NOLA Book Festival

#NOLABookFest celebrates reading & intellectual exploration. Every day is a festival when you have a good book to read! Free public event 🗓️ March 11–14, 2027

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📆 Save the date 📆
The New Orleans Book Festival returns March 11–14, 2027! Relive the magic from this year’s festival and start making your plans to join us next year for another unforgettable celebration of books, ideas, and community! https://t.co/SuCwcGiChM

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📚 Calling All Authors! ✍️

Author applications for the 2027 New Orleans Book Festival are now open!

🗓️ Submit your book by September 15, 2026

Learn more: https://t.co/MwzWyErJu6

[Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson]

Talking with my @Tulane colleague and one of my favorite writers, Jesmyn Ward, about the South, race, Faulkner, and coming home. https://t.co/6bCGWFgA6d

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This #GiveNOLADay, support #NOLABookFest!
Your support helps keep the New Orleans Book Festival free, open to the public and thriving year after year. https://t.co/xYZeE4yxpn

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The 2026 NOLA Book Festival might be over, but isn’t every day a festival when you have a good book to read?! 📖

Subscribe to our newsletter and be one of the first to know when we announce dates for next year. https://t.co/GVgm2iIsmI

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In a city known for its joie de vivre, the New Orleans Book Festival is quickly building a reputation as a destination for joie de lire, too. 📚

Read the recap from this year's NOLA Book Festival: https://t.co/1DDMx6yOzi

[NOLA Book Festival @NOLAbookfest]

Happy first day of spring! 🌻 🌸🌷

What book are you currently reading?

[Tulane Alumni @tulanealumni]

Bookending the Weekend

We're ready to relive every moment of @NOLAbookfest. Such an incredible time seeing all the booklovers connecting with their favorite storytellers on the Uptown campus and all around the city.

📰: https://t.co/mLpKsa8wyj

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✨ The best chapter yet! ✨

It was an amazing four days of ideas, inspiration, and community — a true Mardi Gras for the mind!

Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2026 New Orleans Book Festival a success. See you next year!

[NOLA Book Festival @NOLAbookfest]

Thanks for joining and talking about your book Heart Life Music at NOLA Book Festival, @kennychesney and Holly Gleason!

[Kenny Chesney @kennychesney]

Thanks so much to the New Orleans Book Festival for having me and Holly Gleason and allowing us to chat about our book Heart Life Music. It was great to see @AndersonCooper, @DaxShepard, @KenBurns, @WalterIsaacson and all the brilliant minds that were a part of the festival. Thanks for having me. #HeartLifeMusic

[Tulane University @Tulane]

Our grand finale had something for everyone 💚🌊

Family Day lit up campus with interactive readings, creative workshops, and performances for all ages. It was a memorable, joyful close to the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.

[Kim Gaffney Corriher @kgny21]

Is it possible that Family Day at @NOLAbookfest outshined everything else? For our family it is… Massively proud of our 13 year old and grateful for outstanding role models and leaders like @MitchLandrieu, @ReadWithMalcolm and @Saints Kellen Moore.

[New Orleans Saints @Saints]

Kellen Moore and his wife Julie spoke at @NOLABookFest's Family Day!

#Saints | @SaintsinComm

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Day 4⃣ at NOLA Book Fest is Family Day!

Join us today from 10-2 at @Tulane for free, family-centered programming that includes author readings, book-related activities, musical performances, and a free book distribution.

Event details: https://t.co/qFzhafgPdb

[Tulane University @Tulane]

Today was fun. See you tomorrow? 👀

Day 3 of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane: big ideas, crawfish, and nonstop activity across campus.

One more day to go. See you at Sunday’s Family Day!

[NOLA.com @NOLAnews]

Salman Rushdie, Kara Swisher, Clint Smith among highlights at Friday's Book Fest https://t.co/R82Tx7Z4ws

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CNN anchor Anderson Cooper shared his experiences with the city at New Orleans Book Fest.

"I love how New Orleans honors the memory of things."

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Books 📚 live music 🎶 crawfish 🦞

NOLA Book Festival really is Mardi Gras for the mind!

Thanks for celebrating the joy of reading and let’s keep the good times rolling tomorrow (Sunday) at Family Day from 10 am to 2 pm.

https://t.co/SuCwcGiChM

[BookTV on C-SPAN2 @BookTV]

On stage at the @NOLAbookfest , author @staceyabrams discusses how all of her varied interests and work come together in a “through line.”

Watch more of this program & more of @cspan #booktv ‘a coverage of the festival at https://t.co/Pt4vmIRk0D

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At #NOLABookFest, @WalterIsaacson talks about his latest book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. In conversation with David Brooks, he explores the ideas behind the sentence and how it shapes American politics and identity today. https://t.co/6edvdKyP7r