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Twin Cities Book Festival
Twin Cities Book Festival MINNESOTA STATE FAIRGROUNDS Minneapolis Minnesota The Twin Cities Book Festival—brought to you by Rain Taxi—is not only the largest and most important literary ga...
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature Troy Johnson Article AALBC.com assessed the relative strengths of almost 300 American cities, to determine which ones are best able to provid...
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature
The Top Cities for Readers of African American Literature Troy Johnson xtopcities Nonfiction AALBC.com African American Literature Book Club Out of Print — Look out for a Future Edition The African A...
The 20 Most Well-Read Cities for African-Americans
The 20 Most Well-Read Cities for African-Americans Troy Johnson Article Where in the U.S. can you find the most well-read African Americans? Look no further. We reviewed our website's traffic and...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival: Author Village Meet many of the authors you participated in the 2017 Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival, which was held at Curtis Hixon Park. These images and photos...
Charleston Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival Various Downtown Venues Charleston South Carolina Charleston Literary Festival is a boutique literary festival that runs every November for ten days in Charleston, South C...
Calabash International Literary Festival
Calabash International Literary Festival Treasure Beach Treasure Beach Jamaica, W.I. The Calabash International Literary Festival, held on a biennial basis on even years, was founded in 2001 by three ...
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book
The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book The Schomburg Center's Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Third Annual Black Comic Book Festival Saturday, January 17, 2015, 10 am - 7 pm 51...
Great American Book Festival
Great American Book Festival Main Street Square Rapid City South Dakota The Great American Book Festival was created by the founders of Literary Classics Book Awards & Reviews In an effort to suppo...
Twin Guinep Publishers
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Twin Palms Publishers
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The Baptism
The Baptism Shelia P. Moses 9781416906711 Fiction Margaret K. McElderry Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. When you turn twelve in Occoneechee Neck in Jackson, North Carolina, everything changes. You get to...
Texas Book Festival
Texas Book Festival State Capitol and surrounding grounds Austin Texas The Texas Book Festival (#TXBOOKFEST) celebrates authors and their contributions to the culture of literacy, ideas, and imaginati...
Vegas Valley Book Festival
Vegas Valley Book Festival Las Vegas Nevada The Vegas Valley Book Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a celebration of the written, spoken, and illustrated word. The festival has networked togeth...
Southern Minnesota Book and Art Festival
Southern Minnesota Book and Art Festival Henderson Event Center Henderson Minnesota This is Southern Minnesota Book and Art Festival inaugural event and author/exhibitor/artist space is free! The fes...
BWABC Literacy Festival
BWABC Literacy Festival Memphis Cook Convention Center Memphis Tennessee 2017 Festival was cancelled “The BWABC Literacy Association will not hold its annual festival in 2017. We thank you for...
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor
Black Authors Festival @SagHarbor Breakwater Yacht Club Sag Harbor New York The Black Authors Festival @Sag Harbor is a nationally celebrated in-person event, recognized by USA Today as one of the Top...
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport
Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport Banjul The Gambia An African Diaspora, One World, Pan African experience Mboka means ‘One Family’ in Wolof and will offer festival attendees a...
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012
Brooklyn Book Festival 2012 Photos and one video from the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in Ne...
Brooklyn Book Festival
Brooklyn Book Festival Brooklyn Borough Hall and Vicinity Brooklyn New York The Brooklyn Book Festival is the largest free literary event in New York City, presenting an array of national and internat...
Sixth Annual National Book Festival
Sixth Annual National Book Festival Sixth Annual National Book Festival THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. 2006 National Book Festival ...
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival
Utah Humanities Council Book Festival Salt Lake City Utah Previously the The Great Salt Lake Book Festival The annual Utah Humanities Book Festival is Utah’s oldest and only statewide book f...
Annapolis Book Festival
Annapolis Book Festival The Key School Annapolis Maryland The Annapolis Book Festival is one of the premier community events in the region. Every year more than 3,000 people attend this free community...
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival
A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Festival DuEwa M. Frazier Article Up South International Book Festival September 19th ’ September 23rd 2007 www...
Festival of Women Writers
Festival of Women Writers Hobart New York The Festival of Women Writers has become a highly anticipated event, unique among cultural happenings in the Catskill Region, especially in Delaware County. ...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Loading Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes ...
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival Kwame Dawes 9781936070077 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books Contributors include: Robert Pins...
Ty Chapman
Ty Chapman NONE Ty Chapman is a Twin Cities-based author of Nigerian and European descent, with a focus on the Black American experience. His achievements include being a Loft Literary Center fellow ...
