josh Wood & Douglas Manuel

Moderator: Josh Wood

4:00PM- Reading and Audience Q&A with Featured Author, Aaron Samuels

5:00PM- Women in Lit Panel with Swan Huntley, Sarina Dahlan, L.K. Bowen & Kathryn H. Ross

Moderator: Mo Fowler

6:00PM- Authors in Conversation: T. Jefferson Parker & Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

THIRD STREET STAGE

Located Outside on El Camino at Third Street

Super Star Story Time- Readings by:

10:00AM- Jocelyn Garcia, 2024 Miss Tustin

10:30AM- Leticia Clark, author

11:00AM- Tootie Nienow, author

11:30AM- Felicity Figueroa of OC Equality Coalition

12:00PM- Colleen Paeff, author

12:30PM- PJ Gardner Switzer, author

1:00PM- Tom Serafin, owner of Rasta-Cowboy Records

2:00PM- Interactive Super Star Story Time with Lesli Mitchell of Connect and Express

3:00PM- You Can’t Spell Comics Without Comedy with Jordan Morris, Keryl Brown Ahmed, Meghan Fitzmartin & Elliot Kalan

Moderator: Jude Atwood

4:00PM- Super Star Story Time Reading by Michelle Pierce, owner of Lido & Malibu Village Books

4:30PM- Illustrators Interactive by Joy Hwang Ruiz & Benson Shum

5:00PM- Shooting for the Stars with former NBA Clippers basketball player & Featured Author, Craig “Rhino” Smith

PANEL DISCUSSIONS & COMMUNITY ROUND TABLES

10:00AM- Groundswell Community Roundtable: Building Community

11:00AM- A Neighbor Like You: Creating Connection in Children’s Literature with Laura Segal Stegman, PJ Gardner Switzer & Ernesto Cisneros

Moderator: Beverly Plass

12:00PM- Creativity Never Stops: Writing and Art in Midlife and Beyond with Halley Sutton, Hannah Sward, Marjorie McCown & Lesli Mitchell

Moderator: Samantha Sophia

Located upstairs in the Knights of Pythias Building

1:00PM- Groundswell Community Roundtable: Storytelling with poetry reading by Marco Antonio Ortega

2:00PM- Authors of The Arvida Review with Jude Atwood, Jennifer Siglin, Mark Petrie, Megan Garner, Aitchel Andes, EJ Lagerburg & Alejandro Morales

Moderator: Nizar Ajanovic

3:00PM- Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Community Roundtable: Deconstructing Beauty Standards with poetry reading by Chloe Cervantes

LIVING LIBRARY

LIVING LIBRARY

Located in the Tustin Senior Center

Facilitated by Non Wels, founder of the Feely Human Collective.

Living Library is inspired by the Human Library, a Danish concept whereby people have one-on-one conversations with each other.  It’s like you are checking out a book, but, instead, it is a real person (aka a Living Chapter) who shares their own stories with you.

Stop by the Living Library booth where you can sign-up to speak to a Living Library. Volunteers will walk people over to the Senior Center for their scheduled time slot.