🎉 FOR READERS
Get ready for a fun-filled day of books, creativity, and community!
Join us at the Fall Book Festival 2025, hosted by Creative Slingers of Ink, featuring 30+ indie authors from a wide variety of genres. This is your chance to meet local writers, find new favorites, and enjoy a relaxed, book-loving atmosphere in a historic indoor venue.

Highlights for readers include:

• 🎟️ Free festival admission

• 📚 Meet-and-greet with authors of all genres

• 🎤 Live author readings throughout the day

• 🧭 Passport to Reading game – visit author tables, get your passport stamped, and enter to win one of three book-filled prize boxes!

• 💜 Book Drive for Greer Relief – Bring a new or gently used book to support local families in need

• 🚚 Food trucks on-site – Grab a bite and make it a full day out!

✍️ FOR AUTHORS
Are you ready to showcase your work, connect with real readers, and join an amazing community of indie authors?
We’re now accepting applications for the Fall Book Festival 2025!
💸 Participation fee: $65 (if selected)
(Invoice sent via PayPal; payment due within 24 hours to confirm your spot.)

What's included for selected authors:

• ✅ 6' table & chair in a high-traffic indoor space

• ✅ Feature listing in our online Fall Book Festival Author Directory

• ✅ Promotion across Creative Slingers of Ink’s channels

• ✅ Opportunity to do a live excerpt reading during the event

• ✅ Participation in the Passport to Reading giveaway

• ✅ REQUIRED virtual interview (recorded in July or August to help promote you and your books!)

📅 Application Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025
📩 Authors Notified: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
🎁 Free Table Giveaway Drawing: Tuesday, June 3 at 8 PM ET
(1 author from South Carolina + 1 from Michigan will win — streamed LIVE on Facebook & YouTube)
⚠️ Only 32 authors will be selected. All other applicants will be added to the waitlist.