Barbara A. Holmes
Barbara A. Holmes 0000000040028738 Barbara A. Holmes, president emerita of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, is a former professor and VP of academic affairs at Memphis Theological Semi...
Two Cities: A Love Story
Two Cities: A Love Story John Edgar Wideman 9780618001859 Fiction Mariner Books Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A redemptive, healing novel, Two Cities brings to brilliant culmination the themes John Edgar ...
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival
2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival 2nd Annual Up South Int'l Book Festival Read an article about this event: A Fire in Harlem - Tribute to Sekou Sundiata at Up South International Book Fes...
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival
The Hampton Roads Indie Author Book Festival Family Life Center 1 Redheart Drive, Hampton, VA 23661 Hampton Virginia Upon returning from an out of state book festival, Florenza Denise Lee wondered wh...
Donna M. Gray-Banks
Donna M. Gray-Banks NONE Donna M. Gray-Banks, founder of F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival, is a successful author known for her suspense erotic trilogy and a guest columnist for various outlets. She hosts tw...
East of the River Book Festival
East of the River Book Festival Rocketship Rise Academy Washington District of Columbia The 2017 East of the River Book Festival is a magnet for city dwellers from all wards to recognize and enjoy a l...
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana The highly anticipated New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University returns to Tulane’s uptown campus...
AJC Decatur Book Festival
AJC Decatur Book Festival Downtown Decatur Decatur Georgia The AJC Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, ...
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival
Kellie Magnus on the Kingston Book Festival Literary Events Kellie Magnus tells AALBC.com about the Kingston Book Festival during the 2016 Brooklyn Book Festival. AALBC.com is planning a group trip t...
Dallas Book Festival
Dallas Book Festival Dallas Public Library Dallas Texas Founded in 2006 as the Dallas International Book Festival, the festival is Dallas Public Library’s premiere literary event. The Dallas Boo...
San Antonio Book Festival
San Antonio Book Festival Central Library and the Majestic Theatre San Antonio Texas The Festival is a day-long event that unites readers and writers alike. Author presentations are held indoors while...
Queens Book Festival
Queens Book Festival LIC Landing by Coffeed Queens New York “The Queens Book Festival, debuted on August 7, 2016, is the largest and most inclusive literary gathering in Queens. It fills the bor...
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT!
The ESSENCE Brand—Where Black Women Come First—NOT! Troy Johnson Article A few weeks ago, I visited Essence Magazine’s website to learn which Black owned bookstore they were going to use as the books...
Ann Arbor Book Festival
Ann Arbor Book Festival Ann Arbor Michigan Formed in 2003, the Ann Arbor Book Festival’s mission is to promote reading, heighten awareness of literacy challenges, and showcase the rich culture ...
Jael Richardson
Jael Richardson NONE Jael Ealey Richardson is a Toronto-based author and educator with an MFA in Creative Writing. Known for her memoir and children's book, both titled The Stone Thrower, her work re...
Southern Festival of Books
Southern Festival of Books Nashville Tennessee The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written WordSM is a three-day Festival celebrated each year during the second full weekend of Octob...
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015
Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 Women's History Month Literary Festival 2015 featuring, Elizabeth Alexander, LaShonda Katrice Barnett, Lalita Tademy and Linda A. Duggins Women’s History M...
Dahlonega Literary Festival
Dahlonega Literary Festival Historic Square of Dahlonega, GA Dahlonega Georgia The Dahlonega Literary Festival is an annual celebration of books that takes place in March. Situated in Historic Downtow...
Books in Bloom Literary Festival
Books in Bloom Literary Festival Color Burst Park Columbia Maryland Books In Bloom is an innovative, progressive, and memorable festival, poised to be one of the premier book festivals in the region. ...
Festival of Colors
Festival of Colors Surishtha Sehgal and Kabir Sehgal 9781481420495 Fiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Learn all about Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors, in this lush picture book from b...
Toni Blackman
Toni Blackman 0000000036920264 Toni Blackman, an international champion of hip-hop culture, is known for her captivating performances and powerful presence. She's the first hip-hop artist to work as ...
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival Hotel Monteleone New Orleans Louisiana The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach...
Toronto International Festival of Authors
Toronto International Festival of Authors Harbourfront Centre Toronto Canada Since its inception in 1974, Toronto’s International Festival of Authors has welcomed more than 9,000 authors from ov...
