Winners of the 2023 Walt Howat Youth Poetry Competition.

Sports radio host and podcaster, Mike Missanelli opens up about his first children’s book, The Adventures of Shima the Shiba.

Co-author Joe Samuel Starnes, shares his experience meeting Leth Oun and working on writing A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S.

A Q&A with Sara Nović, author of True Biz, the 2023 Town Book for the Collingswood Book Festival.

A conversation with Dr. Lynnette Mawhinney on her first children’s book, Lulu the One and Only.

Featured author and Philadelphia sports radio personality, Angelo Cataldi, opens up about his upcoming book.

Enter the 2023 Best of the Fest Contest. This year’s theme is: Extreme Reading!

Matthew Quick and Alicia Bessette have been married for 26 years; both are believers in the transformative power of storytelling and the written word. They will be returning home to the Collingswood Book Festival to talk about their books and the writing process.

Josh Weiss speaks about his alternate United States crime thrillers for the upcoming Collingswood Book Festival.

Poets 7-13 are invited to submit to the 15th annual contest.

Book the Date! We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, October 7, 2023 at the 21st annual Collingswood Book Festival. Stay tuned for details.

We asked our featured authors, “What is the weirdest question you've ever gotten from a reader?” Here’s what they had to say.

Updated information about Kate Szegda’s presentation at this year’s festival.

We asked our featured authors what’s their favorite thing about meeting with readers. Read on to see what they had to share!

Sannii Crespina-flores is a teaching artist, advocate, and has been an activist for youth and women for more than twenty years. Learn about her in this new interview.

Faleeha Hassan is a poet, playwright, writer, teacher, and mother, but has overcome many obstacles to achieve that status. The writer who has been described as “The Maya Angelou of Iraq,” has written a memoir called War and Me that vividly describes stories of love and survival while growing up in Iraq during a time of relentless war.

In honor of the Collingswood Book Festival’s 20th anniversary, we’re pleased to announce this year’s The Retrospect “Best of the Fest” Then vs. Now Contest.

We asked our featured authors what they’re most looking forward to about this year’s festival. Find out what they had to say!

Read about Sung J. Woo, a literary renaissance man and the author of Skin Deep, his first foray into mystery and suspense.

A profile of author Riley Sager and his newest book, The House Across the Lake.