List of Important Book Fairs, Festivals and Conferences
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- ReadOut: A Festival of LGBTQ Literature
Friday, February 16, 2024 to Sunday, February 18, 2024 – St. Petersburg, Florida - San Antonio African American Book Festival
Saturday, February 24, 2024 – San Antonio, Texas - Monroeville Literary Festival
Friday, March 1, 2024 to Saturday, March 2, 2024 – Monroeville, Alabama - Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
Friday, March 1, 2024 to Monday, March 4, 2024 – St. Petersburg, Florida - Virginia Festival of the Book
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 to Sunday, March 24, 2024 – Charlottesville, Virginia - National Black Writers Conference
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 to Saturday, March 23, 2024 – Brooklyn, New York - Lehigh Valley Book Festival
Friday, March 22, 2024 to Sunday, March 24, 2024 – Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania - Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival
Friday, March 22, 2024 to Saturday, March 23, 2024 – Venice, Florida - WonderCon
Friday, March 29, 2024 to Sunday, March 31, 2024 – Anaheim, California - Oxford Conference for the Book
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 to Wednesday, April 24, 2024 – Oxford, Mississippi - Northern Arizona Book Festival
Friday, April 5, 2024 to Monday, April 15, 2024 – Flagstaff, Arizona - Eurasian International Book Fair
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 to Sunday, April 14, 2024 – Astana, Kazakhstan - Left Coast Crime
Thursday, April 11, 2024 to Sunday, April 14, 2024 – Seattle, Washington - Texas Library Association Conference
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 to Saturday, April 20, 2024 – Austin, Texas - Unbound Book Festival
Thursday, April 18, 2024 to Sunday, April 21, 2024 – Columbia, Missouri - Tulsa Lit Fest
Thursday, April 18, 2024 – Tulsa, Oklahoma - Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Saturday, April 20, 2024 to Sunday, April 21, 2024 – Los Angeles, California - Baltimore City Lit Festival
Saturday, April 20, 2024 – Baltimore, Maryland - Ohioana Book Festival
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 – Columbus, Ohio - C2E2
Friday, April 26, 2024 to Sunday, April 28, 2024 – Chicago, Illinois - Newburyport Literary Festival
Friday, April 26, 2024 to Sunday, April 28, 2024 – Newburyport, Massachusetts - North Texas Teen Book Festival
Friday, April 26, 2024 to Saturday, April 27, 2024 – Irving, Texas - African American Children’s Book Fair
Saturday, April 27, 2024 – Baltimore, Maryland - Annapolis Book Festival
Saturday, April 27, 2024 – Annapolis, Maryland - Montclair Literary Festival
Saturday, April 27, 2024 to Thursday, May 4, 2023 – Montclair, New Jersey - Black Writers On Tour
Sunday, April 28, 2024 – Los Angeles, California - The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
Sunday, April 28, 2024 to Thursday, May 4, 2023 – Brampton, Ontario, Canada - Greater St. Louis Book Fair
Thursday, May 2, 2024 to Sunday, May 5, 2024 – St. Louis, Missouri - Bay Area Book Festival
Saturday, May 4, 2024 – Berkeley, California - Greater Austin Book Festival
Saturday, May 11, 2024 – Austn, Texas - Paris Book Fair
Friday, May 17, 2024 to Sunday, May 19, 2024 – Paris, France - Gaithersburg Book Festival
Saturday, May 18, 2024 – Gaithersburg, Maryland - Queen City Book Fair
Saturday, May 18, 2024 – Charlotte, North Carolina - Sydney Writers’ Festival
Monday, May 20, 2024 to Sunday, May 26, 2024 – Sydney, Australia - Hay Festival Wales
Thursday, May 23, 2024 to Sunday, June 2, 2024 – Wales, United Kingdom - ThrillerFest
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 to Saturday, June 1, 2024 – New York, New York - The Bronx Book Festival
Thursday, June 6, 2024 to Sunday, June 9, 2024 – Bronx, New York - Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend
Friday, June 7, 2024 to Sunday, June 9, 2024 – Charleston, South Carolina - IABX Children's Book Festival
Saturday, June 8, 2024 – Roselle, New Jersey - Hustle & Grind Urban Literary Convention
Saturday, June 8, 2024 – Detriot, Michigan - Nantucket Book Festival
Thursday, June 13, 2024 to Sunday, June 16, 2024 – Nantucket, Massachusetts - Brighton Book Festival
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 to Sunday, June 23, 2024 – Brighton, England - Kwame Alexander Writers’ Lab & Conference at Chautauqua Institution
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 – Chautauqua, New York - Beijing International Book Fair
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 to Sunday, June 23, 2024 – Beijing, China - The Self-Publishing Conference
Thursday, June 20, 2024 to Friday, June 21, 2024 – London, United Kingdom - Great Midwest Book Fest
Saturday, June 22, 2024 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin - ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
Thursday, June 27, 2024 to Tuesday, July 2, 2024 – San Diego, California - Austin African American Book Festival
Saturday, June 29, 2024 – Austin, Texas - When I See Me BIPOC Children’s Book Fair
Saturday, July 27, 2024 – Dayton, Ohio - National Book Club Conference
Friday, August 2, 2024 to Sunday, August 4, 2024 – Atlanta, Georgia - Black Authors Festival
