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Literacy Is Key Book and Author Event

 

 

KKG Memphis will not be hosting a Literacy is Key: A Book and Author Event in 2024. We hope to be back in 2025.

 

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Holiday Inn • University of Memphis • 3700 Central Avenue • Memphis, TN  38111  

10:00am -  Prologue Party 

11:00am - Luncheon & Program

Individual tickets: $65 - Purchase using PayPal  (a $2.00  convenience fee will be added to each PayPal transaction  -  $67.00 total)  OR via the Ticket Order Form below. Please make sure your name and contact information is included if purchased by PayPal. Only individual tickets can be purchased through Paypal. To purchase a 2023 Literacy is Key individual ticket using PayPal, please send to (kkgmemphis@gmail.com) with your contact info.

Table purchases must be paid be check to First Book.

Table Sponsorships range from $500 - $5000.  Check the ticket order form below for more information.

​Literacy is Key - Table Order Form   - Please use this form if you would like to purchase a table by check made out to First Book or provide a sponsorship donation for the event. Paypal or Venmo is not available for table purchases. 

Learn more about our event 2023 LIK Fact Sheet.pdf 

LIK 2023 Poster: LIK Poster- 2023.pdf

2023 Featured Authors

J.T. Ellison, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of It’s One of Us, Her Dark Lies, Good Girls Lie, Tear Me Apart, Lie to Me, among others.

Jennifer Coburn, author of Cradle of the Reich

Tara M. Stringfellow, Memphis native & author of Memphis

Learn more about our authors: 2023 Author Fact Sheet

Ticket Order Forms and additional information are available from the links below:

Literacy is Key - Table Order Form - Please use this form if you would like to purchase a table or provide a sponsorship donation for the event

KKG - Procurement Form for Prizewinning Paperback Donations

From Left - Right: Janie Lowery (2019 Literacy is Key Co-Chair) with 2019 authors Kristina McMorris, Brad Taylor, Anne Bogel, and JJ Keras (2019 Co-Chair)

From Left - Right: Andrea Harano (2018 Literacy is Key Chair) with 2018 authors Christina Baker Kline, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Kim Wright, and Janie Lowery (2019 Chair)

Literacy is Key 2017 authors Karen White, Deborah Wiles, Elin Hilderbrand 

Lauran Stimac (2017 Chair), David Brown (FirstBook MidSouth)

Literacy is Key 2016 

Author Dorothea Benton Frank, 2016 LIK Chair - Marsha Berry, author Mark Greaney, author Laura Lane McNeal, and 2016 LIK Assistant Chair Lauran Stimac.

 

Literacy is Key 2015

Chair Summer Godman, author Natalie Baszile, Michael Farris Smith, Patti Callahan Henry, and assistant chair Marsha Berry.