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Virginia Black at the 2024 ReadOut: A Festival of LGBTQ Literature
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ReadOut: A Festival of LGBTQ Literature
ReadOut: A Festival of LGBTQ Literature Catherine Hickman Theater Gulfport Florida ReadOut: A Festival of LGBTQ Literature is a program of the LGBTQ Resource Center, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization...
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...
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant MULTIPLE Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant are best friends turned successful authors, known for their enduring collaboration in African American fiction. Both started...
Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt
Menah Adeola Eyaside Pratt NONE Menah Pratt, born in Pittsburgh, is a highly educated leader recognized as one of Virginia's Top 50 Women Leaders. She serves as the Vice President for Strategic Affai...
Lamar Giles
Lamar Giles 0000000514184709 L.R. Giles is a renowned author and speaker from Virginia, known for his commitment to diversity in publishing. A founding member of We Need Diverse Books, Giles made his...
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 ...
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...
Liberation Literature: Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton
Liberation Literature: Collected Writings of Virginia Hamilton Virginia Hamilton 9781646144501 Nonfiction Relit Relit A monumental collection by one of America’s greatest authors of children’s literat...
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 Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon Adam Shatz 9780374176426 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fan...
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...
Larry Linwell Rowe
Larry Linwell Rowe NONE Larry Linwell Rowe is a lawyer, historian, and former West Virginia legislator with degrees from West Virginia University. Based in Old Malden, he's known for his research on ...
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant: Our writing career is officially on HOLD
Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant: Our writing career is officially on HOLD Virginia Deberry and Donna Grant Article Virginia DeBerry (r) and Donna Grant (l)
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...
The Prophets
The Prophets Robert Jones, Jr. 9780593085684 Fiction G.P. Putnam’s Sons Penguin Random House #1 Indie Next Pick The New York Times Book Review’s Books to Watch for in January The Washington Post...
Virginia Hamilton
Virginia Hamilton 0000000114915488 Growing up on a small farm near Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the 1940s, Virginia Hamilton was lovingly embraced by the sights, sounds and smells of rural...
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...
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...
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...
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 Whitewashed Tombs
The Whitewashed Tombs Kwei Quartey 9781641295888 Fiction Soho Crime Soho Crime Vicious hate crimes are rocking the LGBTQ+ community in Accra, and prejudice and politics threaten to stymie PI Emma Djan...
Tamiya Davis
Tamiya Davis NONE Tamiya Davis, a Virginia native, is a longshoreman, fashion entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker. Her achievements include running a rights restoration chapter, owning a f...
Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton
Extraordinary Magic: The Storytelling Life of Virginia Hamilton Nina Crews 9780316383592 Fiction Christy Ottaviano Books Hachette Book Group This lyrical picture book biography tells the story of one ...
Jennifer L. Morgan
Jennifer L. Morgan 0000000116288983 Jennifer L. Morgan is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Morgan is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation's "Genius" Grant Winner, for "Deep...
Swift River (paperback)
Swift River (paperback) Essie Chambers 9781668027929 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A National Bestseller | Longlisted for the Center ...
Lee Hawkins
Lee Hawkins NONE Lee Hawkins is a 2023-2024 Rosalynn Carter Fellow for Mental Health Journalism at The Carter Center and was named the Josephine Albright Fellow by the 2024 Alicia Patterson Foundatio...
Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865
Unbound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865 Melvin Patrick Ely 9781913875619 Nonfiction GILES GILES A vital new volume exploring the history of Virginia’s free Black population prior to emancipation. ...
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels
Virginia Hamilton: Five Novels Virginia Hamilton 9781598537017 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover America’s most honored writer of children’s literature in this deluxe collector’...
Virginia Black
Virginia Black 0000000112712687 Virginia Black is a California-born writer, now living in the Pacific Northwest. Known for her love of whiskey, loud music, and dark speculative fiction, she spends he...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MaKshya Tolbert
MaKshya Tolbert NONE MaKshya Tolbert practices poetry and placemaking in Virginia, where her grandmother raised her. She is the 2025 Art in Library Spaces Artist-in-Residence at the University of Vi...
Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems
Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems Cheryl Clarke 9780810147607 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has span...
Vashti Harrison
Vashti Harrison 0000000476987403 Vashti Harrison, born in 1988, is a Virginia-based author, illustrator, and filmmaker with a passion for storytelling. She has degrees in Media Studies, Studio Art, F...
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,...
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...
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...
The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia
The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes: Enslavement in Southampton County, Virginia David J. Mason 9780999133118 Fiction HMG ePublishing HMG ePublishing The Self-Liberation of Parson Sykes is a documenta...
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition)
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition) Marjorie R. Hancock 9780131109025 Nonfiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press Reinforced...
Ronnie Sidney, II
Ronnie Sidney, II MULTIPLE Ronnie Sidney, II, MSW, is a Virginia-based therapist, entrepreneur, speaker, author, and social advocate with a passion for social justice and youth work. Despite early ac...
Amy Watkins
Amy Watkins NONE Amy Watkins, an award-winning author and physician, is known for her fictional works addressing social issues. A former Navy physician, she now practices family medicine in Virginia....
