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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 ...
I Am The Virgin Islands
I Am The Virgin Islands Tiphanie Yanique 9781934370308 Poetry Little Bell Caribbean Little Bell Caribbean What does it mean to be a Virgin Islander? Author Tiphanie Yanique explores this question in h...
Queens Book Fair 2006
Queens Book Fair 2006 Queens Book Fair 2006 Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Announces Author sign-up for 2006 Queens Book Fair Queens Book Fair 2006 Announces Author sign-up for 2nd Annual...
Ronald Fair
Ronald Fair 0000000116782340 Chicago-born African-American author, Ronald L. Fair, inspired by Richard Wright, carved his own literary path. Born in 1932, Fair served in the U.S. Navy before becoming...
Harlem Book Fair 2009 - Street Fair Saturday, July 18, 2009
Harlem Book Fair 2009 - Street Fair Saturday, July 18, 2009 Harlem Book Fair 2009 - Street Fair Saturday, July 18, 2009 THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTO...
Davida Siwisa James
Davida Siwisa James NONE Davida Siwisa James, a globe-trotting author with roots in Philly and Harlem, has experience as a freelance journalist and has several published works, including an award-win...
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 ...
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 ...
Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati hosts The African American Children’s Book Fair
Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati hosts The African American Children’s Book Fair Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati hosts The African American Children’s Book Fair Vanesse Lloyd-Sgambati on the African American C...
Queen of the Conquered
Queen of the Conquered Kacen Callender 9780316454933 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Book One of the Islands of Blood and Storm Series An ambitious young woman with the power to control min...
Harlem Book Fair - 2006
Harlem Book Fair - 2006 Harlem Book Fair - 2006 Harlem Book Fair 2006 Street Map Shows location of vendors on the street as of July 20 2006 Advertise your book in the official program g...
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...
The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair
The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Third Annual African American Children’s Book Fair The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of ...
Delaney Diamond
Delaney Diamond NONE Delaney Diamond, a USA Today Bestselling author, pens sweet and passionate romance novels. Originally from the U.S. Virgin Islands, she now resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Apart fro...
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 & ...
John A. Williams
John A. Williams 0000000081606231 “…arguably the finest African-American novelist of his generation.” John Alfred Williams (1925-2015), a renowned author and professor, had a distin...
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...
The 17th Annual African American Children's Book Fair
The 17th Annual African American Children's Book Fair The 17th Annual African American Children's Book Fair THE 17TH AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR READS ON The 17th Annual A...
Ladee Hubbard
Ladee Hubbard 0000000496785892 Ladee Hubbard, born in Massachusetts and raised in Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a Princeton-educated author, mentor to Toni Morrison, and professor at Tulane...
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...
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
Shirlee Taylor Haizlip 0000000045262996 Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, a Connecticut-born author and former CBS affiliate manager, has made significant contributions to academia, television, and film preser...
National Black Children's Book Fair Tour Kickoff
National Black Children's Book Fair Tour Kickoff National Black Children's Book Fair Tour Kickoff Say It Loud! Readers and Writers Bringing the Community Together Through Literature www.spe...
Miami Book Fair
Miami Book Fair Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus Miami Florida The Dates Shown are for the Street Fair. The entire fair typically runs 8 days The first Miami Book Fair, founded by Miami Dade Coll...
Tiphanie Yanique
Tiphanie Yanique 0000000071326295 Tiphanie Yanique, a novelist, poet, and professor from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, is renowned for her numerous awards including the Mary Grant Charles Award ...
Land Of Love And Drowning
Land Of Love And Drowning Tiphanie Yanique 9781594488337 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Recipient of the 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation AwardA major debut from an a...
Robert Paul Jr.
Robert Paul Jr. NONE Robert Paul Jr., a St. Lucia-born illustrator and character designer, aims to enrich children's lives through storytelling. Now based in Houston, Texas with his family, his work ...
Gillian Royes
Gillian Royes NONE Gillian Royes, creator of the Shad detective series set in Jamaica, is also the author of nonfiction books. Born in Jamaica, she earned her doctorate from Emory University and now ...
