BOROUGH HALL PLAZA — The centerpiece Festival Day (Sunday, Oct. 1) takes place in the parks and plazas surrounding Downtown Brooklyn’s Borough Hall and other venues, with seven stages overflowing with conversation, as diverse authors of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, comics, graphic novels, and young adult literature come together to converse, read and sign books throughout the day. Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Hilton Als, Toluse Olorunnipa, Robert Samuels, and Colson Whitehead will all be on stage.
Hundreds of authors — from standout emerging voices to iconic writers whose bodies of works are literary movements unto themselves — convene for the event. As Brooklyn Book Festival often pairs young and debut writers with legends, Festival Day becomes an opportunity for audiences to think through some of today’s most urgent, and complex issues and also be uplifted and entertained with their favorite authors, and discover new favorites. Festival Day also stages the largest book market in the Northeast. This year the Brooklyn Book Festival’s vibrant Literary Marketplace will offer readers innumerable possibilities for encountering new work: with authors, publishers (many of them independent), and literary organizations setting up hundreds of tents around Borough Hall for attendees to visit and stroll through.
At Children’s Day (Saturday, Sept. 30), which takes place in Brooklyn Commons in MetroTech, families enjoy a full day of readings, workshops, performances, book signings, and art projects with favorite children’s and middle-grade authors and illustrators. It’s a playdate with authors as kids can get creative with their favorite writers and illustrators at workshops and even get their books signed. Plus, the whole family can find new favorite books at the Children’s Marketplace of Books.
Brooklyn Book Festival Co-Producer Liz Koch said, “This year’s authors come from as far away as Japan and Brazil and as nearby as down the street….
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