The Spring Forum 2026

NEIBA's Spring Forum is a two day event full of author presentations, education, and community building. This year, the Spring Forum will be held April 15-16, 2026 in Danvers, MA, and will include a Sideline Exhibit Show Floor. Hotel room block booking code will be in your event confirmation email.

Sideline Exhibitors, register for a booth here.

Publishers, submit authors here.

Tentative Event Schedule

subject to change

Wednesday, April 15

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration

Galley Room

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

All About the Books 

Omer Aziz, author of Shadows of the Republic: The Rebirth of Fascism in America and How to Defeat It for Good (Broadleaf Books, an imprint of Augsburg Fortress Publishers)

Brooke Barbier, author of Cocked and Boozy: An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution (Chicago Review Press)

Christina Diaz Gonzalez, author of Offside (Scholastic Inc./ Graphix)

Eric Jay Dolin, author of The Wreck of the Mentor (W.W.Norton/Liveright)

Jenny Jackson, author of The Shampoo Effect (Penguin Random House/ Pamela Dorman Books

Isabel Kim, author of Sublimation (Tor Books, an imprint of Tor Publishing Group)

Jarrett Lerner, author of Lake of Slime (Simon & Schuster/Simon Spotlight)

Sara Levine, author of A Visit with the Birds (Sourcebooks Explore)

J.A. Morgenstein, author of The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Stonefruit Studio)

Ruth Ozeki, author of The Typing Lady (Penguin Random House/ Viking)

View the AATB Edelweiss collection

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Author Keynote Luncheon 

Isaac Fitzgerald, in support of American Rambler (Knopf, May 12) in conversation with Namwali Serpell

2:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Rep Picks

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM

Education

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Author Reception 

Thursday, April 16

8:30 AM

Author Keynote Breakfast

11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Sidelines Exhibit

Consultation Stations: Batch for Books, Bookazine, Edelweiss, Ingram, and Libro.fm

All Day

Bookseller meetings by cohort

Consultation Stations

Galley Room

Sidelines education sessions

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Grab-n-go boxed lunches for all

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Bookseller Olympics