Rebecca Solnit

Northern California Book Awards: Rebecca Solnit

6 SEPTEMBER 2025 — saturday

44th annual NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS, honoring the books and authors of Northern California, as well as California translators state-wide; writer and activist Rebecca Solnit will receive the FRED CODY AWARD for Lifetime Achievement and Service, Paul Yamazaki, principal book buyer at City Lights Books for over fifty years, will receive the NCBA GROUNDBREAKER AWARD for Reading the Room: A Bookseller's Tale, and presentation of awards in FICTION, POETRY, CREATIVE NONFICTION, GENERAL NONFICTION, TRANSLATION IN POETRY and PROSE by California translators, and CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: Younger Readers, Middle Grade, Young Adult; bookselling and a reception open to all in the SFPL's Latino/Hispanic Community Room follows, nominated books are selected by the Northern California Book Reviewers, event presented by Poetry Flash and the San Francisco Public Library, with our community partners Women's National Book Association-San Francisco Chapter and Mechanics' Institute Library, Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, free and open to the public, 2:00 pm (Check back for updates and nominee announcements, poetryflash.org/programs/?p=ncba_2025 or https://sfpl.org)