Book festival this weekend at Little Island Creamery

This Saturday and Sunday, March 1-2, Little Island Creamery (448 E. Little Island Rd.) will be hosting the "Big River" Book Festival. Promoted as "a celebration and showcase of authors of the Pacific Coast," this free event will feature over 30 authors, a youth writing contest, workshops and demonstrations, refreshments and concessions, and keynote addresses.

Doors open at 10 a.m. Saturday, followed by a keynote address by Portland Poet Emmet Wheatfall at noon. A youth open mic will take place from 2 - 4 p.m. Writers ages 18 and under are invited to share writings, poems, and stories. Participants are limited to seven minutes each.

Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m., the festival presents "An Evening of Poetry and Conversation with Kim Stafford." The founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College, Stafford is an author, poet, and professor. Admission to this special evening event is $15 per person.

Doors open again at 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 2. From 10:30 - 11:45 a.m., a special workshop on "character development and scene setting for youth" will be presented by award-winning Author Tiffany Dickinson. At noon, Oregon Coast resident and Author Cliff Taylor will be giving Sunday's keynote address.

The festival runs from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. both days. For more info, email Delphine at events@littleislandcreamery.net.