The 25th edition of the Baltimore Book Festival — one of the city’s most eagerly anticipated annual events — will include a smattering of national authors along with local favorites.

All told, more than 100 writers will occupy six stages over three days in the Waverly neighborhood from Sept. 27-29.

“As home to greats ranging from Edgar Allen Poe to Lucille Clifton, Baltimore recognizes literature as one of its most important art forms,” Rachel D. Graham, chief executive officer, Baltimore Officer of Promotion & The Arts, said in a news release.

For the second time, the festival will take place in Waverly, which is home to several independent bookshops from Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeeshop to The Book Thing. As always, there will be live music, poetry readings, lectures, panel discussions and youth programming.

Originally held in Mount Vernon, the Book Festival spent a few years in the Inner Harbor before relocating in 2023 to north central Baltimore.

National names include Roxana Robinson, whose work frequently is anthologized on NPR, and who explores late-in-life love in her newest novel, “Leaving”; the author, interior stylist and “plant influencer” Hilton Carter who will discuss how to propagate houseplants, and New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Maree Brown’s new essay collection, “Loving Corrections.”

Also taking the stage are some of the area’s most renowned local scribes, from D. Watkins, who will talk about his co-authorship of a new book about a notorious 1985 bombing in Philadelphia, to Morgan State University professor M.K. Asante discussing his buzzy new memoir, and the Newbery Award-winning children’s author Carole Boston Weatherford.

“As we mark 25 years of highlighting this culturally rich and brilliantly diverse genre,” Graham said, “we are excited about how that diversity and the city’s love of the written word is reflected in this year’s festival.”

For more details, visit baltimorebookfestival.com.