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A PROGRAM OF HUMANITIES TENNESSEE

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESENTS

OCTOBER
18 & 19,
2025

VENDORS AND EXHIBITORS

The Festival grounds will house presses, bookstores, literary themed goods and more! 


 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN BEING AN EXHIBITOR! 

If you are a bookseller, publisher, press, literacy organization, or a company with book-related products, we invite you to rent a booth to exhibit at the 2026 Southern Festival of Books. 


RENTAL INCLUDES

  • A 10’x10’ tented booth

  • 8-foot and 6-foot tables

  • Table Covers

  • Chairs

  • Link to your website on the exhibitor page of the Festival site

  • Listing in the printed Festival program

  • Two tickets to the Saturday night Southern Festival of Books reception

 

BOOTH RATE

$450/$350 (early-bird) for Non-Profits

$550/$450 (early-bird) 

FESTIVAL HOURS


Saturday, October 17: 9:00am-6:00pm

Sunday, October 18: 10:00am-5:00pm
 

PLEASE NOTE


Upon completing the form below, vendors/exhibitors will need to fill out and submit this short form for the State Park and provide a certificate of liability insurance ("Policy must be $1,000,000 min and name the Park as additional insured" ... An example of the certificate can be found here.) 

OUR THANKS TO FESTIVAL SPONSORS!

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, THE FRIST FOUNDATION, SANDRA SCHATTEN FOUNDATION, TENNESSEE ARTS COMMISSION Cultivate. Create. Participate NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES DOLLAR GENERAL LITERACY FOUNDATION | GIVE. DREAM. HOPE. INGRAM (R) METRO ARTS NASHVILLE OFFICE OF ARTS + CULTURE NASHVILLE MUSIC CITY TENNESSEE STATE LIBRARY & ARCHIVES Tennessee Secretary of State NES PARNASSUS BOOKS NASHVILLE NASHVILLE SCENE TENNESSEE STATE MUSEUM EXPERIENCE TENNESSEE

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESENTS

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Suite B19
Nashville, TN 37206
P: 615-770-0006 | F: 615-770-0007
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