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ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition New Orleans Louisiana Educational programming and relevant information about the impact of libraries
Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend
Go On Girl! Book Club Author Awards Weekend Charlotte North Carolina The first Author Awards were presented in 1992 as a small event held in Brooklyn, New York to recognize those authors and publishe...
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 ...
Black Writers On Tour
Black Writers On Tour Carson Community Center Los Angeles California Purpose: To promote literacy awareness, to give exposure to African-American authors, writers, and to motivate, and develop aspirin...
AWP Conference & Bookfair
AWP Conference & Bookfair Chicago Illinois Join thousands of writers, teachers, students, editors, and publishers at the AWP Conference & Bookfair—the premier annual gathering of the literary c...
San Antonio African American Book Festival
San Antonio African American Book Festival Second Baptist Community Center San Antonio Texas
Winter Institute
Winter Institute Minneapolis Minnesota Annual industry event filled with educational programming for independent bookstores.
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...
Savannah Book Festival
Savannah Book Festival Telfair Square Savannah Georgia The Savannah Book Festival is an annual event, free and open to the public, in celebration of the written word and its role of improving the huma...
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...
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival
St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival Woodson African American Museum of Florida St. Petersburg Florida The St. Pete Reads! Literacy Festival is dedicated to entertaining, engaging, and educating children...
Salon du livre afro-canadien
Salon du livre afro-canadien Ottawa Canada The African Canadian Book Fair is hosted byIntercultural Mosaic! whose mission is to promote the culture of Francophone Afro-descendant communities in Ontar...
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...
Black Book Festival
Black Book Festival Goldsmiths, University of London London England Black Book Festival is a showcase for African-Caribbean writers, publishers and booksellers.
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...
Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention
Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention Calgary Canada The World Mystery Convention is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization which holds an annual convention in honor of Anthony Boucher, the disti...
African American Literary Awards Show
African American Literary Awards Show New York New York Started in 2004, The African American Literary Award show is the brainchild of Yvette Hayward. The show celebrates and uplifts Black literature...
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...
Mississippi Book Festival
Mississippi Book Festival Mississippi State Capitol Jackson Mississippi The Mississippi Book Festival, a nonprofit founded by literacy advocates, launched in August 2015 on the State Capitol grounds a...
Trinity River Book Festival
Trinity River Book Festival Trinity Park Pavilion No. 1 Fort Worth Texas Celebrating National Literacy Month
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...
Open Book Festival
Open Book Festival The Fugard Theatre Cape Town South Africa An annual literary festival, the first of which took place in 2011.
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...
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...
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...
National Book Club Conference
National Book Club Conference Atlanta Westin Buckhead Atlanta Georgia National Book Club Conference Foundation, Inc., is a literary organization founded by author Curtis Bunn that, since 2003, execute...
Words of Wonder Literary Festival
Words of Wonder Literary Festival Dr. Conrad Worrill Track & Field Center Chicago Illinois The Annual Words of Wonder Literary Festival is a celebration of books-to-be-written and books-to-be-read.
Black Lit Weekend
Black Lit Weekend The Barnett - JDV by Hyatt New Orleans Louisiana This multi-day conference brings together Black-owned bookstore owners from across the country for a weekend that honors the legacy o...
African American Cultural Expo and Children's Book Festival
African American Cultural Expo and Children's Book Festival Capital Clubhouse Arena Waldorf Maryland The African American Cultural Expo and Book Festival is a celebration of cultural arts, community, ...
Austin African American Book Festival
Austin African American Book Festival George Washington Carver Library and George Washington Carver Museum, Culture & Genealogy Center Austin Texas In its eighteenth year [2024], the Austin African Am...
Schomburg Centennial Festival
Schomburg Centennial Festival Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture New York New York The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and int...
ThrillerFest
ThrillerFest New York Hilton Midtown New York New York The ThrillerFest is an annual conference of the international Thrilller Writers. This organization was created by several 2005 bestselling author...
Rescuing History Authors Tour
Rescuing History Authors Tour Multiple Cities & States Tampa Florida Multiple City & State Event! The Rescuing History Authors Tour — A Rolling Symposium features the following stops: ...
Great Lakes African American Writers Conference
Great Lakes African American Writers Conference MLK Branch of the Cleveland Public Library Cleveland Ohio Historically, Great Lakes African American Writers Conference (GLAAWC pronounced “glossy...
