by Kit Little This year’s SWAG SWAP table at New Voices New Rooms was a huge success with lots of fun, branded items being traded by booksellers. Items included stickers, pens and pencils, pins, t-shirts, and more. We asked where you sourced these items and here is what you shared: Death By Stickers: deathbystickers.com; @death_by_stickers: […]
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by Sara Braverman When we attend a conference, we often leave inspired and motivated — but once we’re back in our regular routines, it’s easy for that energy to fade. One of the best ways to keep momentum going is to focus on resilience — the ability to adapt, recover, and keep moving forward in
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One of the highlights of New Voices New Rooms in Atlanta is our docent-led tour of AmericasMart Atlanta, a leading wholesale marketplace housing the nation’s largest gift product mix. Although booksellers who signed up for the tour will have guest passes to visit the Mart, we highly recommend you take a few minutes before the
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Attending the New Voices New Rooms conference can be overwhelming, especially if you are attending as the sole representative of your bookstore. The 2025 NVNR program has concurrent education tracks, multiple bus tours, and programming that goes from before breakfast to late-night receptions. The exhibit hall holds up to 100 vendors, with rep picks discussions
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When I was a bookseller, I waited in a very long line at BookExpo to meet David Levithan, whose writing I cherished. When I finally got to the front of the line and met him, I shared how much his work meant to me and our customers. I invited him to our store, and (gently)
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Tochi Onyebuchi is the Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist and author of Goliath, Riot Baby, the Beasts Made of Night series, and the War Girls series. His short fiction has appeared in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, and elsewhere. His nonfiction includes the book (S)kinfolk and has
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Shaka Senghor is an inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs and Letters to the Sons of Society. A former MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow and TED speaker whose talk has reached more than 1.8 million viewers, he inspires global audiences with his journey from incarceration to influence. Recognized
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Chanda A. Bell was once a beloved middle school English teacher. Now she is the visionary founder and co-CEO of the Lumistella Company, home to the international phenomenon The Elf on the Shelf. As the author of The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition and other books from the Santaverse brand, she is often
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Adam Godfrey is an IT and cybersecurity risk management professional who has worked for the Department of Defense for over twenty years. He holds a BA in marketing and a MS in cybersecurity. He and his family live in Chesapeake, VA. This is his debut novel. Body of Water Sourcebooks Landmark, September 2025 Don’t let
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Mia Tsai is a Taiwanese American author of speculative fiction, including Bitter Medicine and The Memory Hunters. An editor at GigaNotoSaurus, a 2024 Hugo Finalist for Best Semi-pro Zine, she is also a musician, teacher, and erstwhile photographer who earned her bachelors of humanities and arts in music and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and
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Alice Gerrard is a Grammy-nominated old-time and bluegrass musician whose career has spanned nearly six decades. Custom Made Woman: A Life in Traditional Music The University of North Carolina Press, December 2025 Alice Gerrard, an award-winning and storied folk and bluegrass musician for over 50 years, is one of the notable few women in a
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Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels The Wrong End of the Telescope; Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I, the Divine; Koolaids; the story collection, The Perv; and one work of nonfiction, Comforting Myths. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Born in Havana, Mirta Ojito is a journalist, professor, and author who has worked at the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and the New York Times. The recipient of an Emmy for the documentary Harvest of Misery as well as a shared Pulitzer for national reporting in 2001 for a series of articles about race
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There are over 90 authors scheduled to appear at the NVNR 2025 conference! An author gallery is available at the NVNR website Booksellers can see a list of published profiles under "News and Announcements." Tiffany D. Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Allegedly, Monday’s Not Coming, Let Me Hear a Rhyme, Grown,
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There are over 90 authors scheduled to appear at the NVNR 2025 conference! An author gallery is available at the NVNR website Booksellers can see a list of published profiles under "News and Announcements." Charles Ghigna lives in a tree house in the middle of Alabama. He is the author of over 100 books and
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There are over 90 authors scheduled to appear at the NVNR 2025 conference! An author gallery is available at the NVNR website Booksellers can see a list of published profiles under "News and Announcements." Amin Ahmad was raised in India, educated at Vassar College and MIT, and worked as an architect for many years. Today,
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A Letter from Linda-Marie Barrett, SIBA Executive Director Registrations for New Voices New Rooms (NVNR) are up from last year, but we hear from those who have yet to register that they have concerns about the economy, tariffs, travel safety, and time away from their stores. While a trade organization cannot solve all these problems
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New Voices New Rooms 2025 shines a light on the ongoing fight against censorship and book banning, an issue impacting every level of the book industry. On Sunday, August 3 at 8:30 PM, NVNR will host a special screening of the the award-winning documentary, Banned Together. The film follows three students from Beaufort, South Carolina,
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Multiple education sessions at New Voices New Rooms focused on building relationships with community partners for programming and events including: Community Book Festivals panelists Julia Davis, The Book Worm Bookstore; and Patrick Kern, Little District Books For bookstores interested in starting a book festival in their town. Davis and Kern discussed how a community book
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Attending the New Voices New Rooms conference can be overwhelming, especially if you are attending as the sole representative of your bookstore. The 2024 NVNR program has as many as four concurrent education tracks, multiple bus tours, and programming that goes from before breakfast to late-night receptions. The exhibit hall has been expanded to hold
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