2024 Twin Cities Book Festival
EXHIBITORS
Rain Taxi, Magers & Quinn Booksellers, and Red Balloon Bookshop booths are all located near the main entry doors of the Progress Center. Please also visit Rain Taxi’s spectacular Used Book & Record Sale in the Northwest corner of the building. For information about this year’s stupendous roster of book fair exhibitors, read on!
Exhibiting Organizations
Visit these exhibiting organizations at the book fair!
Afton Press
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Albert's Bridge Books
American School of Storytelling
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Creative Writing
AutismLM
Aya Media and Publishing
Beauty School Editions
Between the Lines Publishing
Blue Earth Review/Minnesota
State, Mankato MFA
Books For Africa
Button Poetry
Calumet Editions
Carrier & Associates
Cazalibros
Children’s Theater Company
Coffee House Press
Conduit Books & Ephemera
Cow Tipping Press
David Unowsky,
Publishing Consultant
East Side Freedom Library
Ebooks Minnesota
Feminist Book Club
Flexible Press
Friends of the University of
Minnesota Libraries
The Friends of the Saint
Paul Public Library
FTL Publications
The Gabbro Head Press
Graywolf Press
Green Card Voices
Hamline Creative Writing
/ Water~Stone Review
History Through Fiction
Holy Cow! Press
Howling Bird Press /
Augsburg University MFA
The Inky Bookwyrm
Inner Peace Press
Itasca Books, A Division of
Bookmobile
Kerlan Collection of Children’s
Literature at the University
of Minnesota
Legacy Book Press
Lerner Publishing Group
Llewellyn Worldwide
Loft Literary Center
Mayfly Book Design
MELSA: Twin Cities Metro Public Libraries
Midwest Independent Publishers
Association
Milkweed Editions
Minnesota Children's Press
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Mizna
MN Black Authors Expo
My Own Ghostwriter
Nodin Press
North Dakota State University Press
NPC Company
Nyob Zoo Publishing
Page Turner Press
PaperPie Learning
Paranoid Tree Press
Pathfinder Press
Perpich Arts High School
PM Press
Professional Editors Network
Prompt Press
Publish Her Press
Queen of Swords Press
Rain Taxi Review of Books
Red Bird Chapbooks
Rudbeckia Productions
Shipwreckt Books Publishing Co.
Six Orchids Boutique
Skywater Publishing
Smart Set
Split/Lip Press
Spout Press
StoryForge
Strive Publishing
supersessionpress
Tales of the Unanticipated
Trio House Press
Twin Cities German
Immersion School
Uncivilized Books
University of Minnesota Press
University of St. Thomas Master's
in English Literature & Creative
Writing and Publishing
Upper Midwest Literary Archives
at the University of Minnesota
Weirdpunk Books
The Wellness Connection
Wisdom Body Collective
Exhibiting Book Dealers
Visit these exhibiting book dealers at the book fair!
Exhibiting Authors
Visit these exhibiting authors at the book fair!
Jade Amez
Jamieya B-Johnson
David Backman
C.A. Bryers
M. E. Corey
Brian Duren
Lindsey Ellyn
Katherine Fennelly
Jennifer Stolpa Flatt
Jennifer Gasner
Lauren Gillman & Camila Gadotti
Adriana I. Gordillo
A.S. Green
Savita Harjani
Libby Hilsendager
Daniel Johnson
Emma Alice Johnson
Nikai Johnson
William Kaufmann
Joe Koch
Mark Leiknes
Brenda Lyne
Rick Mammoth
Brenda K. Massman
Mary Frances McKay
David & Keiko Mello
Jenna Miller
Olaf Minge & Amy Louise Johnson
Ellen Anderson Penno
A. W. Powers
Michel Prince
Chad Retterath
Ariana Rose
Em Rowene
Mark Schnellinger
Jordan Shiveley
Nancy Noyes Silcox
Chloe Spencer
Christopher Straub
Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez
Exhibitor Specials and Signings
AutismLm
SIGNINGS: All day: Lindsey Moreland and Brittany Moreland, Little Lindsey Series and Autism: A Family Lives Beyond the Label
