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Friday
, October 18
Old South Sanctuary
7:30pm •
Kickoff Keynote
Saturday
, October 19
199 Commonwealth Ave
11:00am •
Chances of German Translation in the United States
1:00pm •
City of Jasmine
3:00pm •
The Great Nowitzki
5:00pm •
Learning from the Germans
BAC Beehive
10:45am •
BBF Unbound: Writing Beyond Binaries
12:15pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Experimentation
1:45pm •
Walk This Way: The Song that Revolutionized American Music
3:15pm •
Fiction: Campus Novels
4:45pm •
PEN Presents: Activism, Free Expression, and Dissent in Eurasia
BAC Cascieri Hall
11:30am •
Architecture: Bauhaus
1:00pm •
Fiction: Motherhood
2:30pm •
Fiction: Art and Artists
4:00pm •
Resist: The Signs and Songs of Protest
Berklee Stage
11:00am •
Hannah Siglin
12:00pm •
Piao
1:00pm •
Sheila del Bosque
2:00pm •
Marcus Prince
3:00pm •
Mestizas
4:00pm •
Mom Rock
BPL Abbey Room
11:00am •
Fiction: Writing the Writers
12:30pm •
Bitcoin Billionaires
BPL Children's Library
10:00am •
Join the Search for Waldo
11:00am •
Story Time: Susan Choi and John Rocco
12:15pm •
Story Time: Matthew Cordell
1:00pm •
Story Time: Hayley Barrett
1:45pm •
Story Time: Grace Lin
2:30pm •
Story Time: Brendan Wenzel
3:15pm •
Story Time: Ryan T. Higgins
4:00pm •
Story Time: Mitali Perkins
BPL Commonwealth Salon
11:00am •
Reconsidering Appalachia
12:30pm •
Emerald Noir
2:00pm •
Shape Shifting the Story: Fiction in Its Long and Short Forms
3:30pm •
One City One Story
BPL Exchange
10:30am •
BBF Unbound: Rewriting Our Stories: A Workshop for Immigrant and Diaspora Writers
12:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Flashing Your Fiction
1:30pm •
Something New with Febo: A Poetry Workshop
3:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Jump-Start a Story
BPL McKim Exhibition Hall
10:45am •
Poetry at the Extremes
12:15pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Perspective
1:45pm •
Death Among Friends: Crime Gets Personal
3:15pm •
Don't Read Poetry
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
10:30am •
Readings: Coming of Age
11:30am •
Readings: Debut Novels
12:30pm •
Readings: Memoir
1:45pm •
Readings: Great New (England) Reads
2:45pm •
Readings: Family
3:45pm •
Readings: Past and Present
BPL Orientation Room
11:00am •
BBF Unbound: Mystery Making
12:30pm •
BBF Unbound: The Novelist’s Feast: Four Authors on Food in Fiction
2:00pm •
Reading Like a Writer: Setting
3:30pm •
BBF Unbound: We Are America
BPL Rabb Hall
11:30am •
Violence, Justice, and Forgiveness
1:00pm •
American Power: The Series Finale
2:30pm •
Public Affairs Keynote
4:00pm •
Paper or Plastic and Other Environmental Conundrums
BPL Rey Room
10:00am •
Scientists Get Dressed
11:30am •
Monster Mouth Puppets
1:00pm •
My Real-Life Superhero Is...
2:30pm •
90-Second Newbery Filmmaking Workshop
BPL Teen Central
10:00am •
Middle Grade: Fantasy
11:45am •
YA: Historical Fiction
1:30pm •
YA: Love and Relationships
3:15pm •
YA: Warrior Girls
Brainstorm Tent
10:00am •
Passport to Imagination
10:30am •
Appearance by Mercy Watson
11:30am •
Appearance by Taco Dragon
12:30pm •
Appearance by Maisy
1:00pm •
Playful Engineers
2:30pm •
Appearance by Mother Bruce
3:30pm •
Appearance by Madeline
Church of the Covenant
11:30am •
Memoir: Tim O'Brien
1:00pm •
History Keynote
2:45pm •
A Tribute to Tony Horwitz
4:15pm •
Memoir: Seeking the Self
Emmanuel Parish Hall
11:30am •
BBF Unbound: Long Time Gone
1:00pm •
Memoir: From Playbooks to Pi: A Former Raven Tells All
2:30pm •
Poems of Bewilderment and Loss
4:00pm •
Fiction: The Complexities of War
Emmanuel Sanctuary
12:30pm •
True Crime: Crime in Context
2:15pm •
Technologies of Freedom or Control?
4:00pm •
Media, Politics, and Fake News
French Cultural Center
10:00am •
L'Averti
12:00pm •
Crime Fiction: For You My Love Forever
4:00pm •
France in the World
Old South Guild Room
10:15am •
Writer Idol
12:00pm •
True Story
1:30pm •
Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
3:00pm •
Middle Grade: Growing Pains
4:30pm •
Black History Detectives: Discovering Nineteenth-Century Stories Through Documents and Artifacts
Old South Mary Norton
11:00am •
Picturing the World: Nonfiction Picture Books
12:30pm •
Elliot Ackerman: Places and Names
2:00pm •
Sea Stories
3:30pm •
"The Butlah Did It": Mysteries with a Boston Accent
5:00pm •
Science and Psychiatry
Old South Sanctuary
11:00am •
YA Keynote: Marie Lu
12:30pm •
Lions and Tigers and Dogs and Kids
2:00pm •
Is There Still Sex in the City?
