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2026 Six Bridges Book Festival
September 27 – October 4, 2026
Author submissions open on February 2, 2026
Spring Speakers Series
Ron Robinson Theater
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 @ 6:30PM
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CALS Speaker Series presents ReShonda Tate
ReShonda Tate is a bestselling author of more than fifty books, including The Queen of Sugar Hill and Miss Pearly’s Girls.
Ron Robinson Theater
THURSDAY, MARCH 26 @ 6:00PM
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CALS Speaker Series presents Rebecca Romney
Author of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Ron Robinson Theater
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 @ 6:30PM
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CALS Speaker Series and NEA Big Read presents Ross Gay
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard.
Ron Robinson Theater
THURSDAY, MAY 14 @ 6:30PM
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CALS Speaker Series presents Richard Kreitner
Richard Kreitner is the author of Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery.
Support for the Six Bridges Book Festival is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism. The Central Arkansas Library System gratefully acknowledges the support of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau; the Darragh Foundation; the Rebsamen Fund; and the many other donors and partners who make this festival possible. The Junior League of Little Rock is a partner for the Little Readers Rock events.