New Voices New Rooms 2026
The joint annual booksellers conference for NAIBA and SIBA
The NVNR Annual Conference and Tradeshow for bookseller members of both NAIBA and SIBA organizations serves eighteen states in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast United States.
The conference travels within the combined NAIBA and SIBA regions and is open to all SIBA and NAIBA members.
Booksellers: Register with Your Membership Association
Exhibitors: View 2026 Sales Opportunities
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Exhibitors
Artist Point Gift Wrap is a family-owned and operated company offering premium wholesale gift wrap at competitive prices, with more than 140 original everyday and holiday designs available in full and half reams.
2020 Vision USA has proudly supplied independent bookstores with high-quality, affordable, and sustainable reading glasses. We're your partner in innovation, affordability, and positive change.
Radical publishing, not just radical books: AK Press has been publishing and distributing books and media since 1990
Arcadia Publishing/The History Press
As the nation’s leading publisher of books of local nonfiction and rarely explored pockets of history, Arcadia’s mission is to connect people with their past, with their communities and with one another.
Astra Books for Young Readers creates children’s books of the highest quality! Our imprints are Astra Young Readers, Calkins Creek, Hippo Park, and Toon Books.
Blair strives to publish quality writing, focusing on authors and subjects historically neglected by mainstream publishers, including women, people of color, authors with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ authors.
Book Industry Charitable Foundation (Binc)
Book People Caring for Book People. Helping bookstore and comic shop employees and owners with unforeseen emergency financial, medical, and mental health service needs. Binc is the booksellers' safety net.
Bookhead is technology for independent bookstores, made by booksellers. It syncs your inventory everywhere you sell online.
Bookish Birds is a NC-based, woman-owned business that repurposes old books into new gifts of page art, pins, and ornaments.
BookPage is your trusted source for reading recommendations, helping readers discover their next great book while supporting booksellers across ordering, selling and connecting customers with the best new titles.
Bookshop is an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores.
We represent publishers to trade bookstores and book wholesalers on the East Coast. We’ve cultivated strong relationships with our customers for over fifty years, and our publishers benefit.
Crafty Queer Studio merges playfulness with purpose to create feisty, fun, and inclusive products for those who refuse to blend in.
Europa Editions is an independent publisher of quality literary fiction, mysteries, non-fiction and YA.
Faber US is the American division of one of the UK’s great independent literary publishers, defined by a distinctive range of quality non-fiction, fiction, music, poetry, film and children’s books.
Federalisms is a greeting card and gift company founded on the principle that our relationships and interactions with co-workers should be supportive and fun.
Greensboro Literary Organization
We create a space for readers and writers to come together and share stories and experiences. We hope that by providing a platform for dialogue and discussion we can nurture and grow empathy and understanding of each other.
Grey Street Paper is a women owned, family run paper goods & gift brand based out of Long Island, NY. Our line of witty and true greeting cards and gifts are here to help you color your world with a little humor and joy.
HarperCollins Publishers has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring generations of readers for more than 200 years. From its humble beginnings as a family-run print shop, HarperCollins is today the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
America’s oldest university press was established at the nation’s first research university in 1878. Ever since, Johns Hopkins University Press has shared the benefits of discovery with the world.
Kensington Publishing Corp. is an independent, family-owned book publisher founded in 1974 and based in New York City. Kensington releases more than 300 fiction and non-fiction titles each year.
Lit Circle is a platform for all bookish events. Readers have access to every bookstore's events in their area and across the country.
Macmillan Publishers release a wide range of genres and formats for every kind of reader — from adult fiction and nonfiction to many inspired children’s books.
Morgan Swank Studio creates illustrated greeting cards and gifts for people who don’t take themselves too seriously.
Publisher of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction for adults and children across several imprints: New York Review Books, NYRB Classics, NYRB Poets, New York Review Comics, NYRB Kids. Many of the titles of translations.
Otterpine partners with independent authors, small presses, and organizations to publish books that create enduring cultural value.
Pushkin Press was founded in 1997, with a list that encompasses novels, non-fiction, crime, children’s books, classics and more.
Shelf Awareness offers free e-newsletters about books and the book industry. We also partner with hundreds of indie booksellers across the country.
SHEWOLF is a fiercely witty stationery + gift brand that celebrates embracing your inner badass and living your values out loud.
Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing. For more information, visit www.simonandschuster.com.
The Geological Society of America
Founded in 1888, the Geological Society of America (GSA) is a global scientific society committed to advancing geoscience, serving its members, and connecting science to society.
The Lab Press is an independent publisher of premium original graphic novels distributed by Simon & Schuster. We are drawn to projects that are bold, unexpected, audacious, and impossible to ignore.
Since its founding in 1890, The University of Chicago Press has published authors whose work challenges settled ways of thinking and makes a positive difference in the world.
University of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press publishes work from leading scholars, writers, and intellectuals for both academic and general readers.
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., publishes approximately 400 books annually in its combined trade and college groups. As the largest independent, employee-owned book-publishing company, Norton is proud to publish “Books That Live.”
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Authors & Speakers
An alumna of Florida A&M University, Shamoria is entering her third year as a bookseller with a passion for horror and weird girl fiction while pursuing a Master's of Library Sciences at Florida State University. Photo credit: Midtown Reader
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NVNR 2026 Land Acknowledgement
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The NVNR staff is committed to creating an exciting, accessible, inclusive, informative, and valuable experience for all attendees.
The Conference FAQ Page contains loads of great info to make your #NVNR2026 unforgettable!
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Registration and Info Desk: Grand Ballroom Registration Desk
Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. / Monday-Tuesday 7:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. / Wednesday: 7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
NAIBA: 516.333.0681 | SIBA: 803.994.9530
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NVNR Conference Staff
| NAIBA 📧Eileen Dengler NAIBA Executive Director/NVNR Education and Publisher Programming 📧Liz Hottel NAIBA Executive Director/NVNR Education and Author Programming 📧Kit Little NAIBA Executive Administrator: NVNR Exhibitor Sales 📧Elliott batTzedek NAIBA Membership Relations Coordinator: NVNR Registration Desk 📧Leah Grover NAIBA Social Media Coordinator: NVNR Social Media | SIBA Executive Director: NVNR Author Programming SIBA Systems Administrator: NVNR Bookseller & Exhibitor Registrations SIBA Membership Relations/Social Media Coordinator: NVNR Social Media SIBA Website Development: NVNR Website and App, Event Photographer |