UPDATE: Due to the rain, various Brooklyn Book Festival events on Sunday, September 29th have been relocated. Stay up to date on the event’s Instagram page and Facebook page.
If you’re looking for a new read, bookmark the Brooklyn Book Festival in your calendar.
The liteary celebration delights all bookworms, regardless of their genre of choice, with panels, signings, and beyond. Plus, famous faces in the literary community will make appearances throughout the course of the week, including Judy Blume, Tess Gunty, Chris Hayes, and R.L. Stine, to name just a few.
If you’re known to frequent the best bookstores in NYC, consider this festival a must.
Brooklyn Book Festival 2024
Luckily for literary lovers, the Brooklyn Book Festival offers a wide variety of exciting event opportunities, and culminates with a giant book sale. Ahh, bliss! Here’s what’s on schedule in 2024.
Bookend Events
From September 22nd to September 30th, a citywide “Bookend Events” will take place in all five boroughs. Bookend events feature everything from mini book fairs to story times.
Virtual Festival Day
Virtual Festival Day is a lineup of digital discussions on September 22nd. On the docket this year is food and recipe writing and writing personal histories, among other topics.
Children’s Day
Taking place at Brooklyn Commons at MetroTech, Children’s Day is slated for Saturday, September 28th from 10am-4pm. The event caters to young readers and their families with story times, activities, signings, talks, and much more.
Festival Day & Literary Marketplace
The festival’s main event, which takes place at Brooklyn Borough Hall on Sunday, September 29th from 10am-4pm.
The entire Borough Hall grounds will be full of setups from various bookstores, publishing companies, and beyond with their best books available for purchase, so bring an empty tote to house your new reads. The event will feature a variety of authors panel discussions, readings, and signings.
Other Notable Events
Judy Blume will host a banned book panel on September 25th at 7pm at Peter Jay Sharpe Theatre. Tess Gunty will be in conversation with Zain Khalid on September 27th at Community Bookstore in Park Slope for their talk, “Beyond the Acclaimed Debut.” “Goosebumps & Beyond: A Spooky Conversation with R.L. Stine” will take place at 12pm on Children’s Day.
The festival, which began in 2006, is committed to presenting a free literary festival that reflects the NYC’s dynamic, cross-cultural book readers and literary community. And yes, we’d say this event is one for the books.
More information including a full list of authors and events can be found on the Brooklyn Book Festival’s website.