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Read It & Eat It: 2024 Edible Book Festival

Tuesday, April 2, 2024
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Glass Pavilion, Levering Hall

Enter your book-inspired dessert by 12 noon on March 28 to compete for fabulous prizes in our annual edible book bake-off. Don't bake? No worries. We need tons of taste tasters to select the winners.

Are you ready to read it and eat it? Join us for the Sheridan Libraries' annual edible book festival! Members of the Hopkins community create desserts inspired by their favorite books and can win fabulous prizes for their efforts! Don't like to bake? No worries. We need tons of taste tasters to select the winners.

Sponsored by the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center


The Sheridan Libraries Edible Book Festival began in 2014 and is now a highly-anticipated Johns Hopkins tradition. It is one of many such festivals that take place around the world on or around April 1 to celebrate books, art, food, and culture. In our festival, edible books are desserts inspired by literary titles, characters, or authors. Contestants are encouraged to combine word play with books, decoration, and ingredients.

For more details and to enter the contest, visit the Edible Book Festival webpage.