Check back for the 2025 festival date!
Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library – Main Library
10am-4pm
The 2025 Books by the Banks regional book festival promises to be one of our best ever with the return of all your favorite activities!
- 100+ national, regional, and local authors
- Author Panel discussions on reading, writing, and publishing
- Kids’ Corner with all day fun for kids with arts & crafts, story times, and more
- Teen Scene with all day activities for teens
- 2025 Writing Contest in Prose and Poetry in adult and teen categories
Additional details, including panels and programming, can be found under the 2025 Festival tab!
2025 Writing Contest
Submissions are OPEN for the 2025 BBTB Writing Contest. This year’s theme is COMMUNITY. You are free to interpret it literally or figuratively.
Submit entries for prose, poetry, or both in either the teen or adult categories. For more information on this year’s contest hit the ENTER CONTEST button below.
2025 Cover Art Contest
This year’s theme is COMMUNITY. You are encouraged to interpret this theme as literally or figuratively as you desire. Final judges for the Books by the Banks art competition will be distinguished local artists. Prizes will be awarded in-person at Books by the Banks. Winning
entries will be shared in a print compilation at the festival.
Calling all volunteers!
As an all-volunteer non-profit, we can use your help. We will need volunteers in Kids’ Corner, Teen Scene, welcoming and directing people as they arrive at the Main Library, greeting, checking in and being stage assistants in the Author Pavilion and setup and teardown.
Author Submissions
Books by the Banks is currently accepting authors’ submissions to participate in the 2024 festival. Submissions must be submitted by August 16, 2024.
Get in touch with us.
Contact us today to learn more about Books By the Banks and the many opportunities for writers, volunteers, sponsors and all who love books.
