San Antonio Book Festival

Now nearly ten years old, the Book Festival has helped to put San Antonio’s varied, lively, and strong literary community on the national map. Held at the downtown Central Library, the Festival creates a lively campus for a day, connecting the library with the adjacent Southwest School of Art and filling the spaces between with market stalls, a giant book tent, and thousands of attendees. Pivoting to virtual format for 2021 allowed for more authors and more fun, a huge credit to the creative and energetic Festival directors, staff and board.

A magnet for literary outreach, the Festival hosts young people to participate in story hours, author talks, and fun and games in their age groups – including teens, who rule their own outdoor kingdom! An important event in our cultural calendar, the Book Festival is a “celebration of ideas, uniting readers and writers through books, libraries and literary culture.”