SPECIALS: Receive a free Little Lindsey book with purchase of a Buddy sensory plush
Beauty School Editions
David Unowsky, Publishing Consultant
SIGNINGS:
10:15 – 11:45: Theresa Wanta, As I Remember It: A Memoir of Persistence, Tenacity, and Humor
10:30 – 12: Kate St. Vincent Vogl, Iron Horse Cowgirls, Lady Ref, and Lost & Found
12 – 1:30: Conrad Hanson, Pemmblebrook's Garden
12:15 – 1:45: Todd Otis, Sparks of the Revolution and James Otis and the Birth of American Democracy
1:45 – 3:15: John Hickman and Geri Nelson, Love of a River: The Minnesota
2 – 3:30: Eme McAnam, Freefalling a Senior Romance, Freefalling Thoughts, and Fly Away
3:30 – 5: Janet Horvath, The Cello Sings and Playing Less Hurt
3:45 – 5: Catherine Dehdashti, Daisy Sale Forever
FTL Publications
Holy Cow! Press
SIGNINGS: 11 – 12: Greg Watson, Stars Unseen
SPECIALS: All books are $15 each, 2 for $25
Howling Bird Press/Augsburg MFA
The Inky Bookwyrm
SIGNINGS: All day: Gina Kammer, International School of Dragon Training series
SPECIALS: Sign up for a free "Turn Your Story into a Marketable Book" Roadmap Call
MELSA
SIGNINGS:
10 – 12: Phuoc Tran
10 – 12: Mila Velimirovich
12 – 2: Joseph Field
12 – 2: Elisa Sobolik
2 – 3:30: Kathryn Haider
2 – 3:30: Mark Therrien
3:30 – 5: Andrea Christenson
3:30 – 5: Loretta Ellsworth
Nodin Press
SIGNINGS:
11 – 11:30: Margaret Hasse, Belongings
11:30 – 12: Shelley Getten, Of Cows & Crows
12 – 1: Tim Nolan, Things I Didn’t Know I Loved
1 – 2: Freya Manfred, When I Was Young and Old
2 – 2:30: Bart Sutter, Cotton Grass
2:30 – 3: Philip Bryant, Messages from the Nile
North Dakota State University Press
SIGNINGS:
10 – 1: Paul Legler, Half the Terrible Things
1 – 3: Margi Rogal, Field Notes
3 – 5: Marjorie Buettner, Dakota Dreaming
SPECIALS
• 40% off all books at our table
• Sign up for our newsletter and receive a North Dakota address book
• 50% off on our online store with conference code
PageTurnerPress
SIGNINGS:
10 – 1: Israh Azizi, Heroes of the Empire Book 1: The Cavalier
2 – 4: Israh Azizi, Heroes of the Empire Book 2: The General
SPECIALS:
• Fun scratch-offs to win Heroes of the Empire merch (while supplies last)
• Take pictures with Heroes of the Empire cosplayers and your new books
• $5 OFF purchase of both released books in the Heroes of the Empire series
Publish Her Press
SIGNINGS:
10 – 1: Tina Rafowitz, Gary and Gibby's Swirling, Twirling, Whirling Worries
10 – 1: Kathryn Schleich, Missing Pieces
1 – 5: Emily Maxson, Emily's Fresh Kitchen
1 – 5: Heather Strommen, Velvet
Split/Lip Press
SIGNINGS:
1 – 2: Tasha Coryell, Hungry People
2 – 3: Jeannine Ouellette, The Part That Burns
SPECIALS: Sign up for our email newsletter and be entered to win a book bundle of our 2024 releases!
Strive Publishing
Trio House Press
SIGNINGS:
11 – 12: Heid E. Erdrich, Verb Animate
All day: Dorinda Wegener, Four Fields
SPECIALS:
• Buy or pre-order any title and get a free copy of 30 Poems in 30 Days: Poetry Prompts
Inspired by Trio House Press Poets
• Pre-order a copy of Minneapolis Poet Laureate Heid E. Erdrich's Verb Animate and get
a personalized signed copy
• Lost Found Kept: A Memoir by Deborah Derrickson Kossmann debuts at TCBF before
its official release date in January—buy a signed copy there while they last!
University of Minnesota Press
SIGNINGS:
11 – 11:30: Cary Griffith, Gunflint Falling
12 – 12:30: Lee Svitak Dean and Rick Nelson, The Ultimate Minnesota Cookie Book
12:45 – 1:15: Teresa Peterson, Perennial Ceremony
2:30 – 3: Marlene M. Johnson, Rise To The Challenge
SPECIALS: 30% off TCBF show special