Terra Elan McVoy Named Decatur Book Festival’s New Program Director
Decatur Metro | February 3, 2011
Hot off a Decatur Book Festival press release…
The AJC Decatur Book Festival Presented by DeKalb Medical (AJC DBF) has named Young Adult Author Terra Elan McVoy to the role of Program Director, succeeding Festival co-founder Thomas Bell, AJC DBF Executive Director Daren Wang announced today.
“ I’ ve known and admired Terra since the days when the festival was just a hare-brained scheme,” said Wang. “ I continue to be in awe of the energy she brings to all of her endeavors, and look forward to working with her to plan the best book festival yet.”
Bell, who along with Wang co-founded the festival in 2006, is partner at Chronicle LLC, an editorial and creative services company firm under contract with the Festival to manage programming. Bell will continue to be active with Festival planning and supervise McVoy in her Program Director role.
McVoy, author of Pure and After the Kiss, will take charge of planning all curated author events at the Festival. She was an early volunteer with the festival and, with Little Shop of Stories co-owner Diane Capriola, planned all children’ s programming at the Festival since 2006.
In 2008, she created The Escape, the festival’ s dedicated stage and program track for teenagers. In 2010, McVoy left her position as manager of Little Shop of Stories to become the Festival’ s first Assistant Program Director. In that role she created and formalized more efficient processes for festival planning and execution. She also originated the “ Homegrown Goodness” track of author events, a very popular series of authors speaking on topics such as home gardening, locavore eating, and practical crafts.
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I don’t know her personally, but congratulations to Terra! And just want to take this opportunity to mention that the Homegrown Goodness track is awesome.
I do know her personally and she’s an amazing person. This is great news! Yay Terra!
Wow. The book festival is in great hands. The energy, enthusiasm and creativity that Terra brings will ensure a great DBF for many years to come. Congratulations Terra, and congratulations to DBF as well.
Terra is the best! Her book groups are great!
Second that, Terra’s writing workshops and book groups are great. Go Terra!
I’ve only ever known her through experiences at Little Shop, but she was always a fantastic resource and a joy to work with. Congratulations. It sounds like a wonderful partnership
Thanks so much to everyone for the vote of confidence. I’m going to do my best to uphold the legacy of Tom Bell and help create the same caliber of festival we all love and expect!
Terra is truly a gem! I met her when she worked at Agnes Scott College in the Center for Teaching and Learning. I am thrilled to hear that she is now the program director for DBF. Way to go, Terra!!! Best wishes to you in your new role!
Great choice! Terra is wonderful and will bring great energy and ideas to the job. DBF Programming is in good hands! Best wishes!!!
Terra,
Good for you!! I’m sure you’ll do a great job and enjoy doing it at the same time. All the best.
Love,
Bill
Terra,
Good for you!! I’m sure you’ll do a great job and enjoy doing it at the same time. All the best.
Love,
Bill