Orcas Island Lit Fest
Orcas Island Lit Fest Orcas Center Eastsound Washington The Orcas Island Lit Fest (OILF) is an annual celebration of literature and community held in an inspiringly beautiful place. With the San Juan ...
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...
The Bronx Bookworm Book Festival
The Bronx Bookworm Book Festival Fordham Plaza and Fordham University Bronx New York The Bronx is Reading promotes literacy and fosters a love of reading among children, teens, and adults through it...
African American Children’s Book Fair
African American Children’s Book Fair Reginald F. Lewis Museum Baltimore Maryland Children and families can enjoy a fun-filled day exploring kids’ literature about African Americans while meetin...
Baltimore City Lit Festival
Baltimore City Lit Festival Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore Maryland Baltimore’s award-winning annual festival of all things literary takes place each spring, and remains one of CityLit...
Tallahassee Bicentennial Antiquarian Book Fair
Tallahassee Bicentennial Antiquarian Book Fair Elks Club Bldg Tallahassee Florida “Immerse Yourself in Tallahassee & Florida History” Celebrating Tallahassee’s 200th Year! More than...
Magical Mirrors Book Fair
Magical Mirrors Book Fair Sankofa Video Books & Cafe Washington District of Columbia Magical Mirrors Children’s Book Fair features books full of images and imaginations of children of the Africa...
National Book Awards
National Book Awards Cipriani Wall Street New York New York Attendance by invitation only. All of the authors of African descent who have won a National Book Award. Watch vidoes the 67th annual Nati...
BLK Author Expo
BLK Author Expo Keller Williams Event Center Largo Maryland Be a part of this community gathering and vendor marketplace celebrating African American authors and their works. The five-hour live book e...
Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards
Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Lincoln Theatre Washington District of Columbia Named for literary geniuses, Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, the Hurston/Wright Foundation was founded in 1990. Hurs...
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...
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...
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 ...
Black Authors & Readers Rock
Black Authors & Readers Rock Harborside Hotel Oxon Hill Maryland BARR is a two day literary conference that offers readers the opportunity to meet and mingle with new, emerging and nationally recogniz...
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...
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...
Elm City LIT Fest
Elm City LIT Fest Dixwell QHouse & Stetson Branch Library New Haven Connecticut To cultivate awareness around the Arts within the African Diaspora, with a focus in literary arts. With faith, unity, cr...
The Soulful Chicago Book Fair
The Soulful Chicago Book Fair 61st Street from Cottage Grove to King Drive Chicago Illinois The Soulful Chicago Book Fair is a FREE, outdoor, celebration of literacy and literary arts found throughou...
Romance Slam Jam Convention
Romance Slam Jam Convention Virtual Held in a different city each year, the Romance Slam Jam convention is an annual book lovers’ event for black authors of romantic fiction and the book lover...
South Florida Book Festival
South Florida Book Festival African-American Research Library and Cultural Center Fort Lauderdale Florida
SleuthFest
SleuthFest Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Boca Raton Florida SleuthFest is an annual conference for writers and fans of mysteries, thriller, and crime fiction.
Biographers International Organization Annual Conference
Biographers International Organization Annual Conference CUNY Graduate Center New York New York Mentor and advise attendees on a wide variesty of topics related to marketing biography
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...
Malice Domestic
Malice Domestic Gathersburg Bethesda Maryland Annual fan convention that celebrates traditional mystery.
Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair
Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands The second annual Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair was held in April of ...
Black Book Expo: A Conscious Literary Festival
Black Book Expo: A Conscious Literary Festival Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center Richmond Virginia The Black Book Expo, A Conscious Literary Festival is a vast display of literature is f...
The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color
The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color Albuquerque New Mexico The Joint Conference of Librarians of Color is a conference for everyone! The conference is sponsored by five associations of ethnic...
Black Ink: A Charleston African-American Book Festival
Black Ink: A Charleston African-American Book Festival Memminger Auditorium, 56 Beaufain Street Charleston South Carolina Celebrating its 4th year in 2019, the Charleston African-American Book Festiv...
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...
Ake Arts and Book Festival
Ake Arts and Book Festival Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja Ikeja Nigeria Aké Arts & Book Festival is four days of cultural immersion and aims to showcase the very best of contemporary African literat...
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...
Toronto Urban Book Expo
Toronto Urban Book Expo Toronto Centre for the Arts Toronto Canada Kya Publishing’s TUBE is the only Canadian event dedicated to celebrating urban fiction. It is an annual exposition of contempo...
