THEA literature Royal is the guest of honor, for the first time, of a literary festival with his space. Will happen to Bookwalkin Verona from 12 to 18 November. Created by the journalist and writer Anna Martellato (With Food Democracy and Agsm AIM group) and with the patronage of the Municipality of Verona, it was born in a Slow perspective for (re) bring literature to coffee and restaurants between brunch, coffee and author dinners.
Bookwalk will be in Verona for three years
«Bookwalk will be visionary, rooted, free, a shared narrative journey, an invitation to listen, reflect, discover. A path in stages that, in three years, will accompany those who read, who write, who lives, On a journey that starts from the roots, he passes through the courage, and arrives at the freedom to be “explains the creator Anna Martellato.
2025 has the theme “Without roots you don’t fly “. In 2026 it will be “Fly only those who dare to do it“And in 2027,”Does what you love“.
Every day a High Royal Tea
Every day at 5pm, Mazzanti Caffè at home, in Piazza Erbe, will be held a High Royal Tea between Scones and Pypolies: among the guests Antonio Caprarica, Paola Calvetti, Lavinia Orefici (Royal SagaPiemme), Fabio Pozzo (I stole the king of England, Tea), Silvia Montemurro (Villa CarlottaJoints) and the team of Podcast by Io Donna, God save the queen.
Not simple encounters, but literary happyness
But not only Royal literature. Bookwalk offers real diversified sections and not simple meetings with authors Tout Court. There will therefore be poignant coffee, literary aperitifs, dinners with the author, reading party, sensory writing workshops, literary conferences and brunch between emerging authors, letters and memories.
Poignant coffee
Among the appointments there is poignant coffee. Provision Seven original readings written and called for the occasionone for each day, accompanied by a contemporary author. A fil rouge that creates a thread between past and present. And, finally, A small epistolary writing workshop with temporary installation of the “mailbox” At home Mazzanti, where customers and participants can write and leave letters and tickets. It will be coordinated by Miryam Scandola, journalist and creator of insert on the farewell, a literary dissemination project through letters, correspondence and the way they loved writers and writers.
With Elena Pigozzi (The Saves of the VilillayMondadori), Alessandro Marzo Magno (CasanovaLaterza), Maria Rosaria Selo (Denteria, Marotta and Cafiero), Chiara Gily (Wait to me at the Naples coffee, Mondadori)
A room all to us
Another appointment is with a room all to us. It is a literary brunch dedicated to the beginning: recent ones, who photograph our era and those reread with the eyes of the time, which still speak with the sincerity and splendor of the first time. An event in two days that compares debutant authors with the experience of the established ones, In a pop climate in the heart of Verona, in which brunch conviviality enriches narrative connections. Creator of the format, the writer Valeria Gregiullo, Never been innocent It is his debut novel, published by Salani Editore.
Immersive writing
Sunday 15, The writer Anna Martellato and Regina Stefanini, expert of essential oils, They will invite readers to discover the most hidden part: the one that often remains silent, but which can finally find a voice through the sense of smell. The essential oils, thin soul of the plants, will lead on an intimate and powerful journey, awakening memories, emotions, images from which new words will be born, which will be able to transform into a diary page, into a story, a story, or perhaps in an entire book.
Reading party
Born in New York and spread rapidly in many other cities, reading parties are silent and convivial literary events, in which people find themselves in a welcoming place to read together, each their book. No obliged discussions, no presentations: only the pleasure of carving out a moment of shared calm, far from noise and frenzy. You can read with a drink in hand, perhaps sitting on a sofa, accompanied by a soft light and a discreet playlist in the background. A new, intimate and urban way of living reading. Every evening, 21.30- 23 Casa Mazzanti by Boob- Book Club in Verona.
In Bookwalk, in Verona, dinners with the author
Finally, Bookwalk also offers dinners with the author in Verona. Around a table set in some premises of Verona, the writers tell their stories between one scope and another. The “dinners with the author” are a unique opportunity to meet the writer up close, who imagines, those who excite – in an authentic, convivial, without stage dialogue. Just words, good food and listening. Wednesday, Thursday, Monday, Tuesday at 8pm. Among the guests: Wanda Marasco (From behind this world, Neri Pozza), Cristina Caboni, David Blixt (The Knight of Dante’s prophecyThe Editore Court)
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