2025 Twin Cities Book Festival

EXHIBITORS

The 2025 TCBF Book Fair offers nearly 140 exhibitors! At the front of the exhibit hall you’ll find booths for Rain Taxi, festival sponsors All Energy Solar and Window Nation, and our author event booksellers: Magers & Quinn Booksellers and Red Balloon Bookshop. In the back of the hall is the TCBF’s annual Used Book & Record Sale along with seven great local used book dealers. And for a complete list of the stupendous roster of exhibitors, read on!

Sponsoring Exhibitors

Exhibiting Organizations

Visit these exhibiting organizations at the book fair!

Exhibiting Book Dealers

Visit these exhibiting book dealers at the book fair!

Babcock & 68th Books
The Book House in Dinkytown
Furrowed Brow Books

Gert Lush
Midway Used and Rare Books

Paperback Exchange
Spring Hollow Books

Exhibiting Authors

Visit these exhibiting authors at the book fair!

Exhibitor Signings & Specials

Exhibiting Organizations:

Capstone

SIGNING:
2:00 - 3:00 pm: Tom Rademacher, Bucket & Friends

Conium Press

SIGNINGS:
1:00 - 2:00 pm: James R. Gapinski, The Museum of Future Mistakes
2:00 - 3:00 pm: Rebecca Fishow, How to Love a Black Hole

FTL Publications

SPECIAL: Select titles on sale for $5 each for TCBF attendees

Holy Cow! Press

SIGNING:
All day: Anne-Marie Erickson, In the Evening, We’ll Dance

Minnesota Historical Society Press

SIGNINGS:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Patrick Strait, Home Club: Up-and-Comers and Comebacks at Acme Comedy Company
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Stephanie Hansen, True North Cabin Cookbook
3:30 - 4:30 pm: Frank Bures, Pushing the River
SPECIAL: 20% off select titles for TCBF attendees

My Own Ghostwriter

SIGNING:
All day: Sally Hed Dahlquist, Cleavage
SPECIAL: Register to win five free Book Coaching Sessions with a ghostwriter ($800 value)

Nodin Press

SIGNINGS:
10:30 - 11:00 am: Connie Wanek, How to Sing for Money
11:00 - 11:30 am: Joyce Sutphen, Paper Camera
11:30 am - 12:00 pm: Marg Walker, So Surprisingly Light the Small Suitcase of Certainty
12:00 - 12:30 pm: Stan Kusunoki, Natural Life
12:30 - 1:00 pm: Norita Dittberner-Jax, World Enough and Time
1:00 - 1:30 pm: Freya Manfred, Fumious Rex: The Outcast Cat
1:30 - 2:00 pm: Margaret Hasse, Belongings
2:00 - 2:30 pm: Bart Sutter, Cotton Grass
SPECIAL: 20% discount on all books for TCBF attendees

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

SPECIALS:
Free lip balm or bookmark
Get a TCBF-exclusive discount code for tickets to The Notebook and register to win tickets to opening night!

Red Bird Chapbooks

SIGNINGS:
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Moheb Soliman, Attention Visitors Attention
1:00 - 2:00 pm: Susan Montag, Jenny, 52
2:00 - 3:00 pm: Jordan Hirsch, Four Women of Saint Paul
SPECIAL: 20% off all books

Skywater Publishing Cooperative

SIGNINGS:
11:00 am – 12:00 pm: Thomas Kingsley Troupe, Death of the Party (Hair-Raiser Book 1)
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Blake Hoena, A Hero Awakens (Pillow-Man Book 1)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Blake Hoena, Robots on the Moon
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Chris Everheart, The Howl from the Hole (Devil Falls Book 1)

StoryForge

SIGNING:
1:00 - 2:00 and 3:00 - 4:00 pm: Carla Hennes, Voices Like These: A StoryForge Anthology
SPECIAL: 25% off all Anthology purchases for TCBF attendees

Strive Publishing

SIGNING:
1:00 - 3:00 pm: Derek Francis, Our First Bus Ride
SPECIAL: 20% off backlist titles for TCBF attendees

Trio House Press

SIGNINGS:
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Renee Gilmore
2:00 - 3:00 pm: Matt Mauch
SPECIALS:
Signed copies of Glassful of Prayer by Anthony Ceballos—your only chance to get a copy before the book releases on February 1, 2026
Subscribe to our Substack and be entered to win a new release of your choice
Bargain Backlist Bin: $5 poetry books

The Writer's Glove

SPECIAL: Thin, Warm Typing Gloves—$8 Off