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Decatur Book Festival

Decatur, GA · Arts & Culture

When

October 2–3, 2026

Where

Decatur Square · Decatur · GA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The Decatur Book Festival is one of the largest independent book festivals in the country, filling downtown Decatur with author talks, signings, and a street fair each October. It draws authors and readers well beyond metro Atlanta.

The history within reach

• Decatur Book Festivalsame spot

  The Decatur Book Festival is one of the largest independent book festivals in the country, filling downtown Decatur with author talks, signings, and a street fair each October.

• Eddie's Attic, the open mic that turned out John Mayer and Shawn Mullins0.1 mi

  Eddie Owen opened this listening room a block off the Decatur square in 1992 and ran it on the rule that the room stays quiet while someone is playing.

• Trinity High School and Decatur's Beacon Community0.3 mi

  Decatur built Trinity in 1956 as the Black counterpart to its segregated white high school, one of the equalization schools the South put up to make separate but equal look credible.

• Agnes Scott College begins as the Decatur Female Seminary0.4 mi

  It opened in 1889 as the Decatur Female Seminary and was renamed a year later for Agnes Irvine Scott, a Scots-Irish immigrant who never saw the place.

• The Mary Gay House and the memoir Margaret Mitchell borrowed from0.5 mi

  Mary Ann Harris Gay lived in this house through the Civil War and published her account of it in 1897 as Life in Dixie During the War.