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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 ...
Lit Noire Publishing
Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing https://www.litnoirepublishing.co/ Lit Noire Publishing, a creative arts and publishing organization, was founded in 2002 by poet, auth...
Lit Noire Publishing
Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing https://www.litnoirepublishing.co/ Lit Noire Publishing, a creative arts and publishing organization, was founded in 2002 by poet, auth...
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 ...
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide Nationwide
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #43: Queer/Black/Lit
Mosaic Literary Magazine Issue #43: Queer/Black/Lit Mecca Jamilah Sullivan mosaic43 Fiction Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine Bringing together an intergenerational, diasporic, multige...
Island Girl
Island Girl Khara Campbell 9781456579722 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Step into the world of an eight year old island girl. To climbing up mango trees and eating coconuts, the enjoyme...
Daufuskie Island: 25th Anniversary Edition
Daufuskie Island: 25th Anniversary Edition Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe 9781570038822 Nonfiction University of South Carolina Press University of South Carolina Press First published in 1982, Daufuskie Isl...
Red Island House: A Novel
Red Island House: A Novel Andrea Lee 9781982138189 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that ...
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir)
Staten Island Noir (Akashic Noir) Patricia Smith 9781617751295 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books When They Are Done with Us” by Patricia Smith was selected for inclusion in The Best American Myster...
Migrated Writers
Migrated Writers Troy Johnson Article 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 C...
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...
Great Midwest Book Fest
Great Midwest Book Fest Xchange Event and Creative Space Milwaukee Wisconsin
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...
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...
Carolina Book Fest
Carolina Book Fest Marriott City Center Charlotte North Carolina Large Author Book Signing
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Treasure Island: Runaway Gold
Treasure Island: Runaway Gold Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780062998361 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Bestselling and award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes reimagines the classic novel Treasure ...
Passiontide
Passiontide Monique Roffey 9780593802472 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deaths, outr...
Conjure Island
Conjure Island Eden Royce 9780062899637 Fiction Walden Pond Press Walden Pond Press From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandm...
Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold
Treasure Island (hardcover): Runaway Gold Jewell Parker Rhodes 9780062998354 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Jewell Parker Rhodes has written a version of Treasure Island like none you’ve never...
Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island
Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island Emily Meggett 9781419758782 Nonfiction Harry N. Abrams Harry N. Abrams The first major Gullah Geechee cookbook from “the matria...
Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night
Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night Sallie Ann Robinson 9780807858431 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press Sallie Ann Robinson was born and rea...
Sallie Ann Robinson
Sallie Ann Robinson NONE Sallie Ann Robinson, a native of Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, is deeply rooted in the island's Gullah culture. Despite slow technological advancement, she embraces tradi...
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...
Legacy Lit
Legacy Lit Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group Led by Krishan Trotman Legacy Lit is the first imprint focused on work by writers of color at Hachette Book Group.
AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2000
AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2000 AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2000 THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE CONFERENCE 2000 "THE LEGACY LIVE...
AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2001
AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2001 AA LIT. CONFERENCE 2001 2nd Annual African American Literature Conference Saturday, April 7,2001 at the Nyumburu Cultural Center on the University of Maryland College P...
Steamy Lit Con
Steamy Lit Con Anaheim Marriott Anaheim California Their goal is to celebrate the romance genre and to amplify the identities in it which have been historically underrepresented. The Steamy Lit Con ai...
The Rib King
The Rib King Ladee Hubbard 9780062979070 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Thrillist - 30 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021Book Riot - Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2021Real Simple - The Best New Boo...
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...
Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal)
Got (Seven Weapon Arsenal) D 9781933354163 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "There’s a new player stepping into the street-lit spotlight, and he’s one to watch…Urban libraries have to get Got."—Lib...
Urban Lit Review Magazine
Urban Lit Review Magazine Troy Johnson Article Urban Lit Review Magazine Related Links
Urban Lit Review Magazine
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Lit Java
Lit Java Pearland TX Using coffee and books to connect the community to ‘LIT’erary experiences!
Liberation is Lit
Liberation is Lit Columbia SC Liberation is Lit is a bookstore that aims to spark collective action for liberation and community building among readers and book lovers by promoting stories from inters...
