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Kentucky Book Fair
Kentucky Book Fair Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park Frankfort Kentucky About the Kentucky Book Fair: Since its inception in 1981, the Kentucky Book Fair has been connecting readers and authors...
Queens Book Fair 2006
Queens Book Fair 2006 Queens Book Fair 2006 Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Announces Author sign-up for 2006 Queens Book Fair Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Author sign-up for 2nd Annual...
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry And Place (Kentucky Voices)
Appalachian Elegy: Poetry And Place (Kentucky Voices) bell hooks 9780813136691 Poetry University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hoo...
Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby
Last Black King of the Kentucky Derby Crystal Hubbard 9781600608919 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books The story of Jimmy Winkfield, one of horse racing’s all-time great jockeys and the last A...
Harlem Book Fair 2009 - Street Fair Saturday, July 18, 2009
Harlem Book Fair 2009 - Street Fair Saturday, July 18, 2009 Harlem Book Fair 2009 - Street Fair Saturday, July 18, 2009 THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTO...
Ronald Fair
Ronald Fair 0000000116782340 Chicago-born African-American author, Ronald L. Fair, inspired by Richard Wright, carved his own literary path. Born in 1932, Fair served in the U.S. Navy before becoming...
Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati hosts The African American Children’s Book Fair
Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati hosts The African American Children’s Book Fair Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati hosts The African American Children’s Book Fair Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati on the African American C...
Harlem Book Fair - 2006
Harlem Book Fair - 2006 Harlem Book Fair - 2006 Harlem Book Fair 2006 Street Map Shows location of vendors on the street as of July 20 2006 Advertise your book in the official program g...
The Blue Grass Cook Book
The Blue Grass Cook Book Minnie Fox 9780813123813 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky African American cooks were not strangers in the kitchens of the Old South, but w...
The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair
The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of ...
University Press of Kentucky
University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky
University Press of Kentucky
University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky Screen Door Press University Press of Kentucky Dedicated to discovering unique, exceptional, and varied voices within Black literary traditio...
Crystal Wilkinson
Crystal Wilkinson 0000000041499179 Crystal Wilkinson is an award-winning author known for novels like The Birds of Opulence and Blackberries, Blackberries. She has received recognition from instituti...
The 17th Annual African American Children's Book Fair
The 17th Annual African American Children's Book Fair The 17th Annual African American Children's Book Fair THE 17TH AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR READS ON The 17th Annual A...
National Black Children's Book Fair Tour Kickoff
National Black Children's Book Fair Tour Kickoff National Black Children's Book Fair Tour Kickoff Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Bringing the Community Together Through Literature www.spe...
Leimert Park Village Book Fair
Leimert Park Village Book Fair Outdoor Promenade of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza (BHCP) Los Angeles California See Press Release The Leimert Park Village Book Fair was founded in 2006 by Cynthia ...
Harlem Book Fair 2011 - Street Fair Saturday, July 23, 2011
Harlem Book Fair 2011 - Street Fair Saturday, July 23, 2011 Harlem Book Fair 2011 - Street Fair Saturday, July 23, 2011 This event has taken place. Please enjoy the videos & photographs...
She Remembered It All
She Remembered It All Jayne Moore Waldrop 9781945049477 Nonfiction Shadelandhouse Modern Press Shadelandhouse Modern Press “When Helen LaFrance picked up a paintbrush, her thoughts took flight, soarin...
Perfect Black
Perfect Black Crystal Wilkinson 9780813151151 Poetry University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky Perfect Black is the long-awaited first poetry volume from the acclaimed Affrilachian nov...
Blackberries, Blackberries
Blackberries, Blackberries Crystal Wilkinson 9780813169583 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky Infused with humor, sadness and honesty, this provocative and haunting work...
Social Media Work Shops at the 2010 Harlem Book Fair
Social Media Work Shops at the 2010 Harlem Book Fair Social Media Work Shops at the 2010 Harlem Book Fair Social Media Marketing Workshops Come to the 2010 Harlem Book Fair Harlem Book F...
David Covin on the Sacramento Black Book Fair
David Covin on the Sacramento Black Book Fair Literary Events Dr. David Covin, one of the planning committee members of the Sacramento Black Book Fair talks with AALBC.com about the Book Fair at Under...
Harlem Book Fair 2013: Video, Photos & Awards
Harlem Book Fair 2013: Video, Photos & Awards Troy Johnson Article All Photos © 2013 AALBC.com, LLC - Feel free to use them but please provide a photo credit to Troy Johnson, AALBC.com and a link...
Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest.
Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest. Tulisoma: S. Dallas Book Fair & Arts Fest. Tulisoma: South Dallas Book Fair & Arts Festival http://www.tulisoma.com Friday, Saturday & ...
