The CSUN Book Arts Festival invites literary, artistic, and community organizations to propose 50-minute events and tabling experiences that engage everything related to books—text, image, material form, and all the conversations, collaborations, and circulations that follow.

This festival is a space for sharing and connection, designed to strengthen community networks among literary arts organizations across the greater Los Angeles area. We are especially excited by work that is innovative, experimental, hybrid, and socially engaged—projects that expand what books can be and how knowledge moves through communities.

Rather than a traditional academic conference, the festival centers making, exchange, demonstration, conversation, and collective thinking. We welcome events that produce and validate knowledge differently: hands-on workshops, collaborative readings, performances, print demos, conversations-in-motion, participatory archives, publishing experiments, and other forms that invite audiences into the process.

50-minute events might include workshops, talks, performances, panels, or interactive sessions.

Tabling organizations are invited to share publications, processes, tools, and ongoing projects—connecting directly with students, artists, writers, and fellow organizers.

If your work celebrates books as living objects and social practices—and if you’re interested in building connections across LA’s literary and book arts communities—we’d love to hear from you.