List of Important Book Fairs, Festivals and Conferences
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- Hargeysa International Book Fair
July 2019 – Dates to be Announced – Hargeysa, Somaliland - Schomburg Center Literary Festival
Saturday, June 20, 2020 – New York, New York - Romance Slam Jam Convention
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 to Sunday, June 28, 2020 – , Virtual - ALA Conference
Sunday, June 28, 2020 – Chicago, Illinois - Harlem Book Fair
Saturday, July 18, 2020 to Sunday, July 19, 2020 – Harlem, New York - The Atlanta Kick Back
Saturday, July 18, 2020 – Duluth, Georgia - National Book Club Conference
Friday, July 31, 2020 to Sunday, August 2, 2020 – Atlanta, Georgia - Onyxcon
August 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Atlanta, Georgia - Leimert Park Village Book Fair
August 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Los Angeles, California - The Soulful Chicago Book Fair
August 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Chicago, Illinois - Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
August 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Denver, Colorado - National Conference of African American Librarians
Wednesday, August 5, 2020 to Sunday, August 9, 2020 – Tulsa, Oklahoma - Mississippi Book Festival
Saturday, August 15, 2020 – Jackson, Mississippi - Beijing International Book Fair
Wednesday, August 26, 2020 to Sunday, August 30, 2020 – Beijing, China - Black Writers Weekend
Thursday, August 27, 2020 to Saturday, August 29, 2020 – Atlanta, Georgia - Independent Authors Book Expo
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Roselle, New Jersey - ZEE JLF at Boulder
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Boulder, Colorado - Library of Congress National Book Festival
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Washington, DC, District of Columbia - Carolina Mountains Literary Festival
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Burnsville, North Carolina - Fall Into Fiction
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Emeryville, California - Burlington Book Festival
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Burlington, Vermont - SCIBA Trade Show
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Pomona, California - Festival of Women Writers
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Hobart, New York - Kingston WritersFest
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Ontario, Canada - The Allegheny Regional Festival of Books
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Bedford, Pennsylvania - Open Book Festival
September 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Cape Town, South Africa - AJC Decatur Book Festival
Friday, September 4, 2020 to Sunday, September 6, 2020 – Decatur, Georgia - Printers Row Lit Fest
Saturday, September 5, 2020 to Sunday, June 7, 2020 – Chicago, Illinois - Sacramento Black Book Fair
Friday, September 11, 2020 to Saturday, September 12, 2020 – Sacramento, California - Calabash International Literary Festival
Friday, September 11, 2020 to Sunday, September 13, 2020 – Treasure Beach, Jamaica, W.I. - Digital Book World
Monday, September 14, 2020 to Thursday, September 17, 2020 – Nashville, Tennesse - Act Like an Author, Think Like a Business Conference
Thursday, September 17, 2020 to Saturday, September 19, 2020 – Las Vegas, Nevada - The Bocas Lit Fest
Friday, September 18, 2020 to Sunday, September 20, 2020 – Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago - The High Desert Book Festival
Saturday, September 26, 2020 – Hesperia, California - Southern Minnesota Book and Art Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Henderson, Minnesota - African American Literary Awards Show
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – New York, New York - Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Ceremony
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Washington, District of Columbia - Alaska Book Week
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – , Alaska - Boston Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Boston, Massachusetts - Twin Cities Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Minneapolis, Minnesota - Vegas Valley Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Las Vegas, Nevada - Books by the Banks
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Cincinnati, Ohio - Southern Festival of Books
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Nashville, Tennessee - Texas Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Austin, Texas - Wisconsin Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Madison, Wisconsin - Literary Festival of Charlotte
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Charlotte, North Carolina - Collingswood Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Collingswood, New Jersey - Morristown Festival of Books
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Morristown, New Jersey - Virginia Children’s Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Farmville, Virginia - Brattleboro Literary Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Brattleboro, Vermont - International Festival of Authors
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Toronto, Canada - Vancouver Writers Fest
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Vancouver, Canada - Fort Worth BookFest
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Fort Worth, Texas - Ake Arts and Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Ikeja, Nigeria - Black Ink: A Charleston African-American Book Festival
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Charleston, South Carolina - Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair)
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Frankfurt, Germany - The Christian Book Lover’s Retreat
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Charlotte, North Carolina - Read My World
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Amsterdam, Netherlands - Sharjah International Book Fair
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Sharjah, United Arab Emirates - The Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Seattle, Washington - Seattle Urban Book Expo
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Seattle, Washington - Minnesota Black Author’s Expo
October 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Minneapolis, Minnesota - South Dakota Festival of Books
Friday, October 2, 2020 to Sunday, October 4, 2020 – Brookings & Sioux Falls, South Dakota - West Virginia Book Festival
Friday, October 2, 2020 to Saturday, October 3, 2020 – Charleston, West Virginia - Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Saturday, October 3, 2020 to Sunday, October 4, 2020 – Los Angeles, California - Wimbledon BookFest
Thursday, October 8, 2020 to Sunday, October 18, 2020 – London, United Kingdom - New York Comic Con
Thursday, October 8, 2020 to Sunday, October 11, 2020 – New York, New York - The Cavalcade of Authors
Friday, October 9, 2020 to Sunday, October 11, 2020 – Chicago, Illinois - Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
Thursday, October 15, 2020 to Sunday, October 18, 2020 – Sacramento, California - Queen City Book Fair
Saturday, October 17, 2020 – Charlotte, North Carolina - National Black Book Festival
Thursday, October 22, 2020 to Saturday, October 24, 2020 – Houston, Texas - Louisville Book Festival
Friday, October 23, 2020 to Saturday, October 24, 2020 – Louisville, Kentucky - Baltimore Book Festival
November 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Baltimore, Maryland - Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading
November 2020 – Dates to be Announced – St. Petersburg, Florida - Kentucky Book Fair
