Book Events: Fairs, Festivals, and Conferences (2023 and 2024)
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74 Events Coming Up
Wizard World Portland
Hosted by: Chelsea Mangold
Dates: Friday, January 12, 2024 to Monday, January 15, 2024
Website: Wizard World Portland
Description:
Offers exciting family- friendly attractions for sci-fi, horror, anime and gaming.
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Digital Book World
Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel
West 53rd Street , New York, New York 10019
Hosted by: Score Publishing
Dates: Monday, January 15, 2024 to Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Website: Digital Book World
Description:
As part of the 2018 Digital Book World (DBW) — two industry veterans will be the first to be inducted into the new Publishing Hall of Fame. The first inductee is Marie Dutton Brown, the iconic editor and literary agent who successfully championed diversity in publishing over the course of her 50-year career.
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The Library Learning Experience
Hosted by: American Library Association
Dates: Friday, January 19, 2024 to Monday, January 22, 2024
Website: The Library Learning Experience
Email: submit form
Description:
At LibLearnX, library professionals at all levels can take part in a conference experience that will provide ultimate learning benefits. Attendees will participate in hands-on workshops, bite-size sessions, and other formats designed to match preferred learning styles with an emphasis on experiential learning. Be inspired and motivated by thought-leaders, authors, and subject matter experts, and celebrate your colleagues and favorite authors at the Award ceremonies.
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ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
Diggi Palace Jaipur
Hosted by: Sanjoy K. Roy, Festival Producer
Dates: Friday, January 19, 2024 to Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Website: ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
Email: info@teamworkarts.com
Description:
Described as the “greatest literary show on Earth,” the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival is a sumptuous feast of ideas.
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Angoulême International Comics Festival
Angouleme
Hosted by: International comics festival
Dates: Thursday, January 25, 2024 to Monday, January 29, 2024
Website: Angoulême International Comics Festival
Phone: 330545978650
Email: info@bdangouleme.com
Description:
Festival of Comics and Creation
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Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
InterContinental
Hosted by: Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
Dates: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 to Monday, February 6, 2023
Website: Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
Email: submit form
Description:
Writers gather to bring new ideas and different perspectives, promoting dialogue, sharing their works to build bridges across cultures.
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Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
71-100 Hwy 111, Rancho Mirage, California
Dates: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 to Friday, February 2, 2024
Website: Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
Email: info@rmwritersfest.org
Description:
The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival is a world class gathering of writers, thinkers, and people contributing to the intellectual vitality of our time — “Coachella for the brain.”
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Cairo Book Fair
Eygpt International Exhibition Center
Hosted by: Cairo International Book Fair
Dates: Thursday, February 1, 2024 to Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Website: Cairo Book Fair
Email: info@cairo360.com
Description:
Exhibition of publishers to present options of genre and a press confrence about a new poetic work that will be printed.
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Jaipur Literature Festival
Sultanpur MG Road, New Delhi, Jaipur, India
Hosted by: Jaipur Virasat Foundation
Dates: Thursday, February 1, 2024 to Monday, February 5, 2024
Website: Jaipur Literature Festival
Phone: 919643302036
Email: info@teamworkart.com
Description:
A festival that bring together a diverse mix of the world's greatest writers, thinkers, humanitarians, politicians, buisness leaders to express ad engage in thought ful debate and dialogue.
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African American Children’s Book Fair
Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107
Hosted by: The Literary Media & Publishing Consultants
Date: Saturday, February 3, 2024
Time: 1 to 4 p.m.
Website: African American Children’s Book Fair
Phone: 215-878-2665
Email: vlloydsgam@aol.com
Description:
Check out our photos from the 2020 Festival
The African American Children’s Book Fair is one of the oldest and largest single-day events for children's books in the country. It features nationally known bestselling authors and illustrators, many of whom have won some of the most prestigious literary awards including the American Library Association Coretta Scott King Award. These authors and illustrators have produced some of the best books of our generation.
Parents, caregivers and educators are very supportive of the African American Children's Book Fair because they understand that children who read outside of their normal school course work tend to make more responsible decisions about their lifestyles.
The fun-filled afternoon is packed with activities that promote the POWER and JOY OF READING. Authors and illustrators will make presentations and sign their books. The Literary Row will distribute book-related promotional materials free of charge. Our Educator's Book Giveaway will also distribute brand new books to teachers and librarians for use in their schools. In addition there will be a wide selection of affordable literature available to purchase.
The African American Children's Book Fair is a part of the African American Children's Book Project's initiative to promote and preserve multicultural children's literature.
