Local horror author Johnny Compton says he sleeps better at night knowing someone else is having a nightmare. Now, he's excited to see thousands support literacy and learning in San Antonio.

The 13th San Antonio Book Festival announced its 2025 lineup of over 100 authors for this year’s event.

The San Antonio Book Festival, in collaboration with Texas Public Radio, will host a discussion featuring Eve L. Ewing on February 21, 2025, at the Malú and Carlos Alvarez Theater.

The festival is happening April 13 in Downtown San Antonio

This is the 12th year of the San Antonio Book Festival and nearly 100 authors will be attending.

The 11th annual San Antonio Book Festival kicked off Saturday morning at the Central Library downtown.

Get to know some of the authors attending the 2023 San Antonio Book Festival. We learn about their inspirations for their books and what they are most looking forward to in this year's festival.

SABF is a free, family-friendly event that draws thousands of festival-goers downtown for a day full of author presentations, panel discussions, book sales, signings, and more.

A San Antonio author and nurse recently published her first book that takes the reader on her journey, as she struggled to find herself.

Marcia Argueta Mickelson has a busy life. She’s a wife, mom of three, elementary school teacher and an award-winning author. And on May 21, she will represent the Alamo City during the 10th annual San Antonio Book Festival.

The San Antonio Book Festival’s Authors in Schools program aims at fostering a passion for reading among young children and teens by pairing award-winning authors with underserved, low-income schools in Bexar County.

More than 90 local, regional and national authors are scheduled to attend the 2022 Book Festival in San Antonio including Julia Glass, Sandra Cisneros, Jericho Brown, Margo Jefferson, Natalie Diaz, Emma Straub and more.

The human body is both a marvel and pretty gross. And that is what inspired Mindy Thomas to co-author the book “Wow in the World: The How and Wow of the Human Body.”

Kristin Hannah, the author of “The Four Winds,” will be featured at San Antonio’s Book Festival.

The UNited States and the former Soviet Union had many confrontations during the Cold War. That reality is what inspired Admiral James Stavridis to write his book, “2034: A Novel of the Next World War.” The U.S. Navy veteran and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO said he believes Cold War literature helped prevent a full-on war between the U.S. and Soviet Union. However, the Admiral also noticed the rising tensions with China, and how some people are calling it a Second Cold War. “Be part of that international world support those international organizations, they’re flawed. You can get a copy of “2034: A Novel of the Next World War” here.

The San Antonio Book Festival will feature more than 100 authors from around the country in 2021. But we don’t have to go far to hear from one of those authors.

From Kanye West to Johnny Cash, artists have a storied history of visiting prisons and that includes author Nic Stone.

SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Book Festival (SABF) is excited to announce its 2021 author lineup and events schedule, which includes nearly 200 local, regional, and national authors who will be participating in the festival, as well as an event new to San Antonio, Lit Crawl. The free virtual festival will feature award-winning authors like Sandra Cisneros, Walter Isaacson and Kristin Hannah. “When I look at this year’s book festival lineup and programming, the word that comes to mind is ‘abundance,’” said Lilly Gonzalez, SABF’s executive director. The shirt, book-themed with San Antonio flair, can be purchased here. AdA full list of the 2021 San Antonio Book Festival’s participating authors is available to view here.

SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Book Festival has announced that the 2021 event will take place online, but in-person sessions are possible depending on COVID-19 trends. The 2021 festival will take place from April 9-11, bringing in 75 authors from the local to the national level. This will be the first time the festival will take place online, organizers said Thursday. If we have to be virtual, we’re focusing on ways to make the online experience as close to the real thing as we can.”The free festival will take place on Accelevents.com. A virtual festival was held for teens and kids in May after 2020′s in-person festival was canceled.

SAN ANTONIO – Another popular festival has been canceled. The Tejano Conjunto Festival, which was supposed to take place May 13-17 at the Guadalupe Theater and Rosedale Park, was officially canceled on Wednesday, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center announced. Every year the popular festival draws thousands of fans to listen to over 30 of the most popular and emerging bands. Other festivals canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic include the Poteet Strawberry Festival, the San Antonio Book Festival and Fiesta 2020. 18 at-home reading suggestions from the San Antonio Book FestivalCOVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new virus, stands for coronavirus disease 2019.