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After a successful 2019 connecting authors, readers, and book lovers, the <\/span><\/span>Texas Book Festival<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> is excited to announce its 25th anniversary on November 7 and 8, 2020. The 25th year of the Texas Book Festival, one of the largest and most prestigious book festivals in the country, will once again be held throughout the grounds of the Texas State Capitol and along Congress Avenue in downtown Austin. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The festival\u2019s 24th year brought in more than fifty thousand attendees, who gathered to listen to and interact with more than three hundred adult and children\u2019s authors, including Malcolm Gladwell, Sonia Sotomayor, John Grisham, Aar\u00f3n S\u00e1nchez, Ibram X. Kendi, Jami Attenberg, Tim O\u2019Brien, Samantha Power, Chris Ware, Chris Shepherd, and more. The festival also featured more than one hundred exhibitors, as well as local food trucks, family activities, author signings, book sales, and more events connecting readers with the authors they love as well as new literary talents. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The 2019 festival featured more than seventy Latinx authors, including Duncan Tonatiuh, who presented Soldier for Equality: Jos\u00e9 de la Luz S\u00e1enz and the Great War<\/em>, and Jennine Cap\u00f3 Crucet (My Time Among the Whites<\/em>), Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Sabrina & Corina<\/em>), and Ivelisse Rodriguez (Love War Stories<\/em>), who highlighted their new collections of short fiction and essays. Other highlights of the 2019 festival included the first year of the Libros en Espa\u00f1ol tent, a book sales tent curated by BookPeople and Vintage Espa\u00f1ol and dedicated to Spanish-language books for adults and children. Inside the Kirkus Reviews tent, the weekend kicked off with a high-power panel of the 2019 Kirkus Prize Finalists and continued with presentations from Kwame Alexander, Laurie Halse Anderson, Jaquira D\u00edaz, Rainbow Rowell, and other award-winning authors. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSeeing readers meet their favorite authors never gets old,\u201d says Executive Director Lois Kim. \u201cIt was a profound experience to meet Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and to see how intentional she was in talking with young people about the difference education and empathy can make in their own and other people\u2019s lives. It was a powerful instance of the way the festival fosters transformative experiences through authors and their books.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The 2019 First Edition Literary Gala, held on October 25 at the Four Seasons Austin, was attended by literary luminaries, dignitaries, and cultural arts supporters, who raised more than $700,000 to help the Texas Book Festival make an impact in communities across Texas. The money raised from the gala not only supports the festival\u2019s programming year-round, but also supports the Texas Book Festival\u2019s Reading Rock Stars and Real Reads programs, which provide author visits and book donations to students in low-income schools, and the festival\u2019s Texas Public Library Grants, which provide funding to libraries across the state. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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2019 also marked the third year of TBF\u2019s partnership with BookPeople, a leading independent bookstore in Texas. BookPeople served as the official bookseller for the festival as well as a year-round event and media partner. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Educational opportunities remained a priority for the Texas Book Festival in 2019. The TBF gave more than $100,500 in grants to Texas public libraries. Through Reading Rock Stars, TBF provided 12,692 books to students in Title I schools across Texas. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Texas Teen Book Festival, held on October 12 at Southwestern University, featured an all-star lineup, including keynote speakers Akilah Hughes, and Erika L. S\u00e1nchez, as well as young-adult authors David Yoon, Kate Williams, Misa Sugiura, Mary H.K. Choi, Rory Power, and more. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2020, everything fans know and love about the festival will return: acclaimed and emerging authors, book signings, cooking demonstrations, author panels, live music, a Saturday night Lit Crawl, and more yet-to-be announced events and programming for the festival\u2019s 25th anniversary. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Submissions to participate in the 2020 festival will open in early 2020. For book submission guidelines, please visit www.texasbookfestival.org\/submit-a-book\/<\/a><\/strong>. Visit www.texasbookfestival.org<\/strong><\/a> for more information. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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