November 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Frankfort, Kentucky - Louisiana Book Festival
November 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Baton Rouge, Louisiana - York Book Expo
November 2020 – Dates to be Announced – York, Pennsylvania - Portland’s Book Festival
November 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Portland, Oregon - Bluffton Book Festival
November 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Bluffton, South Carolina - National Book Awards
November 2020 – Dates to be Announced – New York, New York - Belize Writers’ Conference
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 to Monday, November 9, 2020 – Ambergris Caye, Belize - National Black Writers Conference
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 to Saturday, November 14, 2020 – Brooklyn, New York - Miami Book Fair International
Sunday, November 15, 2020 to Sunday, November 22, 2020 – Miami, Florida - Mosaic Literary Conference
Saturday, November 21, 2020 – Bronx, New York - Kingston Book Festival
Wednesday, November 25, 2020 to Sunday, November 29, 2020 – Kingston, Jamaica, W.I. - Abantu Book Festival
December 2020 – Dates to be Announced – Soweto, South Africa - Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival
January 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Tampa, Florida - ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival
January 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Jaipur, India - Sunshine State Book Festival
January 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Gainesville, Florida - ALA Midwinter Meeting
Friday, January 22, 2021 to Tuesday, January 26, 2021 – Indianapolis, Indiana - Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
Friday, January 29, 2021 to Sunday, January 31, 2021 – Rancho Mirage, California - F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival
Thursday, January 13, 2022 to Saturday, January 15, 2022 – Daytona Beach, Florida - The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival
February 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Hampton, Virginia - Detroit Book City
February 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Detroit, Michigan - Black Book Expo: A Conscious Literary Festival
Saturday, February 27, 2021 to Sunday, February 28, 2021 – Richmond, Virginia - Virginia Festival of the Book
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Charlottesville, Virginia - Black Writers On Tour
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Los Angeles, California - Paris Book Fair
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Paris, France - Southwest Florida Reading Festival
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Fort Myers, Florida - Tucson Festival of Books
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Tucson, Arizona - New York Antiquarian Book Fair
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – New York, New York - Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Venice, Florida - Children’s Africana Book Awards Festival
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Washington, District of Columbia - North Texas Teen Book Festival
March 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Irving, Texas - London Book Fair
Monday, March 9, 2020 to Wednesday, March 11, 2020 – London, United Kingdom - AWP Conference
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 to Saturday, March 6, 2021 – Kansas City, Missouri - Dahlonega Literary Festival
Friday, March 5, 2021 to Saturday, March 6, 2021 – Dahlonega, Georgia - Southern Kentucky Bookfest
Friday, March 26, 2021 to Saturday, March 27, 2021 – Bowling Green, Kentucky - National Black Writers Conference Biennial Symposium
Saturday, March 27, 2021 – Brooklyn, New York - Alabama Book Festival
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Montgomery, Alabama - Newburyport Literary Festival
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Newburyport, Massachusetts - Oxford Conference for the Book
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Oxford, Mississippi - Ohioana Book Festival
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Columbus, Ohio - Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands - The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Brampton, Ontario, Canada - San Antonio Book Festival
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – San Antonio, Texas - Annapolis Book Festival
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Annapolis, Maryland - OE Book Fair
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Tampa, Florida - Florida Antiquarian Book Fair
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – St. Petersburg, Florida - Sydney Writers’ Festival
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Sydney, Australia - Six Bridges Book Festival
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Little Rock, Arkansas - National Hispanic Cultural Center Children's Bilingual Book Festival
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Albuquerque, New Mexico - Tampa Bay Black Authors Expo
April 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Tampa, Florida - Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Monday, April 12, 2021 to Thursday, April 15, 2021 – Bologna, Italy - Black Pack Party
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – New York, New York - Book Expo America
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – New York, New York - PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – New York, New York - Greensboro Bound Literary Festival
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Greensboro, North Carolina - Books in Bloom Literary Festival
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Eureka Springs, Arkansas - Yallwest Santa Monica Book Festival
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Santa Monica, California - Gaithersburg Book Festival
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Gaithersburg, Maryland - BookCon
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – New York, New York - Bay Area Book Festival
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Berkeley, California - Great American Book Festival
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Rapid City, South Dakota - LitUp Festival
May 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Independence, Missouri - Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend
Thursday, May 20, 2021 to Sunday, May 23, 2021 – Los Angeles, California - Greater St. Louis Book Fair
June 2021 – Dates to be Announced – St. Louis, Missouri - The Bronx Book Festival
June 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Bronx, New York - Nantucket Book Festival
June 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Nantucket, Massachusetts - Austin African American Book Festival
Saturday, June 26, 2021 – Austin, Texas - South Florida Book Festival
July 2021 – Dates to be Announced – Fort Lauderdale, Florida - International Royal Music & Art Festival
Saturday, July 3, 2021 to Sunday, July 4, 2021 – Fresno, Texas - Black Paperback Book Fair
Saturday, July 24, 2021 – Louisville, Kentucky - Elm City LIT Fest
Friday, September 10, 2021 to Saturday, September 11, 2021 – New Haven, Connecticut - Black Authors & Readers Rock
Friday, October 1, 2021 to Saturday, October 2, 2021 – Oxon Hill, Maryland - Brooklyn Book Festival
Sunday, October 3, 2021 – Brooklyn, New York - Fall for the Book
Thursday, October 14, 2021 to Sunday, October 31, 2021 – Fairfax, Virginia - The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
Thursday, October 21, 2021 to Saturday, October 23, 2021 – New Orleans, Louisiana - African American Children’s Book Fair
Saturday, February 5, 2022 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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