Harlem Book Fair 2011 - Street Fair Saturday, July 23, 2011
Harlem Book Fair 2011 - Street Fair Saturday, July 23, 2011 Harlem Book Fair 2011 - Street Fair Saturday, July 23, 2011 This event has taken place. Please enjoy the videos & photographs...
Esther Phillips
Esther Phillips 0000000073657506 Esther Phillips, founder of The Bim Literary Festival & Book Fair and editor of Bim magazine, is a highly decorated poet with an MFA in Creative Writing. She's won pr...
David Covin on the Sacramento Black Book Fair
David Covin on the Sacramento Black Book Fair Literary Events Dr. David Covin, one of the planning committee members of the Sacramento Black Book Fair talks with AALBC.com about the Book Fair at Under...
Saipan Living!: Where on Earth is Saipan??? A comprehensive guide for moving to, finding a job, working, living or vacationing in the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota.
Saipan Living!: Where on Earth is Saipan??? A comprehensive guide for moving to, finding a job, working, living or vacationing in the Northern Mariana Islands of Saipan, Tinian and Rota. Walt Goodridg...
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...
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...
10th Harlem Book Fair - 2008 - Outdoor festival Saturday, July 19
10th Harlem Book Fair - 2008 - Outdoor festival Saturday, July 19 10th Harlem Book Fair - 2008 - Outdoor festival Saturday, July 19 THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Social Media Work Shops at the 2010 Harlem Book Fair
Social Media Work Shops at the 2010 Harlem Book Fair Social Media Work Shops at the 2010 Harlem Book Fair Social Media Marketing Workshops Come to the 2010 Harlem Book Fair Harlem Book F...
Hightlight from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair
Hightlight from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair Literary Events More information and photo from the 2013 Harlem Book Fair: https://aalbc.it/hbf2013photos The Harlem Book Fair, now in its 15 year, hosts a l...
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...
Harlem Book Fair 2013: Video, Photos & Awards
Harlem Book Fair 2013: Video, Photos & Awards Troy Johnson Article All Photos © 2013 AALBC.com, LLC - Feel free to use them but please provide a photo credit to Troy Johnson, AALBC.com and a link...
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...
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair)
Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair) Frankfurt Trade Fair Grounds Frankfurt Germany Authors read this if you plan to attend. The Frankfurt Book Fair is perhaps the world’s largest trad...
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...
Havana International Book Fair
Havana International Book Fair Havana City Cuba Referred to as the Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana in Spanish, the fair’s main objective is the promotion of various books and authors...
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...
Harlem Book Fair 1999 to 2007 Slide Show
Harlem Book Fair 1999 to 2007 Slide Show Literary Events For more information about the 2013 Harlem Book Fair visit: https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/1893-2013-harlem-book-fair/ In celebration of the 10th a...
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...
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
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...
Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair, August 19, 2023
Tulisoma South Dallas Book Fair, August 19, 2023 Literary Events “Tulisoma,” which translates to “we read” in Swahili, is a festival rooted in the South Dallas/Fair Park community that champions liter...
WURD F.M. at the 2020 African American Children’s Book Festival
WURD F.M. at the 2020 African American Children’s Book Festival Literary Events Speaker: Aaron X. Smith, Ph.D.: https://aalbc.com/authors/Aaron+X.+Smith WURD-FM/AM is the only African-American owned a...
Ron Kavanaugh
Ron Kavanaugh NONE Ron Kavanaugh is a literary activist who founded Mosaic Books and the Literary Freedom Project (LFP), a non-profit supporting the literary arts. Through LFP, he launched Mosaic Lit...
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...
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...
The Virgin Of Flames
The Virgin Of Flames Chris Abani 9780143038771 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City o...
The History of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the History of the Likeness of Christ Which the Jews of Tiberias Made to Mock At
The History of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the History of the Likeness of Christ Which the Jews of Tiberias Made to Mock At E. A. Wallace Budge 9781334237812 Nonfiction Forgotten Books Forgotten Book...
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam Ayaan Hirsi Ali 9780743288347 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam ...
