Book Events: Fairs, Festivals, and Conferences (2025 and 2026)
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3 Events Found in South Carolina

Black Ink: A Charleston African-American Book Festival
Memminger Auditorium, 56 Beaufain Street
56 Beaufain Street, Charleston, South Carolina
Hosted by: Charleston Friends of the Library
Dates: Thursday, January 12, 2023 to Saturday, January 14, 2023
Website: Black Ink: A Charleston African-American Book Festival
Email: info@charlestonlibraryfriends.org
Description:
Celebrating its 4th year in 2019, the Charleston African-American Book Festival is the first and only annual celebration of African-American literature in the Charleston area.

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Charleston Literary Festival
Various Downtown Venues
Hosted by: Sarah Moriarty, Executive Director
Dates: Friday, November 3, 2023 to Sunday, November 12, 2023
Website: Charleston Literary Festival
Email: inquiries@charlestonliteraryfestival.com
Description:
Charleston Literary Festival is a boutique literary festival that runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South Carolina. The Festival is committed to maintaining an international perspective while fostering and empowering the next generation of writers and thinkers in Charleston and South Carolina. Founded in 2017, the Festival specializes in high-quality events that create perspective-altering conversations with world-renowned, prize-winning authors and thinkers. The Festival’s programming is carefully curated based on literary and artistic excellence, originality, and critical acclaim. Charleston Literary Festival is committed to offering a diverse program of events in terms of speakers and topics.

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Bluffton Book Festival
Calhoun Street in Historic Old Town Bluffton
Hosted by: Rockelle Henderson
Dates: Thursday, November 16, 2023 to Saturday, November 18, 2023
Website: Bluffton Book Festival
Phone: 843-707-6409
Email: blufftonbookfestival@gmail.com
Description:
The Bluffton Book Festival's mission is to raise money for two non-profit organizations that support literacy, education, reading, authors, bookselling and the publishing community as a whole and to bring awareness to local and national literary talent in the process.
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