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 15
6:00pm | 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.
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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.
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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.
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Saturday, May 16
2:00pm | Town Hall Theatre
Author – Alison Espach, the New York Times best-selling author of The Wedding People and other award-winning novels, will be in conversation with Michaela Lavelle.
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Saturday, May 17
2:00pm | 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.
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Sunday, May 17
10:30am | Billings Farm
Caleb Kenna is a freelance photographer and certified drone pilot from Middlebury whose work has been widely published.