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Jessica Kent 10/20/26 Jessica Kent 10/20/26

For Harvard Book Store, the Next Chapter Changes Setting to Downtown

Harvard Book Store will be opening a new location at 33 Union Street in Fall 2026, in a historic location in downtown.

The 48th annual International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to Boston November 6 through 8 at the Hynes Convention Center in Back Bay.

The Massachusetts Center for the Book announced the winners of its 26^th annual Massachusetts Book Awards.

Here’s what’s going on in Boston’s literary community…

Massachusetts Center for the Book announced the winners of the 26th annual Massachusetts Book Awards.
GrubStreet will present "A Conversation with Colson Whitehead" at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Thursday, October 1.
The Associates of the Boston Public Library announced their 2026–2027 fellows for the Alan Andres Writer-in-Residence and Picture Book Writer Fellow, with a reading on Tuesday, October 6.
The MAAH Stone Book Awards ceremony will take place Thursday, October 8 at the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill.
The Concord Festival of Authors returns on Thursday, October 8, and runs through October 30.
The Center for Arabic Culture's annual book fair will be held on Saturday, October 10 at Somerville High School.
A new Seaport Book Fair will debut on Saturday, October 10.
The Boston Book Festival has announced its headliners and presenters, and returns to Copley Square on Saturday, October 17.
826 Boston will host their annual Night of 1,000 Stories on Thursday, October 22.
The BPL Fund’s annual fundraiser Night in the Stacks will take place on Friday, October 23 at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.
On August 10, Governor Healey signed the Mass. Freedom to Read act into law.
Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah, Boston's Poet Laureate, was recently awarded the Academy's Poet Laureate Fellowship.

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