The organization is leading a campaign entitled PRESERVE A LEGACY, BUY A BOOK. Its goal is to put books back into children's homes. You can't tell a child to read at home if there are no books. Read an interview the event’s organizer, Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati
The event is free and opened to the public.
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PubWest
Dates: Tuesday, February 6, 2024 to Friday, February 9, 2024
Website: PubWest
Email: executivedirector@pubwest.org
Description:
The Publishes Association of the West is a natinal trade organization of publishers and of associated publishing related members.
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New Delhi World Book Fair
Pragati, Maidan
Hosted by: National Book Trust
Dates: Saturday, February 10, 2024 to Monday, February 19, 2024
Website: New Delhi World Book Fair
Email: submit form
Description:
The NDWBF provides exhibitors with a one-of-a- kind opportunity to do business with the burgeoning book sector. its also a great place to promote titles, make co-publication deals, amd do business.
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San Francisco Writers Conference
Hyatt Regency
1901 Cleveland Ave., San Francisco, California
Hosted by: Laurie McLean
Dates: Thursday, February 15, 2024 to Monday, February 19, 2024
Website: San Francisco Writers Conference
Phone: 4156896301
Email: registrations@SFwriters.org
Description:
Over the course of 4 days over 500 attendees, reowned keynote authors, presenters, editors, and agents attend SFWC, combining the best of both the traditional publishing industry with the latest technology to empower authors to publish everywhere.
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Savannah Book Festival
Telfair Square
220 W Broughton St., Savannah, Georgia 31401.0
Dates: Thursday, February 15, 2024 to Monday, February 19, 2024
Website: Savannah Book Festival
Email: info@savannahbookfestival.org
Description:
The Savannah Book Festival is an annual event, free and open to the public, in celebration of the written word and its role of improving the human expeirence. Our mission is to promote reading, writing, and civil conversation.
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San Miguel Writers Conference
Hotel Real de Minas
Mesones 80, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico 37700.0
Hosted by: San Miguel Writers Conference and Literary Festival
Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Time:
Website: San Miguel Writers Conference
Phone: 524151528380
Email: nathan@sanmiguelwritersconference.org
Description:
Learn from expert keynotes and faculty that include contemporary writers, award-winning authors, teachers, agents and journalist with years of experience within their respective fields.
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Latvian Book Fair
International Exhibition Centre Kipsala
Kipsala iela 8, riga, Riga, Latvia
Hosted by: Edgars Skara
Dates: Friday, February 23, 2024 to Sunday, February 25, 2024
Website: Latvian Book Fair
Phone: 37167065046
Email: edgars.skara@bt1.lv
Description:
Inspiring book town where writers, translators, publishers and reader will meet.
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Tallahassee Bicentennial Antiquarian Book Fair
Elks Club Bldg
276 Magnolia Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32301
Hosted by: Tallahassee Historical Society
Dates: Friday, February 23, 2024 to Sunday, February 25, 2024
Website: Tallahassee Bicentennial Antiquarian Book Fair
Phone: 404-797-8046
Email: shmick@talstar.com
Description:
“Immerse Yourself in Tallahassee & Florida History”
Celebrating Tallahassee’s 200th Year! More than 25 antiquarian book dealers with books, maps, documents, postcards, art, prints, & any other local historic memorabilia. Includes Elder Storytelling (Jack Hadley from the Thomasville African American Museum, Flo Ashby, a 1940's FSCW grad, others) and Collector Sharing (Relics from the Aucilla River dig, Readers in Art, Presidential Memorabilia, more)
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F.R.E.S.H. Book Film Festival
Julia T. and Charles W. Cherry, Sr. Cultural and Educational Center
925 George W. Engram Boulevard, Daytona Beach, Florida 32114
Hosted by: Donna M. Gray-Banks, Founder & Director
Dates: Friday, February 23, 2024 to Saturday, February 24, 2024
Website: F.R.E.S.H. Book Film Festival
Email: freshbookfestivals@gmail.com
Price: $5
Description:
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San Antonio African American Book Festival
Next Door to Carver Library
3310 E. Commerce Street, San Antonio, Texas 78220
Hosted by: The Friends of Carver Library
Date: Saturday, February 24, 2024
Time: 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Website: San Antonio African American Book Festival
Phone: 210-685-8400
Email: saaabookfest@gmail.com
Description:
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Monroeville Literary Festival
Monroe County Museum
31 N Alabama Ave., Monroeville, Alabama 36460.0
Hosted by: Alabama Writers Symposim
Dates: Friday, March 1, 2024 to Saturday, March 2, 2024
Website: Monroeville Literary Festival
Phone: 2515757433
Email: submit form
Description:
The Monroevillle Literary Festival is two day of fun, food and literary arts in the Literary Capital of Alabama. An event that welcomes friends, old and new, to explore thw writing, music and art of the literary South.
