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2023 Bay Area Book Festival
May 6, 2023 @ 11:00 am - May 7, 2023 @ 4:30 pm
Presented by Bay Area Book Festival in partnership with the San Francisco Chronicle.
Happening at venues throughout the City of Berkeley, the 9th Annual Bay Area Book Festival will hold seven of its programs at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, all open to the public with free admission.
Saturday | May 6, 2023
The Beauty and Urgency of Nature Writing
11:00am – 12:00pm
Featuring Erica Berry, Tom Comitta, and Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, moderated by Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí
25 Years of The Berkeley Poetry Slam
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Featuring Jason Bayani, Ekabhumi Charles Ellik, Betsy Gomez, Nazelah Jamison, Douglas Mungin, Sam Sax
Historical Fiction: The American West
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Featuring Rina Ayuyang, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Jane Smiley, moderated by Blaise Zerega
Indigenous Perspectives in Genre Fiction
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Featuring Jessica Johns, Nick Medina, Marcie R. Rendon, and Margaret Verble, moderated by Melissa Stoner
Sunday | May 7, 2023
Finding Nature, Saving Time
11:00am – 12:00pm
Maddalena Bearzi and Jenny Odell, moderated by Alexis Madrigal
Fiction: Encounters with Myths and Spirits
12:30pm – 1:30pm
K-Ming Chang, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Brandon Hobson moderated by Rita Chang-Eppig
Echoes of Exclusion
2:00pm – 3:00pm
Ava Chin, Fae Myenne Ng, and Paisley Rekdal, moderated by Kathryn Ma
Unraveling: Peggy Orenstein Spins a Yarn about Yarn… and Life
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Peggy Orenstein, moderated by Sylvia Brownrigg
About the Bay Area Book Festival
The 9th annual Bay Area Book Festival will bring its literary magic to all ages again this year. In that spirit, all events––except the headliner programs on Saturday and Sunday night––will now be offered at no cost. The festival’s 74 indoor programs and 24 programs on outdoor stages will feature the most lauded and exciting authors and thinkers of today––from W. Kamau Bell to Joan Baez, Cory Doctorow to Tricia Hersey and many, many more––representing a wide diversity of backgrounds and writing across many genres.
Nearly 300 prominent authors for both adults and youth will appear on indoor stages all day on both Saturday and Sunday, May 6–7. Exclusively on Sunday, May 7, the festival will include a large outdoor stage, literary exhibitors, gourmet food vendors, a lively family area, and a youth expo will take over Berkeley’s Civic Center Park. Berkeley, CA,
Learn more at baybookfest.org.