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Southern Festival of Books

10-12-2018 to 10-14-2018

Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville, TN

The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written WordSM is a three-day Festival celebrated each year during the second full weekend of October. It is free and open to the public. No advance registration or tickets are required. All seating is on a first-come basis.

The Festival annually welcomes more than 200 authors from throughout the nation and in every genre for readings, panel discussions and book signings. Book lovers have the opportunity to hear from and meet some of America’s foremost writers in fiction, history, mystery, food, biography, travel, poetry and children’s literature among others.

The Festival is a free event with no registration or tickets required. Author sessions will take place in the main Nashville Public Library (entrance on Church St) and in War Memorial Auditorium.

All author signings take place in the Author Signing Colonnade, located at the top of the steps leading from Legislative Plaza to War Memorial Auditorium.