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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...
AALBC’s Newsletter: Bestsellers, Novelist Stacey Abrams, Texas Book Festival Videos & More
AALBC’s Newsletter: Bestsellers, Novelist Stacey Abrams, Texas Book Festival Videos & More Troy Johnson Article Subscribe Forward
Sarah Bird
Sarah Bird 000000011726115X Sarah Bird, acclaimed author of ten novels, is recognized for her literary contributions through awards like Texas Writer of the Year and the Texas Institute of Letters Li...
Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death
Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death Allen Bernard West 9781612542980 Nonfiction Brown Books Publishing Group Brown Books Publishing Group Texas is booming. In recent years, the Lone Star Sta...
Tonya Duncan Ellis on Her Book, Sophie Washington: Secret Santa
Tonya Duncan Ellis on Her Book, Sophie Washington: Secret Santa Book Spotlights Tonya Duncan Ellis: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Tonya+Duncan+Ellis talk about her her book, Sophie ...
Ashley D. Farmer Talking About Her Book: Remaking Black Power
Ashley D. Farmer Talking About Her Book: Remaking Black Power Book Spotlights Ashley D. Farmer (https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Ashley+D.+Farmer) talks about the challenges and reward...
Stephanie Rochelle Redd - Head-Smart/Heart-Dumb Girl Series
Stephanie Rochelle Redd - Head-Smart/Heart-Dumb Girl Series Author Interviews Stephanie Rochelle Redd introduces her book on "Things Every Head-Smart/Heart-Dumb Girl Should Know," during the Texas Boo...
Tayari Jones on the Art of Storytelling
Tayari Jones on the Art of Storytelling Author Interviews Critically acclaimed novelist, Tayari Jones discusses the art of storytelling during the Texas Book Festival. More about Tayari: https://aalbc...
Poet Brandon “B-Shatter” Harrison
Poet Brandon “B-Shatter” Harrison Poetry & Spoken Word Brandon “B-Shatter” Harrison speaks about his debit poetry collection, I Write On Walls Because I Never Got A Happy Meal, during the Texas Bo...
“...in the Livingroom I was cabron.” —Luφs Alberto Urrea
“...in the Livingroom I was cabron.” —Luφs Alberto Urrea Author Interviews Luís Alberto Urrea relates a humorous anecdote during the Texas Book Festival: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_na...
Christopher Michael, Publisher, 310 Brown Street
Christopher Michael, Publisher, 310 Brown Street Author Interviews Christopher Michael, Publisher at 310 Brown Street Video shot during the 2018 Texas Book Festival. Learn more: https://aalbc.com/auth...
Christopher Michael Poetry Books
Christopher Michael Poetry Books Poetry & Spoken Word Poet and Publisher Christopher Michael talks about his books during the Texas Book Festival. More about Christopher: https://aalbc.com/authors/aut...
Christopher Michael Hypes AALBC
Christopher Michael Hypes AALBC Author Interviews Poet, Publisher, and Spoken Word Artist, Christopher Michael, Hypes AALBC During the Texas Book Festival
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism
The Counter Revolution of 1836: Texas slavery & Jim Crow and the roots of American Fascism Gerald Horne 9780717800018 Nonfiction International Publishers International Publishers When Mexico moved to ...
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore
Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore Alan B. Govenar, Francis Edward Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen 9781574412833 Nonfiction University of North Texas Press University of North Texas Pr...
A Death In Texas
A Death In Texas Thumper Book Review Upon hearing of the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr. in his hometown of Jasper, Texas, it occurred to me that "A new way of performing the act of lynching h...
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...
A Love Letter to Texas Women
A Love Letter to Texas Women Sarah Bird 9781477309490 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press What is it that distinguishes Texas women, the famous Yellow Rose and her descendan...
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.
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 1st National Black Book Festival Houston Texas
The 1st National Black Book Festival Houston Texas Literary Events The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored jointly by Cushcity.com, the world's largest African-American r...
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...
On Juneteenth
On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed 9781631498831 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of...
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...
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...
In This House
In This House Loretta Diane Walker 9781421837451 Poetry Blue Light Press Blue Light Press Loretta Diane Walker teaches music at Reagan Elementary in Odessa, Texas. She graduated from Ector High Sch...
