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Great Midwest Book Fest
Great Midwest Book Fest Xchange Event and Creative Space Milwaukee Wisconsin
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest.
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. 3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. ***PLEASE FORWARD*** For more information, contact Cherlyn Michaels @ info@archlandbooks.com or by phon...
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide Nationwide
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 ...
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest.
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. Troy Johnson Article ***PLEASE FORWARD*** For more information, contact Cherlyn Michaels @ info@archlandbooks.com or by phone at 314.369.613...
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest.
3rd Blackboard Midwest Music & Book Fest. Loading ***PLEASE FORWARD*** For more information, contact Cherlyn Michaels @ info@archlandbooks.com or by phone at 314.369.6130. 3rd Annual Blackb...
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 ...
Vancouver Writers Fest
Vancouver Writers Fest Granville Island, and two off Site Venues Vancouver Canada The Vancouver Writers Fest turns reading into a community experience, bringing people together to share thoughts, expl...
2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf
2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf 2002 Midwest Poets & Writers Conf The Detroit Writer?s Guild in partnership with the University of Detroit Mercy proudly announce the 2002 Midwest Poets & Wr...
Migrated Writers
Migrated Writers Migrated Writers 17th Annual Celeb.of Black Writing A Report From The Field More Bios. The Sight of the 360 Event 4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair AA Cultural Expo 2000 AA Book Stor...
Lauren Lacey
Lauren Lacey NONE Lauren Lacey, an indie Romance author and digital strategist, has optimized global brands including PwC. She's the former marketing lead for Mastercard and AMEX gift cards, and a Fo...
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 & ...
Sacramento BlkLit Book Fest
Sacramento BlkLit Book Fest Underground Books and The Guild Theater Sacramento California The Sac BlkLit Book Fest is a one-day celebration of Black literature, culture, and community in Sacramento. T...
Black Romance Book Fest
Black Romance Book Fest JW Marriott Buckhead Atlanta Georgia The Black Romance Book Fest aims to amplify and honor the diverse narratives of Black love in romance literature. This event is a vibrant p...
Petersburg Book Fest
Petersburg Book Fest Petersburg Virginia The Petersburg Book Fest traces its roots back to the inspiring launch of Resist Booksellers, an independent Black-owned bookstore that opened its doors in th...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL ...
Printers Row Lit Fest
Printers Row Lit Fest Historic Printers Row Chicago Illinois The Printers Row Lit Fest was founded in 1985 by the Near South Planning Board to attract visitors to the Printers Row neighborhood (once t...
Word! A Caribbean Lit Fest
Word! A Caribbean Lit Fest Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton Street Brooklyn New York WORD! - A Caribbean Lit Fest is a celebration of Caribbean culture, thought, letters and a good st...
Jean Alicia Elster
Jean Alicia Elster NONE Jean Alicia Elster, a 2017 Kresge Artist Fellow and former attorney, is an acclaimed author of children's novels. Her book, The Colored Car, was a 2014 Michigan Notable Book a...
Carolina Book Fest
Carolina Book Fest Marriott City Center Charlotte North Carolina Large Author Book Signing
DuEwa M. Frazier
DuEwa M. Frazier NONE DuEwa Frazier is an accomplished writer, educator, and poet, renowned for her literary contributions and educational initiatives. Born in Brooklyn and raised in St. Louis, she f...
Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Stephanie Stokes Oliver NONE Stephanie Stokes Oliver is an accomplished publishing professional, heading SSO Media, serving as a literary scout for Atria Book Group and as author curator for Anguilla...
Blue Ridge Book Fest
Blue Ridge Book Fest Blue Ridge Community College Flat Rock North Carolina We seek to encourage interest in the literary arts by providing the public with personal access to significant regional autho...
L.L. McKinney
L.L. McKinney NONE L.L. McKinney is a writer and poet deeply involved in the kidlit community. She advocates for equality in publishing, co-founded the Juneteenth Book Fest, and created popular hasht...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Loading THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND, 2001 THE 10TH ANNUAL ETHERIDGE KN...
Black Books Matter Fest
Black Books Matter Fest MahoganyBooks - National Harbor Oxon Hill Maryland Though black books have always mattered, some have yet to discover the lost wisdom, rich history, and incredible creativity f...
Tulsa Lit Fest
Tulsa Lit Fest Oklahoma State University Tulsa Oklahoma Tulsa Litfest brings together diverse literary artist and writers to collaborate and inspire, enriching the Tulsa community.
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 Bocas Lit Fest
The Bocas Lit Fest Port of Spain Trinidad & Tobago Boca is the Spanish word for mouth — the organ of speech and song and storytelling. And the Bocas del Dragón — the Dragon’s...
