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 12th Annual Bay Area Book Festival Full Lineup Announced 

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area Book Festival returns with Boots Riley, Rebecca Solnit – San Francisco Chronicle

March 29, 2026

San Francisco Today

Bay Area Book Festival returns with expanded programming

March 29, 2026

Matador Network

7 California Weekend Train Trips to Take This Weekend

March 30, 2026

KALW

Eisa Davis’ new A.C.T. play about teen musicians // Bay Area Book Festival 2026 // ‘EARTHQUAKE! Shaken, But Standing Strong’

April 1, 2026

KQED

April 24, 2026

Local News Matters

April 29, 2026

Berkeleyside

Around Berkeley: May Day protests, Children’s Day, Berkeley Bay Festival

April 30, 2026

SFGATE

May 2026 Author Events: David Archuleta, Ellen Burstyn, Mary Cain, Lena Dunham, Nick Greene, Jeremy Lent, Lerone Martin, Amanda Rizkalla, Simon Rogers, Don Sainte-Johnn

April 30, 2026

Mission Local

Q&A: René Peña-Govea and her YA novel, ‘Estela, Undrowning’

May 3, 2026

KRON4News

Bay Area Book Festival unites authors and readers

May 7, 2026

Marin Independent Journal

Coyotes are coming: Bay Area novelist explores new threats to America’s suburbs

May 11, 2026

48 hills

Reproductive injustice in 1960s San Francisco exposed in Kate Schatz’s debut novel

May 18, 2026

KPFA

Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad on Hard Knock Radio: Baldwin, Lorde, and the Discipline of Liberation

May 23, 2026

7×7

25 Fun Things to Do This Week (5.25.26)

May 22, 2026

NBC Bay Area

Bay Area Book Festival returns to Berkeley this weekend

May 27, 2026

Coyote Media

COYOTE Calendar: May 28-June 3

May 27, 2026

East Bay Times

Bay Area Book Festival returns to Berkeley with 350+ authors

May 27, 2026

Hoodline

BOOKS TAKE OVER BERKELEY AS BAY AREA FEST BRINGS 350 AUTHORS DOWNTOWN

May 27, 2026

The Mercury News

These East Bay cities are throwing a major ‘Twist’ festival in June

May 27, 2026

Cityside | Berkleyside 

Bay Area Book Festival returns to Berkeley with future-focused vision

May 28, 2026

Cityside | The Oaklandside

Bay Area Book Festival returns to Berkeley with future-focused vision

May 28, 2026

KTVU | Fox 

12th annual Bay Area Book Festival, a bold, Berkeley-based literary extravaganza

May 28, 2026

San Francisco Chronicle 

Free Bay Area summer events offer concerts, street fairs, beach parties and more

May 28, 2026

AOL

12th annual Bay Area Book Festival, a bold, Berkeley-based literary extravaganza

May 29, 2026

48hills

BIG WEEK: Margaret Cho, Bay Area Book Fest, Porch Fest, Brewfest, New Sam Wo…

May 29, 2026

SF Gate

May 2025 Author Events and Festivals

April 29, 2025

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area Book Festival is ‘changing the narrative’ this year. Here’s how

May 7, 2025

MSN

Bay Area Book Festival

May 10, 2025

Ronnie’s Awesome List

Family Day Highlight

May 14, 2025

East Bay Times (syndicated to Bay Area News Group)

Bay Area Book Festival coming back to downtown Berkeley for 11th year

May 14, 2025

48 Hills

Bay Area Book Festival turns to the power of the page

May 18, 2025

KALW

Fred Pitts plays Shakespeare’s friend in ‘The Book of Will’ // SNJV hosts ‘Booked & Beautiful’ // The Bay Area Book Festival

May 21, 2025

San Francisco Chronicle: Summer 2025

The best family-friendly arts events in the Bay Area

May 22, 2025

KALW

Sights + Sounds Picks: J.K. Fowler

May 22, 2025

San Francisco Chronicle

Don’t miss these icons coming to the Bay Area this summer

May 22, 2025

7×7

28 Fun Things to Do This Week (5.26.25)

May 23, 2025

Bay City News (syndicated to SF Gate)

