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

@bookshelfbyla

 
 
 

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