Due to the nor’easter causing dangerous wind conditions and rain, we are cancelling the outdoor Children’s Day Book Market on September 26th and the outdoor Festival Day Marketplace on September 27th. All programs planned for outdoor stages will be moved indoors to the following locations: 

Festival Day September 27th:

Center Stage will be moved to Brooklyn Law School – 250 Joralemon Street

North Stage – Brooklyn Heights Library  – 286 Cadman Plaza West

Main Stage will be moved to Brooklyn Borough Hall (entrance at 209 Joralemon Street)

The following authors are no longer able to attend: Joyce Carol Oates, Jessica Grose, Fab 5 Freddy, Sean Qualls, R.J. Palacio, Brett Helquist, Vicki Johnson, Mike Curato, Amelie Wen Zhao,JD Glass, Kris Desen, Francine Prose, Merve Emre, Namwali Serpell Beronda L. Montgomery, Dana A. Williams, Tayari Jones, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Katy Doughty, Saeed Jones, Claire Vaye Watkins, T Clark, Karan Mahajan

Please check the schedule for program cancellations.

We hope to see you at our authors events this weekend. We have announced our authors (plus more to come)! The flagship Festival Day & Literary Marketplace (Sunday, Sept. 27) will feature fan favorites Marlon James, 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.

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.