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Special programs are planned throughout the day at the first Mahoning Valley Book Bazaar on Saturday.
The program schedule features:
10 a.m. -- "Publishing Poetry: Polishing Your Poems Until They Squeak and Then Sending Them Out into the World" with Barbara Sabol of Lit Youngstown
11 a.m. -- "True Crime: From Front Page to Cultural Cornerstone" with Laura Beadling and authors Eliza Osborn and Michael Prelee
1 p.m. -- "Young Adult Lit" presented by the Youngstown State University English Festival staff
2 p.m. -- "Fantasy Panel" with author Kara Zone and special guests Zephyr Carioscia, Ciara Hartford, Samantha Jo, Anne Natalie and Layla Nox
3 p.m. -- "Pages of Terror: Horror through Eras and Veins" presented by YSU with Frank Bell, Isabella Davis and Justin Gonatas
4 p.m. -- "The Books That Surprised Us" with Russell Brickey and Jimmy Frohman of YSU and Eric Harper of Neighborhood Bookstore author interview podcast
The Mahoning Valley Book Bazaar runs 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Holiday Inn Youngstown-South, 7410 South Ave., Boardman, and will include more than 70 vendors and a book-themed basket raffle benefiting Lit Youngstown.
Admission is $10, and the first 100 attendees through the door will receive free swag bags. For tickets or more information, go to Mahoning Valley Book Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, $10. mvbookbazaar.com.