BGuthrie Photos: Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Lunch: Award to David O. Stewart, Dolen Perkins-Valdez in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick

Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Lunch: Award to David O. Stewart, Dolen Perkins-Valdez in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick:

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Description of Pictures: Lifetime Achievement Award presented to David O. Stewart
David O. Stewart to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
We’re pleased to announce that David O. Stewart will receive the Independent’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 2023 Washington Writers Conference! Bestselling biographer.
Stewart is the acclaimed author of multiple award-winning works of fiction and nonfiction, including George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father and the forthcoming novel The Burning Land. He is being recognized as an exemplary literary citizen, first for his work with Washington Independent Writers, and later as co-founder, in 2011, of the Independent, where he served six years as president. Stewart was instrumental in establishing the Washington Writers Conference and continues to serve both on the Independent’s board of directors and on that of the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD.
Past recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri; longtime Washington Post reporter and editor Eugene L. Meyer; author and teacher Marita Golden, co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, and author Kitty Kelley.
The award was presented by Jennifer Bort Yacovissi.

Keynote: Dolen Perkins-Valdez in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick
Dolen Perkins-Valdez, a New York Times bestselling author, is acclaimed for her novels Wench, Balm, and Take My Hand. Her achievements include being a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, and a nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship in 2020. Currently serving as chair of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and an associate professor of literature at American University, Perkins-Valdez is dedicated to fostering a love of reading and writing in public high schools. In this keynote, she will be in conversation with Bethanne Patrick, a renowned critic and commentator in the publishing industry, host of the Missing Pages podcast, and author of a forthcoming memoir, Life B: Overcoming Double Depression.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. WWCP11_230513_011_SPHERE.JPG: Photosphere (fisheye) image from the Google Pixel 7 Pro
2. WWCP11_230513_018.JPG: Melanie Hatter
3. WWCP11_230513_020.JPG: Melanie Hatter, Caroline Bock
4. WWCP11_230513_037.JPG: Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
5. WWCP11_230513_041.JPG: ???, Melissa Hatter, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, ???
6. WWCP11_230513_050.JPG: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Cherrie Woods
7. WWCP11_230513_107.JPG: Jennifer Bort Yacovissi, David O. Stewart
8. WWCP11_230513_179.JPG: Mary Kay Zuravleff, David O. Stewart, Bethanne Patrick
9. WWCP11_230513_184.JPG: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Bethanne Patrick, Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
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11. WWCP11_230513_231.JPG: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Bethanne Patrick
12. WWCP11_230513_320.JPG: Mary Kay Zuravleff, David O. Stewart
13. WWCP11_230513_368.JPG: Tara Campbell
14. WWCP11_230513_389.JPG: Katharine Herndon
15. WWCP11_230513_442.JPG: Bethanne Patrick, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
16. WWCP11_230513_449.JPG: Bethanne Patrick, Holly Smith
17. WWCP11_230513_457.JPG: Cherrie Woods, Dolen Perkins-Valdez
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- Patrick, Bethanne appears on:
  - 2023_MD_GBF_SCSR_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Susan Coll, Shauna Robinson
  - 2023_MD_GBF_Patrick_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Bethanne K. Patrick ("Life B")
  - 2023_MD_GBF_EBAF_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Eleanor Brown, Alison Fairbrother
  - 2023_DC_Patrick_230516 Politics & Prose -- Bethanne Patrick ("Life B") w/Alexandra Zapruder
  - 2023_MD_WWC_P09_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Panel: Historical Fiction: In Living Memory
  - 2023_MD_WWC_P03_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Panel: Voices Across Genres
  - 2022_DC_Pen_Faulkner_SOTU_221021 PEN/Faulkner's Literary State of the Union
  - 2022_DC_NBF_Heal_220903 Natl Book Festival 2022 -- Heal Thyself?: Mental Illness and Me with Rachel Aviv and Daniel Bergner (w/Bethanne Patrick)
  - 2022_MD_GBF_Johnson_220521 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Jocelyn Nicole Johnson ("My Monticello") w/Bethanne Patrick
  - 2022_MD_GBF_Asim_220521 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Jabari Asim ("Yonder") (w/Bethanne Patrick)
  - ...More (List all 19 pages with this person)...
- Perkins-Valdez, Dolen appears on:
  - 2022_DC_NBF_DPV_220903 Natl Book Festival 2022 -- Dolen Perkins-Valdez on Her New Novel "Take My Hand"
  - 2022_MD_GBF_PerkinsVal_220521 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Dolen Perkins-Valdez ("Take My Hand") w/Holly Smith
- Stewart, David O. appears on:
  - 2023_MD_GBF_Cozzens_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Peter Cozzens ("A Brutal Reckoning")
  - 2023_MD_WWC_P09_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Panel: Historical Fiction: In Living Memory
  - 2023_MD_WWC_P05_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Panel: Politics and History: Event Non-Fiction Needs a "Story"
  - 2023_MD_WWC_M_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Miscellaneous
  - 2023_MD_WWC_R_230512 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Friday Night -- Opening Reception
  - 2022_DC_Maraniss_220809 Politics & Prose -- David Maraniss ("Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe") (w/Sally Jenkins)
  - 2022_MD_GBF_Stewart_220521 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- David O. Stewart ("The New Land")
  - 2022_MD_GBF_Reception_220520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Author Reception @ Asbury Methodist Village
  - 2019_MD_GBF_Mustich_190518 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2019) -- James Mustich ("1,000 Books to Read Before You Die") (In conversation with David O. Stewart)
  - 2019_MD_GBF_Reception_190517 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2019) -- Author Reception @ Asbury Methodist Village
  - ...More (List all 39 pages with this person)...
- Yacovissi, Jenny appears on:
  - 2023_MD_GBF_McSwane_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- J. David McSwane ("Pandemic Inc")
  - 2023_MD_GBF_AMBM_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Anthony Marra, Barbara Mujica
  - 2023_MD_GBF_Misc_230520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Miscellaneous
  - 2023_MD_GBF_Reception_230519 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2023) -- Author Reception @ Asbury Methodist Village
  - 2023_MD_WWC_W_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Welcome & Housekeeping
  - 2023_MD_WWC_M_230513 Washington Writers Conference (2023) -- Saturday -- Miscellaneous
  - 2022_MD_GBF_BShapiro_220521 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- B.A. Shapiro ("Metropolis") w/Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
  - 2022_MD_GBF_Murphy_220521 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Stacie Murphy ("The Unquiet Dead") w/Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
  - 2022_MD_GBF_Reception_220520 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2022) -- Author Reception @ Asbury Methodist Village
  - 2019_MD_GBF_SBJL_190518 Gaithersburg Book Festival (2019) -- Sarahlyn Bruck, Julie Langsdorf (Moderated by Jenny Yacovissi)
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