Give Us Our Daily Dread: Horror Comics
It’s not a comeback anymore—the horror genre keeps growing in contemporary comics. Moving from Batman to original horror hits such as Something is Killing The Children, James Tynion IV has made Exquisite Corpses, a serial killer battle royale, into the crown jewel of his genre fiction production house Tiny Onion. That Texas Blood co-creator Chris […]
Brooklyn Public Library’s Book Prize Winners’ Panel
Hear the winners of this year’s Brooklyn Public Library’s Book Prize, discuss their works in a conversation that will delve into the book’s inception and creation. Each fall, Brooklyn Public Library honors outstanding works of nonfiction and fiction/poetry with the BPL Book Prize. Past winners include Mosab Abu Toha, Emet North, Catherine Lacey, Lamya H, […]
Nostalgia With A Twist
Your favorites like Little Women, Sleeping Beauty, Frankenstein, and The Ramanya are retold in breathtaking, fantastical, and sometimes deadly (!) ways in bestselling and award-winning novels. Join Katie Bernet (Beth Is Dead), Cindy Pham (The Secret World of Briar Rose), K. Ancrum (Adam, Mine), and moderator Newbery honoree Rajani LaRocca (Such Great Heights) in this […]
Reclaiming the Human Connection: Movement, Media, and Micro-Rituals
How do we break the modern cycle of digital exhaustion? Join Webby Award-winning host Manoush Zomorodi (Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the New Digital Age and the New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being), acclaimed media theorist Ian Bogost (The Small Stuff: How to Lead a More Gratifying Life) and master cultural chronicler Bruce […]
When We Gather: On Food, Celebration, and Ritual
In times like these especially, the power of gathering over shared nourishment and experience ripens with political possibility in anthropologist Ashanté Reese’s Gather, joyful festivity in entertaining expert Amber Mayfield Hewett’s Your Turn to Host, and fulsome flavor in chef Natasha Pickowicz’s Everyone Hot Pot. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation moderated by Danielle Davenport, […]
Otherworldly Origami with Sam Ita
Join author, illustrator, and origami master Sam Ita in a workshop based on his new graphic novel Aya and Her Magic Cat. Aya and her magical cat Neko use the ancient art of origami to solve – or, at times, cause – everyday problems. Learn how to turn paper into tiny animals in a few […]
New York Times Spelling Bee Live
Do you start your mornings playing The New York Times Spelling Bee? Join us live at the Brooklyn Book Festival and play along together! Hosted by Everdeen Mason, Executive Editorial Director of NYT Games, we’ll open this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, bringing together word lovers of all ages to play together in real time. We’ll […]
What The Poem Makes Possible
Franny Choi (The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On), Chet’la Sebree (Blue Opening), and Evie Shockley (suddenly we) read and discuss poems that explore interconnectedness and collective experience, and that search for meaning among uncertainty as they look toward possible futures. Moderated by Rob Arnold, Executive Director of Poets House.
Brooklyn Public Library’s Book Prize Winners’ Panel with Ken Chen
Hear Emet North (In Universes) and Mosab Abu Toha (Forest of Noise), the winners of this year’s Brooklyn Public Library’s Book Prize, discuss their work with Brooklyn poet Ken Chen, who will delve into the books’ inception and creation. Each fall, Brooklyn Public Library honors outstanding works of nonfiction and fiction/poetry with the BPL Book […]
Ready, Spin, and Win!
Take a spin on the Festival’s kid lit wheel. Every reader is a winner; everyone wins a prize.
Moomin Forever
Moomin fever has swept Brooklyn. Meet Moomimtroll and explore Brooklyn Public Library’s self-guided StoryWalk™ of Moomin and the Wishing Star based on the original stories by Tove Jansson. A StoryWalk allows families to read together as they walk. BPL also invites visitors of all ages to Central Library to see Tove Jansson and The Moomins: […]
A World in Our Care
Visit the National Grid-sponsored Booth #4 and enjoy authors who write, illustrate, and celebrate the planet. Join author Bridgitte Rodguez to make your own Redwood Forest ecosystem with recycled papers to make trees and cut, color, then glue pictures of the animals that call the redwoods home. Make your own paper firefighting helicopter with Cedar […]
Read Around the World: Connecting Cultures Through Storytime (In Person)
Join Global School Brooklyn for a vibrant multilingual book event for families, featuring a rotating schedule of read-alouds in English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Creole, German, and Chinese. Enjoy hands-on arts and crafts and browse a curated selection of children’s books in multiple languages. Meet Alyssa Reynoso-Morris, Emma Otheguy, Aitalina Romanova, Denise Adusei, Arlène Elizabeth Casimir, […]
C.G. Esperanza – Kicks in the Sky
Join award-winning picture book creator C.G. Esperanza as he performs and reads from Kicks in the Sky, a rollicking tale about everyday treasures turned magical and the extravaganza joy that happens when kids try on enchanted sneaks.
AAWW Presents: “What do you mean funny? Like a clown?” – The Politics of Comedic Depiction
Writers and comedians Sureni Weerasekera, Pooja Reddy, and Zubi Ahmed discuss what, on a fundamental level, makes a joke funny or unfunny. How have Asian American artists contended with comedic depictions of Asian Americans generally? How has humor been used by both the powerful and the disenfranchised, to subjugate and to liberate? Moderated by Jafreen […]
Worlds within Worlds presented by the Whiting Foundation
The New Yorker staff writer Helen Shaw talks with Whiting Award-winning writers Shayok Misha Chowdhury (Public Obscenities), whose eloquent bilingual play, exploring what desire, language, and memory reveal and obscure, was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (The King of Hell’s Palace), whose witty and politically acute work exploring whistleblowing amidst the pressures […]
PEN Presents: Free the Books
In facing the rising threats to the freedoms to read and imagine, PEN America convenes a dialogue with beloved writers on the recent and dramatic rise in the efforts to censor and silence Black and LGBTQ+ perspectives. New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston and independent publisher and children’s author Cheryl Willis Hudson, will be […]
Ready, Spin & Win Wheel
Come over and take a spin on the Festival’s kid lit wheel. Every reader is a winner. Everyone wins a prize.
Storytime: We Share This School by Dan Saks
This rhyming board book celebrates school communities and showcases how to exercise compassion and empathy both in and out of the classroom. Join musician, author, podcast host, and music educator Dan Saks for some singalong fun as he kicks off Children’s Day!
PEN Presents: Free the Books
In facing the rising threats to the freedoms to read and imagine, PEN America convenes a dialogue with beloved writers on the recent and dramatic rise in the efforts to censor and silence Black and LGBTQ+ perspectives. New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston and independent publisher and children’s author Cheryl Willis Hudson, will be […]
Food, Community, and California
Food connects places, ingredients and, most importantly, people – a fact celebrated in new cookbooks from native or adoptive Californian authors Rahanna Bisseret Martinez (Flavor+Us: Cooking for Everyone), Tanya Holland (Tanya Holland’s California Soul), and Natasha Pickowicz (More Than Cake: 100 Recipes Built for Pleasure and Community). Connection, inspiration, reliance, and a spirit of service […]