The Bronx Book Festival

Fordham Plaza

​The Bronx Is Not Burning

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The Bronx Book Festival aims to promote literacy and foster a love of reading among children, teens, and adults. The festival will cover a wide range of topics relevant to the Bronx community through panels, workshops, and more with award-winning and bestselling authors, illustrators, and creators. The festival will help build the reading culture in the Bronx and become the premier literary experience open to Bronx residents and the general public.

The festival will provide a wide range of topics relevant to book-lovers of all ages with presenters including Bronx natives Adam Silvera (They Both Die at the End), Lilliam Rivera (The Education of Margot Sanchez), Arlene Alda (Just Kids from the Bronx), and Coe Booth (Kinda Like Brothers). Other highlights include National Book Award Finalist Ibi Zoboi (American Street), Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award Winner David Barclay Moore (The Stars Beneath Our Feet), and New York Times Bestseller Vashti Harrison (Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History), among many talented others.

Following the keynote, there will be panels starting at 11am featuring adult, young adult, and middle-grade authors. The youngest festival-goers will have their own fun activities as well as reading and drawings from picture book creators in the picture book tent starting at 11am. The festival will conclude with spoken word performance We, Too Sing America curated by festival partner I, Too Arts which will celebrate the legacy of Langston Hughes and honor the rich culture of spoken word poetry in the Bronx.