The City of Santa Rosa has awarded the Sonoma County Book Festival a prestigious Merit Award for 2006. We thank the City for the honor, and for all they do to support the Book Festival.

Festival attendees cool themselves in the fountain

The Sonoma County Book Festival invites all booklovers to Northern California’s oldest and largest book fair. Your enthusiastic loyalty keeps us among the few hundred surviving community book festivals in America. An annual event since 2000, our free festival brings readers and writers together in a full day devoted to books and the people who love them.

The Sonoma County Book Festival celebrates the literary arts and promotes literacy. Our important community event reflects Sonoma County’s vibrant diversity. Committed to sustaining the freedom of writers’ voices, the festival presents a rich variety of reading and listening choices. We feature local writers and artists, and we support local businesses and causes. The Sonoma County Book Festival proudly champions our independent booksellers, who treasure books as more than product.

The Literary Arts Guild produces the Sonoma County Book Festival with the help of a growing team of volunteers. We depend on the kindness of neighbors—local businesses and individuals who sponsor the Festival. We gratefully thank our sponsors in promotions that recognize their support in the media, our advertisements, online, and on-site to thousands of festival attendees.

Support us and donate to the Book Festival!
Donate online today, or send us a check (payable to Sonoma County Book Festival).
Donations can be sent to: Sonoma County Book Festival P.O. Box 159 Santa Rosa, CA 95402

To become a sponsor, contact us at info@socobookfest.org or call 707.527.5412.

Chapbooks: Interviews conducted by Jonah Raskin at Book Festival benefits last summer are now available as handsome chapbooks. Greg Sarris: In Conversation with Jonah Raskin and Gerald Haslam: In Conversation with Jonah Raskin can be ordered here. If you attended the benefits, the chapbooks make great souvenirs and reminders of those special events. If you missed them, you can see what you missed and enjoy the published version of these great conversations. We greatly appreciate your donations.