Troy Andrews
Troy Andrews 0000000114882786 Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, a Grammy-nominated artist from Tremé, New Orleans, became a band leader at six. Known for his prodigious trombone skills, he now headlin...
Nick Brooks
Nick Brooks NONE Nick Brooks, an award-winning filmmaker and author from Washington, DC, is known for his short film 'Hoop Dreamin''. A 2020 USC graduate, he won the George Lucas Scholar Award and wa...
Jonathan Todd
Jonathan Todd 0000000028238169 Jonathan Todd, co-founder of Boston Kids Comics Fest and former teacher, is a distinguished comics author and illustrator. A Jacqueline Woodson Fellow, he studied writi...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Troy Johnson Article THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND, 200...
Nah’Sun
Nah’Sun NONE Born in Lilbourn, Missouri, Nah’Sun would later move around the Midwest before temporarily settling in Chicago. An aspiring cartoonist, Nah’Sun never gave writing a thought until him an...
Testify
Testify Douglas Manuel 9781597090452 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press A brave, brilliant debut about the African-American experience in the American Midwest. A contemplation of race, masculinity, re...
Between the River and the Railroad Tracks: A Memoir
Between the River and the Railroad Tracks: A Memoir Nicole R. Fleetwood 9780316564304 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Meticulously crafted and unflinchingly vulnerable, Nicole...
come see about me, marvin
come see about me, marvin Brian Gilmore 9780814347225 Poetry Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press come see about me, marvin is accessible, honest poetry about and for real people....
Ayiti (2011)
Ayiti (2011) Roxane Gay 9781450776714 Fiction Artistically Declined Press Artistically Declined Press The debut collection from the vibrant voice of Roxane Gay is a unique blend of fiction, nonfiction...
J K Chukwu
J K Chukwu NONE J K Chukwu is a Midwest writer and visual artist, with an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University. She was honored as a 2019 Lambda Fellow and has contributed to publications such ...
Charlotte Carter
Charlotte Carter 0000000081973701 Charlotte Carter, renowned for her mystery series featuring a jazz musician turned detective, and the Cook County series set in 1960s Chicago. Her work has featured ...
Keela Buford
Keela Buford NONE Keela Buford, a content strategist and author of 'Pride, and Joy,' is recognized in film and screenplay festival circuits. Her work ranges from science fiction to contemporary, with...
A Great Moral and Social Force: A History of Black Banks
A Great Moral and Social Force: A History of Black Banks Tim Todd 9780974480961 Nonfiction Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Both and printed and digital versions...
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots Morgan Jerkins 9780062873040 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by ELL...
Osasu and the Great Wall of the Benin Empire
Osasu and the Great Wall of the Benin Empire Tamkara Adun 9789083178202 Nonfiction Ọdúnìfẹ́ Ọdúnìfẹ́ The Great Benin Empire was an empire ...
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson 0000000073025226 Isabel Wilkerson, first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, is a distinguished journalist and professor. Recognized for her work at The New York Times an...
The Pampered Prince: Moms, Create A GREAT Relationship With Your Son
The Pampered Prince: Moms, Create A GREAT Relationship With Your Son C. Lynn Williams 9780985425852 Nonfiction St. Paul Press St. Paul Press Many young boys have different experiences with their mothe...
EMMA
EMMA Cheryl Wills 9781682656426 Nonfiction Lightswitch Learning Lightswitch Learning TV journalist Cheryl Wills previously gripped readers with her popular illustrated children’s book The Emancipation...
Seriously, You Have to Eat: Fixed Layout Edition
Seriously, You Have to Eat: Fixed Layout Edition Naomi Jackson 9781617754081 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Parents and children alike will surely welcome a pause to bond over a shared recogniti...
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism
Impact: Personal Portraits of Activism Michelle Duster and Trina Sotira 9780989960939 Nonfiction MuseWrite Press MuseWrite Press Something happened and motivated these quiet activists to make an impac...
Wisconsin Book Festival
Wisconsin Book Festival Madison Public Library Madison Wisconsin The Wisconsin Book Festival is Wisconsin's premier literary event. Every October we draw a local and regional audience of 12,000-15,000...
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...
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...
Die Free - A Heroic Family Tale
Die Free - A Heroic Family Tale Cheryl Wills 9781935098409 Fiction Bascom Hill Publishing Group Bascom Hill Publishing Group A TV journalist finds the most powerful story in her own family heritage ...
