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Cúirt International Festival of Literature
Five days and over one hundred events at this Irish festival of literature that features big-name authors from around the world. ...
Ends: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

Bournemouth Writing Festival
A weekend extravaganza of free and ticketed talks, walks, seminars, panels, performances and workshops for writers wanting to write....
Ends: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

Sparks Literary Festival
Unique in the St. John's area, the SPARKS Literary Festival features emerging and established Newfoundland writers in a variety of genres, along with featured visiting writers, reading from their work and participating in informal discussions.
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Ends: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

Malice Domestic
Established in 1989, Malice Domestic is an annual fan convention that takes place each year in Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C. Malice celebrates the Traditional Mystery, books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The genre is loosely ...
Ends: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

Edmonton Poetry Festival
The Edmonton Poetry Festival is staged annually in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Hundreds of word artists from Edmonton and across the country come together to celebrate written and spoken verse. ...
Ends: 2024-04-28   [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: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

Vancouver Island Children’s Book Fest
BookFest is a wonderful, fun-filled day for children and adults alike. Renowned authors and illustrators come from across Canada to present their work, tell stories about their creations and lives, and inspire youth through literature and art....
Ends: 2024-04-28   [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. ...
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Chipping Norton Literary Festival
ChipLitFest has earned its reputation as one of the friendliest and most innovative festivals, bringing a wide-ranging array of writers, poets, public figures and creative people to the town and drawing large and lively audiences from a wide area....
Ends: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature
A bi-annual literary festival with a theological slant, the Festival of Faith and Literature seeks to encourage a love of literature as it relates to faith, and to create a thoughtful and relaxing space in which to consider works of literature and their ...
Ends: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

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Michael Crummey and Sharon Bala among writers at 2024 Frye Festival in Moncton
... Festival, Atlantic Canada’s largest literary festival. Inaugurated in 1999, Frye Festival is a English-French bilingual celebration of books ...
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Margaret Atwood joins other authors at upcoming Nantucket Book Festival
... literary causes and promote Nantucket Island as an oasis and haven for the literary arts," according to the festival’s mission statement.
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Our Voices: Festival of Words
By celebrating literature and uplifting literacy, the event aims to provide the Fort Lauderdale community with an annual space to engage with books ...
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The Decatur Children’s Book Festival Makes Its Star-Studded Debut
The Children’s Book Festival is a celebration of reading and children’s literature. With feature 25 exhibitors on display, kids will have a blast ...
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Banff Film and Book Festival returns to the Pablo Center - The Spectator
The Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival returned to Eau Claire on April 21 at the Pablo Center. The event showcased multiple ...
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Upcoming Events

Sparks Literary Festival
Unique in the St. John's area, the SPARKS Literary Festival features emerging and established Newfoundland writers in a variety of genres, a...
Starts: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD)
The Festival of Literary Diversity is Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and storytellers, held in historic downtown Brampton. The FOL...
Starts: 2024-04-28   [Read More]

WOWFest
Throughout the entire month of May, our annual literature festival, WoWFEST, offers a programme of local, national and international writers, per...
Starts: 2024-05-01   [Read More]

Stratford Literary Festival
Since 2008 we’ve been bringing you an exciting mixture of debate, ideas, celebrity author events, workshops and humour in spring and winter. We...
Starts: 2024-05-01   [Read More]

Ottawa International Spring 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: 2024-05-02   [Read More]

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Book Awards News

2024 Tähtifantasia Award Shortlist
presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best Finnish fantasy book published in the previous year.
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Complex stories of migration are among the finalists for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Australia’s Kate Grenville, a previous Women’s Prize winner, makes the list with her eighth novel, historical adventure "Restless Dolly Maunder." U.S. ...
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For the Aspen Words Literary Prize, a jury of renowned writers identify books that are ’a ...
This year’s longlist features novels and story collections that explore race, identity, climate and other themes. Aspen Words will announce the winner ...
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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners for 2024 announced at USC
L.A. Times Book Prize winners named in a ceremony filled with support for USC valedictorian Asna Tabassum. A woman in a black T-shirt and black jacket ...
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In ’Temple Folk,’ Aspen Words Literary Prize finalist Aaliyah Bilal pursues ’the practice of ...
The book is one of five finalists for this year’s Aspen Words Literary Prize, which recognizes works of fiction with a social impact. But Bilal says ...
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Upcoming Award Deadlines

Lane Anderson Award
The Lane Anderson Award honours the very best science writing in Canada in two categories: adult and young reader. Jury panels drawn from the Canadia...
Deadline: 2024-04-30

Iowa Poetry Prize
The Iowa Poetry Prize, open to new as well as established poets, is awarded for a book-length collection of poems written originally in English. Prev...
Deadline: 2024-04-30

Toronto Book Awards
The Toronto Book Awards honour authors of books of literary or artistic merit that are evocative of Toronto. Authors are only eligible if their submi...
Deadline: 2024-04-30

Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. They were first awarded in 1953, and have been awarde...
Deadline: 2024-04-30

Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry
The Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry is open to anyone writing in the English language, whether living in the United States or abr...
Deadline: 2024-04-30

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