Momma’s A Virgin
Momma’s A Virgin Travis Hunter 9781593092474 Fiction Strebor Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Essence bestselling author Travis Hunter tells the story of a young woman who takes control of her own destiny...
Hurricane Child
Hurricane Child Kacen Callender 9781338129311 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. Prepare to be swept up by this exquisite novel that reminds us that grief and love can open the world in mystical...
The Bim Literary Festival & Book Fair
The Bim Literary Festival & Book Fair Independence Square by the Careenage Bridgetown Barbados Launched in 2012, The aim of any literary festival is to engage people with reading, writing and literatu...
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...
Kisha Green
Kisha Green NONE Kisha Green is a multi-talented literary consultant and promoter dedicated to turning authors' dreams into published realities. Since 2006, she's written novels, hosted award-winning...
January Gill O’Neil
January Gill O’Neil NONE January Gill O’Neil, author of Rewilding, Misery Islands, and Underlife, is a former executive director of Massachusetts Poetry Festival and ex-Grisham Writer-in-Residence. C...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
Dance Quadrille and Play Quelbe
Dance Quadrille and Play Quelbe Opal Palmer Adisa 9781733829946 Fiction CAS CAS Books The annual Quadrille and Quelbe Festival is finally here and Jasmine and Justin are excited to be dancing and play...
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 0000000111353723 Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, born in Puerto Rico, was an Afro-Puerto Rican author, researcher, and activist who made significant contributions to the Harlem Ren...
The Devil’s Shadow
The Devil’s Shadow Ian K. Smith Excerpt Prologue Chicago, Illinois December 3, 2004 3:00 A.M. The Metropolitan Bank of Chicago was located on Michigan Avenue between Washington and Madison stre...
King of the Rising
King of the Rising Kacen Callender 9780316454940 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group Book Two, and conclusion, of the Islands of Blood and Storm Series King of the Rising is the searing conclus...
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...
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...
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...
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair 4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. Toni Trent Parker, member of Bla...
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. ...
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue 9780812998481 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Imbolo Mbue’s The Longings of Jende Jonga one of two books to earn $1 Million+ advances at the Frankfurt Book ...
Harlem Book Fair - Roxbury, MA
Harlem Book Fair - Roxbury, MA Harlem Book Fair - Roxbury, MA Harlem Book Fair Roxbury, Massachusetts Due bad weather on June 24, 2006 this Fair was re-schedule for August...
Misery Islands
Misery Islands January Gill O’Neil 9781933880464 Poetry CavanKerry Press CavanKerry Press At the center of her second book are two islands off the coast of Salem, Massachusetts, through which O’Neil f...
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...
Mosaic Literary Magazine
Mosaic Literary Magazine Mosaic Literary Magazine Literary Freedom Project October 1, 2018“After 21 years, we are phasing out the print edition of Mosaic. We will continue posting fresh intervi...
Mosaic Literary Magazine
Mosaic Literary Magazine Literary Freedom Project Mosaic Literary Magazine October 1, 2018“After 21 years, we are phasing out the print edition of Mosaic. We will continue posting fresh intervi...
Homegoing: A Novel
Homegoing: A Novel Yaa Gyasi 9781101947135 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Yaa Gyasi’s London Book Fair 2015: In Pre-Fair Deals, Debut Sells to Knopf for Rumored 7 Figures A riveting, kal...
The Punta Gorda Literary Fair
The Punta Gorda Literary Fair Herald Court Breezeway and adjacent streets Punta Gorda Florida Literary events take place Monday through Friday, culminating in the big one—Saturday’s street...
The Islands: Stories
The Islands: Stories Dionne Irving 9781646220663 Fiction Catapult Catapult Powerful stories that explore the legacy of colonialism, and issues of race, immigration, sexual discrimination, and class in...
Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies (Rev)
Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies (Rev) Faith Mitchell 9781887714334 Nonfiction Summerhouse Press Summerhouse Press Hoodoo Medicine is a unique record of nearly lost African-American folk cultur...
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. ...
Night at the Fair
Night at the Fair Donald Crews 9780688114831 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Step right up! Crews "(Freight Train)" gives young readers an open-ended ticket to the glittery goings-on after dar...
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...
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