3:45pm •
Fiction Keynote
5:15pm •
The Peanuts Papers
Outside BPL Boylston Street Entrance
11:00am •
Boston By Foot Literary Walking Tour
1:00pm •
Boston By Foot Literary Walking Tour
3:00pm •
Boston By Foot Literary Walking Tour
Room & Board
5:30pm •
Poems and Pints
School and Washington St Plaza
9:30am •
Louisa May Alcott's Boston
Trinity Church Plaza
10:30am •
Aesop's Fables in Copley Square
Trinity Forum
11:30am •
Capitalism and Its Discontents
1:00pm •
Fighting for the Right to Vote: From Women’s Suffrage to Voter IDs
2:30pm •
A Country of Immigrants
Sunday
, October 20
Bolling Municipal Building Lobby
12:00pm •
Join the Search for Waldo
12:00pm •
Animate Your Cityscape!
1:00pm •
Street Art Walking Tour
2:30pm •
Drumming Performance
3:30pm •
Wee Wear the Crowns: Celebrating Black Identity and Experience
Bolling School Committee Room
12:00pm •
The Environment: Thinking into the Future
1:30pm •
Back to the Land
3:00pm •
Memoir: Origin Stories
4:30pm •
Cities: Change Is the Only Constant
Dewitt Center Arts & Crafts Room
12:00pm •
A Whole New World: Creating a Sense of Place in Fiction
1:30pm •
Graphic Novelize Your Life!
3:15pm •
Find Your Story, Draw Your Story
4:30pm •
Tiny World: Pins!
Dewitt Center Classroom
12:30pm •
Readings: Short Stories
2:00pm •
YA: The Best-Laid Plans
3:30pm •
Fiction: Immigration
Dewitt Center Gym
12:00pm •
Kids' Keynote
1:30pm •
Poetry Keynote: Reginald Dwayne Betts
3:00pm •
YA/Speculative Fiction Keynote: Akwaeke Emezi
4:30pm •
Romance Keynote: Jasmine Guillory
Dudley Cafe
3:00pm •
Poetry: Shifting the Canon
Frugal Bookstore
12:15pm •
Hear a Story, Meet a Friend
2:00pm •
BBF Unbound: A Home Is a Poem
3:30pm •
BBF Unbound: You Are a Writer
Roxbury Innovation Center Classroom
12:45pm •
BBF Unbound: So You Think You Can Write a Picture Book?
2:30pm •
The Stuff of Stars: Create Your Universe Workshop
4:00pm •
How to Code a Rollercoaster Reading and Hands-on Workshop
Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose Room
12:00pm •
BBF Unbound: Creature Feature
1:30pm •
Sunday Story Time
3:00pm •
Blues Men
4:30pm •
One City One Story
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199 Commonwealth Ave
BAC Beehive
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Berklee Stage
Bolling Municipal Building Lobby
Bolling School Committee Room
BPL Abbey Room
BPL Children's Library
BPL Commonwealth Salon
BPL Exchange
BPL McKim Exhibition Hall
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
BPL Orientation Room
BPL Rabb Hall
BPL Rey Room
BPL Teen Central
Brainstorm Tent
Church of the Covenant
Dewitt Center Arts & Crafts Room
Dewitt Center Classroom
Dewitt Center Gym
Dudley Cafe
Emmanuel Parish Hall
Emmanuel Sanctuary
French Cultural Center
Frugal Bookstore
Old South Guild Room
Old South Mary Norton
Old South Sanctuary
Outside BPL Boylston Street Entrance
Room & Board
Roxbury Innovation Center Classroom
Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose Room
School and Washington St Plaza
Trinity Church Plaza
Trinity Forum
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199 Commonwealth Ave
BAC Beehive
BAC Cascieri Hall
Berklee Stage
Bolling Municipal Building Lobby
Bolling School Committee Room
BPL Abbey Room
BPL Children's Library
BPL Commonwealth Salon
BPL Exchange
BPL McKim Exhibition Hall
BPL Newsfeed Cafe
BPL Orientation Room
BPL Rabb Hall
BPL Rey Room
BPL Teen Central
Brainstorm Tent
Church of the Covenant
Dewitt Center Arts & Crafts Room
Dewitt Center Classroom
Dewitt Center Gym
Dudley Cafe
Emmanuel Parish Hall
Emmanuel Sanctuary
French Cultural Center
Frugal Bookstore
Old South Guild Room
Old South Mary Norton
Old South Sanctuary
Outside BPL Boylston Street Entrance
Room & Board
Roxbury Innovation Center Classroom
Roxbury Innovation Center Multipurpose Room
School and Washington St Plaza
Trinity Church Plaza
Trinity Forum
