Cleveland Jewish Book Festival
This annual festival celebrates Jewish authors, books and ideas. Featuring books written by nationally and internationally acclaimed authors, participants will hear the stories behind a broad range of topics including Jewish life, historical fiction, Isra...
Ends: 2026-04-30 [Read More]
Wrexham Carnival of Words
A week-long annual event with a mixture of Thriller, Horror, Historical, Romance and more, the Wrexham Carnival of Words has become a fixture in the literary calendar in Wales and the borderlands attracting a diverse range of well-known authors. ...
Ends: 2026-05-01 [Read More]
Festival of Literary Diversity
The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) is Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and storytellers, held in historic downtown Brampton. The FOLD provides one-of-a-kind events for kids and adults that engage readers, inspire writers, and empower e...
Ends: 2026-05-03 [Read More]
Frye Festival
The Frye Festival is Canada’s only bilingual international literary festival and the largest literary event in Atlantic Canada. The Frye Festival offers the best of local, Canadian and international authors, including children’s authors, graphic novel...
Ends: 2026-05-03 [Read More]
Hexham Book Festival
Hexham Book Festival is a Not For Profit CIC and delivers an annual festival that takes place in and around Hexham in April/May each year. It has grown significantly since its first Festival in 2006 into an important part of the regional arts calendar. ...
Ends: 2026-05-03 [Read More]
Rooted & Written Conference
Forty-six Rooted & Written Fellows will be selected to attend nine days of classes, workshops, and mentoring, plus the opportunity to participate in lunchtime Conversations with featured literary luminaries.
All Rooted & Written Fellows are awarded...
Ends: 2026-05-03 [Read More]
Guernsey Literary Festival
The festival attracts speakers from a wide range of disciplines, from literature to politics, from history to sport, from the environment to food, from biography to travel. We also organise a full education and community programme, together with workshops...
Ends: 2026-05-07 [Read More]
Chipping Campden Literature Festival
A much loved literature festival in the heart of the Cotswolds and only a 20 minute drive from The Old Post Office. Our programme covers fiction, poetry, and non-fiction including biography and memoir, and we have events on royalty, spying, fraud, history...
Ends: 2026-05-09 [Read More]
Drexel Writing Festival
Since 2011, the Drexel Writing Festival has explored rock music, ritual, play, hunger and empowerment. Guests represent esteemed authors and editors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, news media and comic books. The event has also spotlighted Young Adult (YA...
Ends: 2026-05-11 [Read More]
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Ledbury Poetry Festival is an inclusive, international and inspirational celebration of poetry and spoken word over ten fabulously busy days, live in Ledbury and online to the world....
Ends: 2027-07-06 [Read More]
Deepings Literary Festival Storyfest
Deepings Literary Festival is a festival for everyone who enjoys words – the written word, the spoken word, the recited word and the sung word ...
Starts: 2026-04-29 [Read More]
Ottawa International Writers Festival
Ottawa’s Festival of Ideas since 1997. We believe that a love of reading and learning should be nurtured throughout our lives and that literacy...
Starts: 2026-04-30 [Read More]
PEN World Voices Festival
The World Voices Festival, founded in 2004 by Salman Rushdie, Michael Roberts, and Esther Allen, is PEN America’s celebration of international ...
Starts: 2026-04-30 [Read More]
Oklahoma Writers Federation Conference
Enjoy sessions with publishing experts who can provide career-advancing knowledge. Speakers on legal issues, short stories, writing for film, edi...
Starts: 2026-04-30 [Read More]
Bocas Lit Fest
The NGC Bocas Lit Fest, based in Trinidad and Tobago, is an annual celebration of books, writing, and writers. ...
Starts: 2026-04-30 [Read More]
Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Canadian Youth
The Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize for Canadian Youth was established to foster a lifelong relationship between Canadian youth and the literary...
Deadline: 2026-04-30
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
Tethered by Letters F(r)iction Literary Competition
TBL is pleased to announce our Spring Literary Competition. There are three submission categories: 1) short stories of any genre ranging from 1,000 to...
Deadline: 2026-05-15
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
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
