Boston Book Festival

We are less than ONE WEEK away from the proposal deadline for BBF Unbound! Have a great idea for a session? Want to bring your enthusiasm for literature to this year's festival? We want to hear from you!

BBF Unbound is our series of community-curated sessions. We love hearing your ideas for sessions and working with you to develop successful BBF presentations and workshops.

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Visual Description: A red outline surrounds a white page. A drawing of an analog alarm clock is at the top of the page, followed by text that reads "The clock is ticking! Proposals due July 22nd! BBF Unbound Boston Book Festival 2024. Create an Event by and for our community! www.bostonbookfest.org/unbound/"

You know us (or at least, you’ve been seeing our faces across Boston Book Fest’s social media since Lit Crawl), but now it’s time for our formal introduction! We interns have had such a great time this summer already, and we are working hard to plan a great festival for you all on October 26th!



VISUAL DESCRIPTION: Page One: Text Reads “Meet Our Summer Interns 2024 www.bostonbookfest.org Boston Book Festival October 26, 2024” in red, black, and white font on black and white squares. On the left side, the Boston Book Festival logo sits in White font in a black rectangle.

Page Two: The image depicts Eva, a white woman with her hair in a brunette low ponytail and wearing a black off-the-shoulder top. Text reads “Meet Our Intern: Eva Fournel She/Her School: Senior at Boston University What makes you excited to join BBF? I’m excited to use my creativity and passion for literature and social media to help plan unique events that book lovers can enjoy! Favorite Book: A Happy Death by Albert Camus www.bostonbookfest.org Boston Book Festival October 26, 2024”

Page Three: The image depicts Abbie, a white person with wavy brunette hair and red lipstick on, wearing blue overalls with a red and white striped sweater underneath. Text reads “Meet Our Intern: Abbie Langmead School: Recent Emerson College Grad Incoming Trinity College Dublin Student What makes you excited to join BBF? As a local, I’ve been attending the festival since high school. I’m thrilled to be able to help build the events that I’ve been a fan of for so long! Favorite Book: Girl, Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo www.bostonbookfest.org Boston Book Festival October 26, 2024”

Applications now open for BBF Unbound 2024! Put your programming hats on and let us know your ideas.

BBF Unbound is our series of community-curated sessions. We love hearing your ideas for sessions and working with you to develop successful BBF presentations and workshops.

Apply here: https://bostonbookfest.org/unbound/

BBF is excited to be partnering for Jenny Slate's Boston homecoming show at The Wilbur

Get exclusive access to pre-sale tickets starting tomorrow, June 25th at 10am by emailing [email protected].



VISUAL DESCRIPTION: Jenny Slate, a short white woman in a crocheted dress, does a curtsy surrounded by text. Text reads clockwise "In partnership with the Boston Book Festival Jenny Slate with special guest Emiko Tamagawa Wednesday, October 23 The Wilbur Lifeform Tour Early access code for Boston Book Festival Followers! Email: [email protected] to get an exclusive pre-sale code and join the BBF mailing list The new book Lifeform available October 22." In the upper left hand corner is the Boston Book Festival logo, in the upper right hand corner is the Brookline Booksmith logo - both are text.

"Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, TX were finally informed of their freedom - more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation." -- Museum of African American History - Boston and Nantucket.

For more information visit our Cultural Partner the Museum of African American History - Boston.

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✨Lit Crawl Spotlight✨ Tomorrow is the big day, hope to see you there!

Full bio here: http://bostonbookfest.org/litcrawl

The QT Library Dearly Studio Massachusetts Center for the Book Remnant Brewing GBH Litquake Union Square Main Streets Somerville Arts Council Somerville Creates

✨Lit Crawl Spotlight✨ Just a couple days away! Find the full schedule here: bostonbookfest.org/litcrawl

GBHLitquake Union Square Main Streets Somerville Arts Council Somerville Creates Teens in Print Warehouse XI Boston Poetry Slam The Jungle Community Music Club

✨Lit Crawl Spotlight✨ Go to bostonbookfest.org/litcrawl for the full schedule - See you in Union Square next Thursday!

GBH Litquake Union Square Main Streets CultureHouse Somerville Arts Council

✨Lit Crawl Spotlight✨ See you June 6! View full schedule HERE --> https://bostonbookfest.org/litcrawl/

✨Lit Crawl Spotlight✨ See you June 6! View full schedule HERE --> https://bostonbookfest.org/litcrawl/

GBH, Litquake, Union Square Main Streets

Lit Crawl Boston returns on June 6th from 6-9pm! Head to our website to check out the line-up.

Come join your fellow bookworms and bibliomaniacs for a night of irreverent literary adventure and mayhem in unexpected spaces across Union Square in Somerville.

Lit Crawl Boston is a project of Boston Book Festival and the Litquake Foundation, in partnership with GBH and Union Square Main Streets.

Hope to see you there!

https://bostonbookfest.org/lit-crawl-boston-3/

Teachers make the world go round!

Visit our website to apply for an Exhibitor Booth before it's too late!

https://bostonbookfest.org/exhibitorinfo/

Happy New Year from all of us at the Boston Book Festival!