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game
LitVersation: The Book Conversation Game Debra Owsley litversations Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published To buy this game, please visit the creator’s website “Hello My name is...
Jay-Z
Jay-Z 0000000118335528 Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, born December 4, 1969, is a highly influential rapper with a net worth over $1B. He founded Roc Nation, an entertainment company launching a new publishin...
Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman
Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman MULTIPLE Brenda Jones, renowned for her 15-year role as communications director for Rep. John Lewis and co-author of an NAACP award-winning book, has vast experience ...
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...
My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched Island
My Jamaican Table: Vibrant Recipes from a Sun-Drenched Island Andre Fowles 9781648293740 Nonfiction Artisan HarperCollins In the first major Jamaican cookbook of its kind, Kingston-born chef Andre Fow...
She Drinks the Light
She Drinks the Light Yasmin Angoe 9781250872685 Fiction Feiwel & Friends Macmillan Publishers For fans of Sinners and Immortal Dark, a teen girl must uncover her family’s deadly secrets in order to sa...
One of Us Knows: A Thriller
One of Us Knows: A Thriller Alyssa Cole 9780063114951 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching come...
Island Queen
Island Queen Vanessa Riley 9780063002845 Fiction William Morrow HarperCollins "Richly detailed, vividly depicted, and sweeping in scope, Island Queen is historical fiction at its absolute finest. A st...
All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island Liza Jessie Peterson 9781455570911 Nonfiction Center Street Hachette Book Group ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal ...
Angels Landing (A Cavanaugh Island Novel)
Angels Landing (A Cavanaugh Island Novel) Rochelle Alers 9781455534548 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing Sometimes love can take you by surprise. Kara Newell has a big-city life that needs a ma...
Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard To Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island
Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard To Perpetrator Inside Rikers Island Gary L. Heyward 9781476794327 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this shocking memoir from a former corrections of...
The Diary Of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess
The Diary Of B. B. Bright, Possible Princess Alice Randall and Caroline Randall Williams 9781618580153 Fiction Turner Turner Publishing Company A lively tale of one young woman’s adventure to pass her...
Small Island
Small Island Andrea Levy 9780312429522 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers An international bestseller. Andrea Levy’s Small Island won the Orange Prize for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction: Best...
Paradise Interrupted (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries)
Paradise Interrupted (Carole Ann Gibson Mysteries) Penny Mickelbury 9780684859910 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Before Carole Ann Gibson even has a chance to enjoy the white sand bea...
In Another Place, Not Here
In Another Place, Not Here Dionne Brand 9780802136336 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. Acclaimed by Adrienne Rich as "fierce, sensuous … a work of great beauty and moral imagination," In Anoth...
Oge Mora
Oge Mora 0000000485186579 Oge Mora, a BFA graduate in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design, splits her time between painting in her studio and cooking her grandmother's recipes in Prov...
Ellen Mitchell
Ellen Mitchell 000000004491565X Ellen Mitchell is a seasoned journalist from Long Island, with a career spanning “man on the street” interviews to anchoring news. She was the exclusive Long Island re...
Emily Meggett
Emily Meggett NONE Emily Meggett, 87, is a prominent figure in South Carolina's Gullah community, featured by PBS, Food Network, and NPR. Raised in a 19th-century slave cabin, now a central Smithsoni...
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
Jazzmen Lee-Johnson NONE Jazzmen Lee-Johnson is an accomplished visual artist, scholar, and curator with a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MA from Brown University. She has extensive exper...
Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator inside Rikers Island
Corruption Officer: From Jail Guard to Perpetrator inside Rikers Island Kam Williams Book Review “This shocking memoir from a former corrections officer… shares an eye-opening, gritty,...
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...
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 ...
Mademoiselle Revolution
Mademoiselle Revolution Zoe Sivak 9780593336038 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A bisexual, biracial protagonist from the late 1700s. A violent slave uprising in Haiti and it’s rippling eff...
Darcel Turner
Darcel Turner NONE Darcel Turner, a New York native, is an accomplished author known for her novel, “Dana Dances on Paper.” She has attended various colleges, transcribed for The 4th National Black W...
