Past Award Festivals
NBAF 2025
Laird Hunt (Zorrie) - 2021 National Book Award Finalist
Erin Entrada Kelly (The First State of Being) - 2024 National Book Award Finalist
Octavio Quintanilla (The Book of Wounded Sparrows: Poems) - 2024 National Book Award Finalist
francince j. harris (here is the sweet hand: poems) – Moderator
NBAF 2024
Anthony Cody (Borderland Apocrypha) - 2020 National Book Award Finalist
Shing Yin Khor (The Legend of Auntie Po) - 2021 National Book Award Finalist
LaToya Watkins (Holler, Child: Stories) - 2023 National Book Award Longlist
Lacy M. Johnson (The Reckonings: Essays) – Moderator
NBAF 2023
Darcie Little Badger (A Snake Falls to Earth) - 2021 National Book Award Longlist
Roger Reeves (Best Barbarian: Poems) - 2022 National Book Award Finalist
Marytza K. Rubio (Marla, Marla: And Other Stories) - 2022 National Book Award Longlist
Thomás Q. Morín (Machete: Poems) - Moderator
NBAF 2022
Kimberly King Parsons (Black Light) - 2019 National Book Award Longlist
Christopher Paul Curtis (The Journey of Little Charlie) - 2018 National Book Award Finalist
Diana Khoi Nguyen (Ghost Of) - 2019 National Book Award Longlist
Daniel Peña - Moderator
NBAF 2019
Karan Mahajan (The Association of Small Bombs) - 2016 National Book Award Finalist
Monica Youn (Blackacre, Ignatz) - 2010 National Book Award Finalist, 2016 National Book Award Longlist
Erika L. Sánchez (I Am Not Your Perfect American Daughter) - 2017 National Book Award Finalist
NBAF 2018
Lisa Ko (The Leavers) - 2016 National Book Award Finalist
Jason Reynolds (Long Way Down, Ghost) - 2015 National Book Award Finalist
Danez Smith (Don’t Call Us Dead) - 2016 National Book Award Finalist
NBAF 2017
Representative John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (March: Book 3) – 2016 National Book Award Winner
NBAF 2016
Angela Flournoy (The Turner House) – 2015 National Book Award Finalist
Ada Limón (Bright Dead Things) – 2015 National Book Award Finalist
Noelle Stevenson (Nimona) – 2015 National Book Award Finalist
NBAF 2015
John Corey Whaley (Noggin) – 2015 National Book Award Finalist
Phil Klay (Redeployment) – 2014 National Book Award Winner
Fred Moten (The Feel Trio) – 2014 National Book Award Finalist
NBAF 2014
Gene Luen Yang (Boxers & Saints) – 2013 National Book Award Finalist
Téa Obreht (The Tiger’s Wife) – 2011 National Book Award Finalist
Lucie Brock-Broido (Stay, Illusion) – 2013 National Book Award Finalist
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