Book Events: Fairs, Festivals, and Conferences (2024 and 2025)
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4 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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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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