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New Voices New Rooms

New Voices New Rooms is an innovative annual conference designed to provide booksellers access to education, peer interactions, author meet-ups, and publisher/vendor networking.

Exhibitor Sales and Attendee Registrations are now open for the 2025 New Voices New Rooms (NVNR) conference in Atlanta, August 3-6. The conference will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis hotel in downtown Atlanta, famous as a film location for several of the Hunger Games movies, and the host hotel for Dragon Con.

The NVNR conference brings together hundreds of booksellers from the South and Mid-Atlantic regions, from Louisiana to New York, Arkansas to Washington, DC. Produced in partnership between the New Atlantic Booksellers Association (NAIBA) and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), NVNR has a reputation for innovative programming, title discovery, and bookseller/publisher networking opportunities.

"We’re thrilled to bring the New Voices New Rooms conference to Atlanta. It is one of the most vibrant and diverse literary scenes in the South, with the fastest growing segment of our bookselling community in SIBA territory." 
‒‒  Linda-Marie Barrett, Executive Director, SIBA

Bookseller Registration: NAIBA

Exhibitor Registration: Exhibits

Book Industry Press: Request a Press Pass

Visit the NVNR Conference Hub for more information about the program. Both booksellers and exhibitors must be current members of NAIBA and/or SIBA to participate.

What to look forward to at NVNR 2025:

NVNR's 2025 Conference focuses on title discovery and fostering bookseller/exhibitor connections. Both NAIBA and SIBA have reported a significant growth in membership since the 2024 conference, and expect to bring many new bookstores to the 2025 event.

Booksellers can look forward to:

  • Increased opportunities to meet one on one with exhibitors.
  • More dedicated time for title discovery and genre books.
  • More region-specific programing.
  • Bus tours to over a dozen independent bookstores in the greater Atlanta area.
  • A dedicated tour of AmericasMart Atlanta, the world's largest collection of wholesale home, gift, and apparel showrooms.

Exhibitors can look forward to:

  • Reduced pricing on tables, with no purchase limits.
  • Flexible exhibitor passes valid for as long as the holder is on site.
  • The ability to schedule one on one appointments with booksellers in advance, and dedicated meeting space for appointments at the conference.
  • A dedicated app for tracking leads during the conference for follow-up afterwards.
  • Early reservation requests for Rep Pick spots.
  • Direct control over the distribution of advance review copies.
"We are excited about the new opportunities being in Atlanta will give us. New bookstores to visit. An afternoon at the AmericasMart, which will be supported by education on gift merchandise and buying opportunities for sidelines and remainders."
‒‒ Eileen Dengler, Executive Director, NAIBA

 

About NVNR / Contact Info

New Voices New Rooms is the programming partnership and platform of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) and represents independent bookstores in 18 states in the South and Mid Atlantic.

Eileen Dengler, eileen@naiba.com | Programming and Education

Linda-Marie Barrett, lindamarie@sibaweb.com | Programming and Author Placement

Kit Little, kit@naiba.com | Exhibits, Sponsorships, and Sales

Nicki Leone, nicki@sibaweb.com | Communications, Registration and Tech Support

SP Rankin, sp@sibaweb.com | Website, App Development

Elliott batTzedek, elliott@naiba.com | Registration, Accessibility Coordinator, Front Desk

Candice Huber, candice@sibaweb.com | Social Media, Social Coordinator, Accessibility Coordinator

Leah Grover, leahmgrover@gmail.com | Social Media, Social Coordinator

For more information about the conference, visit newvoicesnewrooms.org or subscribe to NVNR.