Celebration of Writers and Readers 2012, sponsored by the Friends of the West Feliciana Library, will be held Saturday, Feb. 25, at Hemingbough Conference Center in St. Francisville.

The event will be from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Tickets are $35 and include lunch and coffee breaks. Dessert buffet and wine reception with authors are included.

Tickets may still be purchased at West Feliciana Parish Library by calling 225-635-3364.

This is going to be a sold-out event, please get your tickets today.

Featured Authors include Valerie Martin - novelist, Property (British Orange Prize)

Mary Reilly (Kafka Prize and movie made with Julia Roberts), Salvation: Scenes from the Life of St. Francis, The Confessions of Edward Day, and others…

Rodger Kamenetz - poet and nonfiction writer, The Jew in the Lotus (in 35th printing), The History of Last Night’s Dream, Burnt Books, Terra Infirma and others….

Mona Lisa Saloy - poet, Red Beans and Ricely Yours (T. S. Eliot Prize in Poetry and PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award) plus numerous poems in many anthologies and journals…

Tom Aswell - journalist, reporter; first nonfiction book, Louisiana Rocks: The True Genesis of Rock and Roll.