The Georgia Center for the Book partners with organizations and people across Georgia and beyond for much of its annual and ongoing programming.
Revival: Lost Southern Voices, a festival for readers, is a collaboration between the Georgia Center for the Book and Georgia State — Perimeter College. The annual conference celebrates historically excluded, erased, or marginalized Southern voices.
The Georgia Center for the Book is pleased to partner with First Baptist Church Decatur and others in the Decatur area to host public dialogues that engage the minds and connect the spirits of our community for our Conversations series.
The Fine Arts Exhibition was back as part of the 2023 Decatur Arts Festival, with a few “small changes.” The show was held in the newly renovated 4th floor gallery of the Decatur Library; ran a little earlier, from May 4 to June 16; and centered around a theme for the first time ever. The theme was “Small Changes,” and the artwork on display was no larger than 24 inches in any direction. Learn more here, and check out the Call for Entries for the 2024 show here.
This annual student art and poetry competition is a collaboration between Georgia Project Wet and the Georgia Center for the Book.
Georgia Poetry in the Parks is a collaboration between the Georgia Center for the Book, the DeKalb Library Foundation, and Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn. This program is made possible by the Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This annual exhibition housed at Decatur Library is a collaboration between the Georgia Center for the Book and the Decatur Arts Alliance.
This annual summer reading series is a partnership between the Decatur Book Festival, the Georgia Center for the Book, Joshilyn Jackson, and Nicki Salcedo.
This series is a partnership with local documentary filmmaker Hal Jacobs. The Decatur Short Docs Festival showcases short documentaries about people and places in our community and the South. We look for films with the heart, art, and soul of this diverse region.
The Big Read is a program run by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), designed to revitalize the role of reading in American culture by exposing citizens to great works of literature and encouraging them to read for pleasure and enrichment. The Georgia Center for the Book partners with 7 Stages to create programming for this annual selection.
This author series is a partnership between the Georgia Center for the Book and Read SC — The South Carolina Center for the Book, designed to celebrate authors from both sides of the border.
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