MAY 31 – JUNE 1, 2025

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Sunday, May 4, 2025

Steven Rood and Marcia Falk, a Poetry Reading @ Jewish Arts and Bookfest at Magnes in Downtown Berkeley

May 31 – June 1

11th Annual Bay Area Book Festival

Some of our 2025 speakers

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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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Recap from last Friday evening with Alexis Pauline

storytelling as an act of transmission, an act of

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MAY 31 – JUNE 1, 2025

Upcoming Events

Sunday, May 4, 2025

May 31 – June 1

Some of our 2025 speakers

Sign up for Bay Area Book Festival communications.

Sign up for communications from the Bay Area Book Festival and its #UNBOUND virtual series! You will receive our monthly newsletter with festival news, literary news, mini book reviews and recommendations, author interviews, bookstore profiles, and more.

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