Press Releases

Gaithersburg Book Festival Partners with Hand and Stone Massage and Facial Spa for Children’s Book Drive While you’re out doing your holiday shopping this year, make sure you pick up a little something extra to support children and families in… Continue Reading

If you’ve got something (literary) to sell, we’ve got buyers! Whether you’re an author, poet, publisher, artist, literary nonprofit or owner of a business that relates to reading or the book industry, the sixth annual Gaithersburg Book Festival is an… Continue Reading

Baldacci to Discuss New Book in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick from The Washingtonian during December 2 Special Event at Gaithersburg Library WHO: New York Times best-selling author David Baldacci WHEN: Tuesday, December 2, 7 – 9 p.m. WHERE: Gaithersburg Public… Continue Reading

The Gaithersburg Book Festival today launches its fifth annual short story contest for Washington, D.C., area high school students, and it’s shaking things up! Instead of being guided by opening lines, high school students entering the 2015 short story contest… Continue Reading

Nazrin Garibova, a sophomore at Oakton High School in Oakton, Va., took first prize in the 2014 Gaithersburg Book Festival short story contest for high school students with her humorous story, “The Pirate’s Struggle,” about a group of pirates who get stage fright… Continue Reading

From designing pop-up books and comic books, to expressing creativity with the spoken and written word, to preparing for college, the children’s workshops at the fifth annual Gaithersburg Book Festival have something for everyone. The free workshops, which are led by writing and… Continue Reading