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Atlanta Book Festival
an evening with an author panel, book markets, creative workshops, live performances, & more! ...
Ends: 2025-10-03   [Read More]

Decatur Book Festival
The Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, more than 1,000 world-class authors and hundreds of thousands of festival-goers have crowded the historic downtown Dec...
Ends: 2025-10-04   [Read More]

Paper Covers Rock
Paper Covers Rock is a vibrant readers and writers festival held annually on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. It’s a celebration of storytelling in all its forms—bringing together authors, poets, artists, and literary enthusiasts for a weekend of...
Ends: 2025-10-04   [Read More]

New Hampshire Book Festival
The New Hampshire Book Festival is an annual event that brings published authors together with readers to celebrate literacy, conversation, and community. ...
Ends: 2025-10-04   [Read More]

Oregon Poetry Association Annual Conference
The conference will feature workshops, keynote speakers, and community-building activities for poets of all levels. ...
Ends: 2025-10-04   [Read More]

Norman Maclean Literary Festival
The Norman Maclean Literary Festival is a celebration that honors the legacy of Norman Maclean, an esteemed author known for his work, including the iconic book “A River Runs Through It.” This literary festival brings together writers, thinkers, and n...
Ends: 2025-10-04   [Read More]

Ness Book Fest
Inverness-based book festival that features emerging voices as well as big names in a free programme of events. ...
Ends: 2025-10-04   [Read More]

Elephant Mountain Literary Festival
The Elephant Mountain Literary Festival is a reader’s and writer’s festival that showcases some of Canada’s best literary luminaries alongside talented local writers, with live events, panel discussions, and workshops. ...
Ends: 2025-10-05   [Read More]

Six Bridges Book Festival
The Festival features more than 70 award-winning and bestselling authors representing genres from history to graphic novels, from fantasy to romance, from children’s books to thrillers. Most events are free and virtual, accessible via Zoom. ...
Ends: 2025-10-05   [Read More]

Sevenoaks Literary Festival
Founded in 2001 the Sevenoaks Literary Festival aims to create engaging events for and in the heart of our community.

With an eclectic mix of styles, forms and events, the volunteers who run the festival seek out the brightest minds and mo...
Ends: 2025-10-05   [Read More]

Festival News

Preview: Singapore Writers Festival 2025 – shape of things to come
From 7 to 16 November 2025, the Singapore Writers Festival (SWF) returns with its 28th edition under the theme Shape of Things to Come.
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This is what happens when crime and thriller authors get together
Chiltern Kills is a literary festival with a difference... and karaoke. by: Paul Waters. 20 Sep 2025. Share. Crime authors can be a solitary lot, ...
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Punch Bucket Lit to bring buckets of writers to weekend festival
Writers and readers alike are invited to the Punch Bucket Literary Festival, a weekend celebration that will bring writers, poets and essayists ...
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2025 Banff Mountain Book Competition finalists announced
The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this fall, has announced the finalists in the 2025 ...
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Book lovers and writers invited to second annual Tahoe Literary Fest
Brooke Warner, author and publisher of She Writes Press; Steve Wasserman of Heyday Books. The Tahoe Literary Festival is a grassroots community event ...
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Upcoming Events

Decatur Book Festival
The Decatur Book Festival is the largest independent book festival in the country and one of the five largest overall. Since its launch, more tha...
Starts: 2025-10-03   [Read More]

Paper Covers Rock
Paper Covers Rock is a vibrant readers and writers festival held annually on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. It’s a celebration of storyt...
Starts: 2025-10-03   [Read More]

Atlanta Book Festival
an evening with an author panel, book markets, creative workshops, live performances, & more! ...
Starts: 2025-10-03   [Read More]

Conflux
The annual Canberra speculative fiction conference features panel discussions, books launches and author talks. ...
Starts: 2025-10-03   [Read More]

Ilkley Literature Festival
Poets, politicians, actors and adventurers will head to Ilkley for its famed literary festival each autumn. Founded in 1973, it’s the North’s...
Starts: 2025-10-03   [Read More]

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Book Awards News

Dr. Juan P. Chisholm ends 2024 as a ’Finalist’ for the eminent American Legacy Book ...
Award-Winning Author, Dr. Juan P. Chisholm is an American Legacy Book Award "Finalist." Mission Possible: How to Graduate from College Debt-Free by Dr ...
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Voting open for the 2025 Nene Award
Every spring, fourth through sixth graders across the state get to choose the best chapter book and graphic novel from a list of 30 nominees, ...
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North Carolina Book Awards Announced
The annual awards recognize significant works by North Carolina writers. The 2024 North Carolina Book Award winners are: ×. This page requires ...
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Story Monsters®? LLC Announces Winners of the 2024 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards
Story Monsters®? proudly announces the 2024 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards winners, celebrating excellence in adult and children’s literature ...
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’Best Thrillers Book Awards’ Names ’All Mortal Greatness’
New Ipswich, New Hampshire, November 06, 2010 -- NABE announced, just recently, the winners of the Fall 2010 Pinnacle Book Award. Friends of Choice ...
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Upcoming Award Deadlines

New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition
A prize of $1,500, royalty contract, and publication by Finishing Line Press is given annually to the winner for a poetry chapbook by a writer who ide...
Deadline: 2025-10-15

Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations
The Albert B. Corey Prize, awarded for the first time in 1967, is sponsored jointly by the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical...
Deadline: 2026-05-15

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