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

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, 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 ...

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 ...

The Decatur Book Festival has announced that it is taking a break in 2023 but plans to return in 2024. The announcement was made on Monday on their website on Monday. Dear Community Friends ...

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.

In its sixth year, the Decatur (Ga.) Book Festival is bigger than ever, but also running more smoothly than ever—at least, that's how it seems just days ahead of the September 2 keynote address ...