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair)
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair) Frankfurt Trade Fair Grounds Frankfurt Germany Authors read this if you plan to attend. The Frankfurt Book Fair is perhaps the world’s largest trad...
Miami Book Fair
Miami Book Fair Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus Miami Florida The Dates Shown are for the Street Fair. The entire fair typically runs 8 days The first Miami Book Fair, founded by Miami Dade Coll...
Havana International Book Fair
Havana International Book Fair Havana City Cuba Referred to as the Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana in Spanish, the fair’s main objective is the promotion of various books and authors...
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
Harlem Book Fair
Harlem Book Fair Harlem State Office Building Plaza New York New York The Harlem Book Fair is the United State’s largest African-American book fair and the nation’s flagship Black literary...
Harlem Book Fair 1999 to 2007 Slide Show
Harlem Book Fair 1999 to 2007 Slide Show Literary Events For more information about the 2013 Harlem Book Fair visit: https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1893-2013-harlem-book-fair/ In celebration of the 10th a...
African American Children’s Book Fair
African American Children’s Book Fair Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia Pennsylvania Check out our photos from the 2024 Festival The African American Children’s Book Fair is one of t...
Harlem Book Fair - Roxbury, MA
Harlem Book Fair - Roxbury, MA Harlem Book Fair - Roxbury, MA Harlem Book Fair Roxbury, Massachusetts Due bad weather on June 24, 2006 this Fair was re-schedule for August...
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue 9780812998481 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Imbolo Mbue’s The Longings of Jende Jonga one of two books to earn $1 Million+ advances at the Frankfurt Book ...
Hightlight from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair
Hightlight from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair Literary Events More information and photo from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair: https://aalbc.it/hbf2013photos The Harlem Book Fair, now in its 15 year, hosts a l...
Homegoing: A Novel
Homegoing: A Novel Yaa Gyasi 9781101947135 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Yaa Gyasi’s London Book Fair 2015: In Pre-Fair Deals, Debut Sells to Knopf for Rumored 7 Figures A riveting, kal...
Heartwood (Expanded)
Heartwood (Expanded) Nikky Finney 9780813151076 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky When Trina Sims and Jenny Bryan first meet, they don’t relate well to each other. Jenn...
Night at the Fair
Night at the Fair Donald Crews 9780688114831 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Step right up! Crews "(Freight Train)" gives young readers an open-ended ticket to the glittery goings-on after dar...
Heartwood (New Books For New Readers)
Heartwood (New Books For New Readers) Nikky Finney 9780813109107 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky " Deep in the center of every tree, you’ll find the heartwood. The ch...
Fair Share Publishing
Fair Share Publishing Fair Share Publishing Fair Share Publishing
Fair Share Publishing
Fair Share Publishing Fair Share Publishing Fair Share Publishing
Screen Door Press
Screen Door Press University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky Dedicated to discovering unique, exceptional, and varied voices within Black literary traditions, the Screen Door Press imp...
Water Street
Water Street Crystal Wilkinson 9780813169101 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky Featuring a new foreword, by Jacinda Townsend and a new afterword which illuminate Wilkin...
Black Paperback Book Fair
Black Paperback Book Fair Iroquois Park Louisville Kentucky Black Paperback Book Fair highlights and supports black writers in Louisville Ky. The event is hosted in Iroquois Park and provides a nurtur...
Children’s Book Author Tonya Bolden
Children’s Book Author Tonya Bolden Troy Johnson Interview AALBC Founder Troy Johnson with Tonya Bolden at the 2020 African American Children’s Book Fair Tonya Bolden has written numerous be...
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair 4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. Toni Trent Parker, member of Bla...
Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair, August 19, 2023
Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair, August 19, 2023 Literary Events “Tulisoma,” which translates to “we read” in Swahili, is a festival rooted in the South Dallas/Fair Park community that champions liter...
Greater St. Louis Book Fair
Greater St. Louis Book Fair Greensfelder Recreation Complex in Queeny Park St. Louis Missouri Greater St. Louis Book Fair is one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most popular charity book sal...
Greg Thomas at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair
Greg Thomas at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair Literary Events Greg Thomas at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair The University of Arkansas 1st Black starting quarterback, Greg Thomas, ...
Beijing International Book Fair
Beijing International Book Fair Beijing China The BIBF - Beijing International Book Fair – is divided into several specific areas: The area of children’s books and comics, the field of in...
Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair
Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair Douglas County Fairgrounds Castle Rock Colorado The Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair will have guest speakers who will discuss the Mystery genre. Once again we will ...
Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival
Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival Blalock Park Venice Florida The Venice Book Fair and Writers Festival is a small, unique program hosting writers teaching writers on Friday night, and authors sel...
