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San Antonio Book Festival

San Antonio, TX · Arts & Culture

When

April 10, 2027

Where

San Antonio Central Library, 600 Soledad St · San Antonio · TX

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A free, one-day literary festival at the Central Library downtown featuring more than 100 local, regional, and national authors. Founded by the San Antonio Public Library Foundation with UTSA and the Texas Book Festival, it reached its 14th year in 2026.

The history within reach

• San Antonio Book Festivalsame spot

  A free, one-day literary festival at the Central Library downtown featuring more than 100 local, regional, and national authors.

• San Antonio desegregates its counters without a sit-in0.1 mi

  Clergy and business leaders met privately and agreed to integrate before anyone had to sit in.

• The Majestic, San Antonio's atmospheric theatre0.1 mi

  John Eberson's atmospheric design at full stretch, a Mediterranean village under a ceiling of drifting clouds and projected stars, with the first fully air-conditioned auditorium in Texas..

• Ozzy Osbourne and the Cenotaph0.1 mi

  Wearing a dress his wife had put him in to keep him off the drink, Osbourne urinated on the memorial to the Alamo dead and was arrested.

• Ford Holiday River Parade & Lighting Ceremony0.1 mi

  A holiday parade of decorated barges along the San Antonio River, paired with a tree-lighting ceremony at the Tobin Center.