Etheridge Knight Festival
Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight Inc. P.O. Box 18043 Indianapolis, IN 46218 Phone (317) 396-1529.Fax (317) 925-1481 E-mail EKFestival@aol.com The 11th Ann...
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival Curtis Hixon Park Tampa Florida The Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival is an annual, cultural arts & music festival that takes place over the course of 10 days in Tamp...
University Spring Literary Festival
University Spring Literary Festival Ohio University Athens Ohio Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-...
LaKesa Cox
LaKesa Cox NONE LaKesa Cox is an award-winning author and screenwriter with over 20 years of experience. She has published four novels and has contributed to two anthologies. She was acknowledged as ...
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors
Bklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors Troy Johnson Article Brooklyn Festival Showcases Emerging Authors by Leah Mullen Perhaps the most overlooked and under acknowledged heroines and heroes...
New Orleans Book Festival
New Orleans Book Festival Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana The Festival features both fiction and non-fiction convenes reading, panel discussions, symposia and key speeches. It also provides an...
Temper: A Novel
Temper: A Novel Nicky Drayden 9780062493057 Fiction Harper Voyager HarperCollins A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018!In a land similar to South Africa, twin brothers are beset by powerful forces bey...
M is for Marrakech: An Alphabet Book of Cities Around the World
M is for Marrakech: An Alphabet Book of Cities Around the World Tamara Nicole Pizzoli 9780996001656 Nonfiction The English Schoolhouse The English Schoolhouse M is for Marrakech is a vibrant alphabet ...
Twins, But Different
Twins, But Different Porsche Thomas 9780593813089 Fiction Random House Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Model and mother to twin boys, Porsche Thomas presents this Step 2 leveled reader ab...
Black Sunday
Black Sunday Tola Rotimi Abraham 9781948226561 Fiction Catapult Catapult "I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone." Twin sisters Bibike an...
Witness Love and Unity: Beginners Series Twin Flame Love Oneness Forever
Witness Love and Unity: Beginners Series Twin Flame Love Oneness Forever Johanna Sparrow B072KLFTBH Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC In life we see successful relationships all around us a...
The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) Various Locations Brampton, Ontario Canada The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) celebrates diversity in literature by promoting diverse authors and stori...
Greensboro Bound Literary Festival
Greensboro Bound Literary Festival Various locations in downtown Greensboro, NC Greensboro North Carolina Greensboro Bound celebrates writers and readers of all ages as essential to vibrant cities. Th...
The Right to Be: A Christopher Family Novel
The Right to Be: A Christopher Family Novel W.D. Foster-Graham 9781665521208 Fiction AuthorHouse Author Solutions For all intents and purposes, 18-year-old Allan Christopher Davis has everything going...
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference
The South Florida Book Festival & Literary Conference Fort Lauderdale Florida The South Florida Book Festival and Literary Conference is one of the nation’s fastest growing and premier book fes...
The World We Make
The World We Make N. K. Jemisin 9780316509893 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity...
Medinas: Morocco’s Hidden Cities
Medinas: Morocco’s Hidden Cities Tahar Ben Jelloun 9782843230516 Fiction Assouline Publishing Assouline Publishing Fascinated by the medinas, or Muslim districts, of Morocco’s cities, leading French p...
The First Cities
The First Cities Audre Lorde B0006EFQ2C Poetry Poet’s Press Poet’s Press The First Cities is Audre Lorde’s first book of poetry.
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York
Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz, Teju Cole, John Freeman, and others 9780143128304 Nonfiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House Thirty maj...
Fast Cities and Objects That Burn
Fast Cities and Objects That Burn Sharrif Simmons 9780965830829 Poetry Moore Black Press Moore Black Press Fast Cities and Objects That Burn is a call to action, a beautiful Black fairy tale, a memoir...
Albany Book Festival
Albany Book Festival University at Albany Albany New York The Albany Book Festival, established in 2018, draws thousands of book lovers from across the Capital Region and beyond to an intellectually s...
Virginia Festival of the Book
Virginia Festival of the Book Charlottesville Virginia Produced by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), the largest of the 56 state (and territory) humanities councils, the Festival is a...
Virginia Children’s Book Festival
Virginia Children’s Book Festival Longwood University, Farmville Farmville Virginia The Virginia Children’s Book Festival will bring together prominent children’s authors and illustrators ...
The High Desert Book Festival
The High Desert Book Festival Hesperia Civic Plaza Park Hesperia California Our annual High Desert Book Festival is where authors and book lovers meet to celebrate the written word amidst Joshua Trees...