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Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
St. Petersburg’s Historic Coliseum
535 4th Ave N, St. Petersburg, Florida
Hosted by: Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association
Dates: Friday, March 1, 2024 to Monday, March 4, 2024
Website: Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
Email: FloridaBookFair@gmail.com
Description:
This is the oldest and largest antiquarian book fair in the Southeastern United States, and one of the largest in the nation.
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Southwest Florida Reading Festival
Fort Myers Regional Library Campus
1651 Lee St, Fort Myers, Florida
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Website: Southwest Florida Reading Festival
Email: mbyers@leegov.org
Description:
There really is something for all ages to experience at the Southwest Florida Reading Festival. Everyone enjoys the multiple stages with the celebrity authors who share ‘inside scoop’ about their latest books or what makes a story idea click for them. You will be able to buy books and have the authors personalize and sign them too! You’ll find our numerous book and educational vendors offering the latest in services and new ideas. Kids will be mesmerized by the storytellers.
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Dahlonega Literary Festival
Historic Square of Dahlonega, GA
Hosted by: Lumpkin County Literacy Coalition
Date: Saturday, March 2, 2024
Time:
Website: Dahlonega Literary Festival
Email: info@savannahbookfestival.org
Description:
The Dahlonega Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books that takes place in March. Situated in Historic Downtown Dahlonega, the festival continues to grow and become more delightful as the years go on. Ours is an intimate festival about books and authors with a mission to promote interaction between readers and writers in a relaxed, informal environment. Visitors have an opportunity to meet and interact with the authors. In addition to attending speaking events and book signings, attendees can have lunch with their favorite authors at a local restaurant.
Past featured authors include: Frances Mayes, Diana Gabaldon, Terry Kay, Deanna Raybourn, Joshilyn Jackson, and many more. Where else can you see, have conversations with, and even dine with bestselling authors while surrounded by the beautiful North Georgia Mountains.
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AWP Conference & Bookfair
Kansas City Convention Center
Hosted by: Community of Literary Magazine and Presses
Dates: Thursday, March 7, 2024 to Sunday, March 10, 2024
Website: AWP Conference & Bookfair
Phone: 301-226-9716
Email: events@awpwriter.org
Description:
The AWP Conference & Bookfair is an essential annual destination for writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers. Each year more than 12,000 attendees join our community for four days of insightful dialogue, networking, and unrivaled access to the organizations and opinion-makers that matter most in contemporary literature. The 2016 conference featured over 2,000 presenters and 550 readings, panels, and craft lectures. The book fair hosted over 800 presses, journals, and literary organizations from around the world. AWP is now the largest literary conference in North America.
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South by Southwest
Hosted by: South by SouthWest
Dates: Friday, March 8, 2024 to Sunday, March 17, 2024
Website: South by Southwest
Phone: 5124677979
Email: submitform
Description:
South by Southwest is best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of tech, film, music, education and culture.
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Tucson Festival of Books
University of Arizona Campus
Hosted by: John Humenik
Dates: Saturday, March 9, 2024 to Sunday, March 10, 2024
Website: Tucson Festival of Books
Email: chairman@tucsonfestivalofbooks.org
Description:
The Tucson Festival of Books debuted March 14-15, 2009, on the campus of The University of Arizona. The Festival featured 450 authors and presenters and welcomed 50,000 regional visitors, all made possible with generous support from our sponsors and the energetic goodwill of 800 volunteers.
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London Book Fair
Olympia London
Hammersmith Rd, London, United Kingdom
Hosted by: Reed Exhibitions Limited
Dates: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 to Thursday, March 14, 2024
Website: London Book Fair
Email: lbf.helpline@reedexpo.co.uk
Description:
The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital channels. Next year, the Fair will take place in April at Olympia, West London, covering all aspects of the publishing industry.
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New Orleans Book Festival
Tulane University
200 Broadway street suite 126, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
Dates: Thursday, March 14, 2024 to Saturday, March 16, 2024
Website: New Orleans Book Festival
Email: submit form
Description:
The Festival features both fiction and non-fiction convenes reading, panel discussions, symposia and key speeches. It also provides an opportunity for outlets, author and readers to interact with each other in one of the most vibrant and culturally diverse cities in the world.
