7TH ANNUAL BRONX BOOK FESTIVAL JUNE 5-9, 2024
Join us for the 7th annual Bronx Book Festival! We kick things off with our Literacy Day on Wednesday, June 5th at the Bronx Library Center! Then we’re championing Bronx educators with our 2nd Annual Educator Day on Thursday, June 6th, followed by our kickoff party will be held on Friday, June 7th at the historic Andrew Freedman Home, where we will have free food, drinks, a poetry slam, and mingling with participating festival authors. On Saturday, June 8th we gather in-person to celebrate books and authors with programming and giveaways at Fordham Plaza and Fordham University featuring some of your favorite authors! Check out the line up below and be sure to RSVP for individual events!
EDUCATOR DAY
THURSDAY, JUNE 6TH, 2024, 8AM-3PM
AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Alyssa Reynoso Morris
The Bronx is My Home
Rebekah Shoaf
Educating with Passion and Purpose
Luis Torres
The Bronx Principal
Saraciea J. Fennell
The Bronx is Reading Founder
Meredith Matson
Educating with Passion and Purpose
Stewart Mitchell
TeachKind
Letisha Marrero
Salsa Magic
Demoisa Webber-Bey
Scholastic Inc
Concetta Gleason
Wilde, Flower & Books
FESTIVAL KICKOFF PARTY
FRIDAY, JUNE 7TH, 2024, 5PM-9PM
AT THE ANDREW FREEDMAN HOME
Come meet and mingle with authors, and attend a live poetry slam!
FESTIVAL DAY
SATURDAY, JUNE 8TH, 2024, 8AM-6PM
AT FORDHAM PLAZA
KEYNOTE AUTHORS
Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain Gang All Stars
Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends, Immortal Longings
Kamilah Cole, So Let Them Burn
2024 AUTHOR LINE UP
Karina Gonzalez
Churro Stand
Alyssa Reynoso-Morris
The Bronx Is My Home
Katherine Harbour
The Dark Fable
Ellen Hagan
All That Shines
Lisa Springer
There’s No Way I’d Die First
Melissa Albert
The Bad Ones
Madeline Claire Franklin
The Wilderness of Girls
Jordyn Taylor
The Revenge Game
Dr. Michael Datcher
Harlem at Four
Vashti Harrison
Big
Reneé Watson
Summer Is Here, Black Girl You Are Atlas
Janelle Harper
My Block Looks Like
Andrew Boryga
Victim
Don P Hooper
True True
Joél Leon
Everything and Nothing at Once
Kathy Iandoli
God Save the Queens
Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Fashion Killa
Miles Marshall Lewis
Promise That You Will Sing about Me
Robert Samuels
His Name Is George Floyd
Krystal Quiles
Churro Stand
Nina Sharma
The Way You Make Me Feel
Mary Averling
The Curse of Eelgrass Bog
Mo Netz
The Lumbering Giants of Windy Pines
Nashae Jones
Courtesy of Cupid
Ali Terese
Free Period
Kwame Mbalia
Jax Freeman and the Phantom Shriek
Leah Johnson
Black Girl Power
Tracey Baptiste
Moko Magic: Carnival Chaos
Olugbmeisola Rhuday Perkovich
The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class, You’re Breaking My Heart
Tony Keith Jr.
How the Boogeyman Became a Poet
Eliot Schrefer
The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class, The Darkness Outside Us
Kate Messner
The Kids in Mrs. Z’s Class: Emma McKenna Full Out
Bernie Lombardi
Amber Oliver
Senior Editor, Bloomsbury Publishing
Dominique Jones
Book Designer
Michelle Herrera Mulligan
Vice President, Associate Publisher, Primero Sueño Press/Atria Books
Cleyvis Natera
Neruda on the Park
Rob Kenner
The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
Alechia Dow
The Cookie Crumbles
Jyoti Rajan Gopal
One Sweet Song
Tracy Badua
The Cookie Crumbles
Jennifer Baker
Forgive Me Not
Dhonielle Clayton
The Memory Thieves
Tuffy Questell
Annell Lopez
I’ll Give You A Reason
Nat Cassidy
Nestlings
P. Djeli Clark
Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Abeni’s Song
Dave Roman
Unicorn Boy
Sarah Beth Durst
The Spellshop
Alexandra Rowland
Running Close to the Wind
Pablo Cartaya
Curveball
Crystal Hana Kim
The Stone Home
Lauren Ho
Bite Me, Royce Taslim
Milena Brown
Senior Marketing Director, Doubleday Books
Erica Martiano
Director of Marketing & Multicultural Initiatives at St. Martin’s Publishing Group
Dominique R. Jenkins
Assistant Director Author Events, Macmillan Publishers and Bronx Native
Lee Oglesby
Senior Editor, Flatiron Books
Letitia Asare
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