Albany Book Festival Sept. 26, 2026

Local Authors, Publishers and Literary Organizations in alphabetical order

Local Author/Exhibitor Tabling will be in the Campus Center Ballroom (2nd Floor), Campus Center 1st Floor Lobby, and Campus Center West Great Hall (Ground Floor).

Local Publishers & Literary Organizations

Click on publisher's name for more information about the organization.

Local small press specializing in local authors and new authors. Our mission is to help local authors get started on their publishing journey by publishing their short stories in yearly themed anthologies.

Barzakh

International, student-run multi-genre literary and art journal from UAlbany’s Department of English

Bloated Toe Publishing

Publishes books by Adirondack / North Country authors, and related to Adirondack / North Country history, true crime, biographies, etc.

Fiction Forge Press

Local indie publishing house with a variety of horror, poetry, and romance books.

The Dr Alice P Green Institute for Racial Justice

The Institute honors Dr Green's legacy in pursuit of anti-racism and carceral justice. We offer research fellowships and internships to students, activists, and artists in support of original research with the papers of Dr Alice Green and the Center for Law and Justice, housed at the University at Albany library.

McPherson & Company, Publishers

Founded in 1974, McPherson & Company is an independent literary and arts book publisher based in Kingston, New York.

The RED Bookshelf

Nonprofit organization that distributes free children's books. Mission is to inspire children to read.

Sambasivan & Parikh

Stories that feel like home - a women-owned small press publishing books about children growing up across geographies and between cultures.

SUNY Press

Through its Excelsior Editions imprint, SUNY Press showcases the diversity and abiding energy of the peoples, histories, and natural beauty of New York State in exceptional books meant for all readers.

Facebook; Bluesky

Syracuse University Press

Founded in 1943, Syracuse University Press publishes influential scholarship, literary fiction and poetry in translation, and books that celebrate central New York and the Adirondacks.

Facebook; Instagram; LinkedIn; Bluesky

UAlbany Department of Information Sciences & Technology

Offering Undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs

William L. Reese II, Ph.D., Emeritus Center

Organization of retired faculty, administrators, and professional staff who continue to serve the community through teaching, research, and volunteering. Sponsors the Albany Lifelong Learning Institute (ALLI) to bring non-credit bearing scholarly courses of interest to older adults.

Albany Lifelong Learning Institute (ALLI)

Writer’s Mic

Long-standing reading series for poets and writers of short fiction

Valenza Publishing

Indie Publisher of genre fiction, always in search of new voices.

Publishers