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Virginia Festival of the Book
145 Ednam Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22903, Charlottesville, Virginia
Hosted by: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Dates: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 to Sunday, March 24, 2024
Website: Virginia Festival of the Book
Phone: 434 924-7548
Email: vabook@virginia.edu
Description:
Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the largest of the 56 state (and territory) humanities councils, the Festival is a program of the Virginia Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
The Festival is the largest community-based book event in the Mid-Atlantic region and has attracted audiences of more than 20,000 for each of the past thirteen years. We have presented a captivating list of authors, ranging from international bestsellers to topical specialists to debut authors. An abbreviated list of past participants includes Rick Atkinson, Edward Ayers, David Baldacci, Maureen Corrigan, Edwidge Danticat, Kate DiCamillo, Rita Dove, Alan Furst, John Grisham, Jan Karon, Jim Lehrer, Frances Mayes, Colum McCann, David McCullough, Alice McDermott, Katherine Paterson, Jon Scieszka, Lisa Scottoline, Pete Seeger, Karin Slaughter, Alexander McCall Smith, Lee Smith, Bryan Stevenson, Elizabeth Strout, Judith Viorst, and Charles Wright. A more complete list of past participants can be seen here.
Programs range from traditional author readings and book signings to children’s programs and hands-on workshops. All programs are open to the public and, with the exception of a few ticketed events, the majority of Festival programs are free to attend.
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Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
938 Lafeye, New Orleans, Louisiana
Hosted by: Tennesse Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival
Dates: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 to Monday, March 25, 2024
Website: Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Phone: 15045811144
Email: info@tennesseewilliams.net
Description:
Tennesse Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival is a five-day event in New Olreans historic French Quarter that attracts participants from around the world.
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Lehigh Valley Book Festival
Bethlehem Area Public Library
11 W Church St., Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania 18018
Hosted by: Lets Play Books Bookstore
Dates: Friday, March 22, 2024 to Sunday, March 24, 2024
Website: Lehigh Valley Book Festival
Phone: 6109288600
Email: info@letsplaybooks.com
Description:
Celebrating books and the strong connection they forge-bringing publishers, authors, illuatrators and readers together through thoughful, approachable, and inclusive programming.
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Norwescon
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel
100 Andover Park W. Suite 150-165, SeaTac, Washington
Hosted by: Norwescon45
Dates: Thursday, March 28, 2024 to Sunday, March 31, 2024
Website: Norwescon
Email: submit form
Description:
Norwescon is a Pacific Northwest's premier science fiction and fantasy convention, and one of the largest entirely volunteer operationed regional conventions in the United States.
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National Black Writers Conference
Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Ave., Founders Auditorium, Brooklyn, NY 11225, Brooklyn, New York
Hosted by: Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College
Dates: Friday, March 29, 2024 to Saturday, March 30, 2024
Website: National Black Writers Conference
Phone: 718-804-8883
Email: writers@mec.cuny.edu
Description:
Poet and fiction writer Sheree Renée Thomas and best-selling novelist Jewell Parker Rhodes are this year’s NBWC honorees and both will receive the Octavia E. Butler Award. Other confirmed participating writers include poet, fiction, and nonfiction writer Jewelle Gomez, fiction writer L. Penelope; and fiction writers and memoirists Tananarive Due, Wayéetu Moore, and Dr. Reynaldo Henderson, executive director and co-founder of the Black Speculative Arts Movement (BSAM).
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WonderCon
Anaheim Convention center
Hosted by: Comic con International
Dates: Friday, March 29, 2024 to Sunday, March 31, 2024
Website: WonderCon
Description:
Exhibit hall with comics, original art, toys and merchandice for many popular artist, pubushers and retailers.
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Oxford Conference for the Book
Hosted by: Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi
Dates: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 to Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Website: Oxford Conference for the Book
Phone: 662.915.3374
Email: jgthomas@olemiss.edu
Description:
The Oxford Conference for the Book brings together fiction and nonfiction writers, journalists, poets, publishers, teachers, and students for three days of readings, lectures, panels, workshops, and social events that celebrate the written word.
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New York Antiquarian Book Fair
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue (bet 66th and 67th streets), New York, 10065, New York, New York
Hosted by: Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America & International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (sanctioned by)
Dates: Thursday, April 4, 2024 to Sunday, April 7, 2024
Website: New York Antiquarian Book Fair
Phone: 212.777.5218
Email: info@sanfordsmith.com
Description:
2020 is the 60th Year
This book fair is officially sanctioned by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. The consumer can rely upon the experience and professionalism of participating dealers and the authenticity of the items available for purchase. All books, manuscripts and related material have been carefully examined for completeness and bibliographic accuracy.
