Portland Book Festival, presented by Wells Fargo, returns Saturday, November 2 to ten stages at six partner venues in downtown Portland’s south Park Blocks.
Literary Arts is pleased to present the following authors and their most recent titles on Saturday, November 2, 2024:
Picture book:
Vera Ahiyya, Look How Much I’ve Grown in KINDergarten | Waka T. Brown, Perfect | Ani DiFranco, Show Up and Vote (additional ticket required) | Max Greenfield, Good Night Thoughts | Dean & Shannon Hale, The Princess in Black and the Kitty Catastrophe | Nat Iwata, Wat Takes His Shot | Dane Liu, Laolao’s Dumplings | Raquel MacKay, I Hear a Búho | Kristina McMorris & Amanda Yoshida, Ellie Mae Dreams Big! | Kelly McWilliams & Jewell Parker Rhodes, Soul Step | Margaux Meganck, Speck | Eunice & Sabrina Moyle, Captain Marvel Soars Above & Get Outer My Space! | Olivia Sua, Uno Más, One More
Middle Grade:
Tracey Baptiste, Boy 2.0 | Max Brallier & Brian Churilla, The Last Kids on Earth: Graphic Novel | Vera Brosgol, Plain Jane and the Mermaid | Piper CJ, The Graveyard Gift, Fern’s School for Wayward Fae #1 | Dan Gemeinhart, Coyote Lost and Found | Jenna Lee-Yun, The Last Rhee Witch | Diana Ma, The Unbeatable Lily Hong | Chanel Miller, Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All | Jamar J. Perry, Jaden Powers and the Inheritance Magic | Karla Arenas Valenti, Lola, | Katie Zhao, Winnie Zeng Shatters the Universe
Young Adult:
Olivia Abtahi, Twin Flames | Meredith Adamo, Not Like Other Girls | Jade Adia, Our Shouts Echo | Parisa Akhbari, Just Another Epic Love Poem | S. K. Ali, Fledgling | Emily Lloyd-Jones, The Wild Huntress | Ransom Riggs, Sunderwold, Vol 1: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry | Faith Schaffer & Maggie Tokuda-Hall, The Worst Ronin | James L. Sutter, The Ghost of Us | David F. Walker, The Second Chance of Darius Logan | WITS Students, Standing in the Same Land: 2023-24 WITS Student Anthology | Katie Zhao, Zodiac Rising
Poetry:
Mosab Abu Toha, Forest of Noise | Kenzie Allen, Cloud Missives | Diannely Antigua, Good Monster | Victoria Chang, With My Back to the World | Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts | Danez Smith, Bluff | Monica Youn, From, From
Nonfiction:
Julie Beeler, The Mushroom Color Atlas | Kristina Cho, Chinese Enough | Carson Ellis, One Week in January: New Paintings for an Old Diary | Cara Giaimo, Atlas Obscura: Wild Life | Jessica Hoppe, First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream | Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts | Ferris Jabr, Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life | Chris La Tray, Becoming Little Shell | Sasha LaPointe, Thunder Song | Shayla Lawson, How to Live Free in a Dangerous World | Ijeoma Oluo, Be a Revolution | Tracy O’Neill, Woman of Interest | Morgan Parker, You Get What You Pay For | Robert Samuels, His Name Is George Floyd | Amy Stewart, The Tree Collectors
Fiction:
Alisa Alering, Smothermoss | Gina María Balibrera, The Volcano Daughters | Chelsea Bieker, Madwoman | Andrew Child, In Too Deep, a Reacher Novel | Lily Chu, The Takedown | Katelyn Doyle, Just Some Stupid Love Story | Ramona Emerson, Exposure | Brian Evenson, Good Night, Sleep Tight | Stephen Graham Jones, I Was a Teenage Slasher & The Angel of Indian Lake | Rachel Khong, Real Americans | Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake | R.O. Kwon, Exhibit | Layla Martínez, Wormwood | Casey McQuiston, The Pairing | Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe | Julia Phillips, Bear | Richard Powers, Playground (additional ticket required) | Marcie R. Rendon, Where They Last Saw Her | Walter Scott, The Wendy Award | Danzy Senna, Colored Television | Willy Vlautin, The Horse | Renée Watson, skin & bones | Joe Wilkins, The Entire Sky
Pop-up authors:
Curtis C. Chen, Kangaroo #3 | Amelia Díaz Ettinger, These Hollowed Bones & Self-Dissection | Ruth Dickey, Our Hollowness Sings | Becky Ellis, Little Avalanches | Nancy Miller Gomez, Inconsolable Objects | Vinnie Kinsella & Jennifer Perrine, curators, Incite! A Queer Reading Series | Nora Lange, Us Fools | David G. Lewis, Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley | Jessica Meza-Torres & Kyle Yoshioka, curators, BIPOC reading series | Lola Milholland, Group Living and Other Recipes | Tanya Olson, Born Backwards | Mark Pomeroy, The Tigers of Lents | Kim Stafford, As the Sky Begins to Change | Jessica Lynn Suchon, Scavenger | Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Sacred Folks | Renée Watson, Black Girl You Are Atlas, and more!
Moderators:
Lupita Aquino, Kristen Arnett, Emily Arrow, Breena Bard, Rachel Black Elk, Prakruti Bhatt, Danielle Bylund, Zoë Carpenter, Jenn Chávez, Curtis C. Chen, Emily Chenoweth, Ruth Dickey, Nora Ericson, Hanif Fazal, Stacy D. Flood, Courtney Gould, Genevieve Hudson, Mitchell S. Jackson, Mat Johnson, Jonathan Hill, Lillian Karabaic, Rachel Khong, Crystal Ligori, Colin Meloy, Dave Miller, Anis Mojgani, Elena Passarello, Andrew Proctor, Steph Opitz, Kate Ristau, Heidi Schulz, Marisa Siegel, Aron Nels Steinke, Alicia Tate, Laini Taylor, Sonja Thomas, Matthew Trueherz, Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Cecily Wong, Charity E. Yoro, and more!
Click here to learn more about this year’s authors and moderators.
Portland Book Festival will feature on-stage author discussions with over eighty authors, drop-in writing workshops, pop-up readings, an extensive book fair, and local food trucks in this city-wide celebration of books and stories.
Richard Powers and Ani DiFranco will appear in events at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall (add-on tickets required). Guest artists from the past five years of Portland Book Festival provide this year’s original Festival artwork. Writing workshops will run online throughout the Festival week. In addition, the third annual Portland Book Festival Cover to Cover will be held from October 28 to November 3 in multiple locations throughout the Portland metro area and includes programming such as interactive book presentations, literature-inspired comedy shows, and multi-genre storytelling events.
“As Literary Arts turns 40 and prepares to open one of the largest centers for literature in the nation, we look to stories to guide and inspire us,” says Andrew Proctor, Executive Director of Literary Arts. “Programming for this year’s Portland Book Festival reflects our commitment to community – and a deep investment in Portland’s shared future. The festival remains a celebration of intergenerational audiences, engaged around storytelling in ways that inspire conversation, understanding, and joy.”
Amanda Bullock, Senior Artistic Director at Literary Arts, says, “I am immensely proud to be presenting the tenth Portland Book Festival as a program of Literary Arts. Since I joined Literary Arts in 2015, it has been a great joy to witness the community of readers, writers, publishers, teachers, and so many more who come together on a drizzly November Saturday to celebrate books and storytelling in the heart of our city. For 2024, we’ve expanded our genre programming, with romance, horror, and mystery discussions, and we continue to expand our children’s programming, thanks to our partnership with The Judy. Portland Book Festival is an opportunity to see your literary heroes alongside the most exciting new talent, and this year is no exception, with writers from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists to debut poets taking the stage. I look forward to celebrating a decade of the downtown Portland Book Festival this November.”
How to attend:
General Admission Festival passes* are $18 in advance and $25 at the door. Youth 17 & under, those with a valid high school ID, veterans, and active military receive free general admission. $5 Arts for All passes are available for those receiving SNAP benefits.
Click here to get your passes.
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall special events featuring Ani DiFranco and Richard Powers can each be added for $5 (reserved seating) or $20–$30 (includes book) each. An Umbrella Pass ($70) includes the main Festival general admission and tickets with books to both Schnitzer events. All General Admission passes include admission to the Portland Art Museum; full-priced passes include a $5 voucher that can be used at the book fair or any festival on-site bookstores.
Readers Night: Supporting Portland Book Festival
Special access to preview the Festival book fair at our Readers Night fundraiser may be purchased separately for $75.
Click here for Readers Night tickets.
Thank you to our 2024 Festival sponsors:
