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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Theory
Theory Dionne Brand 9780735274235 Fiction Knopf Canada Penguin Random House SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (all genres)WINNER IN THE FICTION CATEGORY: 2019 OCM BOCAS...
Kingston Buttercup
Kingston Buttercup Ann-Margaret Lim 9781845233303 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Jamaican poet, Ann Margaret Lim, follows her crit...
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson 000000008108711X Roger Robinson, 2020 TS Eliot Prize laureate, is known for his debut poetry collection, The Butterfly Hotel, which was a contender for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize. Roge...
Kei Miller
Kei Miller 000000037003708X Jamaican author, Kei Miller, born in 1978, writes across various genres including novels, essays, and poetry. His works have been shortlisted for several awards and he has...
Jacqueline Bishop
Jacqueline Bishop 0000000041919671 Born in 1971, Jacqueline Bishop is an accomplished Jamaican writer and visual artist. She's the founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts & Letters a...
Vladimir Lucien
Vladimir Lucien NONE Vladimir Lucien is an award-winning St. Lucian writer, known for his published works in notable journals and anthologies. His accolades include the Small Axe Prize 2013 and the O...
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...
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...
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...
Polkadot Wounds
Polkadot Wounds Anthony Vahni Capildeo 9781800174252 Poetry Carcanet Press Carcanet Press Winner of the Scotland National Book Awards (Poetry Book of the Year) 2025 Winner of the Windham‑Campbell Pri...
Village Weavers
Village Weavers Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781959030379 Fiction Tin House Books Tin House Books A TIME Best Book of April Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature “Chancy is one of ou...
Pleasantview
Pleasantview Celeste Mohammed 9781632462022 Fiction Ig Publishing Ig Publishing Winner of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction Winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean LiteratureCoc...
A Tall History of Sugar
A Tall History of Sugar Curdella Forbes 9781617757518 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of Gabriel José García Márquez Love in...
High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture
High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture Kevin Adonis Browne 9781496819383 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Overall Winner of the 2019 OCM Boca...
Highlighting Books Needed for Survival
Highlighting Books Needed for Survival Troy Johnson Article Our August 23rd Newsletter is Sponsored by Knopf Expanding Awards Section Our lists of award winning books have greatly increased i...
Cannibal
Cannibal Safiya Sinclair 9780803290631 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Winner of the 2016 Whiting Award Winner of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy o...
The Repenters
The Repenters Kevin Jared Hosein 9781845233310 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature When the infant Jordan Sant is taken to the St Aster...
Sounding Ground
Sounding Ground Vladimir Lucien 9781845232399 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Winner of: 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Vladimir Lucien is a young poet with so many gifts; hi...
As Flies to Whatless Boys
As Flies to Whatless Boys Robert Antoni 9781617751554 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books As Flies to Whatless Boys has been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award!Winner of...
God Carlos
God Carlos Anthony C. Winkler 9781617751394 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books A Finalist for the 2014 Townsend Prize for Fiction!God Carlos has been long-listed for the OMC Bocas Prize for Caribbean...
The Last Warner Woman
The Last Warner Woman Kei Miller 9781566892957 Fiction Coffee House Press Coffee House Press "Miller is a name to watch."The Independent"This is magical, lyrical, spellbinding writing."GrantaAdamine B...
Archipelago
Archipelago Monique Roffey 9781849838757 Fiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. A mesmerizing tale of a father and daughter’s sailing adventure from Trinidad to the Galapagos Islands, winner ...
Kevin Jared Hosein
Kevin Jared Hosein 0000000496906666 Kevin Jared Hosein (born 1986) is the winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the author of three books published in the Caribbean, including The Re...
Safiya Sinclair
Safiya Sinclair 0000000500999106 Safiya Sinclair is a Jamaica-born author known for her award-winning poetry book, Cannibal. She holds numerous accolades including the Whiting Writers’ Award, Pushcar...
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné NONE Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a renowned Trinidadian poet and artist, with works featured in multiple publications. She won the 2009 Caribbean Writer's Paiewonksy Prize and...
Roc Lit 101
Roc Lit 101 Penguin Random House Bertelsmann Founded by Shawn “JAY-Z” Carter, December 2020 “Our aspiration for the imprint is to create books that draw from the best of pop cultur...
