Literary Fair

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Date & Time

Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025
Time: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Location

City Hall
11360 Lakefield Drive
Johns Creek, GA 30097

Cost

Free to attend!

Keynote + Catnote

Keynote Speaker Karen White

Karen White will unveil “The Lady on Esplanade,” the third novel in her Royal Street series. White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 36 novels.

Catnote Speaker Former Gov. Nathan Deal

Former Gov. Nathan Deal will be the JCLF’s special “catnote” speaker, discussing his children’s book, “Veto, the Governor’s Cat.” An on-site cat adoption will add to the festivities.

Panel, Local & Children’s Authors

A panel of renowned historical fiction authors also will be featured, along with themed snacks throughout the event. Adding to the fun, select groups of 20 local authors and 10 children’s authors will be engaging with readers all day.

Writers of the Present, Women of the Past

Historical Fiction is the focus of 2025’s JCLF Author Panel

Kimberly brock book — **Kimberly Brock “The Fabled Earth”**

Meagan church book — **Megan Church “The Mad Wife”**

Carolyn curry — **Carolyn Curry “Trudy’s Awakening”**

Pipe huguley book — **Piper G. Huguley “American Daughters”**

Calling all historical fiction fans! The 2025 Johns Creek Literary Fair will spotlight a panel of award-winning authors well-versed in the art of telling tales from bygone days.

This year’s featured authors will include moderator Kimberly Brock in conversation with novelists Meagan Church, Carolyn Curry and Piper G. Huguley.

Brock is the award winning author of “The Fabled Earth” and “The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare,” which spent three weeks on the Southern Independent Booksellers bestseller list. Both novels have been shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction. Her debut title, “The River Witch,” won the Georgia Author of the Year Award. In addition to speaking widely on the creative life and Southern and historical fiction, Brock has been featured on the History Channel’s “History’s Greatest Mysteries.”

Church’s emotionally-charged, empathy-inducing novels include “The Mad Wife,” which will be released in September, “The Last Carolina Girl” and “The Girls We Sent Away,” a Southern indie bestseller and North Carolina Reads statewide book club pick for 2025. Church, an adjunct for Drexel University’s MFA in creative writing program, helps authors tell their own stories through editing, coaching and workshops.

Curry is an award-winning author, historian and founder of a nonprofit women’s support organization, which she directed for 22 years. Her books include “Trudy’s Awakening,” publishing in September, “Sudden Death” and “Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas 1834-1907,” which was on the Georgia Center for the Book’s 2015 list of Books All Georgians Should Read. Curry also was named 2015 Georgia Author of the Year by the Georgia Writers Association.

Huguley, author of “American Daughters,” made her historical fiction debut in June 2022 with “By Her Own Design: A novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register,” concerning the Black designer of Jackie Kennedy’s wedding dress. She also is the author of “Sweet Tea” as well as two historical romance series: “Migrations of the Heart” and “Home to Milford College. Huguley, who was named one of Publisher’s Weekly top 10 historical romance novelists of 2015, blogs about the history behind her novels at piperhuguley.com. The free panel discussion will be Nov. 15 at 2:30 at Johns Creek City Hall, 11360 Lakefield Drive.