Portland Book Festival 2025
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Portland Book Festival 2025

  • Start Time: 10:00 am
  • End Time: 6:00 pm
  • Age Restriction:  All Ages

About the Event

Literary Arts’ Portland Book Festival [PBF] returns Saturday, November 8, 2025, to ten stages across six partner venues in downtown Portland’s south Park Blocks. 


Click here for detailed ticketing information including how to pick up your wristbands.


PBF features over 100 authors and interviewers, drop-in writing workshops, pop-up readings, local food trucks, and a huge exhibitor fair in this all-ages, city-wide celebration of books and stories.  


Note: Entry into individual Portland Book Festival events and venues requires a Day-of Festival Pass (wristband). Some special event ticket bundles include a wristband, or you may purchase the wristband separately then add-on event books and tickets.


 

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Ticket Groups
Day-of Festival Entry Pass (Wristband)
Rebecca Yarros, ONYX STORM Event Bundles
Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE Event Bundles
UMBRELLA PASS
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START HERE for Day-of Festival General Admission Passes (wristbands) ONLY, *then* choose to add-on books/special event tickets before check out.

GA Wristband
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Full-Price ($18) GA Festival Pass includes: $5 Book Fair voucher, day-of entry into venues and events (with the exception of Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, which require add-on tickets), and Portland Art Museum admission. 


(Note: $5 Book Fair voucher is not included with Arts for All, Youth, Veterans/Active Military, or any free/ discounted passes. Full price will be charged if you are unable to produce your Oregon Trail/ SNAP card, student ID, or Military ID when claiming your discounted wristband).


All passes must be scanned & exchanged for wristbands before entry into any PBF events or venues.


  • General Admission

    $18.00

  • Arts For All - w/Oregon Trail Card/SNAP ID

    $5.00

  • Youth (Under 17, or 18 w/ High School ID)

    $0.00

  • Veterans / Active Military - ID REQUIRED

    $0.00

Includes a Day-of-Festival Pass (wristband) + ticket to Rebecca Yarros ONYX STORM event: 10:00 a.m., Nov. 8, 2025, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

Ticket Bundles
Rebecca Yarros, ONYX STORM Book Bundle
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This bundle includes one (1) Day-Of Festival Pass (wristband) as well as one (1) reserved section general admission seat for the Rebecca Yarros, ONYX STORM event, and a signed copy of ONYX STORM.

Rebecca Yarros, ONYX STORM Bundle (no book)
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This bundle includes a Day-Of Festival Pass (wristband) as well as general admission entry into Rebecca Yarros, ONYX STORM event.

Includes a Day-of-Festival Pass (wristband) + ticket to Stacey Abrams CODED JUSTICE event: Noon, Nov. 8, 2025, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.

Ticket Bundles
Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE Book Bundle

$53.00

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Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE: Festival Book Bundle
(1) Copy of CODED JUSTICE Book + Reserved section seating
(1) Day-of Festival Pass (Wristband)
(1) $5 Book Fair Voucher
Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE Bundle (no book)

$23.00

This bundle includes a Day-Of Festival Pass (wristband) plus general admission entry into Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE event.

One-click bundle includes Day-of Festival Pass (wristband) + Yarros/Abrams add-on events tickets + books.

Ticket Bundles
Umbrella Pass: Special Events Book + Ticket Bundle
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Umbrella Pass: Schnitzer Hall Events Books, Wristband + Ticket Bundle
ONE price level includes:
(1) GA Day-of Festival Pass (Wristband)
(1) Readers Night: Nov. 7 Ticket
(1) Rebecca Yarros: ONYX STORM book ticket [Reserved section seating + signed copy of Onyx Storm]
(1) Stacey Abrams: CODED JUSTICE book ticket [Reserved  section seating + copy of Coded Justice]
(1) $5 Book Fair voucher
(1) PBF Tote bag

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Readers Night: Friday, Nov. 7

$25.00

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Enjoy craft beverage sampling, flash tattoos by Tom Alvarado and Natron Meanz, and check out Powell’s festival bookstore and shop the exhibitor fair before Saturday's crowds. We will also be raffling off a pair of tickets to the SOLD-OUT Rebecca Yarros PBF event!


Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE: Book Ticket

$35.00

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12:00 p.m., Saturday, November 8, 2025 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.

This ticket includes a copy of CODED JUSTICE and Orchestra-level reserved section seating.

A Day-of Festival Pass (wristband) is also required for entry into Portland Book Festival events and venues.
Stacey Abrams, CODED JUSTICE: General Admission

$5.00

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12:00 p.m., Saturday, November 8, 2025 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 SW Broadway, Portland, OR. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. General Admission. No book included with this ticket.

A Day-of Festival Pass (wristband) is also required for entry into Portland Book Festival events and venues.
Other Items (Admission *Not* Included!)
Susan Orlean, JOYRIDE: Book Add-On
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10:00 a.m. | Newmark Stage | in conversation with Andrew Proctor.


This book add-on gives you priority seating at the event + copy of JOYRIDE.

Please note: Only the "book-add-on" priority seating section is sold out;  a day-of Festival pass (wristband) will give you general admission entry into the event on a first-come-first-served basis. 


 


Nicholas Boggs, BALDWIN, A LOVE STORY: Book Add-On

$31.00

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11:45 a.m. | Newmark Stage | in conversation with Mitchell S. Jackson.

A Day-of Festival Pass (wristband) is required for entry into this event. This book add-on gives you priority seating at the event + copy of BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY.
Emma Donoghue, THE PARIS EXPRESS: Book Add-On

$22.00

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1:30 p.m. | Newmark Stage | in conversation with Crystal Ligori.

A Day-of Festival Pass (wristband) is required for entry into this event. This book add-on gives you priority seating at the event + copy of THE PARIS EXPRESS.
Jill Lepore, WE THE PEOPLE: Book Add-On
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3:15 p.m. | Newmark Stage | in conversation with Geoff Norcross.


This book add-on gives you priority seating at the event + copy of WE THE PEOPLE: A HISTORY OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. 


Please note: Only the "book-add-on" priority seating section is sold out;  a day-of Festival pass (wristband) will give you general admission entry into the event on a first-come-first-served basis. 


 


Angela Flournoy, THE WILDERNESS: Book Add-On

$25.00

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5:00 p.m. | Newmark Stage | in conversation with Renée Watson.

A Day-of Festival Pass (wristband) is required for entry into this event. This book add-on gives you priority seating at the event + copy of THE WILDERNESS.
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