This year’s library will feature another 20 monumental projects, and has grown to over 100 contributing collaborators: five participating Nashville high schools, the teens program at the Southeast Branch of the Nashville Public Library, the artists and helpers of Nashville’s Friends Life Community, and in addition to a new core of Tennessee artists and writers, and 6 new working groups in Kentucky and New York City.

Artist/Writer Teams:

1. Omari Booker, Nashville and Los Angeles, CA
2. Casey Kaufman and Alex Lockwood, Nashville
3. Henry Jones, Nashville
4. Lance Scruggs & Gloria Carter, Nashville
5. C.I. Aki & Harouna Ouédraogo, Nashville and Lyon, FR
6. Dylan Camp and Mouminatou Thiaw, Nashville
7. Anna Garr and Paul Collins, Nashville
8. Clarksville Creative Collective (Kay Muñoz, Marcel Stowe, Keyon St. Firmin, and Juniper Thomas), Clarksville
9. Alexis Özden and Sophia Macias, Nashville and Clarksville
10. Alexis Jones and Kelly Ann Graff, Nashville
11. Stephen Graham, Nashville
12. Pato Garrido, Brooklyn, NY
13. Vina Orden, NY, NY
14. Carolin Wood, Neva Talladen & Victoria Barber, Rockaway Beach, NY
15. Katie Corby, Rockaway Beach, NY

School and Community Groups:

16. MLK Magnet Highschool with Stephen Graham, Nashville
17. Nashville School of the Arts (NSA) with Michaela Schnetzer, Nashville
18. Nashville School of the Arts (NSA) with Michaela Schnetzer, Nashville (second book different students)
19. University School of Nashville with Emily Holt, Nashville
20. Friends Life Community with Adelaide Warriner and Jennifer Haston, Nashville
21. Murray State University 

2025 Unbannable Venues:

1. Austin Peay State University’s Woodward Library
2. Vanderbilt University Peabody Library
3. Vanderbilt University Divinity School Library
4. Nashville School of the Arts Library
5. University School of Nashville’s Hassenfeld Library
6. The Belcourt Theatre
7. The Bookshop (Nashville)
8. The Nashville Free Poetry LIbrary
9. Montgomery Bell Academy Patrick Wilson Library
10. Murray State University Waterfield Library
11. Queens Public Library Rockaway Branch (NYC)
12. The New York Poetry Festival
13. The Brooklyn Book Festival
14. The Southern Festival of Books (Oct 18 & 19)