10th Harlem Book Fair - 2008 - Outdoor festival Saturday, July 19
10th Harlem Book Fair - 2008 - Outdoor festival Saturday, July 19 10th Harlem Book Fair - 2008 - Outdoor festival Saturday, July 19 THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN...
AN UNPANEL: TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT ON BLACK WRITERS
AN UNPANEL: TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT ON BLACK WRITERS AN UNPANEL: TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT ON BLACK WRITERS AN UNPANEL: TECHNOLOGY'S IMPACT ON BLACK WRITERS Time: Saturday, July 20, 2013 from 3:30 PM...
London Book Fair
London Book Fair Olympia London London England The London Book Fair is the global marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content across print, audio, TV, film and digital ...
Queen City Book Fair
Queen City Book Fair Venue 8470 Charlotte North Carolina Queen City Book Fair (est. 2016 co-founders Quisha Dynae and Shmel Carter), warmly invite you to their fair! All local avid readers and anyone ...
2020 African American Children’s Book Fair
2020 African American Children’s Book Fair Literary Events The African American Children’s Book Fair is one of the oldest and largest single-day events for children's books in the country. The 2021 F...
The Punta Gorda Literary Fair
The Punta Gorda Literary Fair Herald Court Breezeway and adjacent streets Punta Gorda Florida Literary events take place Monday through Friday, culminating in the big one—Saturday’s street...
SOKY Book Fest
SOKY Book Fest Bowling Green Kentucky Southern Kentucky Book Fest is one of the state’s largest literary events! Our mission is to encourage literacy and the love of books in our community and ...
How We Fight for Our Lives
How We Fight for Our Lives Brianna-Christine Alicea Book Review As a recipient of the Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from Cave Canem and Queer/Art/Mentorship, Saeed Jones is a poet and the author of...
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer Kay Mills 9780813191829 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky With a Foreword by Marion Wright Edelman The awa...
Wimbey’s Corner
Wimbey’s Corner Emanuel Carpenter Book Review At first glance, one might think that Wimbey’s Corner is a story about a big and black country bumpkin’ named Wayne Hunter who moves from a...
We Deserve to Heal: Black Women on the Perils and Promises of Friendship with White Women
We Deserve to Heal: Black Women on the Perils and Promises of Friendship with White Women Patrice Gopo 9781985903494 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky “We tell these...
Belonging: A Culture of Place
Belonging: A Culture of Place bell hooks 9780415968164 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we ...
Jayne Moore Waldrop
Jayne Moore Waldrop NONE Jayne Moore Waldrop is a writer and attorney who loves telling stories about her native western Kentucky. She is the author of A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson (S...
Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones 0000000365991477 Saeed Jones, award-winning author of 'Prelude to Bruise', is known for his work at BuzzFeed as an LGBT and Culture editor, as well as co-host of AM to DM. Born in Memphis...
William Augustus Jones Jr.
William Augustus Jones Jr. 0000000021740789 William A. Jones Jr. (1934-2006) was a distinguished African-American minister and civil rights leader. An alumnus of the University of Kentucky and Crozer...
Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney 0000000358800804 Nikky Finney, a South Carolina-born poet, is renowned for her first-person literary accounts of significant American historical events. She debuted with “On Wings Made o...
Jacinda Townsend
Jacinda Townsend 0000000420516266 Jacinda Townsend is an award-winning author of “Saint Monkey,” a Harvard and Duke alumni, and a former journalist and lawyer. She received her M.F.A. from the Iowa W...
Sheila Williams
Sheila Williams 0000000498379628 Sheila Williams, an Ohio-born author and University of Louisville graduate, has published five books, including the popular 'Dancing on the Edge of the Roof'. She con...
Jemar Tisby
Jemar Tisby 0000000500021386 Jemar Tisby is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the Church's Complicity in Racism, How to Fight Racism, and How...
Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories
Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories Yvette Lisa Ndlovu 9781985900639 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky “Even in death, who has ownership over Black women’s bodies?” ...
Mend: Poems
Mend: Poems Kwoya Fagin Maples 9780813176277 Poetry University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky The inventor of the speculum, J. Marion Sims, is celebrated as the "father of modern gynec...
Insurrections: Stories
Insurrections: Stories Rion Amilcar Scott 9780813168180 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky A suicidal father looks to an older neighbor―and the Cookie Monster―for salvat...
The Birds of Opulence
The Birds of Opulence Crystal Wilkinson 9780813166919 Fiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberrie...
James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement
James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement Sara Rzeszutek 9780813166254 Nonfiction University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky James Jackson and Esth...
Freedom River
Freedom River Doreen Rappaport 9781423106340 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide One thousand feet across the Ohio River lay Ripley, Ohioand freedom. Before the Civil War, Kentucky wa...