North Jersey Literary Festival
North Jersey Literary Festival Paul Robeson Campus Center, Rutgers University-Newark, University Heights Newark New Jersey The FIRST annual North Jersey Literary Festival, where entrepreneurship meets...
AfroSurreal Writers Workshop
AfroSurreal Writers Workshop African American Museum and Library of Oakland Oakland California The AfroSurreal Writers Workshop supports writers of color creating weird, surreal, or absurdist art. We ...
National Conference of African American Librarians
National Conference of African American Librarians Tulsa Oklahoma The Black Caucus of the American Library Association serves as an advocate for the development, promotion, and improvement of library...
International Royal Music & Art Festival
International Royal Music & Art Festival The Beltway Regulators Barn Fresno Texas The 2021 International Royal Music & Art Festival is set to be an acclaimed cross-genre experience inspired by the his...
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...
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...
Memphis Literary Arts Festival
Memphis Literary Arts Festival Edge District of downtown Memphis Memphis Tennessee 2018 marks the 1st annual festival with appearances by more than twenty authors and artists including Kiese Laymon, E...
Phillis Wheatley Book Awards
Phillis Wheatley Book Awards TBD Harlem New York This annual award, named for the first published African-American female writer, is given for literary work and literary advocacy that transcends cultu...
Provocateurs: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Photographers & Writers opening
Provocateurs: The Symbiotic Relationship Between Photographers & Writers opening Medgar Evers College, CUNY Brooklyn New York Opening Reception: March 28, 2016 @ The Charles Evans Innis Memorial Lib...
Women’s History Month Literary Festival
Women’s History Month Literary Festival MD State Library for the Blind & Physically Handicapped Baltimore Maryland Three women writers discuss the intersection of place, time, and culture in literatur...
Book Expo America
Book Expo America Javitz Center New York New York BookExpo America (BEA) is the leading book and author event for the North American publishing industry. It’s the best place to discover new titl...
Annual Literary & Arts Conference
Annual Literary & Arts Conference African American Museum in Philadelphia Philadelphia Pennsylvania Art Sanctuary uses the power of black art to transform individuals, create and build community and f...
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 ...
Third Annual Festival Albertine
Third Annual Festival Albertine Albertine store on Fifth Avenue at 79th Street New York New York American participants will include the poet Claudia Rankine, the curator Thelma Golden, the novelist Da...
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...
The African American Author’s Expo and Multi-Cultural Book Fair
The African American Author’s Expo and Multi-Cultural Book Fair Morgan State University - University Student Center Building Timonium Maryland 2016 marks seven years of event excellence in Maryland fo...
Fall Into Fiction
Fall Into Fiction Waterfront Hotel Emeryville California UCAAB was created as a way for African-American book clubs in California to network, support, and promote our reading groups, black-owned indep...
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...
The Writivism Festival
The Writivism Festival Kampala Uganda It is part of Writivism, the organization’s flagship initiative that identifies, mentors and promotes emerging African writers. The festival is Uganda&rsqu...
The Sistahs On Lit Book Festival
The Sistahs On Lit Book Festival The Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza Sliver Spring Maryland Sistahs On Lit was founded in 2012 as a promoting business for Author’s books. After me...
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...
Black Pack Party
Black Pack Party The Frying Pan, Pier 66 at Hudson River Park, 207 12th Ave New York New York Rain or Shine! The venue is outdoors, on the water, but can be completely enclosed if necessary. The ...
New York Black Book Conference & Expo
New York Black Book Conference & Expo National Black Theater New York New York A 2-day literary event is expected by all who attend the 1st Annual Black Book Expo and Conference hosted by Black Expo A...
Delta Mouth Literary Festival
Delta Mouth Literary Festival Venue TBD Baton Rouge Louisiana In partnership with Louisiana State University, Louisiana Division of the Arts, Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, EGSA, and New Delta R...
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...
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...
Seattle Urban Book Expo
Seattle Urban Book Expo Northwest African American Museum Seattle Washington Seattle Urban Book Expo (S.U.B.E) provides a platform for authors to showcase their Literary work and connect them with rea...
Caribbean American Month Book Festival
Caribbean American Month Book Festival Washington District of Columbia In June 2005, the House of Representatives unanimously adopted H. Con. Res. 71, sponsored by Congresswoman Barbara Lee, recogniz...
Onyxcon
Onyxcon Southwest Arts Center Atlanta Georgia 2018 marked the 10 year anniversary of ONYXCON ! A DECADE. ONXCON is a convention, festival, and celebration. We promote, showcase, educate, and ente...