The Pages of the Sea
The Pages of the Sea Anne Hawk 9781771966535 Fiction Biblioasis Biblioasis On a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration. When her mother emigrates to ...
Jaiku: Photos & haikus from a Jamaican barefoot island girl
Jaiku: Photos & haikus from a Jamaican barefoot island girl Judith Falloon-Reid 9789769659476 Poetry Independent Voyces Literary Works Independent Voyces Literary Works Jaiku is a beautifully illustra...
The Family She Found
The Family She Found Lauren Lacey 9798218370640 Fiction Lauren Lacey Lauren Lacey Wildly beautiful and successful entrepreneur Marlowe Blackwood ended her playgirl ways nine months ago when she crosse...
Standing Tall: Willie Long vs. U.S. Government at Mare Island Naval Shipyard
Standing Tall: Willie Long vs. U.S. Government at Mare Island Naval Shipyard Jake Sloan 9781634994699 Nonfiction America Through Time Fonthill Media Standing Tall recalls a period in the early 1960s t...
What Never Happened: A Thriller
What Never Happened: A Thriller Rachel Howzell Hall 9781662504150 Fiction Thomas & Mercer Amazon Publishing It’s murder in paradise as a woman uncovers a host of secrets off the rocky California coast...
Island Secrets: A Queens of Kiawah Story
Island Secrets: A Queens of Kiawah Story Nina Foxx 9780578295008 Fiction Clever Vixen Media Clever Vixen Media His boat came in, but Denise Martine’s husband, Charles, wasn’t on it. Almost a year late...
Rhode Island Red: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 1
Rhode Island Red: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 1 Charlotte Carter 9780593314104 Fiction Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Penguin Random House The first book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series introduc...
Sallie Ann Robinson’s Kitchen: Food and Family Lore from the Lowcountry
Sallie Ann Robinson’s Kitchen: Food and Family Lore from the Lowcountry Sallie Ann Robinson 9780813056296 Nonfiction University of North Carolina Press University of North Carolina Press In her third ...
An Island Is a World
An Island Is a World Samuel Selvon 9781774150047 Fiction Mawenzi House Mawenzi House A novel of a personal and intellectual quest in postwar Trinidad. In the post-war Caribbean colony, as an earlie...
Passion Island: A Novel
Passion Island: A Novel Cairo 9781593096984 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From one of erotica’s hottest authors comes another page-melting novel where lies, infidelities, and unfettered...
Lazaretto: A Novel
Lazaretto: A Novel Diane McKinney-Whetstone 9780062126962 Fiction Harper HarperCollins Diane McKinney-Whetstone’s nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia’s black communit...
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic Gerald Horne 9781583675625 Nonfiction Monthly Review Press Monthly Review Press The Haitian Revo...
Sanctuary Cove (A Cavanaugh Island Novel)
Sanctuary Cove (A Cavanaugh Island Novel) Rochelle Alers 9781455534555 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing Sometimes love is the simplest choice of all.Still reeling from her husband’s untimely d...
Cherry Lane (Cavanaugh Island)
Cherry Lane (Cavanaugh Island) Rochelle Alers 9781455574988 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing A place to call home …In New York City, attorney Devon Gilmore devoted all her time and energy to f...
The Island of Memes: Haiti’s Unfinished Revolution
The Island of Memes: Haiti’s Unfinished Revolution Wade Nobles 9781580730532 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Through the lens of Black psychology, this book is a radical blending of...
Magnolia Drive (A Cavanaugh Island Novel)
Magnolia Drive (A Cavanaugh Island Novel) Rochelle Alers 9781410474117 Fiction Thorndike Press Thorndike Press Love is the sweetest way home … After a taste of Broadway stardom and a failed marriage, ...
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination
Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination Rosamond S. King 9780813049809 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Island Bodies analyzes cultural ...
Haven Creek (A Cavanaugh Island Novel)
Haven Creek (A Cavanaugh Island Novel) Rochelle Alers 9781455501397 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing Home is where the heart is. Architect Morgan Dane has always lived according to a plan, cro...