Bookstock 2025 features best-selling authors who’ll be talking about topics ranging from a hike around the Grand Canyon to the dynamics at SCOTUS to creating the characters at life-altering wedding. Here’s a quick overview of the authors who’ll appear at our festival.
Bookstock Author Events
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Friday, May 16
6:00pm | Artistree, Hayloft
Bookstock 2025 will open with a special opening night reception in the Atristree Hayloft. This will include a panel with three Upper Valley authors talking about their recent works.
Aaron Starmer‘s latest novel, Night Swimming, is a combination of speculative and historic fiction.
L. Annette Binder‘s novel Child of Earth and Starry Heaven is her story of coming to terms with her mother’s dementia.
Sasha Hom‘s newly released novella Sidework. is a story about a homeless Korean adoptee and mother of four.
Aaron Starmer‘s latest novel, Night Swimming, is a combination of speculative and historic fiction.
L. Annette Binder‘s novel Child of Earth and Starry Heaven is her story of coming to terms with her mother’s dementia.
Sasha Hom‘s newly released novella Sidework. is a story about a homeless Korean adoptee and mother of four.
Registration is required for all Events and Workshops
Saturday, May 17
10:00am | The Little Theater
Author – Marjan Kamali, born in Turkey to Iranian parents, is the author of three books, including The Lion Women of Tehran, and was the 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award.
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Saturday, May 17
12:00pm | NWPL
Author – Peter Canellos, the managing editor for enterprise at Politico and the author of The Great Dissenter, a biography of Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan. He is currently writing a book about the conservative legal movement, based on the life of Samuel Alito.
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Saturday, May 17
2:00pm | The Little Theater
Author – Alison Espach, the New York Times best-selling author of The Wedding People and other award-winning novels, will be in conversation with Chard DeNiord.
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Saturday, May 17
4:00pm | The Little Theater
Author – Kevin Fedarko has spent the past twenty years writing about conservation, exploration, and the Grand Canyon. He is the author the bestseller, A Walk in the Park, which won the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.
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Sunday, May 18
10:30am | Billings Farm
Author – Steve Kemp has spent most of his adult life working in national parks and has written about nature and some of America’s most cherished national parks. An Exaltation of Parks: John D Rockefeller Jr.’s Crusade to Save America’s Wonderlands will be coming out later this year.