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Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Plaza Costituzion 6
40128 Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Hosted by: BolognaFiere Viale della Fiera
Dates: Monday, April 8, 2024 to Thursday, April 11, 2024
Website: Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Email: bookfair@bolognafiere.it
Description:
Founded in 1964 The Bologna Children’s Book Fair is the most important international event dedicated to the hildren’s publishing and multimedia industry.
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Eurasian International Book Fair
Kazakhstan, Astana
Hosted by: Foliant Publishing House
Dates: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 to Sunday, April 14, 2024
Website: Eurasian International Book Fair
Phone: 77073710301
Email: info@eurasbook.com
Description:
strengthening and expansion of informational, creative and business cooperation of publishers, authors, libraries, book trading and printing companies.
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Quebec International Book Fair
Quebec City Convention Centre
26 Saint Pierre street, Quebec City, Canada G1K8A3
Hosted by: Rhonda Rioux
Dates: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 to Sunday, April 14, 2024
Website: Quebec International Book Fair
Phone: 4186920010
Email: info@silq.ca
Description:
Le Salon international du livre de Quebec is open to the general public. Lots of writers and publisher await more than 60,000 visitors for the event.
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Left Coast Crime
Hyatt Regency Bellevue
Hosted by: Lucinda Suber
Dates: Thursday, April 11, 2024 to Sunday, April 14, 2024
Website: Left Coast Crime
Email: submit form
Description:
Fans of mystery, crime/fiction genres for readers , authors, librarians , publishers, and editors to gather in convival surrounding to pursue their mutual interest.
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Salon du Livre de Paris
Grand Palais Ephemere
115, bolevard Saint-Germain, Paris, France 75006
Hosted by: Jean-Baptist Passe
Dates: Friday, April 12, 2024 to Sunday, April 14, 2024
Website: Salon du Livre de Paris
Email: contact@plevenements.fr
Description:
During three days of a rich program of the intervention, nearky 350 authors and publishing house of all sizes come to meet a larger audience.
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Texas Library Association Conference
Austin Convention Center
3420 Executive Center Drive, Suite 301, Austin, Texas 78731.0
Hosted by: Texas Library Association
Dates: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 to Saturday, April 20, 2024
Website: Texas Library Association Conference
Phone: 5123281518
Email: tla@txla.org
Description:
Our extensive conference porgram is like a giant menu where you can explore 300+ educational sessions on a multitude of topics that will halp you grow in your career.
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Tulsa Lit Fest
Oklahoma State University
700 N Greenwood Ave. , Tulsa, Oklahoma
Hosted by: Center for Poets and writers at OSU-Tulsa
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Time:
Website: Tulsa Lit Fest
Phone: 9185948000
Email: cpwtulsa@okstate.edu
Description:
Tulsa Litfest brings together diverse literary artist and writers to collaborate and inspire, enriching the Tulsa community.
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Leipzig Book Fair
Hosted by: Leipezig Liest Reading Festival
Dates: Sunday, April 21, 2024 to Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Website: Leipzig Book Fair
Phone: 493416786950
Email: aussteller@leipziger-buchmesse.de
Description:
Authors, publishers and media companies from Germany, experience a diversity of literature, doscover innovations and gain new perspectives.
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Ohioana Book Festival
Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Main Library
96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43215
Hosted by: The Ohioana Library Association
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Website: Ohioana Book Festival
Phone: 614.466.3831
Email: ohioana@ohioana.org
Description:
Since its inception in 2007, the Ohioana Book Festival has given readers the opportunity to connect with their favorite Ohio writers. Held each spring, the Festival welcomes roughly 100 authors and more than 3,000 visitors every year.
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C2E2
McCormick Place
2301 S Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, Illinois 60616
Hosted by: C2E2
Dates: Friday, April 26, 2024 to Sunday, April 28, 2024
Website: C2E2
Phone: 800-354-4003
Email: C2E2INFO@Reedpop.com
Description:
Comic, cosplay, gaming, wrestling, anime pop culture convention
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Newburyport Literary Festival
Dates: Friday, April 26, 2024 to Sunday, April 28, 2024
Website: Newburyport Literary Festival
Email: events@newburyportliteraryfestival.org
Description:
Newburyport is located at the mouth of the Merrimack River, in the far northeast corner of Massachusetts. It is 35 miles north of Boston and 18 miles south of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
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North Texas Teen Book Festival
Irving Convention Center
500 Las Colinas Blvd W, Irving, Texas 75039
Hosted by: Irving Public Library
Dates: Friday, April 26, 2024 to Saturday, April 27, 2024
Website: North Texas Teen Book Festival
Email: info@nttbf.org
Description:
The North Texas Teen Book Festival is the largest library-run book festival for young people in the country.
