We are planning the 2022 Festival!  Mark your calendars!

We are reviewing hundreds of books, imagining our ideal panel discussions, and already talking about tents and stages that we will need. It’s a big, inclusive and exciting Festival to plan.

The Festival this year will be in person with our celebratory Festival Day and Literary Marketplace held in the parks and plazas surrounding Brooklyn Borough Hall. Plus, our Virtual Festival Day will include authors and audience from around the world. Children’s Day will again celebrate childhood reading with workshops, performances, readings and more.

Some exciting announcements are ahead of us. At the end of July, we will announce the authors for this year’s Virtual Festival Day, Festival Day and Children’s Day, plus our annual BoBi Honoree – an author whose body of work speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn. 

If you are new to the Festival, take a look back at some of our authors in 2021. We were thrilled to have authors appearing in virtual programs and in person on stages in Downtown Brooklyn including Hanif Abdurraqib, Rumaan Alam, Paul Auster, Alison Bechdel, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Sophie Blackall, Michelle Bowdler, Melissa Broder,  Michael Buckley, Mary H.K. Choi, Jorie Graham, Lauren Groff, Candice Iloh, Donika Kelly, Rachel Kushner, K’wan, Talib Kweli, Jonathan Lethem, Darcie Little Badger, Elizabeth Lim, Heather McGhee, Walter Mosley, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Joyce Carol Oates, George Packer, R.J. Palacio, Nate Powell, Francine Prose, Phoebe Robinson, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Jess Walter, Carl Zimmer, and many more!

And, continue to enjoy our virtual programs!