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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 AALBC Originals An excerpt from the WSJ’s Future of Everything Festival. The festival was held in New York City on May 18, 20...
Gerrick Kennedy
Gerrick Kennedy NONE Gerrick Kennedy is a Los Angeles-based award-winning journalist and author, known for his book on the rise of Gangsta Rap. His insightful cultural critiques have been published i...
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 ...
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...
Everything, Everything
Everything, Everything Nicola Yoon 9780553496642 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the hous...
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...
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
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...
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. ...
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...
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 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, ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
Ash Cash
Ash Cash NONE Ash Exantus, also known as Ash Cash, is a renowned banking executive, personal finance expert, and author of six books, three of which are Amazon.com bestsellers. He serves as a head of...
Douglas A. Blackmon
Douglas A. Blackmon 0000000040628274 Doug Blackmon, a Mississippi native, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and chair of the Miller Center Forum at the University of Virginia. He's a correspondent f...
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Kaitlyn Greenidge NONE Kaitlyn Greenidge is an acclaimed author, noted for her debut novel 'We Love You, Charlie Freeman'. A contributing writer for the New York Times, her work has appeared in Vogue...
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.
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...
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...
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature
This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature Ahdaf Soueif and Omar Robert Hamilton 9781632868848 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing Writers from Ali...
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 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 ...
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival
B-FEST: Teen Book Festival Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide Nationwide
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...
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...
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books University of Southern California Los Angeles California The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who ...
Tucson Festival of Books
Tucson Festival of Books University of Arizona Campus Tucson Arizona The Tucson Festival of Books debuted March 14-15, 2009, on the campus of The University of Arizona. The Festival featured 450 autho...
The Allegheny Regional Festival of Books
The Allegheny Regional Festival of Books Bedford Pennsylvania The Allegheny Regional Festival of Books (ARFB) is a truly grassroots, community based, literary festival, promoting authors, writing and...
The Palestine Festival of Literature
The Palestine Festival of Literature Ramallah Palestine Read An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature Ta-Nehisi Coates, Molly Crabapple, Natalie Diaz, Maaza Mengiste,...
The Southern Literary Festival
The Southern Literary Festival The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith Fort Smith Arkansas The Southern Literary Festival is an organization of southern colleges and schools founded in 1937 to promote...
Brattleboro Literary Festival
Brattleboro Literary Festival Brattleboro Vermont The Festival is a four-day celebration of those who read books, those who write books, and of the books themselves. Located in downtown Brattleboro, ...
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...
Ava DuVernay
Ava DuVernay 000000035624500X Ava DuVernay is an award-winning writer, producer, and director in independent film. She founded DVA Media + Marketing and the African-American Film Festival Releasing M...
Darlene Williams
Darlene Williams NONE Darlene Williams is an award-winning businesswoman, adjunct lecturer, bestselling author, and nationally recognized youth and literacy advocate. She serves as President of the ...
Etheridge Knight Festival
Etheridge Knight Festival Troy Johnson Article 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 Annual ...
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 ...
Patricia A. Saunders
Patricia A. Saunders NONE Patricia A. Saunders, an author from Connecticut, now based in San Francisco, began her writing journey after her mother's passing. She released her first book in 2012 and i...
Everything I’m Not Made Me Everything I Am: Discovering Your Personal Best
Everything I’m Not Made Me Everything I Am: Discovering Your Personal Best Jeff Johnson 9781401925482 Nonfiction Hay House Penguin Random House Award-winning activist journalist and motivational speak...
High Desert Book Festival
High Desert Book Festival Victorville California The High Desert Book Festival will include lectures and book signings by guest authors, booths for our many local published writers, lectures on the w...
Kellie Magnus
Kellie Magnus 0000000114740104 Kellie Magnus is a Jamaican children's author and media writer. An alumna of Harvard and Columbia Universities, she's the Chair of the Kingston Book Festival and serves...
Bay Area Book Festival
Bay Area Book Festival In Downtown Berkeley Berkeley California The Bay Area Book Festival is the primary project of the Foundation for the Future of Literature and Literacy, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit org...
Anika Malone
Anika Malone NONE Anika Malone, author of the acclaimed “10 Minutes Past Too Late”, is celebrated as a fresh voice in contemporary fiction. She has participated in notable book events across the Unit...
Melica Niccole
Melica Niccole NONE Melica Niccole, a Columbus-native author, poet, and Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, has a passion for writing which she uses to explore various subjects. She created an annua...
Future State: The Next Batman
Future State: The Next Batman John Ridley 9781779510648 Fiction DC Comics DC Comics The DC timeline has been shattered, and the pieces of a dark possible "Future State" are reflected! The...
Bluffton Book Festival
Bluffton Book Festival Calhoun Street in Historic Old Town Bluffton Bluffton South Carolina The Bluffton Book Festival's mission is to raise money for two non-profit organizations that support literac...
Conyers Book Festival
Conyers Book Festival The Georgia International Horse Park Conyers Georgia The festival will feature nationally known authors, engaging workshops, and a bustling marketplace with up to 150 vendors, in...
Southern New Mexico Book Festival
Southern New Mexico Book Festival Doña Ana Community College, East Mesa Campus Las Cruces New Mexico The goal of the Southern New Mexico Book Festival is to connect authors, writers, readers, publishe...
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...
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, ...
Northern Arizona Book Festival
Northern Arizona Book Festival Locally owned businesses throughout the historic downtown Flagstaff Arizona The Northern Arizona Book Festival will bring a weeklong literary extravaganza filled with re...
Portland’s Book Festival
Portland’s Book Festival Portland Art Museum and Neighboring Venues Portland Oregon Portland Book Festival (formerly Wordstock) includes author discussions and activities for readers of all ages, an e...