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Another entrant in the Get the Word Out contest – Anara Guard has been hitting Little Free Libraries in and around Oak Park and Southeast Sac!

Three new designs – white to print on darker t-shirts! https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Sacramento-Book-Festival-Escape-Into-a-Book-white-letters-by-SacBookFest/169942978.VL7OD https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Sacramento-Book-Festival-Read-a-Book-Save-a-Mind-by-SacBookFest/169948081.JZXP1 https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Sacramento-Book-festival-Read-Sleep-Repeat-slogan-by-SacBookFest/169948116.MV45S

If you live in East Sac, don’t be surprised if the next time you visit your local Little Free Library, you see some fliers for the Sacramento Book Festival! Mark and I have just done a three day walking tour and have hit most of them from Business 80 to the American River, and will … Read more

The lovely Belinda Messenger-Sikes, our Social Media and Newsletter Coordinator, models her just-arrived book festival shirt. Grab your own here (and mugs and mousepads and totebags and and and…): https://www.redbubble.com/people/sacbookfest/shop

Looking for Sacramento Book Festival 2025 Swag? We have mugs, t-shirts, notebooks, mouse pads, and much more with our three slogans: Read. Sleep. Repeat.Read a Book. Save a Mind.Escape Into a Book. All available on the RedBubble store. Grab something to remember this great festival by at the SBF25 RedBubble Store: https://www.redbubble.com/i/mug/Sacramento-Book-Festival-Escape-Into-a-Book-T-Shirt-by-SacBookFest/169557638.9Q0AD

Hey all… we’re thrilled t announce that our swag is now available on the red bublle store. Choose from the SBF logo, the SBF title, or three different slogans: We have t-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, phone cases, stickers, and much more, and all profits benefit the book festival! Check out the SBF25 store here!

The Sacramento Book Festival has a lot of great literacy partners! 916 Ink 916 Ink is Sacramento’s arts-based creative writing and literacy nonprofit that provides workshops and tutoring to transform Sacramento youth into strong readers, confident communicators, and published authors. Our programs increase literacy skills, improve vocabulary, teach empathy, positively impact social and emotional learning, … Read more

Our amazing Judith Starkston, working with the also fantastic Robin Burcell, have put together the schedules for our events room (author panels) and Kids Zone. You can find them on the schedule page here!

We’re working hard to get the word out, dropping fliers at local bookstores, grocery stores and cafes. We’re only a few days in, and look at those red pins proliferating! But we need your help too: Have fun and help us get the word out! –The SBF25 Team

All of our author tables have been reserved in record time. We are also almost sold out on our organization and bookstore tables. It just goes to show how hungry folks in Sacramento are for a festival like this. We are thrilled at the amazing response, and look forward to seeing everyone in May!