Bay Area Book Festival

MAY 29—31, 2026

BERKELEY, CA (IN PERSON & ONLINE)

The Bay Area Book Festival is a two-day event complete with literary sessions presenting top authors from this region, the nation, and the world, along with an outdoor fair with hundreds of literary exhibitors. The Festival kicked off in 2015 with the mission to create a free, inclusive, world-class literary event in the Bay Area. Since then, the Festival has welcomed more than 800 authors and is approaching 100,000 attendees.

Faculty: Isis Asare, Sophia Benoit, Elaine Hsieh Chou, Max Delsohn, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Emily St. James, Susana M. Morris, Julian Brave Noisecat, Phoebe Robinson, Greg Sarris, Greg Sarris, Kyla Shao, Renee Swindle

Genres Offered: Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Memoir, History, Philosophy

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