Update about lineup additions, cancellations, scheduling changes, etc. Note that lineup is subject to change without notice and your festival pass is not a guarantee to a specific event.
Festival updates
- October 6, 2026: We are delighted to announce that Irene Yoo joins the festival lineup for her James Beard Award–winning cookbook, Soju Party.
Additionally, congratulations to festival authors Hannah Lillith Assadi (Paradiso 17, fiction), Victoria Chang (Tree of Knowledge, poetry), Julián Delgado Lopera (Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You, fiction), and Valeria Luiselli (Beginning Middle End, fiction) on being named finalists for the National Book Award. - October 5, 2026: We are sorry to share that Natasha Pickowicz had to cancel her festival appearance.
- September 29, 2026: We are delighted to announce that Jen Ferguson joins the festival lineup for her new YA novel, Like Glass.
- September 24, 2026: We are delighted to announce that Julián Delgado Lopera (Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You) and Hannah Lillith Assadi (Paradiso 17), both longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award in Fiction, join the festival lineup for our National Book Foundation Presents conversation.
We are sorry to share that Rebecca Dinerstein Knight had to cancel her appearance due to a scheduling conflict. - September 16, 2026: Author lineup announced. Portland Book Festival Day schedule to be released in early October.
- August 2026: An ad in Poets & Writers magazine listed Aimee Nezhukumatathil as a featured author at this year’s festival. Unfortunately, after that ad went to print but before it was published, Nezhukumatathil had to cancel her appearance due to a scheduling conflict.