Authors, Readers To Converge At 11Th Bay Area Book Festival In Berkeley

May 24, 2025

SFist

Last Week, This Week: SF LGBT Center’s Building the Block House Party 

May 25, 2025

KPFA

J.K. Fowler: The 11th Annual Bay Area Book Festival

May 25, 2025

Tri-City Voice

Bay Area Book Festival changes the narrative

May 27, 2025

The Oaklandside

2025 Bay Area Book Festival offers inspiration and empowerment in overwhelming times

May 27, 2025

Berkeleyside

2025 Bay Area Book Festival offers inspiration and empowerment in overwhelming times

May 28, 2025

KQED

What’s New at This Year’s Bay Area Book Festival

May 28, 2025

Marin Independent Journal

The Bay Area Book Festival takes over Berkeley on May 31-June 1

May 28, 2025

{510} Families

Fun Things to Do in the East Bay this Weekend

May 28, 2025

Mommy Poppins

Fun Things To Do in SF This Weekend

May 28, 2025

Bay Area Reporter

Going Out, May 29-June 7, 2025 arts & nightlife events

May 28, 2025

Axios

Weekend events in the Bay Area: Block parties, book fair and more

May 29, 2025

East Bay Times

7 awesome Bay Area things to do this weekend, May 30-June 1

May 29, 2025

KPFA

J.K. Fowler/The Bay Area Book Festival – Joan Baez

May 29, 2025

Wanda’s Picks

Interview with Sharon & Russel Shoatz

May 31, 2025

KPIX | CBS News Berkeley

Bay Area Book Festival’s executive director talks about event’s theme for 2025

June 1, 2025

Publishers Weekly

Bay Area Book Festival Draws Book Lovers to Berkeley

June 2, 2025

CBSNews

Bay Area Book Fest holds Bookworm Block Party for second day in Berkeley

June 1, 2025

KALW

‘EARTH SEED’ documentary inspired by Octavia Butler // Latinx horror book ‘The Nightmare Box and Other Stories’ // Children’s book ‘Miri’s Moving Day’

July 16, 2025

Listen

An interview with Maysa Odeh, on KPFA’s Voices of the Middle East and North Africa Forum

Bay Area Book Festival Welcomes New Executive Director!

Youth Program Press Release 2024

10th Anniversary Press Release 2024

San Francisco Chronicle

Bay Area Book Festival Announces 2024 Lineup

April 9, 2024

Piedmont Exedra

Local Lit | May’s top tips for book lovers

April 30, 2024

Berkeleyside

Bay Area Book Festival returns to Berkeley for its 10th anniversary

April 30, 2024

East Bay Times

Local News – In brief

May 1, 2024

Edible East Bay

Bay Area Book Festival Celebrates 10th Anniversary

May 2, 2024

KPFA Bookwaves

Interview with Joan Baez

May 2, 2024

Latinitas Magazine

 Interview with Bay Area Book Festival Latina Author Dani Trujillo

May 15, 2024

Berkeley High Jacket

Berkeley Public Library hosts annual Bay Area Book Festival

May 15, 2024

East Bay Times

30+ festivals, fairs and things to do in the Bay Area this summer

May 20, 2024

Bay City News

Bay Area Book Festival offers powerhouse writers, thinkers on 10th anniversary

May 23, 2024

Berkeleyside

What to Expect at the 10th Bay Area Book Festival

May 24, 2024

KPFA Bookwaves

Interview with Aya deLeon, Interim Program Director of the Bay Area Book Festival

May 26, 2024

Latinas Magazine

Interview with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

May 29, 2024

Bay Area Reporter

Going Out, May 30-June 7, 2024 – arts & nightlife events

May 29, 2024

Tri-City-Voice

Joan Baez and Amy Tan to appear at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley

May 30, 2025

48 Hills

Arts Forecast

May 31, 2024

India Currents

Writers, Book Lovers Converge At The Bay Area Book Festival ‘24

June 3, 2024

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Dan Alter

Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.

2025 Writers’ Workshops

Speaker – A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis