Bookstock 2026 Author Events

Bookstock 2026 features best-selling authors of both fiction and non-fiction. Thanks to our new partnership with the Vermont Book Awards, we’ll present 2026 award winners and finalists in a special panel on our opening night, Friday, May 15. We’ll announce these participants in April. Here’s a quick overview of the authors who’ll appear at our festival.

Everything at Bookstock is free, except for Cookstock. You will need tickets for author talks, poetry readings, Master Classes, and Opening Night, though.

Bookstock Author Events

Free tickets are required for author talks, poetry readings, Master Classes, and Opening Night

Friday, May 15
6:00 pm | Artistree, Hayloft
Join us for an evening conversation with the winners and finalists of the Vermont Book Awards, moderated by Vermont Book Awards director Miciah Bay Gault. We’re thrilled to welcome writers of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature from all across Vermont to sit down together to talk inspiration, writing process, research, the state of literature today, and how to write an award-winning book. Appetizers, drinks, and mingling to follow. We’ll announce the participants in early April.
 

Free tickets are required for author talks, poetry readings, Master Classes, and Opening Night

Saturday, May 16
10:00 am | Town Hall Theatre
Garrett M. Graff has spent two decades covering politics, technology, and national security and is the author of ten books. Watergate: A New History was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Free tickets are required for author talks, poetry readings, Master Classes, and Opening Night

Saturday, May 16
12:00 pm | Town Hall Theatre
Amity Gaige is the bestselling author of five novels. Heartwood was called “the best thriller of the year” by the Boston Globe.

Free tickets are required for author talks, poetry readings, Master Classes, and Opening Night

Saturday, May 16
2:00 pm | Town Hall Theatre
Katherine Arden is the New York Times bestselling author of the Winternight trilogy and the Small Spaces quartet.

Free tickets are required for author talks, poetry readings, Master Classes, and Opening Night

Saturday, May 16
4:00 pm | Town Hall Theatre
Patrick Bringley is the New York Times bestselling author of All the Beauty in the World, a memoir about his decade working as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Free tickets are required for author talks, poetry readings, Master Classes, and Opening Night

Sunday, May 17
11:00 am | Billings Farm

Caleb Kenna is a freelance photographer and certified drone pilot from Middlebury whose work has been widely published.