Penguin Random House Sponsors Essence Fest Featuring Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and More
For the first time, Penguin Random House is proud to announce our sponsorship of the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on July 4–6.
With more than 400,000 festival goers in attendance—and alongside a wide variety of corporate and indie organizations—Penguin Random House will be a fixture at the Authors Pavilion, where our writers and teams will speak on panels, sign books, and host giveaways.
We will also have space dedicated to marketing and informational activations designed to engage with a dynamic of audience of readers, storytellers, and word lovers. A wide variety of titles will be available for sale, with Mahogany Books acting as our bookseller partner for this event.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, ©Fred Schilling and Jasmin Flores, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States – US Supreme Court
We’re excited to share that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (Random House), will be a guest on Essence’s Global Black Economic Forum stage, in front of 4,000 attendees.
Other authors joining us in New Orleans include Toni Tipton-Martin, Malcolm D. Lee, and Jayne Allen, J. Elle, Brendan Slocumb, Leila Mottley, Victoria Christopher Murray, Sarita Lyons, Phoebe Robinson, LaDarrion Williams, Roy Wood Jr., as well as audiobook narrator January Lavoy!