{"id":411035,"date":"2026-08-19T17:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411035\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:58:07","slug":"lubbock-book-festival-returns-on-august-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/411035\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Book Festival returns on August 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Literacy Lubbock will host the Lubbock Book Festival on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at the Overton Hotel and Conference Center. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The family-friendly event will feature over 70 authors, book signings and workshops starting at 9 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cKids Chapter\u201d will offer crafts and reading activities for children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe Lubbock Book Festival allows our community to come together and celebrate books, authors, and the importance of reading,\u201d said Elizabeth Rivas, a Literacy Lubbock board member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Proceeds from the festival benefit Literacy Lubbock, which provides adult tutoring, GED preparation, and English-language instruction across the South Plains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Early-access tickets for noon author signings are $25, and general admission tickets starting at 1 p.m. are $15. Children 12 and under are admitted free. Tickets and schedule details are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lubbockbookfest.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lubbockbookfest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.lubbockbookfest.com\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Literacy Lubbock will host the Lubbock Book Festival on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17557,90730,3104,143524,18496,168,170,169,96093],"class_list":["post-411035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-authors","tag-book-festival","tag-books","tag-importance-of-reading","tag-literacy-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-overton-hotel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}