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Annapolis Book Festival
The Key School
534 Hillsmere Drive, Annapolis, MD 21403, Annapolis, Maryland
Hosted by: The Key School
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2024
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Website: Annapolis Book Festival
Phone: 410-263-9231
Description:
The Annapolis Book Festival is one of the premier community events in the region. Every year more than 3,000 people attend this free community Festival that celebrates the beauty, power, passion, and excitement of the written word. The Annapolis Book Festival brings nationally renowned authors to The Key School in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss their books and the craft of writing. The Festival also features children's activities, live music, refreshments, and new and used book sales.
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Montclair Literary Festival
Various
Hosted by: Succeed2gether
Dates: Saturday, April 27, 2024 to Thursday, May 4, 2023
Website: Montclair Literary Festival
Phone: 973-746-0553
Description:
Festival Day will be a full day of in-person events, from literary fiction and non-fiction discussion panels to talks and activities for children and teens.
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The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
Various Locations
Dates: Sunday, April 28, 2024 to Thursday, May 4, 2023
Website: The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
Email: info@thefoldcanada.org
Description:
The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) celebrates diversity in literature by promoting diverse authors and stories in Brampton, Ontario—one of Canada&rsquos most culturally diverse cities.
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Greater St. Louis Book Fair
Greensfelder Recreation Complex in Queeny Park
Dates: Thursday, May 2, 2024 to Sunday, May 5, 2024
Website: Greater St. Louis Book Fair
Email: info@stlouisbookfair.org
Description:
Greater St. Louis Book Fair is one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most popular charity book sales. For over 60 years, book lovers and collectors have enjoyed bargain prices on a diverse and quality selection of new, gently-used and rare books. Fair proceeds benefit local non-profit education and literacy programs.
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Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg City Hall Grounds
31 South Summit Ave., Gaithersburg, MD 20877, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024
Time: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Website: Gaithersburg Book Festival
Phone: 301.258.6350
Email: ccrosby@gaithersburgmd.gov
Description:
The festival will feature more than 100 best-selling and award-winning authors who will participate in talks, panel discussions and book signings throughout the day.
The Gaithersburg Book Festival is a celebration of the written word and its power to enrich the human experience. Our mission is to foster an interest in reading, writing and literary conversation.
Since its inception in 2010, the Festival has quickly become one of the nation’s top literary events, attracting hundreds of award-winning and best-selling authors, poets, and songwriters from across the country. Other festival highlights include exhibiting authors, a Children’s Village, literary exhibitors, the Brew & Vine Cafe featuring live performances by singer/songwriters and poets, Friends of the Library used book sale, and onsite new book sales by Politics & Prose. Visitors of all ages also have the opportunity to participate in free interactive, hands-on writing workshops for children and adults/teens on a variety of topics.
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Queen City Book Fair
Venue 8470
8470 Bellhaven Blvd, Charlotte, North Carolina 28215
Hosted by: Literary Queens of Charlotte
Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024
Time: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Website: Queen City Book Fair
Phone: 704-390-1419
Email: qcbookfair1@gmail.com
Description:
Queen City Book Fair (est. 2016 co-founders Quisha Dynae and Shmel Carter), warmly invite you to their fair! All local avid readers and anyone interested in stimulating literary appetites are called to join in our latest contribution to literacy!
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Sydney Writers’ Festival
Carriageworks
Dates: Monday, May 20, 2024 to Sunday, May 26, 2024
Website: Sydney Writers’ Festival
Email: contact@zeitgeistmediagroup.com
Description:
Each year, Sydney Writers&rsquol Festival presents more than 400 events, attracting audiences of 100,000 plus for a week-long conversation of books and ideas.
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ThrillerFest
Sheraton Times Square
Dates: Tuesday, May 28, 2024 to Saturday, June 1, 2024
Website: ThrillerFest
Email: KimberelyHowe@thrillerwriters.org
Description:
The ThrillerFest is an annual conference of the international Thrilller Writers. This organization was created by several 2005 bestselling authors in order to bring thousands of writers, readers, publishers, producers, editors and agents together to promote and support thriller everywhere.
