{"id":3688,"date":"2021-04-25T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2021-04-25T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T09:45:21","slug":"new-southside-san-antonio-book-fair-scheduled-may-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"New Southside San Antonio Book Fair Scheduled for May 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><em><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">Live from the Southside<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">&nbsp;magazine, Scooby Van of San Antonio, and Brooster\u2019s Backyard Icehouse will host the first annual <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/broosters-backyard-icehouse\/1st-annual-southside-book-fair\/805383987002658\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\">Southside San Antonio Book Fair<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">, a literary event focused on South Texas authors.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">The free May 16 event will include a kids\u2019 writing contest, a used-book drive, and approximately twenty authors who will be autographing and selling books.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman,Times,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">The writing contest is meant to encourage kids to write and share their own stories. April Monterrosa, editor in chief of&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/southsidesanantonio.com\/\" style=\"color:blue; text-decoration:underline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Live from the Southside<\/em><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"color:black\">, will select three winners, who will be awarded prizes, and their writings will be featured in a future issue of the publication.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:black\">The Scooby Van of San Antonio will host a used-book drive to support the nonprofit&#8217;s mission of giving free books to underserved kids and stocking local little free libraries.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color:#0f172a\">Monterrosa, author Alda P. Dobbs, and Linda Pearson, founder\/CEO of Scooby Van of San Antonio, will be hosting an author panel to kick off the event.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif\"><span style=\"color:black\">The book fair will run from noon to 4 p.m. at Brooster\u2019s Backyard Icehouse,&nbsp;815 Pleasanton Road.&nbsp;Free snacks will be available, and Brooster&#8217;s will also be selling food and drinks.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New book fair for San Antonio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[370,24,40,9,8,22],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookfair","tag-bookfestival","tag-festivals","tag-lonestarliterarylife","tag-lonestarliterarycom","tag-newsbrief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}