2025 Texas Book Festival
Start: November 8, 2025
End: November 9, 2025
Event Details
The 2025 Texas Book Festival will take place November 8-9, 2025. We welcome over 40,000 attendees and host over 250 authors. Held each fall in and around the Texas State Capitol in downtown Austin, the annual Festival Weekend features a rich variety of author presentations and panels, book signings, cooking demonstrations, programs and activities for kids of all ages, food trucks, and exhibiting vendors from across the state and country.
Each year, Texas Book Festival presents the Texas Writer Award— formerly known as the Bookend Award — to an esteemed writer in recognition of outstanding contributions to Texas literature.
Authors can apply here to be featured for the 2025 Texas Book Festival.
