Welcome to the Savannah Book Festival!
February 6 – 9, 2025
The Savannah Book Festival (SBF) is an annual event, free and open to the public, in celebration of the written word and its role in improving the human experience. Our mission is to promote reading, writing and civil conversation. Since the first Savannah Book Festival in 2008, SBF has presented an array of nationally-acclaimed authors to crowds of book-loving attendees through our ticketed Headline Addresses and free Festival Saturday.
Our four-day Festival takes place in Savannah’s Historic District against a backdrop of stunning historic buildings, cascading Spanish moss, and blooming Azaleas. Each year, over 9,000 people join us for three ticketed Headliner Address events and for our free Festival Saturday.
Festival Saturday presentations take place in museums, churches, and theaters in and around the historic Telfair and Chippewa Squares in the heart of Downtown Savannah. Our lineup of nationally-recognized authors from wide-ranging genres give 30-minute solo presentations on their creative process, followed by a Q&A and book signing.
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The 2024 Festival brought the master of mystery Ruth Ware to provide the Opening Address,Β Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle, to provide the Keynote Address, and Barnes & Noble’s Author of the Year David Grann to deliver the SBF Closing Address. Headliner Addresses are ticketed events presented in the Historic Trustees Theater in Downtown Savannah.
Headliners give a 45-minute presentation on their creative process and life as a writer, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Sponsors and Literati members receive guaranteed access to Headliner Addresses. Tickets to Headliner Addresses are $30.
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Book-It Tuesday Round Six!
Book-It Tuesday round six ends our Festival Saturday announcements. All 31 Festival Saturday authors have been announced. Please visit our Meet the Author page for details about all the authors. We still have one more author to announce. In the next few days we will...
Book-It Tuesday Round Five!
Our Book-It-Tuesday series continues with five new authors released this week. One of the surprises we are excited to share is John Berendt, the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, will return to Savannah to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the book...
Book-It Tuesday Round Four!
In less than four months, over 30 authors will arrive in our fair city to share their stories of love, loss, adventure and so much more. In Round Four of our Book-It Tuesday series, we are pleased to welcome the next five authors to the Festival Saturday lineup. This...
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From fake relationships to star-crossed time travelers to queer throuples, these authors are not your motherβs romance writers... Ahead of their upcoming releases, Jackie Lau, Kaliane Bradley, and TJ Alexander will discuss what makes a great romance, and how the genre can go far beyond a simple love story. β¨
Join us this Wednesday, April 24, for a #AuthorFest to remember, hosted by Simon & Schuster and moderated by Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. Visit the link below to RSVP! π
www.savannahbookfestival.org/simon-schusters-2024-authorfest/
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Join The Book Lady Bookstore and Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home in celebrating 2024 Local Author Day and the 99th Birthday of Flannery O'Connor! π¦π
On Sunday, March 24, Lafayette Square will host peacock crafts with Live Oak Public Libraries, a Flannery look-alike contest, a Panhandle Slim exhibition & silent auction, chicken-cornhole, a Moon River Opera sing-along, Starlandia craft and sign-making table, Sweet Thunder Band at the peacock bandshell, and so much more.
Oh, and over 40 AUTHORS selling their latest books and sharing their writing process. You won't want to miss it. For more information, visit thebookladybookstore.com/events. β¨
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Oh, how I wish I could. Love Miss Flannery!
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: Keynote Headliner Friday, February 16, 2024 Time / Location Time: 6:00 p.m. / Trustees Theater Purchase tickets here. Jeannette Walls BOOK INFO:Hang the Moon: Sallie Kincaid is the...6 CommentsComment on Facebook
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We’ll Ms Walls be signing books? Can we bring our own books for her to sign or will she sign only books purchased there?
Can books be purchased prior to Saturday? We’re arriving on Friday and wanted to know if and where we can purchase books on Friday? Thanks.
Suggestion for all future presentations: get rid of the Q&A segment at the end of every author event...the audience came to hear the author..not a grand-standing would be writer asking for advice.
Will any of the talks/panels be live streamed? I wanted to attend/ volunteer but covid got to me. Can I watch somehow?
We appreciate the support of our Chairperson’s Circle Sponsors:
The Philip E. and Nancy B. Beekman Foundation
David & Nancy Cintron
Robert Faircloth
Courtney Knight Gaines Foundation
Betsy Lancaster
Drs. Mickey and Kristin Ott
Gerald D. & Helen M. Stephens Foundation
Thanks to our official
Festival Bookseller:
And our independent
bookseller partner:
