Free festival will feature over 90 national, regional, and local authors and 60 sessions for guests to attend

THE 10TH ANNUAL SAN ANTONIO BOOK FESTIVAL, MAY 21, 2022

 

The 10th Annual San Antonio Book Festival  has announced its official 2022 schedule for this year’s festival, taking place on May 21, 2022, at the Central Library and Southwest School of Art.  The festival will feature over 90 national, regional, and local authors and 60 sessions for guests to attend, and is FREE and open to all ages, featuring literary works for the whole family. A full list of all the sessions at the festival is available online. A full list of participating authors can be found here.

 

2022 HELPFUL LINKS:

Author lineup 

Author and book cover photos

Book Festival photos

Book Festival b-roll

Book Festival logos

 

2022 NOTEWORTHY SESSIONS:

ASSIMILATION AND BELONGING

Time: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

Location: Russell Hill Rogers Tent (session will also live-streamed on San Antonio Book Festival’s YouTube channel)

In You Sound Like a White Girl, bestselling author Julissa Arce questions the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants and calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. 

Author: Julissa Arce

Moderator: Cat Cardenas, Texas Monthly

 

A CONVERSATION WITH JERICHO BROWN AND NATALIE DIAZ

Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Location: Russell Hill Rogers Tent (session will also live-streamed on San Antonio Book Festival’s YouTube channel)

Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Jericho Brown (The Tradition) and Natalie Diaz (Postcolonial Love Poem) take center stage at the San Antonio Book Festival. They read from their latest collections, and discuss their transcendent work – both on the page and in their communities – and why engaging with verse is a vital and accessible literary act. 

Authors: Jericho Brown and Natalie Diaz

Moderator: Roger Reeves

 

THIS TIME TOMORROW WITH EMMA STRAUB

Time: 2:45 PM - 3:30 PM

Location: Russell Hill Rogers Tent (session will also live-streamed on San Antonio Book Festival’s YouTube channel)

What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes and a different kind of love story in her latest novel, This Time Tomorrow. 

Author: Emma Straub

Moderator: Kathy Blackwell, Texas Monthly


 

THE MAYOR AND THE JUDGE

Time: 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM

Location: Hawn Holt Family Auditorium (this session will be taped and aired at a later date on C-SPAN’s Book-TV)

In The Mayor and The Judge, San Antonio Texas Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge Nelson W. Wolff fought to keep citizens safe at a time when the country was largely divided by political mayhem and disinformation. Including personal accounts of his family's reaction, the impact of the COVID-19, and the death of his best friend, Wolff writes candidly about how a global pandemic hit too close to home. 

Authors: Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Judge Nelson W. Wolff
Moderator: David Martin Davies, Texas Public Radio

 

AMERICAN REBOOT WITH WILL HURD

Time:  2:30 PM - 3:15 PM  

Location: Hawn Holt Family Auditorium (this session will be taped and aired at a later date on C-SPAN’s Book-TV)

Former Republican Congressman and CIA Officer Will Hurd’s American Reboot is a political playbook rooted in the ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values. 

Author: Will Hurd
Moderator: Robert Rivard, San Antonio Report

 

TRANS LITERATURE & ART

Location: San Antonio Book Festival Virtual Tent

In a culture of attacks on transgender and queer rights, there is a deep need for narratives that embrace queerness and break heteronormative expectations. Authors Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Eileen Myles, Denne Michele Norris, and Torrey Peters pay homage to the beauty and resiliency of queer and transgender art and discuss the importance of art to their own liberation as both writers and readers. The panel is dedicated to those who seek to see themselves in literature and those fighting back against unjust laws. It will be a celebration of the power of art to create change.

Authors: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Eileen Myles, Denne Michele Norris, and Torrey Peters
Moderator: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

 

SAN ANTONIO DEBUTS TAKE OVER PURA BELPRÉ 

Time: 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

Location: Coates Chapel

Pura Belpré Honor recipients Jonny Garza Villa and Marcia Mickelson tackle issues of identity, love in its many forms, and heartfelt relationships and their struggles. In Mickelson’s Where I Belong, a Guatemalan American teen fights for her family, her future, and the place she calls home. Garza Villa’s Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun is a poignant novel about coming out, first love, and being your best true self.

Authors: Jonny Garza Villa and Marcia Mickelson

Moderator: Anel Flores 

Introduced by: students from the Young Women's Leadership Academy 

 

GRAPHIC STORYTELLING: PAST AND PRESENT

Location: Coates Chapel

Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

In The Witch Owl Parliament, all-star Latinx authors David Bowles and Raúl the Third emerge readers into a steampunk-inspired 19th-century Mesoamerica saga of forbidden alchemy. Laura Gao’s compellingly layered graphic memoir Messy Roots depicts a multidimensional account of growing into queer Asian American identity and nuanced 

 

CASTRO FAMILY TIES

Location: McNutt Middle-Grade Garden

Time: 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Monica Brown and Rep. Joaquin Castro read from Small Room, Big Dreams: The Journey of Julián and Joaquin Castro / Pequeña habitación, grandes sueños: El viaje de Julián y Joaquín Castro – a bilingual storytime

Authors: Monica Brown, Joaquin Castro
Introduced by: students from the Young Women's Leadership Academy 

 

ULTIMATE ILLUSTRATOR SKETCH-OFF

Location: McNutt Middle-Grade Garden

Time: 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM

Making its return to the San Antonio Book Festival, renowned illustrators compete in the ultimate sketch-off. Topics are capricious and mercurial based on audience suggestions and ideas. More than a dozen sketches will be signed and given to lucky audience members. 

Author: Laura Gao, Adriana Garcia, Xavier Garza, Shawn Harris, Don Tate
Hosted by: Library Chica Zinnia Bayardo

 

 

The mission of the San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) is to unite readers and writers in a celebration of ideas, books, libraries, and literary culture. SABF was first presented in April 2013. Founding partners include the San Antonio Public Library, the Southwest School of Art, the San Antonio Public Library Foundation, and Texas Book Festival. This “Fiesta for the mind” is a gift to visitors and the citizens of San Antonio, free and open to all.

To learn more about the Festival, visit sabookfestival.org/

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