Book Events: Fairs, Festivals, and Conferences (2025 and 2026)
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14 Events Found in Texas
Book Lovers Con
Royal Sonesta Huston Galleria
2222 West Loop So, Houston, Texas 77027
Hosted by: Book lovers Con
Dates: Thursday, June 1, 2023 to Sunday, June 4, 2023
Website: Book Lovers Con
Phone: 281-923-9371
Email: info@bookloverscon.com
Description:
Meet-n-greet with authors and celebrate books.
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Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair
3536 Grand Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75210
Date: Saturday, August 19, 2023
Time: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Website: Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair
Phone: 214-565-9026 ext 311
Description:
Tulisoma, Swahili for “we read,” is a community-based literary festival promoting literacy and the arts in the South Dallas/Fair Park area. Founded in 2003, by District 7 - Dallas City Councilman Leo V. Chaney, Jr., the goal of Tulisoma is to create a dynamic event tailored to engage local families, avid readers, aspiring writers and visitors to the city.
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San Antonio African American Book Festival
Second Baptist Community Center
3310 E. Commerce Street, San Antonio, Texas 78220
Hosted by: The Friends of Carver Library
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2025
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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North Texas Teen Book Festival
Irving Convention Center
500 Las Colinas Blvd W, Irving, Texas 75039
Hosted by: Irving Public Library
Date: Saturday, March 1, 2025
Time:
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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South by Southwest
Hosted by: South by SouthWest
Dates: Friday, March 7, 2025 to Saturday, March 15, 2025
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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Dallas Literary Festival
Hosted by: Southern Methodist University
Date: Saturday, March 8, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Website: Dallas Literary Festival
Email: info@dallasliteraryfestival.org
Description:
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Texas Library Association Conference
Hosted by: Texas Library Association
Dates: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 to Friday, April 4, 2025
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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San Antonio Book Festival
Central Library and the Majestic Theatre
600 Soledad Street, San Antonio, Texas
Hosted by: The San Antonio Library Foundation
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Website: San Antonio Book Festival
Phone: 210.225.4728
Email: information@saplf.org
Description:
The Festival is a day-long event that unites readers and writers alike. Author presentations are held indoors while outdoors the Festival grounds are active with book sales, signings, children’s story time and learning projects, family activities, and a technology area. Food trucks offer a variety of eats; special tents feature live music and recipe demonstrations by cookbook authors. The large Festival Marketplace offers a lively setting for booksellers, publishers, literary-minded nonprofits, and local artists and craftmakers.
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Greater Austin Book Festival
Austin Public Library
710 W. César Chávez St., Austn, Texas 78701
Hosted by: Austin Public Library
Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Website: Greater Austin Book Festival
Email: APL.Bookfest@austintexas.gov
Description:
GAB Fest is the only tri-county book festival in Austin that focuses specifically on local small-press and self-published authors. There will be panels, activities, signings, and so many books for sale. We are expecting ninety writers from Travis, Williamson, and Hays counties. These authors were selected through an application process that was free and open to the public. The writers will be selling their own books at the festival, and they will keep all the profits. This event is completely free for everyone involved.
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Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend
The Westin Oaks Houston at the Galleria
5011 Westheimer at Post Oak, Houston, Texas
Hosted by: Go On Girl! Book Club
Dates: Friday, June 6, 2025 to Sunday, June 8, 2025
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.
Check Out their book club reading list.
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Austin African American Book Festival
George Washington Carver Library and George Washington Carver Museum, Culture & Genealogy Center
1161 & 1165 Angelina St, Austin, Texas 78702
Hosted by: Roz Oliphant
Date: Saturday, June 28, 2025
Time: 10 a.m. to 4.p.m.
Website: Austin African American Book Festival
Email: info@aaabookfest.org
Description:
In its eighteenth year [2024], the Austin African American Book Festival is a community-focused event that invites some of the greatest literary talent of our generation to engage directly with readers to foster creativity, activism, and positive change.
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Trinity River Book Festival
Trinity Park Pavilion No. 1
2300 West 7th Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107
Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025
Time:
Website: Trinity River Book Festival
Phone: 817-668-6122
Email: info@trinityriverbookfest.com
Description:
Celebrating National Literacy Month
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National Black Book Festival
Fallbrook Church / Gymnasium
12512 Walters Rd, Houston, Texas
Hosted by: Cushcity.com
Dates: Thursday, October 23, 2025 to Saturday, October 25, 2025
Website: National Black Book Festival
Phone: 1-800-340-5454
Email: info@nationalblackbookfestival.com
Description:
The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored by Cushcity.com, the world’s largest African-American retailer online. The event attracts a wide array of authors, publishers, book clubs, libraries and individual readers from the Southwest U.S. and nationwide.
The festival was cofounded by author and entrepreneur Gwen Richardson and her husband Willie Richardson.
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Texas Book Festival
State Capitol and surrounding grounds
Dates: Saturday, November 8, 2025 to Sunday, November 9, 2025
Website: Texas Book Festival
Email: bookfest@texasbookfestival.org
Description:
The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination.
The Texas Book Festival was established in 1995 by Laura Bush, a former librarian and an ardent advocate of literacy. Along with Mary Margaret Farabee, founding co-chair, Mrs. Bush created a task force to plan a book festival to honor Texas authors, promote the joys of reading and serve to benefit the state’s public libraries. The first Festival took place at the Capitol in November 1996.
The signature event has evolved into one of the premier literary events in the country and takes place in and around the State Capitol in Austin, hosting about 250 authors each year. More than 40,000 book lovers of all ages attend the Festival annually, enjoying author readings and presentations, panel discussions, book signings, cooking demonstrations, live music, local food, YA authors, children’s activities, and exhibiting vendors from across the state. While remaining an important showcase for the work of Texas authors, the Texas Book Festival hosts important writers from all over the world and has earned a national reputation for the quality of its programming and its appeal to readers, authors, and publishers alike.
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