#Jax Book Fest 2024

Jax Book Fest is back at the Main Library on Friday, September 20 from 12-5 p.m. and Saturday, September 21, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. This year, we've got an amazing lineup of New York Times bestselling authors and over 70 local authors for you to get to know! See who's scheduled to appear!

#2024 Featured Authors

#For Children and Families

Vashti Harrison is the #1 New York Times bestselling creator of Big, Little Leaders, Little Dreamers, and Little Legends and the illustrator of Andrea Beaty's I Love You Like Yellow, Matthew Cherry's Hair Love, and Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic's Hello, Star, among others. She received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for Lupita Nyong'o's Sulwe and is also a two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children.

#For Teens and Fans of Young Adult Books

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning books including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, All American Boys (with Brendan Kiely), Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You (with Ibram X. Kendi), Stuntboy, in the Meantime (illustrated by Raul the Third), and Ain't Burned All the Bright (with artwork by Jason Griffin). Reynolds was also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. 

#For Adult Book Fans

Gabrielle Zevin is the New York Times bestselling novelist whose books have been translated into 40 languages! Her tenth novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, Time Magazine's #1 Book of the Year, and the winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction. Following a 25-bidder auction, the feature film rights to Tomorrow were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios. 

Register for FREE!

#Children's Book Authors & Illustrators

Don't miss a special reading of The Beach Poem by JaxKids Book Club author, Heidi King at 11:30 a.m.

#Middle Grades, Teens & Young Adult

#Meet Local Fiction Authors

#Meet Local Nonfiction Authors

#Are You a Local Author?

Working on your own picture book? Thinking about self-publishing? Need tips for marketing your work? Learn from both traditionally published and self-published authors with our Writer's Lab series! On Friday, September 20 from 12 - 5 p.m., we'll have seven free workshops! In between programs, you'll also have the opportunity to network with fellow writers and several writer's groups.

This year's participating Writer's Groups: Authors Roundtable of Northeast Florida, First Coast Romance Writers, Mystery Writers of America Florida Chapter, and Women Writing for (a) Change Jacksonville. We'll also have representatives from Biblioboard and Florida Writers Association.

Whether you're tabling at Jax Book Fest this year or not, this is a great time to Submit your Book to the Local Author Collection or Market Your Book to the Library. You can also donate your e-book to the Indie Florida Collection on Biblioboard Library by using Pressbooks or Indie Author Project.

We also have an Open Call for Zines and Self-Published Comics as well as a new, annual event celebrating the DIY and printed matter community! Join us for Duval Comic and Zine Fest (held annually in June). There's also a monthly Zinester Meetup at the Main Library on the first Wednesday of the Month (during Art Walk). Or drop in Saturdays from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at Main Library for Saturday Morning Cartooning.