You're Invited! 

It's that time of year—Heyday invites you to join our community of writers, readers, and activists for our 19th annual Heyday Harvest. Help secure Heyday's next fifty years by joining us to celebrate the beauty of the natural world, oppose ethical and aesthetic shallowness, cultivate a passion for justice and a capacity for outrage, and do all we can—however modestly—to end suffering and encourage hope.

We'll have readings from Heyday authors Susan D. Anderson, John Freeman, Dorothy Lazard, Eugene Rodriguez, and Greg Sarris, as well as a musical performance from Los Cenzontles. 

RSVP at the link below. 

$50 General Admission / $35 for Heyday Members

6:00 p.m.  Welcome Reception
6:30 p.m.  Program Begins
7:30 p.m.  Awards Presentation

Members—check your inboxes for a discount code.
Questions? Email us at members@heydaybooks.com

2025 Harvest Honorees
 

Alice Waters
Heyday Lifetime Achievement Award

In the more than fifty years since Alice Waters opened the doors of Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, she has transformed our relationship with food and has been at the leading edge of the American culinary revolution. Fueled by an exemplary and relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor and a desire to end the hegemony of the industrial-food complex, Waters embodies a quiet determination and joyous enthusiasm that has inspired countless others in her effort to realize a "delicious revolution." Her founding of the Edible Schoolyard Foundation first in Berkeley and then in more than six hundred other school districts and communities throughout the nation, has helped change how millions understand the relationship of food to the land which sustains us all. The recipient of Heyday's 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award, Waters braids together activism,  advocacy, and creativity.

Alexis Madrigal
Heyday History Award for The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City

Alexis Madrigal is co-host of KQED's current affairs show, Forum, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic, where he co-founded the COVID Tracking Project. He has been a visiting scholar at both UC Berkeley's School of Information and its Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society as well as an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He is the proprietor of Oakland Garden Club, a newsletter for people who like to think about plants. Born in Mexico City, he grew up in rural Washington State and went to Harvard University. He lives in Oakland and is the recipient of Heyday's 2025 History Award for his stunning and revelatory new book, The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City (MCD/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), a deeply researched work of social and political history that casts a new and clarifying light on the legacies etched by generations of systemic segregation in Oakland and the relentless march of technological advancement and its human costs.

2025 Harvest Honorary Committee

Susan D. Anderson • Governor Jerry Brown • Dana Gioia • Will Hearst • Carol Blue Hitchens • Lynn & Jeff Horowitz • 
Maxine Hong Kingston • Karen Korematsu •  Jonathan Logan • Davis Mas Masumoto • Greg Sarris • Peter Wiley & Jessica Lipnack

Board of Directors

Megan Vered, Chair • Brian Kenny, Vice Chair • Whitney Green, Treasurer
Timothy Don • John Donatich • Marilee Enge • V.R. Ferose • Don Franzen • Bruce Goldsmith • Catherine Kanner •
Zachary Karabell • Brian Kenny • John Ptak • Deborah L. Sanchez • Steve Wax

Advisory Council

Susan D. Anderson • Lindsie Bear • Miranda Bergman • Nesbit Crutchfield • Frances Dinkelspiel • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • Dave Eggers •
Philip Kan Gotanda • Juan Felipe Herrera • Maxine Hong Kingston • Praveen Madan • Benjamin Madley • Kimberly Cox Marshall •
Pablo Menendez • Innosanto Nagara • Viet Thanh Nguyen • Emiko Omori • Renée Richard • Greg Sarris • Jeffrey Henson Scales •
Anola Small •  John Tateishi • Lewis Watts

Heyday Staff

Steve Wasserman, Publisher • Gayle Wattawa, General Manager & Editorial Director 
 Emmerich Anklam, Managing Editor • Kalie Caetano, Marketing & Publicity Director • Chris Carosi, Sales Operations Manager •
Archie Ferguson, Art Director • Marlon Rigel, Production Manager • Marthine Satris, Associate Publisher • 
Eve Sheehan, Office Manager • Terria Smith, Director of the Berkeley Roundhouse • 
Bradley Trumpfheller, Marketing & Membership Associate