Greetings from the Georgia Center for the Book -

As we wind down and look back on 2022, we want to say thank you for your support over the past year. Whether our events have been in person or virtual (or both!), you've attended and asked questions and bought books and shared events with friends. We love helping to bring the literary community of Georgia together. Thank you for letting us be a part of that.

If you missed the event with Misty Copeland event on December 2nd, or you attended but want to watch again, a recording is now available on our YouTube channel. Enjoy! She discusses her memoir The Wind at My Back, and there is a performance by dancers from the DeKalb School of the Arts at the end. Thanks to First Baptist Church Decatur and Brave & Kind Books for being such great partners in that wonderful event.

We are excited for 2023, which is the 25th anniversary of the Georgia Center for the Book! We have a few events already lined up, and more in the works. We'll announce new lists of Books All Georgians and Young Georgians Should Read. On January 9th, Little Shop of Stories is bringing Alan Gratz and Brent Schoonover to the Decatur Library Auditorium to discuss their new graphic novel Captain America: The Ghost Army with Preeti Chhibber. Learn more and register here. Then, on January 31st, we welcome Jamila Minnicks to discuss her debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup. More here.

On February 2nd, we are thrilled to help launch a new poetry anthology called Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology, edited by Julie E. Bloemeke and Dustin Brookshire. Let Me Say This offers 54 poets’ takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world—calling in Dolly’s impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy. Several of the contributors will be here for the event! Hope to see you there.

Mark your calendars for Revival: Lost Southern Voices, March 23rd - 25th (mostly virtual with Saturday events in person and streamed). The full schedule is coming soon. Our new gallery space on the Fourth Floor will be put to good use beginning in February, leading up to Revival, so stay tuned for more on that and everything else we have coming in the new year!

In the meantime, revisit our virtual programs on our YouTube channel. If you missed The Book As Art v.10: Transformation, the exhibition is available to experience virtually on our YouTube playlist. You may also visit BookAsArt.com, where you'll find recordings of each of the Zoom artist talks, artist-made videos, artist statements and photos of each piece, and the virtual tour in four parts.

Have you checked out the fall Georgia Poetry in the Parks signs out in the parks yet? They're seasonal, so catch them before they're gone! Learn more about Georgia Poetry in the Parks at georgiapoetryintheparks.org. If you see the signs, take a photo and tag @gapoetryintheparks on Instagram!

We hope you've enjoyed our featured books from the 2022 Books All Georgians and All Young Georgians Should Read lists for each month from February to November. We're currently reading for next year's lists. In the meantime, take a look back at the 2022 books and our previous lists and keep them in mind for holiday gift-giving!

Visit our Eventbrite page, our website, and follow us on social media (links above) to learn more about our upcoming events.

Happy holidays, and we'll see you in 2023!

Ally StoneWright, Program Assistant
and
Joe Davich, Executive Director
The Georgia Center for the Book