Rose Brock
Rose Brock 0000000107888362 Rose Brock, a professor at Sam Houston State University, is renowned for inspiring youth to love books. In addition to her career as a librarian and educator, she co-found...
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Gaithersburg Book Festival Bohrer Park Gaithersburg Maryland The Gaithersburg Book Festival is an annual celebration of great books and great writing that will feature more than 100 award-winning and ...
National Black Book Festival
National Black Book Festival Fallbrook Church / Gymnasium Houston Texas The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored by Cushcity.com, the world’s largest African-America...
KPBS San Diego Book Festival
KPBS San Diego Book Festival University of San Diego San Diego California The KPBS San Diego Book Festival is a free, public event for book lovers of all ages. It is brought to you by KPBS and present...
DSM Book Festival
DSM Book Festival Franklin Event Center Des Moines Iowa The DSM Book Festival connects people who love books with people who create them. The festival features nationally acclaimed authors, book club-...
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...
North Texas Teen Book Festival
North Texas Teen Book Festival Irving Convention Center Irving Texas The North Texas Teen Book Festival is the largest library-run book festival for young people in the country.
Gwen Richardson on the 2018 National Black Book Festival
Gwen Richardson on the 2018 National Black Book Festival Literary Events Gwen Richardson talks about the 2018 National Black Book Festival with Kim Coles, Eric Jerome Dickey and othersThe celebration ...
Zuksiwa Wanner
Zuksiwa Wanner NONE Zukiswa Wanner, born to South African and Zimbabwean parents in Zambia, is a celebrated author known for award-nominated novels like “Men of the South.” As an essayist, she focuse...
JAX Urban Book Festival
JAX Urban Book Festival James Weldon Johnson Park Jacksonville Florida The JAX Urban Book Festival (JUBF) is an annual celebration of literature, culture, and community held each January as part of DR...
Greater Austin Book Festival
Greater Austin Book Festival Austin Public Library Austn Texas GAB Fest is the only tri-county book festival in Austin that focuses specifically on local small-press and self-published authors. There ...
Ohioana Book Festival
Ohioana Book Festival Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Main Library Columbus Ohio Since its inception in 2007, the Ohioana Book Festival has given readers the opportunity to connect with their fa...
Boston Book Festival
Boston Book Festival Copley Square Boston Massachusetts The Boston Book Festival celebrates the power of words to stimulate, agitate, unite, delight, and inspire by holding year-round events culminati...
Green Mountain Book Festival
Green Mountain Book Festival Downtown Burlington Burlington Vermont The Green Mountain Book Festival honors free expression, embraces diverse voices, and encourages a deeper understanding of self and ...
Six Bridges Book Festival
Six Bridges Book Festival Central Arkansas Library System’s Main Library campus and other venues Little Rock Arkansas The Six Bridges Book Festival presents a wide variety of authors and discus...
Burlington County Book Festival
Burlington County Book Festival Burlington County Library Westampton New Jersey Explore the world of literature at our Burlington County Book Festival! During the festival, BCLS will present dozens of...
The Spring Book Festival
The Spring Book Festival Wayne Curry Sports & Learning Center Landover Maryland The Spring Book festival, a celebration of the written word, is held each May. The 2017 Festival is the 3rd annual event...
Abantu Book Festival
Abantu Book Festival Eyethu Lifestyle Centre & Soweto Theatre Soweto South Africa Abantu Book Festival is an annual literary event held in Soweto, South African’s artistic heartland, featuring a...
Atlanta African American Book Festival
Atlanta African American Book Festival Georgia State University Atlanta Georgia The Atlanta African American Book Festival is a yearly festival held in Atlanta, Georgia. The event is a great opportuni...
Morristown Festival of Books
Morristown Festival of Books Morristown New Jersey The Morristown Festival of Books celebrates the power of the written word to challenge, transport and transform us, while bringing together our comm...
The Future of Book Publishing from the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival
The Future of Book Publishing from the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival Troy Johnson An excerpt from the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival. The festival was held in New York City on May 18, 2022....
The Children’s Book Festival
The Children’s Book Festival Parkside Learning Garden Camden New Jersey This festival will be held in association with the Haddon Avenue Street Festival at Parkside Learning Garden. It was created for...
Lola Shoneyin
Lola Shoneyin 0000000041835603 Lola Shoneyin is a renowned Nigerian poet and author, best known for her debut novel, “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives.” Identified as a promising African writer ...