• Spring Forum San Pedro May 22
• Bestseller Lists
• $100 Off Banner Promotions - Book in March and Save Through June!
• Golden Poppy 2024 Submissions are Open
• Dates and Deadlines
• Classifieds
• Resources

Call for Authors and Sponsors | San Pedro Spring Forum

5.22.2024 at the LA Yacht Club

Connect your authors and books to 75 California booksellers! CALIBA is setting sail at the LA Yacht Club for a day of lively conversation, education, rep picks, and networking.

Have a great idea for a panel, presentation, or creative addition to the day? We'd love to hear it!

The deadline for submissions is March 27th.

Questions? Email ann@caliballiance.org

Author invitations for the Oakland Spring Forum will be sent the week of April 8th. The event schedule and details will be live March 15th on the CALIBA website.

Sponsorship Opportunities!

Sponsorships help us keep the event affordable for booksellers and help fund bookseller grants to attend. Please help us get as many booksellers to the event as possible.

Sponsorships include your logo on our website and all printed material, acknowledgment at the Forum, eblasts/banner promotions, and rep picks.

Galley Table Placement

Share your new titles with our booksellers at our Galley Table! Include your promotional. material in the welcome bags.

Click herefor the Los Angeles Times & Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestseller List

Click herefor the San Francisco Chronicle & Northern California Independent Bookstore Bestseller List

CALIBA Promotions--Schedule in March and save through June!

CALIBA presents the 2024 Golden Poppy Awards, celebrating books written and illustrated by creators who have made California their home.

Books published between November 1, 2023, and October 31, 2024, are eligible. Please mail books published before April 30, 2024, in April to give our readers plenty of time to review all of the entries.

• Choose from twelve categories.
• $50 per title, $25 for California-based publishers.

Our booksellers are ready to read!

• March: Indie Press & Women's History Month

• April 3: Oakland Spring Forum

• May 22: Spring Forum San Pedro

• Sept. 17 & 18: Fall Trade Show - Pasadena Hilton

• *New* 2024 Diverse Fellowship Opportunity - Antiquarian Book School Foundation
• Executive Director - Books Inc. Reading Bridge
• Bookseller, Children's Department - Mrs. Dalloway's Literary and Garden Art Store, Berkeley
• Reading Group Choices for Sale
• Childrens Book Specialist - Book Passage, Corte Madera
• Calling all LA Bookstores and Pop-Ups! - Bookstore Crawl 2024

• Anti-Censorship Resources
• Panorama Picks - Books in Demand at US Libraries

Click here for a complete list.

Support CALIBA

Publishers support CALIBA when bookstores participate.

Bookstore Participation = Publisher Sponsorship = CALIBA = Bookstore Education, Advocacy, Networking +++

Ann Seaton, Stonyford 415-561-7686 ext. 101