{"id":4811,"date":"2016-08-29T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=4811"},"modified":"2016-08-28T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:06:09","slug":"sept-17-black-ink-charleston-african-american-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/sept-17-black-ink-charleston-african-american-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPT 17 &#8211; Black Ink: Charleston African American Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black Ink: The Charleston African American Book Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 40 African-American authors and hundreds of book club members and readers will converge at Burke High School for the 1st annual Black Ink: The Charleston African American Book Festival on September 17, 2016. The event is from 1:00 p.m. &#8211; 5:00 p.m. and will feature a keynote address from Marcus Amaker, Charleston&#8217;s first poet laureate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured authors include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dr. Katie B. Catalon- Author of John &#8216;L&#8217; the Tall Man<br \/>\n\u2022 Ron Daise- Author of Little Muddy Waters<br \/>\n\u2022 Damon Fordham- Author of True Stories of Black South Carolina<br \/>\n\u2022 Sherman Pyatt- Author of Burke High School (1894-2006), Charleston, SC<\/p>\n<p><strong>In addition, highlights of the Festival include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A Workshop on writing and self-publishing<br \/>\n\u2022 Spoken Word Poetry Slam<br \/>\n\u2022 A Panel featuring renowned African American authors<br \/>\n\u2022 A Book Sale<\/p>\n<p>Black Ink: The Charleston African American Book Festival is sponsored by YWCA, the YMCA of Greater Charleston, The Tri-County Women&#8217;s Project, Inc., and the Charleston Friends of the Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>General admission to the event is FREE to the public and includes all author exhibits, featured author sessions, workshops\/ seminars and entertainment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Ink: The Charleston African American Book Festival Nearly 40 African-American authors and hundreds of book club members and readers will converge<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/sept-17-black-ink-charleston-african-american-book-festival\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":4812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,2,19,39,8,28,18,10,35,31,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4854,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4811\/revisions\/4854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}