Authors: Submissions for the 2025 NH Book Festival are now open

The NH Book Festival’s author submission page is now open, and we’re looking for traditionally published adult and kidlit authors of 2025 books in these categories:

Adult: fiction, narrative nonfiction, biography, memoir, poetry, graphic novels (sorry, no cookbooks, self-help, or political narratives this year)

Children: picture books, middle grade, and young adult (fiction and nonfiction), graphic novels

Our programming committee is accepting applications on a rolling basis, so please apply early.

For more information and full guidelines, see the author application page on our website.

The 2025 New Hampshire Book Festival will take place October 3-4, with children’s and adult keynotes on Friday, October 3, and a full day of author conversations, panels, and readings, free and open to all, on Saturday, October. 4.