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Group Shot from the 2008 Festival
November 7-9, 2008 Jolly Beach Resort & Spa Special Offer for Book Clubs! Bring 5 or more members of your book club to Antigua for the Festival, and we’ll arrange for a private dinner for your group and one of our authors at a premiere Antiguan restaurant.
The Festival will pay transportation costs and the author’s meal tab, and make all necessary arrangements for your party. All-inclusive Hotel Package $805 per person* Includes: Accommodation for 4 nights/5 days Registration for full participation in Festival All meals and house brand drinks Transfers from airport to hotel and return Hotel taxes and service fees Entertainment on property * based on double occupancy; extra nights $135 per person
To make reservations for your book club, contact Pam Arthurton at Carib-World Travel, arthurtonp@carib-world.com or call 268-480-2987 Look out for a special promotion for book clubs
Partial Author Line-up
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Novelist,
publisher, filmmaker, teacher and journalist, organizer
of the Sea Island Writers Retreat, and author of the new
novel “Taking After Mudear” 
Named
by New Yorker Magazine as one of the top 20
writers for the 21st century and author of “The Brief
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” selected by Time as
the best novel of 2007 
Author
of 17 novels, many of which have appeared on the New
York Times and other best-selling lists. In 2006 he was
selected Male Author of the Year at The 2nd Annual
African-American Literary Award Show 
Jamaican
poet and recipient of the Musgrave Gold Medal as well as
professor at the University of Michigan 
Best-selling
author and syndicated columnist who also serves as a
featured consultant for the Anointed Author Workshop
Series, a workshop for aspiring Christian authors
Antiguan
author whose 2006 debut novel, “Unburnable,” was
short-listed for the 2007 Hurston-Wright Legacy Awards
in the Debut Fiction Category 
Screenwriter
and writer/producer of UPN’s hit show The Parkers and
the NAACP Image Awards Show 
Novelist,
poet and non-fiction author who conducts workshops on
self-publishing. Author of the best seller “Sweeter Than
Honey” 
Christian-centered
novelist and author of an inspirational teen fiction
series 
Trinidadian-born
novelist and winner of the 2001 American Book Award as
well as chair of the English department at Medgar Evers
College 
Television
and film actor who played “Gordon” for 30 years on PBS’
acclaimed Sesame Street as well as a poet and
author of a memoir about the show and a children’s book
Trinidadian-born
biographer and literary critic whose first book, “The
Life of Langston Hughes,” was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
His recent book, a biography of Ralph Ellison, has met
with considerable critical praise. 
Distinguished,
versatile actress (The Cosby Show, The Young and the
Restless) as well as author and filmmaker who is an
international advocate for foster children 
Puerto
Rican-born author of memoirs, novels, essays and opinion
pieces as well as a producer and writer of documentary
and educational films 
Celebrity
chef, restaurant owner and cookbook author who has
appeared on various Food Network shows. Winner of
Oprah’s “Favorite Mac-n-Cheese” competition
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