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The Bronx Book Festival
Fordham Plaza and Fordham University
1 Fordham Plz, Bronx, New York 10458
Hosted by: The Bronx is Reading
Dates: Thursday, June 6, 2024 to Sunday, June 9, 2024
Website: The Bronx Book Festival
Email: events@thebronxisreading.com
Description:
The Bronx is Reading promotes literacy and fosters a love of reading among children, teens, and adults through its multidimensional initiatives including the annual Bronx Book Festival.
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Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend
265 Peachtree Center Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30303, Charleston, South Carolina
Hosted by: Go On Girl! Book Club
Dates: Friday, June 7, 2024 to Sunday, June 9, 2024
Website: Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend
Email: events@goongirl.org
Description:
The first Author Awards were presented in 1992 as a small event held in Brooklyn, New York to recognize those authors and publishers that made significant contributions in the writing and publication of quality books for and about people of African descent. That year we honored Gloria Naylor for Bailey’s Café and New Authors of the Year Barbara Neely for Blanche on the Lam and Barbara Summers for Nouvelle Soul. We gave a publishing award to Beacon Press for their work in publishing authors of color. We were delighted when they all showed up to accept their awards. That was the beginning of a GOG tradition. The annual Author Awards event has traveled the United States from east to west as well as outside the U.S. to Jamaica, West Indies and Toronto, Canada.
Beginning in 1993, the one-night event became a three-day weekend where chapters meet and take care of business issues and celebrate the winning authors. It's also an opportunity for members to meet and reconnect with their literary sisters from all over the country.
Each year winning authors are selected from our reading list based upon votes from each Go On Girl! Book Club chapter for Author of the Year and New Author of the Year. They are then invited to receive their awards in person at the annual Awards Ceremony. GOG members and guests have had the honor of awarding in person to Pearl Cleage, Bebe Moore Campbell, Walter Mosely, Jill Nelson, Valerie Wilson Wesley, Diane McKinney Whetstone, Lawrence Hill, Daniel Black, Isabel Wilkerson to name a few.
This flagship event is one of the ways of expressing our deep authentic respect for Black literature and authors, reinvigorating our literary sisterhood, and providing a platform for new literary talent to emerge.
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IABX Children's Book Festival
Warinanco Sports Center
Hosted by: Independent Authors Book Expo
Date: Saturday, June 8, 2024
Time: 12:00pm to 3:30pm
Website: IABX Children's Book Festival
Email: iabex@hotmail.com
Description:
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Nantucket Book Festival
Cultural District
Main Street, Nantucket, MA 02554, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Hosted by: Maddie Hjulstrom, Executive Director, Nantucket Book Foundation
Dates: Thursday, June 13, 2024 to Sunday, June 16, 2024
Website: Nantucket Book Festival
Phone: 508-563-2144
Email: director@nantucketbookfestival.org
Description:
Nantucket Book Festival celebrates its 9th year in 2020. They feature a line-up of award-winning authors and local and regional talent. They take center stage, representing genres fiction, poetry, history, journalism, politics, and memoir. Attendees enjoy author presentations Thursday-Sunday, also featured in the garden are storytimes for children. Most events are free to the public.
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Brighton Book Festival
Various Venues in Brighton, England
Hosted by: Afrori Books & The Feminist Bookshop
Dates: Tuesday, June 18, 2024 to Sunday, June 23, 2024
Website: Brighton Book Festival
Description:
A community book festival aimed at making the marginalized mainstream.
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Beijing International Book Fair
Hosted by: China National Publications Import & Export Corp.
Dates: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 to Sunday, June 23, 2024
Website: Beijing International Book Fair
Email: bibfmo@bibf.net
Description:
The BIBF - Beijing International Book Fair – is divided into several specific areas: The area of children’s books and comics, the field of industry, and the field of book and newspaper publishers. Another focus is the area of protection of copyright and copyright trade. Here, interested visitors can learn about the latest trends and phenomena all around the theme of books at the numerous international and national exhibition booths. 2018 is the 25th anniversary of the fair.
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The Self-Publishing Conference
College Court
Kighton Rd., London, United Kingdom
Hosted by: Self-Publishing Conference
Dates: Thursday, June 20, 2024 to Friday, June 21, 2024
Website: The Self-Publishing Conference
Phone: 1162792299
Email: book@troubador.co.uk
Description:
The Publishing Conference is the UK's longest established dedicated self-publishing event offering authors a chance to find out about a wide range of publishing options and to hear from and question those who work within the thriving self-publishing world.
