Tag: Arkansas Authors

Six Bridges Book Festival 2023 a Success!

The Six Bridges Book Festival took place September 25 through October 1 and brought in about 50 authors from across the country. Monday through Wednesday, the festival began with a delicious appetizer – if you will – a series of virtual events, including Stephen Aryan, Ananta Ripa Ajmera, and Caroline Dodds Pennock among others. Then Thursday brought the beginning of the main course – all the in-person events!


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Eli Cranor: Second Time Around

Eli Cranor is no stranger to Six Bridges Book Festival, he was actually here last year with his first book, Don't Know Tough. The question is, can he make it a three-peat? We caught him via email and asked him a few questions. You can catch him at UA Little Rock Downtown with Michael X. Wang on Saturday, September 30 at 11:30 a.m.

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Get to Know John Hornor Jacobs, Six Bridges Featured Author

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A Lush and Seething Hell is a duology of short novels. It was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy Awards, and it’s an exploration of art and to a certain extent the sort of madness that trauma can bring to artistic pursuits.


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Get to Know Sean Fitzgibbon, Six Bridges Featured Author

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What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel is a graphic nonfiction book that explores the stories surrounding the Crescent Hotel’s strange and tragic two years as the Baker Hospital, a Depression-era cancer hospital. The 240-page, fully painted graphic narrative blends oral histories, newspaper articles,


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Get to Know Janis F. Kearney, Six Bridges Featured Author

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My book is nonfiction and chronicles the 59-year journey of America’s foremost Queen of Gospel, Mahalia Jackson. It takes the reader from her childhood home of New Orleans’s “N***** Town” to Chicago, Illinois—the city that became home to hundreds of thousands of African Americans who joined the Great Migration from the South in search of a better life.


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Get to Know John A. Kirk, Six Bridges Featured Author

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Why did Winthrop Rockefeller, scion of one of the most powerful families in American history, leave New York for an Arkansas mountaintop in the 1950s? My book seeks to fully unravel that mystery for the first time. It traces Rockefeller’s life from childhood to adolescence,


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