Exhibitors

Exhibitors Guidelines

Beginning March 15th, we will open for applications from potential exhibitors at the 2024 Kansas Book Festival, scheduled for Saturday, September 28, at Washburn University.  We welcome presses or organizations committed to books and literacy work, plus individual authors.  However, we cannot guarantee repeated slots for individual authors over multiple years.   Applications keep increasing, and we must give priority to those who have new books, so please wait if you do not have a book published in the last two years.

To open the fillable 2024 application form, click here: KBF-2024-Vendor-Form.  Then send the completed digital form to the following email address: kbfvendors@gmail.com.  Note: be sure to read the Exhibitor Terms & Conditions as well, by clicking here: KBF Exh Terms and Conditions.  Presses or organizations related to the book industry or literacy can send their payment at the time of applying, using the following mailing address:  Kansas Book Festival, PO Box 3930,
Topeka, KS 66604.  Individual authors should wait for an approval email first, then pay using the same address.

Bookstores, Presses, & Nonprofits Who Exhibited in 2023

  • Ichabod Shop–Festival Books
  • Paper June–Kid’s Books
  • University Press of Kansas
  • Meadowlark Press
  • Monkey Minion Press
  • Anamcara Press
  • Spartan Press
  • Coal City Press
  • Pen & Brush Press
  • State Library of Kansas
  • Kansas Authors Club
  • Kansas Writers Inc.
  • William Allen White Community Partnership
  • Topeka Literacy Council
  • Personal Chapters LLC
  • Emporia School of Library Information Management

Authors Who Exhibited in 2023

  • Jessica Lane Ramirez
  • Rhonda Denney
  • P.A. Power
  • Violet Cornett
  • Jeff Berney
  • Rachel Anne Jones
  • J. Alexander Greenwood
  • Jennifer L. Gadd
  • A.C. Williams
  • Matthew J. Olson
  • Cathy Callen
  • Angel Edenburn/Darker Kansas Books
  • Curtis Becker
  • H.C. Friesen/Storybook
  • Ken Berry
  • Amanda May Clair
  • Neesa Lee
  • Peter G. Hamel
  • Gary D. Park
  • Ken Embers
All exhibitors will be displaying books inside an outdoor tent on the NW corner of the Washburn University campus. Vendor application fees help to cover the cost of rented tents, tables, chairs, and tablecloths.  Each table will be 5 feet in length, and tables can be shared by two exhibitors if they are individual authors, not publishers.