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Link to: All about the 2025 Festival

MAY 31 – JUNE 1, 2025

We are delighted to be starting preparations for our 2025 Festival. Save these dates and be on the lookout for exciting news!

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May 31 – June 1

11th Annual Bay Area Book Festival

Some of our 2025 speakers

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Viet Thanh Nguyen

Tara Dorabji

Greg Sarris

Carolina Ixta

Judith Butler

MK Chavez

Roxane Gay

micha cárdenas

Huda Fahmy

Clare Osongco

Gene Luen Yang

Garrett Felber

john a powell

David Jay

Bernadette Atuahene

Obi Kaufmann

Zack Beauchamp

Emily Flitter

Daniel Oberhaus

Bärí A. Williams

Kim Shuck

Kinsale Drake

Rosa Kwon Easton

Tomas Moniz

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“It was perfect. Couldn’t have been better. Thanks so much for giving me the opportunity.”

Robert Reich, Author

“My experience was unbelievable. Each of the panels I attended exceeded my expectations. This Festival was the high point of my year.”

Attendee

“My best festival experience ever.”

Pulitzer finalist Hernan Diaz

“I was incredibly inspired by how this Festival provides so many writers and artists with the opportunity to share their work with such a vibrant community in the Bay Area.”

Attendee

“I was truly impressed by the scope and diversity of the panels, participants, and overall programming.”

Maw Shein Win, Author

“The panelists were clearly selected with care, and in all cases I could have listened to them speak all day.”

Attendee

“All the writers I spoke to expressed their love and admiration for the Festival. I do mean all the writers – every single one.”

Marie Mockett, Author

“I’m pretty sure that everyone who attended will agree that they will be forever changed.”

Elizabeth Rosner, Author
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2025 Festival Sponsors

 
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Our chapter on the 2025 Bay Area Book Festival off Our chapter on the 2025 Bay Area Book Festival officially comes to a close… 

We have so many pics and vids from festival weekend still rolling in, and so we’ll be continuing to feature exhibitors, attendees, and weekend festivities in the coming days! Thank you all for joining us on this journey, whether asynchronously or in-person. We’ll see everyone at next year’s festival! 

Save the date:

12th Annual Bay Area Book Festival 
May 30-31, 2026
Theme: Writing the Future
Want free tickets and perks for next year’s fest Want free tickets and perks for next year’s festival? Become a friend of the festival by donating via the link in our bio

The 12th annual Bay Area Book Festival returns May 30–31, 2026 🩵

More on all our year-round events and affinity lit collectives coming soon!
Travel across worlds both fictional and non fictio Travel across worlds both fictional and non fictional, and experience downtown Berkeley transform into a living library this weekend.

Wherever you’re coming from in the Bay, we have options for how to get to the festival. The BART will take you right into the heart of downtown Berkeley, there are public free places to park your bikes, and multiple parking garages to choose from. 

Our venues are all within 0.5 miles within each other. This is your weekend to explore. 

We hope everyone has an amazing weekend❤️📚
The Bay Area Book Festival is taking over the stre The Bay Area Book Festival is taking over the streets of downtown Berkeley in a couple days and you’re invited. 

Meet all our exhibitors this year! 

The Bookworm Block Party on June 1st will feature over 120+ small presses, community health organizations, writing/reading groups, local makers/artists, and more. 

Our Family Day exhibitors will be located on the @berkeleypubliclibrary 3rd floor on Saturday!📚

We’re so grateful to welcome such a diverse array of different exhibitors at the festival this year. Check all of them out and support where you can! ❤️

Come out and enjoy the weekend with all of us :) 

We are unable to tag everyone on this post, so comment below/tag yourself if you’ll be there as one of our exhibitors! 🎉
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