Here's a look at which of our authors will be taking part in the Festival and where you can find them:

Hawai'i Council for the Humanities Pavilion

ALANA Hawaiian Culture Pavilion

Andrew Catanzariti, illustrator 

Keiki Read-Aloud Pavilion

Hawai'i Council for the Humanities Pavilion 

Tom Moffatt

Hawai'i Council for the Humanities Pavilion

Visit the Hawaii Book & Music Festival Official Website for the complete schedule of authors and performers. 

This year, our booth has moved and we'll be right next to the Hawaii Council for the Humanities Pavilion, where all weekend long, authors and experts will talk about "Telling Lives" in a series of discussion panels centered on the theme of memoir and biography.  

Several of our own Watermark Publishing authors will be taking part on the panels (see schedule at left), and if you're interested in publishing your own memoir, come talk to us about our new imprint, Legacy Isle Publishing!

Our booth is located in the new "Hawaii Publishers Village" so you can shop not just our books, but the rest of the local publishers' as well.  This is a wonderful opportunity to score great deals, support the Island publishing industry and discover new books from local authors! We already said "great deals" but we just can't emphasize enough the fantastic bargains you'll find on books! (Scroll down to the end of this newsletter for a special coupon offer from us.)

In the Wordsworth Poe-TREE Contest, students were asked to write a poem celebrating their favorite tree, following the model of Wordsworth the Mouse and his friends in the book Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer! The young mice in the story campaign to save the trees in their community by writing poems reminding all the neighbors about the special qualities of the trees around them.

Poems were judged based on creativity, poetic merit and how well they conveyed what makes the trees special to the students. The six contest winners will receive a copies of each of the three books in the Wordsworth series, a gardening tool kit and a Koa Legacy Tree from the Hawaiian Legacy Reforestation Initiative, donated by Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods.

K-5 Division Winners:

Makayla Rose Molden

age 6, Kapolei, Mauka Lani Elementary, untitled 

Eli Wolfe  

age 5, Honolulu, University Laboratory School, "Banyan Tree"

Grade 6-8 Division:

Cindy Tsou

age 11, Kapolei, Kapolei Middle School, "Red Maple Tree Acer rubrum"

Emerson Goo

age 12, Honolulu, Niu Valley Middle School, "Forest Guardians"

Grade 9-12 Division:

Sophie Corless

age 15, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Northern Highlands Regional High School, "The Lemon Tree"

Zoe Edelman Brier

age 18, Allendale, New Jersey, Northern Highlands Regional High School, "Veins of Color"