The book festival crowd attentively listens to an author in 2007

Admission Charge

FREE FREE FREE FREE

Time

The Festival will run from approximately 11:00 am to 5:00 pm on Sunday, August 7, 2011.  The detailed schedule will be posted in the next few weeks.

Location 

The festival will be staged in the fields adjacent to the Chilmark Community Center, South Road, Beetlebung Corner, Chilmark. The Contact Us page contains a map and allows you to search for directions.

Parking & Transportation 

Limited parking is available at Beetlebung Corner.  We encourage you to use public transportation or carpool with your friends.

Program

Authors will be speaking in three tents: Squibnocket, Menemsha and Stonewall.  The schedule for the authors will be posted on this site, Author Schedule page, in the coming weeks.

Food

The Art Cliff Diner Truck from Vineyard Haven will be coming to Chilmark for the Book Festival.  You don't have to wait for weekends and evenings, and you don't have to fight the crowds to Vineyard Haven.  Offering upscale street food such as feta lamb burgers with balsamic onions, pork tacos, falafel, other items and dessert, the Book Festival is very happy to have this great addition to its talented line up.   

Book sales 

Provided by Edgartown Books in the Book Sales tent on the festival grounds.

Book signing 

Following their presentations, authors will be signing their books in the Book Signing tent on the festival grounds.  Each author will be available to sign books for approximately 45 minutes following his/her presentation.

Chilmark Community Center is on Route 5 of the Vineyard Transit Authority bus line www.vineyardtransit.com

Festival Attracts Readers Young and Old

"About 800 people came and went throughout the sunny day. The community center baseball field was converted into a makeshift fairground, with a number of large white tents scattered in the outfield. Three tents - marked nonfiction, fiction and food, and children and Island life - each contained a podium, microphones and chairs for eager Vineyard bibliophiles. Under the shade of another white tent, lobster rolls, sandwiches, drinks and desserts were sold."

from the Vineyard Gazette, August 9, 2005

MSNBC article and video



Article from The Martha's Vineyard Times

Thursday, July 30, 2009