Kyogle Readers and Writers Festival
A three-day festival comprising over 50 separate events including author talks, workshops, poetry readings and performances, panel discussions and lively conversation. ...
Ends: 2026-05-16 [Read More]
Booknet Fest
BookNet Fest in Orlando, Florida, is a vibrant, two-day literary festival celebrating the joy of reading and connecting readers from diverse backgrounds. Held at the Drury Plaza Hotel, the event features a wide range of panels, workshops, meet-ups, and ac...
Ends: 2026-05-16 [Read More]
Prima Vista
The International Literary Festival Prima Vista is the main event of Tartu as a UNESCO City of Literature. The festival features many readings, presentations, lectures, workshops, and family events, aiming to bring together writers and readers and introdu...
Ends: 2026-05-16 [Read More]
Burnley Words Festival
Bring your tall tales, your long reads, the lyrics of that song that plays on repeat in your head and that book you just can’t put down… Burnley Words Festival covers it all....
Ends: 2026-05-17 [Read More]
Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference
The Looking Glass Rock Writers’ Conference (LGRWC) is a unique creative experience for writers which aspires to foster reading, writing, creativity, and a sense of place in Transylvania County. The conference features nationally renowned writers who giv...
Ends: 2026-05-17 [Read More]
Vancouver Art Book Fair
Free and open to the public, VABF is a multi-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances and artists’ projects.
Canada’s lo...
Ends: 2026-05-17 [Read More]
Bude Literary Festival
The festival features workshops and events for all the family in addition to visits from well-known authors. The festival also includes a school programme, that sees over 14 events with wonderful opportunities for the children to become immersed in the li...
Ends: 2026-05-17 [Read More]
Paisley Book Festival
The Paisley Book Festival has creativity and innovation at the heart of its programming, showcasing some of the best and most diverse voices being published today in Scotland and beyond. ...
Ends: 2026-05-17 [Read More]
Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival
The Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival is the flagship annual literature event of Arts Margaret River. It is the biggest regional literary event in Western Australia and aims to foster a love of literature and the arts within the community.
Each...
Ends: 2026-05-17 [Read More]
Huddersfield Literature Festival
Huddersfield Literature Festival (HLF) is an award-winning 10-day Festival held annually in March. A blended Festival of 50+ digital, outdoor and venue-based events held online and at accessible spaces in Huddersfield, HLF champions accessibility, diversi...
Ends: 2026-05-17 [Read More]
Vancouver Art Book Fair
Free and open to the public, VABF is a multi-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and internationa...
Starts: 2026-05-15 [Read More]
International Literature Festival Dublin
The International Literature Festival Dublin, founded in 1998, is Ireland’s premier literary event and gathers the finest writers in the world ...
Starts: 2026-05-15 [Read More]
Paisley Book Festival
The Paisley Book Festival has creativity and innovation at the heart of its programming, showcasing some of the best and most diverse voices bein...
Starts: 2026-05-15 [Read More]
Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival
The Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival is the flagship annual literature event of Arts Margaret River. It is the biggest regional literary...
Starts: 2026-05-15 [Read More]
Bookstock
Revived after closing in 2024, Bookstock, also known as the Green Mountain Festival of Words, showcases literary luminaries and cross-cultural vo...
Starts: 2026-05-15 [Read More]
Black River Chapbook Competition
Twice each year Black Lawrence Press will run the Black River Chapbook Competition for an unpublished chapbook of poems or short fiction between 16-36...
Deadline: 2026-05-31
LGBTQA Caucus Book Award
The LGBTQA Caucus awards a Book Prize for the best book published in the preceding two years. The prize recognizes books advancing research on the the...
Deadline: 2026-06-01
GIRS Book Award
Annually, the ALIAS and ISA hold an award competition to recognize excellence in scholarship of teaching and learning as related to international affa...
Deadline: 2026-06-30
Cheshire Novel Prize
The Cheshire Novel Prize is open to un-agented authors and a deadline for long-list announcements set for July 1, 2025.
The prize is open to un...
Deadline: 2026-07-01
Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize
The Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize is awarded to the best work submitted to the magazine’s annual contest for a genre that embraces, but ...
Deadline: 2026-08-01