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Great Midwest Book Fest
Xchange Event and Creative Space
3334 N. Holton, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hosted by: UrbanReviewsOnline.com
Date: Saturday, June 22, 2024
Time: 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Website: Great Midwest Book Fest
Description:
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ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
Hosted by: American Library Association
Dates: Thursday, June 27, 2024 to Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Website: ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
Email: ala@ala.org
Description:
Educational programming and relevant information about the impact of libraries
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National Book Club Conference
Atlanta Westin Buckhead
3391 Peachtree Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30326
Hosted by: National Book Club Conference Foundation
Dates: Friday, August 2, 2024 to Sunday, August 4, 2024
Website: National Book Club Conference
Description:
National Book Club Conference Foundation, Inc., is a literary organization founded by author Curtis Bunn that, since 2003, executes one of the premier annual literary events —referred to as “Literary Bliss” featuring African American authors and readers from around the country. Hundreds of book lovers receive unprecedented, intimate access to the talent that creates the work they enjoy and appreciate … and discover new authors with compelling books.
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Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
Douglas County Fairgrounds
Hosted by: Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA)
Dates: Saturday, August 17, 2024 to Sunday, August 18, 2024
Website: Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
Email: bookfair2016@rmaba.org
Description:
The Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair will have guest speakers who will discuss the Mystery genre. Once again we will have the Book Arts displays and demonstrations including the Preservation Station. Whether you are a serious collector; print enthusiast, or casual shopper, the RMBPF has a lot to offer from rare books and maps to cultural oddities and whimsical finds.
Over 80 exhibitors from across the nation have selected their best inventory to present at the fair. If you’re looking for something specific, ask our exhibitors, you never know what they have in store that you have been hoping to acquire or might never have imagined exists!
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Library of Congress National Book Festival
Washington Convention Center
Date: Saturday, August 24, 2024
Time:
Website: Library of Congress National Book Festival
Email: bookfest@loc.gov
Description:
Mark your calendars for the 18th Library of Congress National Book Festival, Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Washington Convention Center. Follow the excitement via our hashtag, #NatBookFest.
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Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
Dates: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 to Friday, September 1, 2023
Website: Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
Description:
The World Mystery Convention is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization which holds an annual convention in honor of Anthony Boucher, the distinguished mystery fiction critic, editor and author.
Bouchercon (2019 is the 50th Year Celebration) is an annual world mystery convention where every year readers, writers, publishers, editors, agents, booksellers and other lovers of crime fiction gather for a 4-day weekend of education, entertainment, and fun!
It is the world’s premier event bringing together all parts of the mystery and crime fiction community, and is pronounced [bough’•chur•con]. The first Bouchercon took place in 1970 in Santa Monica, California. Recent Bouchercons have been held in many cities across the United States.
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The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
Hosted by: Roger Dunaway, Assistant Director of Public Relations
Dates: Saturday, September 14, 2024 to Monday, September 16, 2024
Website: The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
Phone: 504-862-8240
Email: Bookfest@tulane.edu
Description:
The highly anticipated New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University returns to Tulane’s uptown campus, annually, with a three-day, in-person literary celebration featuring more than 100 national, regional and local authors, including some of the nation’s favorite bestsellers. The book festival also hosts its Family Day [Saturday, March 11] on the Berger Family Lawn. The festival is free and open to the public.
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South Dakota Festival of Books
Hosted by: South Dakota Humanities Council
Dates: Friday, September 20, 2024 to Sunday, September 22, 2024
Website: South Dakota Festival of Books
Phone: 605-688-6113
Description:
The South Dakota Humanities Council celebrates literature, promotes civil conversation, and tells the stories that define our state.
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Jersey Festival of Words
Howard Davis Park
6 St Clement's Rd, Jersey, Channel Islands JE2 4QA
Dates: Friday, September 20, 2024 to Friday, September 29, 2023
Website: Jersey Festival of Words
Description:
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African American Literary Awards Show
Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd. (135th & Lenox), New York, New York
Hosted by: Yvette Hayward
Date: Saturday, October 5, 2024
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Website: African American Literary Awards Show
Email: yvette@literaryawardshow.com
Price: $55
Description:
The African American Literary Award show is the brainchild of Yvette Hayward. She came up with the idea in 1996 and was finally able to bring it to fruition in September 2004.
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Morristown Festival of Books
Dates: Friday, October 18, 2024 to Saturday, October 19, 2024
Website: Morristown Festival of Books
Email: info@morristownbooks.org
Description:
The Morristown Festival of Books celebrates the power of the written word to challenge, transport and transform us, while bringing together our community in conversation.
Modeled after successful book festivals in other communities throughout the world, the Morristown Festival of Books brings together acclaimed authors with readers and book lovers.
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