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...
University of Texas Press
University of Texas Press University of Texas Press University of Texas at Austin https://utpress.utexas.edu/ The University of Texas Press serves knowledge seekers in an information-rich world throug...
University of Texas Press
University of Texas Press University of Texas at Austin University of Texas Press https://utpress.utexas.edu/ The University of Texas Press serves knowledge seekers in an information-rich world throug...
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas
Thursday Night Lights: The Story of Black High School Football in Texas Michael Hurd 9781477310342 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press At a time when "Friday night lights" s...
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption
A Death in Texas: A Story of Race, Murder and a Small Town’s Struggle for Redemption Dina Temple-Raston 9780805066524 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers An extraordinary account of h...
Joye M. Carter
Joye M. Carter NONE Dr. Joye Carter, M.D., first female and African American Chief Medical Examiner in the U.S, served in Washington, DC and Houston, Texas. Now a forensic pathology consultant and au...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Texas Remainder Expo
Texas Remainder Expo Carrollton Texas Texas Remainder Expo (T☆REX) is a wholesale show open only to trade customers and not open to the public. It is held twice a year in the fall and spring. W...
Texas A&M University Press
Texas A&M University Press Texas A&M University Press Texas A&M University
Texas Christian University Press
Texas Christian University Press Texas Christian University Press Texas Christian University
University of North Texas Press
University of North Texas Press University of North Texas Press University of North Texas
Texas A&M University Press
Texas A&M University Press Texas A&M University Texas A&M University Press
Texas Christian University Press
Texas Christian University Press Texas Christian University Texas Christian University Press
University of North Texas Press
University of North Texas Press University of North Texas University of North Texas Press
Martha Kennerson
Martha Kennerson NONE Martha Kennerson, a bestselling and award-winning author, uses her passion for reading and writing to create heartfelt stories. Known for her novels Choices and Consequences and...
Texas Battle - The "Dragonball Evolution" Interview
Texas Battle - The "Dragonball Evolution" Interview Kam Williams Interview Born in Houston on August 9, 1980, Texas Battle earned his bachelor's degree in kinesiology at the...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Reginald C. Adams
Reginald C. Adams NONE Reginald C. Adams is a Houston-based public artist known for his award-winning murals and sculptures in historic and underserved US communities. His art is featured in the 2023...
Bluebird, Bluebird
Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke 9780316363297 Fiction Mulholland Books Hachette Book Group A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of...
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...
Juneteenth Rodeo
Juneteenth Rodeo Sarah Bird 9781477329542 Nonfiction University of Texas Press University of Texas Press Timeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now a...
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth Alice Faye Duncan 9781400231256 Nonfiction Thomas Nelson HarperCollins Christian Publishing The true story of Bla...
Stormy Knight: A Blink, Texas, Story
Stormy Knight: A Blink, Texas, Story J.D. Mason B016VJ6SSQ Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers J. D. Mason’s Hot Blink, Texas series reached the boiling point…Omar Reid is about to make ...
Stone Cole: A Blink, Texas Story
Stone Cole: A Blink, Texas Story J.D. Mason B016VJAZGW Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The hotter-than-Texas e-serial continues!Ellis Brewer is a free man and is, surprisingly, the d...
Hart Breaker: A Blink, Texas story
Hart Breaker: A Blink, Texas story J.D. Mason B016VIVLQ6 Fiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers The only thing hotter than Texas is the romance in J. D. Mason’s brand-new e-series!Farrah Ha...
Emily, The Yellow Rose: A Texas Legend
Emily, The Yellow Rose: A Texas Legend Anita Bunkley 9780962401220 Fiction Rinard Publishing Rinard Publishing From the shores of Galveston Bay to the plains of San Jacinto, Emily, The Yellow Rose swe...
Charles Henry Rowell
Charles Henry Rowell NONE Charles Henry Rowell is the founder of Callaloo, a leading literary journal of the African diaspora. He's also an English professor at Texas A&M University in College Statio...
Francis Ray
Francis Ray 0000000110715606 Francis Ray (1944-2013) was a celebrated Texas-based author and school nurse practitioner. Known for her bestsellers in Blackboard and Essence Magazine, her work includes...