Book Events: Fairs, Festivals, and Conferences (2025 and 2026)
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7 Events Found in Louisiana
BLK INK Book Festival
City Park Pavillion of the Two Sisters
1 Victory ave., New Orleans, Louisiana 70124
Hosted by: PR Solutions LLC
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2023
Time:
Website: BLK INK Book Festival
Email: events@prsolutions.org
Description:
Experience the BLK INK Book Festival! This four-hour live event is a book expo compromised of 50+ local and regional authors showcasing over 100 books in all genres.
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Louisiana Book Festival
State Library of Louisiana and nearby locations
Date: Saturday, October 28, 2023
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Website: Louisiana Book Festival
Phone: 225.219.9503
Email: lbf@state.lib.la.us
Description:
The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library of Louisiana is a free, world-class literary festival held in downtown Baton Rouge.
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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 26, 2025 to Sunday, March 30, 2025
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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New Orleans Book Festival
Tulane University
200 Broadway street suite 126, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
Dates: Thursday, March 27, 2025 to Saturday, March 29, 2025
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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Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
Hotel Monteleone
214 Royal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Hosted by: Paul J. Willis, Director
Dates: Friday, March 28, 2025 to Sunday, March 30, 2025
Website: Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
Phone: 504-581-1144
Email: pjwillisnola@aol.com
Description:
The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach the community with information about HIV/AIDS, particularly disseminating prevention messages via the writers, thinkers and spokes-people of the LGBTQ+ community. It was also formed to bring the LGBTQ+ literary community together to celebrate the literary arts. SASFest is a program of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival.
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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 27, 2025 to Monday, September 29, 2025
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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Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
Dates: Wednesday, September 3, 2025 to Sunday, September 7, 2025
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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