Riverside Book Festival

Name: Riverside Book Festival
Start: 2025-10-11T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-11T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Riverside Main Library, Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, USA

Schedule

Sat Oct 11 2025 at 11:00 am to 06:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Riverside Main Library, Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, USA | Riverside, CA

Come to the Riverside Book Festival where books and community come together!
For the first time ever Riverside will have its very own festival of books. More than fifty exhibitors will thrill you with their page-turners! Visit the Children’s Pavilion delve into Local History & Culture and peruse the New Books Discovery Zone for horror fantasy romance mystery and more!
Hear from our Keynote Speaker California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick on his adoption from Korea to the California Poet Laureateship—the first Asian American to ever hold the post—and the transformational impact of writing and creativity in our lives.
Nationally-acclaimed award-winning authors will take the stage including Susan Straight Alex Espinoza Tod Goldberg Cassandra Lane Samantha Dunn Ron Arias Isabel Quintero and Nydia Armendia-Sanchez.

Enjoy bilingual storytellers the magic of puppetry food trucks live music and a local authors’ stage! Spend your day immersed in your community at an inclusive accessible book festival by and for the people who call this Inland Empire home.