The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories (The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature)
The Guyanese Wanderer: Stories (The Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature) Jan Carew 9781932511505 Fiction Sarabande Books Sarabande Books "This is a stunning collection. Mesmerizing. Carew’...
Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews
Heroism in the New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews D. H. Melhem 9780813108070 Poetry University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky D.H. Melhem’s clear introductions and frank in...
Fifth Sunday
Fifth Sunday Rita Dove 9780912759067 Poetry University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky stories by Pulitzer Prize poet
Sana Butler
Sana Butler NONE Sana Butler, renowned author of 'Children of the Crop', is the daughter of Peter Vertrees, born 1845 in Kentucky. She has been pictured with Lillie Odom in Lebanon, TN. Sana Butler i...
Leesa Cross-Smith
Leesa Cross-Smith NONE Leesa Cross-Smith is a Kentucky-based author and homemaker. She's known for her works “Every Kiss A War” and “Whiskey & Ribbons.” She resides with her family. Leesa Cross-Smith...
Nancy Johnson James
Nancy Johnson James NONE Nancy Johnson James is a poet and the author. Her family is from the same Kentucky town that Wilds was from. She lives in Maryland. Nancy Johnson James is a poet and the auth...
bell hooks
bell hooks 000000011072449X “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or someone else’s ignorance.” bell hooks (Sep. 25, 1952 –...
Margaret Garner
Margaret Garner NONE Margaret Garner, a fugitive slave from Kentucky, killed one of her children rather than permit her to be returned to slavery. She drowned in a shipwreck as she was being ...
Herman J. Fountain Jr.
Herman J. Fountain Jr. NONE Rev. Dr. Herman J. Fountain Jr. is a retired psychotherapist with 20 years of experience in a Florida state prison and a former deputy warden in Kentucky. He spent 16 year...
Damaris B. Hill
Damaris B. Hill 0000000454814480 DaMaris B. Hill, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky. Inspired by theories of “rememory” and inclusive history, Hill has ...
Vershawn Ashanti Young
Vershawn Ashanti Young 0000000036865509 Vershawn Ashanti Young is a multi-talented performance artist, actor, and associate professor at the University of Kentucky. He's penned works like “Your Avera...
Kiki Petrosino
Kiki Petrosino NONE Kiki Petrosino, a Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia, is the author of four poetry books, including “White Blood: a Lyric of Virginia.” Her work has been featured i...
Brittany J. Thurman
Brittany J. Thurman NONE Brittany J. Thurman, an MFA graduate in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon, is known for her plays produced in Aspen and NYC. An alumna of Kingston University, former chil...
The Indie Author Book Festival - Book Fair
The Indie Author Book Festival - Book Fair Commemoration Hall Huntingdon United Kingdom The Book Reality Experience presents the 3rd Annual Indie Author Spring Book Fair, which celebrates stories from...
Brentom Jackson at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair
Brentom Jackson at the 2023 Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair Literary Events Children's book author Brentom Jackson talks about first book for kids, Elijah’s Easter Suit. Recorded and edited by Troy Jo...
Anika Malone
Anika Malone NONE Anika Malone, author of the acclaimed “10 Minutes Past Too Late”, is celebrated as a fresh voice in contemporary fiction. She has participated in notable book events across the Unit...
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair Troy Johnson Article Toni Trent Parker, member of Black Americans in Publishing, will produce her fourth annual African American Children's Book Fair on Saturda...
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair Loading Toni Trent Parker, member of Black Americans in Publishing, will produce her fourth annual African American Children's Book Fair on Saturday, April 20...
Sacramento Black Book Fair
Sacramento Black Book Fair The Historic Center of Oak Park Sacramento California This historic two-day book fair and celebration will include a panel discussion among our featured authors, book signin...
Max Rodriguez
Max Rodriguez NONE Max Rodriguez is the founder and publisher of QBR/The Black Book Review, one of the nation’s premier publications dedicated to books by and about people of African descent. ...
Baku International Book Fair
Baku International Book Fair Baku Expo Center Baku Azerbaijan Baku Book Fair exhibition is an outstanding event that offers an opportunity for its participants to set the tone for publishing in the re...
When I See Me BIPOC Children’s Book Fair
When I See Me BIPOC Children’s Book Fair West Branch Library Dayton Ohio The When I See Me™ Children’s Book Fair is a joyful, high-impact literacy experience that helps children see themselves reflect...
Guadalajara International Book Fair
Guadalajara International Book Fair Combined Book Guadalajara Mexico English and Spanish Book fair.
Sharjah International Book Fair
Sharjah International Book Fair Sharjah United Arab Emirates The Sharjah International Book Fair is one of the showcase events of the Government of Sharjah and, with a history spanning 34 years, this...