Cultural critic-poet-memoirist Saeed Jones has been announced as Decatur Book Festival’s keynote speaker. Novelist Angie Thomas will give the "kidnote" talk.

The Decatur Book Festival (DBF) will celebrate its 20th anniversary Oct. 3-4 with keynote speaker Saeed Jones and “kidnote” ...

The Decatur Book Festival announced the keynote speakers for this year’s festival, which is also the festival’s 20th year.

The Decatur Book Festival, one of the largest events in the city’s calendar, announced Monday that there would be no festival this year. In a brief statement released Monday afternoon ...

DECATUR, Ga. — The Decatur Book Festival announced that the 2023 festival will not be held this year. Organizers are “taking a pause” to evaluate planning for the event and to make sure that ...

The two-day festival will run from Oct. 4 - 5 with a full day of author panels and other activities. Friday night will kick the event off with a keynote event. The Decatur Book Festival was ...

When the Decatur Book Festival was canceled in 2023, readers wondered what would become of the city’s thriving literary culture. They needn’t have worried, because local bookshops came to the ...

When the Decatur Book Festival launched back in 2006, founder Daren Wang remembers thinking that if 10,000 people attended, “we would have hit it out of the park.” More than four times as many ...

DECATUR, Ga., April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The inaugural Decatur Children’s Book Festival, presented by Little Shop of Stories, will be taking place May 3-5 in downtown Decatur.

DECATUR, Ga. — The Decatur Book Festival will return this year for the first time in two years. The two-day festival will run from Oct. 4 - 5 with a full day of author panels and other activities.