MANCHESTER — Northshire Bookstore’s annual Booktopia festival – an intimate gathering of readers and writers in Manchester — was held over the weekend. The event featured talks, signings, celebration, and an array of guest authors.<\/p>\n
The 2026 festival authors were Jennifer Dugan, Susan Gregg Gilmore, Alia Hanna Habib, Jimin Han, Stephen Kiernan, T Kira Madden, Lauren Morrow, Emma Parry, John Sayles, Saratoga Schaefer, Kim Van Alkemade and Jung Yun.<\/p>\n
Programming included author presentations, book recommendations, and an opening-night catered reception, featuring heavy hors d\u2019oeuvres and a limited cash bar. The weekend also included bookish trivia and a Yankee book swap.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.benningtonbanner.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MANCHESTER — Northshire Bookstore’s annual Booktopia festival – an intimate gathering of readers and writers in Manchester — was held over the weekend. The event featured talks, signings, celebration, and an array of guest authors. The 2026 festival authors were Jennifer Dugan, Susan Gregg Gilmore, Alia Hanna Habib, Jimin Han, Stephen Kiernan, T Kira Madden, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2401809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[350405],"class_list":["post-2401808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-arts_and_culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/A-weekend-in-Booktopia-Entertainment.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401810,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401808\/revisions\/2401810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}