What Makes the Great Great
What Makes the Great Great Dennis Kimbro 9780385483964 Nonfiction Broadway Books Penguin Random House In "What Makes the Great Great, " Dennis Kimbro, author of trhe best selling "Think and Grow Rich:...
Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story
Penitentiary Tales: A Love Story Robert Fleming Book Review When I was growing up, I heard about boys and girls, men and women from my Hood going to The Big House. One of the girls I dated had an inm...
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 ...
Victoria Rowell on the Love of Her Life and Her Memoir
Victoria Rowell on the Love of Her Life and Her Memoir Book Spotlights The Women Who Raised Me (Legacy Edition) by Victoria Rowell 🔗 https://aalbc.com/books/9781959811770 Born a ward of the state in ...
Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin
Great Black Russian: A Novel on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin John Oliver Killens 9780814320464 Fiction Wayne State University Press Wayne State University Press Alexander Pushkin was born i...
Rita Daniels
Rita Daniels NONE Rita Daniels is the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman, is the President and Founder of the Harriet Tubman Learning Center. Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandnie...
True Names: Four Generations of My Afro Appalachian Family
True Names: Four Generations of My Afro Appalachian Family Malaika Adero 9781478974314 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group African Americans in Southern Appalachia faced a particularly rural ...
Culinaria: The United States - A Culinary Discovery
Culinaria: The United States - A Culinary Discovery Peter Feierabend 9783829002592 Nonfiction Konemann Konemann Part cookbook and part encyclopedia, this enormous book is a vibrant celebration of Amer...
How to Be Free by Shaka Senghor
How to Be Free by Shaka Senghor Publishing & Craft The BLK Bestselling Book – How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life’s Hidden Prisons by Shaka Senghor 🔗 https://aalbc.com/books/9798893310511 ...
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined
Big Jim and the White Boy: An American Classic Reimagined David F. Walker 9780593836118 Fiction Ten Speed Graphic Penguin Random House A thrilling graphic novel reimagining of The Adventures of Huckle...
Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln Doreen Rappaport 9781423104087 Nonfiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide From the time he was a young boy roaming the forests of the unsett...
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays
Never Tell a Black Girl How to Black Girl: Essays Amena Brown 9798217044689 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House An irresistible delight, this hilarious and heartwarming essay collec...
Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters
Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781477327814 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press 2024 Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/Dominican Repub...
Love at the Icicle Cafe
Love at the Icicle Cafe Denise N. Wheatley 9781952560774 Fiction Tule Publishing Tule Publishing Can an Icicle-Themed Festival Thaw the Most Unlikely Hearts? California lawyer Mina Richards spent...
Trombone Shorty
Trombone Shorty Troy Andrews 9781419714658 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams Hailing from the Tremé neighborhood in New Orleans, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews got his nickname by wielding a tromb...
Erotic City
Erotic City Marissa Monteilh 9780446179577 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Erotic City is sex-fest central-a hip, upscale swingers club for grown-folks only, located in the heart ...
Nicola Yoon
Nicola Yoon 0000000445354582 Nicola Yoon, a #1 New York Times Bestselling Author known for her debut novel, 'Everything, Everything', is a proud member of We Need Diverse Books team. Residing in Los ...
Danielle Y. C. McClean
Danielle Y. C. McClean NONE Danielle Y. C. McClean is an award-winning children's author, translator, and interpreter from Trinidad and Tobago. Her notable works include 'The Protectors’ Pledge' and ...
Cute Toot
Cute Toot Breanna J. McDaniel 9781250881298 Fiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers An explosive ode to the bonds of sisterhood, the time-honored tradition of hide and seek, and the hilariou...
Blackward
Blackward Lawrence Lindell 9781770466784 Fiction Drawn and Quarterly Drawn and Quarterly Black, weird, awkward and proud of it. Welcome to the club! Tired of feeling like you don’t belong? Join the...
Anguilla Literary Festival
Anguilla Literary Festival Paradise Cove Resort West End Anguilla The Anguilla Lit-Fest was conceptualized as a means of celebrating Anguilla’s literary heritage and is seen as a catalyst for vi...
A Woman After David’s Heart: (A Valentine Romance) (Love for the Holidays) (Volume 2)
A Woman After David’s Heart: (A Valentine Romance) (Love for the Holidays) (Volume 2) Pat Simmons 9781494905477 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC David Andersen doesn’t have a problem indul...
Tai Allen
Tai Allen NONE Tai Allen, a renowned Brooklyn-based creative director, poet, and musician, has excelled in multiple disciplines. His poetry and music have gained recognition from notable publications...
Louis Edwards
Louis Edwards 0000000028382400 Louis Edwards, a Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author, has written four novels including Ramadan Ramsey and Ten Seconds. Louisiana-born Edwards is als...
