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We have announced our authors (plus more to come)! The flagship Festival Day & Literary Marketplace (Sunday, Sept. 27) will feature fan favorites Marlon James, Joyce Carol Oates, Namwali Serpell, Douglas Stuart, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and journalists Quiara Alegría Hudes, Colson Whitehead, Tracy K. Smith, Cristina Rivera Garza, Julia Angwin, and other award-winning and emerging authors. Festival Day takes place in venues and in the parks surrounding Downtown Brooklyn’s Borough Hall, with eight indoor and outdoor stages at Brooklyn Borough Hall, the Brooklyn Law School, Center for Brooklyn History, St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church, Columbus Park, and the Korean War Veteran’s Park.

Children’s Day (Saturday, Sept. 26) will be held in Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza where families will enjoy a full day of readings, workshops, performances, book signings, and art projects with favorite children’s and middle-grade authors and illustrators including R.J. Palacio of Wonder fame, #1 New York Times bestselling Bess Kalb of the Buffalo Fluffalo children’s book series; poet, organizer, and educator Mahogany L. Browne; two-time Emmy-nominated writer and author Jorge Aguirre, and bestselling children’s book author Adam Gidwitz, plus dozens of others.

Check out a selection of our events in our Video Archive.

The mission of the Brooklyn Book Festival (BKBF) is to celebrate published literature and nurture a literary cultural community through programming that cultivates and connects readers of diverse ages and backgrounds with local, national and international authors, publishers and booksellers. To this end the Brooklyn Book Festival develops original programming that is hip, smart, diverse, and inclusive and presents free, literary, cultural events at the Brooklyn Book Festival Day & Literary Marketplace, Virtual Festival Day, and the family friendly Children’s Day. Additionally, BKBF presents Bookend events in venues across NYC and on-line, which are overwhelmingly presented free to the public.