Brooklyn Book Festival 2023

The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national, and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week.

The Festival presents original programming and enthusiastically welcomes New York City’s cross-cultural book readers as well as national and international attendees. The Festival is known for fostering creative dialogue among the authors, presenting new literary voices as well as established authors, and for serving the literary community by providing a highly visible platform for the work of authors and publishers.

Highlights include 8 days of city-wide Bookend events, its flagship Festival Day with 300 authors and a Literary Marketplace with 250 independent and major publishers, and the BKBF Children’s Day that celebrates childhood reading.

Schedule

Sunday, September 24th
12pm – 5pm
Virtual Festival Day

To include authors and audiences that cannot attend in person

September 24th— October 2nd
Bookends
Citywide

These literary themed events are presented in bookstores, clubs, libraries, cultural organizations, and performance spaces to collectively create a literary celebration in all five boroughs.

Saturday, September 30th
10am – 4pm
Children’s Day
Brooklyn Commons at MetroTech

celebrate childhood reading as an act of love and a learning adventure – parents and guardians reading to children and children meeting their favorite authors. Families will again enjoy a full day of readings, workshops, performances, book signings, and art projects with favorite authors and illustrators.

Sunday, October 1st
10am – 6pm
Festival Day & Literary Marketplace
Brooklyn Borough Hall and surrounding venues

The city’s largest free literary celebration.