Join Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Eagles to toast Brooklyn’s best books with specialty cocktails, author chats, and Brooklyn history.

The event will begin with a Cocktail Fundraiser, which will be ticketed, followed by our Literary Prize celebration, which will be free and open to the public. Tickets to the Cocktail Fundraiser include a local cocktail package, virtual cocktail class, a Brooklyn speakeasy history lesson, and the chance to hang with your fellow library enthusiasts from home while supporting BPL's critical family programs and collections.

All proceeds will support children, youth, and cultural programs at branches throughout the borough.

The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize

The Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize honors two books that exemplify the Library’s mission of addressing the urgent social, political, and artistic issues of our time. The nominated and winning titles were compiled by a panel of BPL librarians, drawing not only on their expertise with traditional literature and contemporary writing but also on their knowledge of the patrons they work with every day. The Prize is one of only a f ew major literary prizes awarded by a public library system and selected by a panel of librarians.

The 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, presented by the Brooklyn Eagles, is generously supported by the Peck Stacpoole Foundation.

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