Upcoming Events

August 2026

August 22, 9am to 6pm

National Book Festival: Representing Massachusetts at the Roadmap to Reading. Featured Great Reads titles Nothing More of This Land by Joseph Lee and Rise Up!: Powerful Protests in American History by Rachel C. Katz, illustrated by Sophie Bass, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC.

September 2026

September 16, 7pm

Mass Book Awards Longlist Reading in partnership with GrubStreet: readings by 2026 longlisted authors in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction Carroll Beauvais, Benjamin Bellet, Imani Perry, Maria Pinto, Milo Todd, and Sam Wachman, at GrubStreet in Boston.

September 24, 10am to 5pm

Massachusetts Day at the Big E: with Rachel C. Katz, author of Rise Up!: Powerful Protests in American History by Rachel C. Katz, illustrated by Sophie Bass from 2pm to 4pm, at the Big E, West Springfield.

October 2026

October 8, 6pm

Mass Book Awards Longlist Reading in partnership with the MFA for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst: readings by 2026 longlisted authors in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction Laura Cresté, Patrick Donnelly, Emily Everett, Mia McKenzie, Nora Claire Miller, and Michelle Young, at the Orchard Hill Pavilion on the UMass Amherst Campus (154 Orchard Hill Drive, Amherst, MA).

October 10, 11am to 5pm

Northampton Print & Book Fair, at 33 Hawley in Northampton.

October 17, 10am to 5pm

Boston Book Festival, in Copley Square, Boston.

October 28, 1pm

Mass Book Awards Ceremony, at the Massachusetts State House, Boston.