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...
Jason Reynolds
Jason Reynolds 0000000050509463 Jason Reynolds is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Jason Reynolds, an acclaimed author and professor, aims to engage readers, espec...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches
Virginia Hamilton: Speeches Kam Williams Book Review ’In the 35 years between the publication of her first book and her death in 2002, Virginia Hamilton earned a place of honor in the p...
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...
Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown 0000000055016908 Jericho Brown is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Jericho Brown, born 1976, is a renowned, award-winning poet recognized for his inf...
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 ...
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books)
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave (Laurel-leaf books) Virginia Hamilton 9780679839972 Fiction Laurel Leaf Laurel Leaf Now in Laurel-Leaf, Virginia Hamilton’s powerful true acco...
Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones 0000000031494569 Patricia Spears Jones, born in Arkansas, is the 2024 New York State Poet Laureate, a Jackson Poetry Prize laureate, and a cultural activist. An esteemed poet, p...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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, ...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Blair L.M. Kelley
Blair L.M. Kelley NONE Blair LM Kelley, Ph.D. is a renowned author, historian, and scholar of the African American experience. She is the seventh president of the National Humanities Center, the onl...
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Virginia Hamilton 9780375824050 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Originally Published in 1985, The People Could Fly retells 24 ...
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...
West Virginia Book Festival
West Virginia Book Festival Charleston Civic Center Charleston West Virginia
Christopher Griffin
Christopher Griffin 000000004464364X Christopher Griffin, a Brooklyn-based educator and plant enthusiast, uses his Instagram account (@plantkween) to promote self-care, joy, and community through pla...
The Book of Numbers (The Virginia Bookshelf)
The Book of Numbers (The Virginia Bookshelf) Robert Deane Pharr 9780813920467 Fiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press In the hardboiled tradition of Chester Himes and Walter ...
Dorothy Roberts
Dorothy Roberts 0000000109854027 Dorothy Roberts is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Dorothy Roberts is a distinguished professor of Law and Sociology at the Unive...
Reading Tony Martin Matters
Reading Tony Martin Matters Rhone Fraser Article In my interview with Paul Coates about his 2024 Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, he made the point that the works of Tony Martin sh...
University of Virginia Press
University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press University of Virginia
West Virginia University Press
West Virginia University Press West Virginia University Press West Virginia University
University of Virginia Press
University of Virginia Press University of Virginia University of Virginia Press
West Virginia University Press
West Virginia University Press West Virginia University West Virginia University Press
Vernon Kitabu Turner
Vernon Kitabu Turner NONE Vernon “Kitabu” Turner, an African-American spiritual guru, Zen master, and martial artist, was raised Christian but became a Zen initiate after meeting master Nomura Roshi ...
Black Book Expo: A Conscious Literary Festival
Black Book Expo: A Conscious Literary Festival Elegba Folklore Society’s Cultural Center Richmond Virginia The Black Book Expo, A Conscious Literary Festival is a vast display of literature is f...
Day One: 2024 Was 1984 FAFO
Day One: 2024 Was 1984 FAFO Chuck D 9781636143033 Nonfiction Enemy Books Akashic Books Strictly Limited Edition • Only 800 Copies Day O...
Gamerville
Gamerville Johnnie Christmas 9780063056824 Fiction HarperAlley HarperCollins An Indigo Staff Pick A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024 A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2024 A 2024 Good...
Lisa Y? Wilson
Lisa Y? Wilson NONE Lisa Y. Wilson is a seasoned former early childhood educator from New York City. Now a writer, she's currently publishing her first children's book and was honored in the 2024 PB ...
Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin 0000000401943238 Ruha Benjamin is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner Ruha Benjamin is a renowned sociologist, professor, and author specializing in tec...
Rosewater
Rosewater LIV Little 9781638930228 Fiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House A TODAY and LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated Book of 2023 - A Goodreads Buzziest Debut Novel of the New Year - An Electric ...
Rupaul Charles
Rupaul Charles RuPaul 9781499810172 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Celebrate the amazing accomplishments of LGBTQ activist and trailblazer RuPaul in this inspiring board book. I...
Arlan Hamilton
Arlan Hamilton NONE Arlan Hamilton, once homeless, built a venture capital fund, Backstage Capital. The fund aims to reduce tech disparities by investing in BIPOC and LGBTQ founders. Since 2015, it h...
Coretta Scott King
Coretta Scott King 000000012032932X Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) was a prominent American civil rights activist and author, and the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. After her husband's assassinat...
Karamo Brown
Karamo Brown NONE Karamo Brown, an influential TV personality, and producer, is known for his role on Netflix's Queer Eye and as the first openly gay African American star on MTV's The Real World. He...
JR Ford and Vanessa Ford
JR Ford and Vanessa Ford MULTIPLE JR and Vanessa Ford are renowned advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, particularly for transgender youth. Featured in major publications and part of the Human Rights Campaig...
Austin African American Book Festival
Austin African American Book Festival George Washington Carver Library and George Washington Carver Museum, Culture & Genealogy Center Austin Texas In its eighteenth year [2024], the Austin African Am...
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...