What an outstanding 2018 Arkansas Literary Festival! Thank you to all who came out for Grace Vest’s reading and talk on Home Sweet Home: Arkansas Rescue Dogs & Their Stories. Cover boy, “Champ,” had a great time greeting fans.
The 2018 Arkansas Lit Fest brings authors together! Below left, Grace Vest and publisher Erin Wood with poet Karen Hayes of Dogtown Poetry who will be featured in Wood's Spring 2019 Women Makers of Arkansas project. At right, Vest meets Brandon Markin of Brandon Markin Photography, chosen by Arkansas Arts Center Director Todd Herman as winner of Et Alia's 2018 Neglected Histories of Arkansas Contest for his series on the Helena Boxing Club.