Phill Branch
Phill Branch NONE Phill Branch is a writer, live performance storyteller, and regional Emmy Award–winning filmmaker. He is a 2025 recipient of the Maryland State Arts Council’s Creativity Gran...
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: The Great Walls of Benin (Book 6)
The Adventures of Obi and Titi: The Great Walls of Benin (Book 6) O.T. Begho 9780955496660 Fiction Evolution Media Lab Ltd Evolution Media Lab Ltd The Adventures of Obi and Titi The Adventures of Obi ...
The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America
The Cruelty of Nice Folks: Why Minneapolis Is the Story of America Justin Ellis 9780063091245 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins “In writing a book about Minneapolis, Justin Ellis has really written a bo...
Ten Thousand Rocks
Ten Thousand Rocks Ndirangu Githaiga 9781735041728 Fiction Bon Esprit Books Bon Esprit Books “… a reflective novel about the price of greed-and the rewards of kindness and perseverance.” Foreword Clar...
I Am a Promise
I Am a Promise Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 9781617757648 Nonfiction Black Sheep Akashic Books "Pryce, who earned her fame as an illustrious athlete before putting pen to paper, remains an influential voic...
I Love You Too
I Love You Too Ziggy Marley 9781617753107 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Ziggy Marley in Concert" was awarded a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album!"A sweetly affectionate ode to togethernes...
Soul of the Band: Making the Cut: Book 1
Soul of the Band: Making the Cut: Book 1 K. L. Brady 9780983920212 Fiction LadyLit Press LadyLit Press Reviewer’s Choice (August 2012), Midwest Book Review Children’s Bookwatch - "Soul of the Band a ...
This Time
This Time Margaret Johnson-Hodge 9780975402603 Fiction Sutton Place Publishers, Inc. Sutton Place Publishers, Inc. Dajah Moore gave everything she had to save her relationship between herself and Rick...
C. Kelly Robinson
C. Kelly Robinson NONE C. Kelly Robinson is a Howard and Washington University graduate, who self-published his first novel, “Not All Dogs,” in 1999. The book was re-released in 2001 as “Between Brot...
Margaret Johnson-Hodge
Margaret Johnson-Hodge NONE Margaret Johnson-Hodge is the author of eleven published novels, contributor to three anthologies, including the highly successful Proverbs of the People, and author of a...
Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate
Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate Thomas Aiello 9780820362854 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Thi...
Alaina and the Great Play
Alaina and the Great Play Eloise Greenfield 9781733686525 Fiction Alazar Press Royal Swan Enterprises With the guileless wonder and innocence of a little girl, Alaina is profoundly changed by the perf...
World’s Great Men of Color
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 9780684815817 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in an...
I’ll Fly Away
I’ll Fly Away Rudy Francisco 9781943735693 Poetry Button Poetry Button Poetry 2023 Midwest Book Awards Finalist 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards Bronze Medal Winner 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards - No...
In the Company of My Sisters
In the Company of My Sisters Julia A. Boyd 9780452272460 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House "This is the first self-help book by a psychotherapist to examine the realities of black women’s lives an...
The African American Resource Guide to the Internet and Online Services
The African American Resource Guide to the Internet and Online Services Stafford L. Battle and Reynold O. Harris 9780070054998 Nonfiction McGraw-Hill Education McGraw-Hill Education Designed for the s...
Roxane Orgill
Roxane Orgill NONE Roxane Orgill is a seasoned music critic and author with over 20 years of experience, having worked with The Wall Street Journal and The Milwaukee Journal. She is known for her bio...
Danez Smith
Danez Smith 0000000529080232 Danez Smith is an award-winning poet from St. Paul, Minnesota. Known for his works such as [insert] boy, his poetry explores themes of race, class, sexuality, faith, and ...
Jacqueline Leigh
Jacqueline Leigh NONE Jacqueline Leigh is a children's book author and poet with a focus on Sierra Leone. Her notable works include a historical novel, The Heritage Keeper, and a nonfiction account o...
When Frogs Grow Feet: The Un-Aborted Are Alive and Well
When Frogs Grow Feet: The Un-Aborted Are Alive and Well Robert Fleming Book Review While When Frogs Grow Feet’s blurb links its juicy contents to Henry Miller’s classic wanton tale, Tro...
Great Writers Media
Great Writers Media Great Writers Media Great Writers Media, LLC
Great Writers Media
Great Writers Media Great Writers Media, LLC Great Writers Media
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America
Freedom Lost, Freedom Won: A Personal History of America Eugene Robinson 9781982176716 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene...