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Fort Worth BookFest


Tarrant County College - Trinity Campus

2nd Annual Fort Worth BookFest is open to the public, family-friendly and FREE.

This celebration of literary expression and culture kicks-off with an opening ceremony that includes a Parade of Characters and Super S/heroes.  With the help of partners, supporters, and sponsors, the BookFest is an acknowledgment of Fort Worth’s commitment to community literacy, and family.  Award-winning authors, writing in all genres for all ages, artists, publishers, and booksellers will be around all day selling and signing books and talking about their works with attendees.

With a focus on our youngest visitors, Children’s Square will have author and VIP readers throughout the day and educational activities hosted by the FW Library and others, with face painting and more.  Nuestros Cuentos/Our Stories will spotlight culturally contemporary Latinx authors and poets (descendants of the indigenous people of the pre-Columbus Americas).  Authors will share passages from their published works and entertain a conversation with the audience.

In a parody on the form of professional wrestling developed in Mexico, the Luchadores (wrestlers) of Fort Worth BookFest’s “Lucha Libro” show their devotion to literacy, by choosing to read rather than fight.  Lucha Libro is a one-act short written especially for Fort Worth BookFest by Richard J. Gonzales, an Arlington, TX author.

The BookFest has collaborated with The Dock Bookshop to host an advance screening of the movie The Hate U Give, Thursday, October 18, at 7 pm at the 7th Street Movie Tavern.  Tickets are $12 a person and proceeds will support the BookFest and Dock Bookshop activities.  A community conversation about the movie will occur at 1 pm at the BookFest.

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Price
  • FREE!
Box Office
  • 817-929-4054


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300 Trinity Campus Circle · Fort Worth, TX 76102


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