NH Book Festival

17/09/2026

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17/09/2026

Shannon Sanders will be at the 2026 New Hampshire Book Festival with her novel The Great Wherever. Sanders is also the author of the linked short story collection Company, which won the 2024 Los Angeles Times Book Prize’s Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was named a best book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly and Debutiful. The collection was also shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Electric Literature, and she is the recipient of a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
📍 Concord, NH
🎟️ Free and open to the public

Henry Holt

16/09/2026

We’re pleased to welcome Rebecca Rule to the 2026 New Hampshire Book Festival, featuring her new picture book, Who Loves Blueberries?, illustrated by Arpita Choudhury. Rule is a beloved New Hampshire storyteller and the author of numerous books for children and adults, including NH Trivia, Moved and Seconded: NH Town Meeting, and N is for NH. Her storytelling programs, many sponsored by NH Humanities, have taken her to libraries, town halls, schools, senior centers, and other gathering places throughout the state. She also hosts NHPBS’s Our Hometown, which celebrates the stories of New Hampshire communities through the voices of the people who know them best. Her daughter, writer Adi Rule, will also be at the festival.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
📍 Concord, NH
🎟️ Free and open to the public

Islandport Press

15/09/2026

Lisa Williamson Rosenberg returns to the 2026 New Hampshire Book Festival as a moderator. She is the author of novels Mirror Me and Embers on the Wind, and a Pushcart Prize nominee whose short fiction and essays have appeared in publications including Literary Hub, Longreads, The Common, Literary Mama, and Narratively. Her essay “Black Girl Blue Leotard” received the 2024 Memoir Grand Prize. Rosenberg is also a former professional ballet dancer, having performed with Boston Ballet II, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Pennsylvania Ballet, and a psychotherapist in private practice. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband and goldendoodle.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
📍 Concord, NH
🎟️ Free and open to the public

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13/09/2026

Get ready to meet Adi Rule, author of the Ghost Chickens series, at the 2026 New Hampshire Book Festival. Rule has written across genres and age groups, with books including Nell and the Netherbeast, Why Would I Lie?, Hearts of Ice, The Hidden Twin, and Strange Sweet Song, which won the 2016 NH Writers Project Literary Award for Outstanding Young Adult Book and the VCFA Houghton Mifflin/Clarion Prize. A dedicated writing educator, she has led workshops throughout New England and serves on the faculty of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing program at Lasell University. Her work has also appeared in literary journals, anthologies, and New Hampshire Magazine. Her mother, author Rebecca Rule, will also be at the festival.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
📍 Concord, NH
🎟️ Free and open to the public

Tundra Books

12/09/2026

Award-winning author and podcast host Jennifer Anne Gordon will join the 2026 New Hampshire Book Festival as a moderator. Her acclaimed horror and suspense novels include Beautiful, Frightening and Silent and Pretty/Ugly, both recognized with major awards, while her short fiction and essays have earned additional honors and nominations. Gordon is also the creator and co-host of the popular comedic literary podcast Vox Vomitus and co-host of House of Mystery on NBC Radio. Her first mainstream thriller, Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies, will be released in September 2026. A New Hampshire resident, she lives with her husband and their “silly little dog."

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
📍 Concord, NH
🎟️ Free and open to the public

11/09/2026

Get to know some 2026 NHBF books. Want to know a little more about some of the books from NH Book Festival’s 2026 authors? Read on!

Want to know a little more about some of the books from NH Book Festival’s 2026 authors? Read more…

10/09/2026

Join us in welcoming Christine Pride to the 2026 New Hampshire Book Festival, featuring her solo debut novel, All the Men I've Loved Again, an instant USA Today bestseller. A writer, editor, and longtime publishing veteran, Pride spent two decades working at major publishing houses, where she helped bring bestselling and critically acclaimed novels and memoirs to readers. She is also the co-author, with Jo Piazza, of We Are Not Like Them, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, You Were Always Mine, and I Never Knew You At All. In addition to writing, Pride works as an editor, teacher, and coach.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
📍 Concord, NH
🎟️ Free and open to the public

Atria Books

09/09/2026

Concord Monitor's news editor Rebeca Pereira will be a moderator at the 2026 New Hampshire Book Festival! Pereira primarily covers agriculture, animal welfare, food insecurity, and the challenges facing farmers and New Hampshire's regional food system. She also reports on four towns north of Concord, writes the Monitor's daily newsletter, and hosts its weekly podcast. A 2026 Johns Hopkins Food Systems and Public Health fellow, Rebeca was named 2025 Rookie of the Year by the New Hampshire Press Association. Her work has appeared in Commonwealth Beacon, WBUR, GBH, and other publications.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
📍 Concord, NH
🎟️ Free and open to the public

08/09/2026

We're pleased to welcome Keith O'Brien to the 2026 New Hampshire Book Festival, featuring his book Heartland. A New York Times bestselling author and winner of the 2025 PEN America Award for Best Biography, O'Brien is also the author of Charlie Hustle, Fly Girls, Paradise Falls, and Outside Shot. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone, and his stories have been featured on NPR and This American Life. Originally from Ohio, he now calls New Hampshire home.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
📍 Concord, NH
🎟️ Free and open to the public

Keith O'Brien Atria Books