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January 13 - 22, 2011 more information
Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival - Tampa, FL
The Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival (TBBHF) is a ten-day cultural event that features speakers, musicians, artists, poets and craftspeople locally and nationally. The festival begins the week-end before and ends the week-end after the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to promote diversity and cultural sensitivity. Activities are geared towards children and adults. Each day of this ten-day experience provides all attendees with an opportunity to increase their awareness of African and African-American culture and history.
January 23 - 31, 2010 more information
Zora Neale Hurston Festival - Eatonville, FL
Taking place the last week of January each year in Eatonville and throughout Orange County, Florida, this multi-day, multi-disciplinary event celebrates the life and work of 20th century writer, folklorist and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston; her hometown, Eatonville, the nation’s oldest incorporated African American municipality and the cultural contributions people of African ancestry have made to the United States and the world.
March 17 - 12, 2010 more information
Virginia Festival of the Book - Charlottesville, VA
The mission of the Virginia Festival of the Book is to bring together writers and readers and to promote and celebrate books, reading, literacy, and literary culture.
April 27 - May 1, 2011 more information
Romance Slam Jam, Baltimore, MD
May 21 - 23, 2010 more information
National Black Book Festival - Houston, TX
The National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is an annual event, sponsored jointly by Cushcity.com, the world's largest African-American retailer online, and the Houston Black Expo, the largest African-American tradeshow in the state of Texas. The event is held in conjunction with the Houston Black Expo and attracts a wide array of authors, publishers, book clubs, libraries and individual readers from the Southwest U.S. and nationwide. NBBF 2009 will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Texas.
July 30 - August 1, 2010 more information
National Book Club Conference - Atlanta, GA
The mission of the National Book Club Conference is to create the world's largest book-club meeting once a year, to promote the value of reading and formulating book clubs among adults and in the nation's public school systems for the purposes of advancing literacy, broadening youths' minds and knowledge through reading and dialogue.
July 17 - 19, 2010 more information
10th Harlem Book Fair - Harlem, NY
QBR The Black Book Review and the Harlem Book Fair were born - to inform, enlighten, and entertain. In the wings there are hundreds of talented and committed writers who only need "the word” spread about their work. QBR and the Harlem Book Fair will be the first word on books by and about the black experience. This is QBR's mission.
September 24 - 26, 2010 more information
Baltimore Book Festival - Baltimore, MD
The festival features hundreds of author appearances and book signings, 100+ exhibitors and booksellers, non-stop readings on eight stages, cooking demos by celebrity chefs, poetry readings and workshops, panel discussions, walking tours, storytellers and hands-on projects for kids, street theater, live music, and a delicious variety of food, beer and wine.
November 14 - 21, 2009 more information
Miami Book Fair - Miami, FL
The mission of Miami Book Fair International is to promote reading, encourage writing, and heighten an awareness of literacy and the literary arts in their multi-ethnic community.
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