After a four-year hiatus, the Baltimore Book Festival is coming back in 2024. Todd Yuhanick, interim CEO of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA), announced on Wednesday that his organization is planning to produce the festival next May as one of its signature events for fiscal 2024. “The Book Fest is coming back,” he told his board. “The Book Fest is going to be in Waverly this year.