Saturday, August 3, 2024 – New York, New York - AAMBC Literary Awards
Sunday, August 4, 2024 – Austell, Georgia - Indie Authors Book Fair
Saturday, August 10, 2024 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
Saturday, August 17, 2024 to Sunday, August 18, 2024 – Castle Rock, Colorado - Library of Congress National Book Festival
Saturday, August 24, 2024 – Washington, DC, District of Columbia - Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 to Friday, September 1, 2023 – Nashville , Tennessee - Carolina Mountains Literary Festival
Thursday, September 5, 2024 to Saturday, September 7, 2024 – Burnsville, North Carolina - Trinity River Book Festival
Saturday, September 14, 2024 – Fort Worth, Texas - The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
Saturday, September 14, 2024 to Monday, September 16, 2024 – New Orleans, Louisiana - Toronto International Festival of Authors
Thursday, September 19, 2024 to Sunday, September 29, 2024 – Toronto, Canada - South Dakota Festival of Books
Friday, September 20, 2024 to Sunday, September 22, 2024 – Brookings & Sioux Falls, South Dakota - Jersey Festival of Words
Friday, September 20, 2024 to Friday, September 29, 2023 – Jersey, Channel Islands - SOKY Book Fest
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – Bowling Green, Kentucky - Books Books Books
Saturday, September 21, 2024 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania - African American Literary Awards Show
Saturday, October 5, 2024 – New York, New York - National Black Book Festival
Thursday, October 17, 2024 to Saturday, October 19, 2024 – Houston, Texas - Morristown Festival of Books
Friday, October 18, 2024 to Saturday, October 19, 2024 – Morristown, New Jersey - Des Moines Book Festival
Saturday, October 19, 2024 – Des Moines, Iowa - Texas Book Festival
Friday, November 15, 2024 to Saturday, November 16, 2024 – Austin, Texas - The Library Learning Experience
Friday, January 24, 2025 to Monday, January 27, 2025 – Baltimore, Maryland - JAX Urban Book Festival
Saturday, January 25, 2025 – Jacksonville, Florida - Angoulême International Comics Festival
Thursday, January 30, 2025 to Sunday, February 2, 2025 – Angoulême, France - Jaipur Literature Festival
Thursday, January 30, 2025 to Monday, February 3, 2025 – Jaipur, India - ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
Thursday, January 30, 2025 to Monday, February 3, 2025 – Jaipur, India - Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
Friday, January 31, 2025 to Thursday, February 6, 2025 – Al Jaddaf, Dubai - Sunshine State Book Festival
Friday, January 31, 2025 to Saturday, February 1, 2025 – Gainesville, Florida - African American Children’s Book Fair
Saturday, February 1, 2025 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - San Francisco Writers Conference
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 to Sunday, February 9, 2025 – San Francisco, California - Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 to Friday, February 7, 2025 – Rancho Mirage, California - Savannah Book Festival
Thursday, February 6, 2025 to Sunday, February 9, 2025 – Savannah, Georgia - San Miguel Writers Conference
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 to Sunday, February 16, 2025 – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico - F.R.E.S.H. Book Film Festival
Thursday, February 20, 2025 to Saturday, February 22, 2025 – Daytona Beach, Florida - Southwest Florida Reading Festival
Saturday, March 1, 2025 – Fort Myers, Florida - Dahlonega Literary Festival
Saturday, March 1, 2025 – Dahlonega, Georgia - South by Southwest
Friday, March 7, 2025 to Saturday, March 15, 2025 – Austin, Texas - Dallas Literary Festival
Saturday, March 8, 2025 – Dallas, Texas - London Book Fair
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 to Thursday, March 13, 2025 – London, United Kingdom - Tucson Festival of Books
Saturday, March 15, 2025 to Wednesday, March 12, 2025 – Tucson, Arizona - AWP Conference & Bookfair
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 to Saturday, March 29, 2025 – Los Angeles, California - Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 to Sunday, March 30, 2025 – New Orleans, Louisiana - Leipzig Book Fair
Thursday, March 27, 2025 to Sunday, March 30, 2025 – Leipzig, Germany - New Orleans Book Festival
Thursday, March 27, 2025 to Saturday, March 29, 2025 – New Orleans, Louisiana - Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Monday, March 31, 2025 to Thursday, April 3, 2025 – Bologna, Italy - New York Antiquarian Book Fair
Thursday, April 3, 2025 to Sunday, April 6, 2025 – New York, New York - Quebec International Book Fair
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 to Sunday, April 13, 2025 – Quebec City, Canada - Salon du Livre de Paris
Friday, April 11, 2025 to Sunday, April 13, 2025 – Paris, France - San Antonio Book Festival
Saturday, April 12, 2025 – San Antonio, Texas - Norwescon
Thursday, April 17, 2025 to Sunday, April 20, 2025 – SeaTac, Washington - Black Romance Book Fest
Friday, May 30, 2025 to Sunday, June 1, 2025 – Atlanta, Georgia - Orcas Island Lit Fest
Monday, June 2, 2025 to Tuesday, June 3, 2025 – Eastsound, Washington
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