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group Lagardère Group Aspect Back Bay Books Balance Black Dog & Leventhal Bold Type Books Center Street Christy Ottaviano Books Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette Civitas ...
Black Lit Weekend
Black Lit Weekend The Barnett - JDV by Hyatt New Orleans Louisiana This multi-day conference brings together Black-owned bookstore owners from across the country for a weekend that honors the legacy o...
Black Pack Party
Black Pack Party StudioBE New Orleans Louisiana The Black Pack Party brings together publishing professionals and writers twice a year: during Black Lit Weekend, typically held in July, and the Americ...
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Various Venues New York New York 4 Days. 40+ Events. 140+ Authors from 40+ Countries Also Co-Host of the Indie Lit Fair, which will take place Sa...
History of our Annual Black Pack Party
History of our Annual Black Pack Party Troy Johnson Article The Black Pack Party is a gathering of professionals across the Black book ecosystem. It was originally held annually during Book Expo Amer...
Co-Founder of JLD Publishing, Inc. at at Black Lit Weekend
Co-Founder of JLD Publishing, Inc. at at Black Lit Weekend Publishing & Craft Jamah (Jay) Myhand, co-Founder of JLD Publishing, Inc. discusses his word search books. Learn more at: https://aalbc.com/...
O Sinners!
O Sinners! Nicole Cuffy 9780593597446 Fiction One World Penguin Random House In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a griev...
Baltimore City Lit Festival
Baltimore City Lit Festival Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore Maryland Baltimore’s award-winning annual festival of all things literary takes place each spring, and remains one of CityLit...
The Furrows
The Furrows Namwali Serpell 9780593448915 Fiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the award-winning author...
Alice’s Musical Debut
Alice’s Musical Debut DuEwa M. Frazier 9781539945550 Fiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Alice’s Musical Debut reimagines one day in the childhood of notable jazz pianist, harpist, and o...
Deanne In The Middle
Deanne In The Middle DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905290 Fiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing What would you do if you were caught in the middle? 14 year-old Deanne T. Summers knows that start...
Goddess Under The Bridge Poems
Goddess Under The Bridge Poems DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905283 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing From the award nominated poet and author of Shedding Light From My Journeys, Stardust Tra...
Shedding Light From My Journeys
Shedding Light From My Journeys DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905269 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Shedding Light from My Journeys is a volume of poetry which reveals the passionate and i...
Wahida Clark the Official Queen of Street Lit
Wahida Clark the Official Queen of Street Lit Author Interviews Buy Wahida Clark's Books: https://bit.ly/wahida Here Wahida talks about the 1st book under Yah Yah Publications, Uncle Yah Yah Part II ...
The Lit Bit Celebrates Women’s History Month
The Lit Bit Celebrates Women’s History Month Charisse Carney-Nunes Article Welcome to Women’s History Month! So often we African Americans complain that the preceding month of February, Bla...
DC Bookdiva "Urban Lit At Its Realest!"
DC Bookdiva "Urban Lit At Its Realest!" Book Spotlights https://aalbc.com With over 15 years of experience in direct sales, marketing, and promotions-online and in-person. Our founders combined their...
Street Chronicles: A Woman’s Work
Street Chronicles: A Woman’s Work Nikki Turner 9780345504302 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House The heralded Queen of Hip-Hop Lit presents an addictive collection of celebrated urban...
Ten Marbles And A Bag To Put Them In: Poems For Children
Ten Marbles And A Bag To Put Them In: Poems For Children DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905245 Nonfiction Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Ten Marbles is a collection of poems for children. The poe...
Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop
Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop Jeff Chang 9780465009091 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books It’s not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetr...
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees
Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905238 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding...
Stardust Tracks on a Road
Stardust Tracks on a Road DuEwa M. Frazier 9780971905221 Poetry Lit Noire Publishing Lit Noire Publishing Stardust Tracks is a classic literary offering, from a young writer with an old, traveling sou...
Vincent Tirado
Vincent Tirado NONE Vincent Tirado, a non-binary Afro-Latinx from Bronx, holds a Bachelor's in Biology and a Master's in Bioethics. They've contributed short stories to Desert Rose Lit Mag and FIYAH!...