New York City is preparing for the Brooklyn Book Festival this fall, September 11-17, after a successful 2016 festival which featured best selling authors such as Terry McMillan who has written Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, which are both books turned film and prolific author Joyce Carol Oates of We Are…
In the upcoming 11th annual African American Book Festival held in Austin, Texas at the Carver Museum and Library on 1165 Angelina Street, there will be a celebration with many authors who have spoken out in fiction and nonfiction books about the historical, present and future of and in the lives of African Americans. Many…
The Oakland Book Festival is set to bring out over 90 writers for this year’s one day event on May 21st, starting at 10:30 am, to be held at Oakland’s City Hall. There will be everyone from poets, journalists, authors and more to discuss gentrification, education and even civil rights and activism amongst a variety…
Children’s book author Danielle Y.C. McClean is preparing to re-release her book titled The Protectors’ Pledge on May 4th from the Secrets of Oscuros series. The Protectors’ Pledge has already won 3rd place in the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, and this action adventure out of Central America adds to the must needed diversity…
Pulitzer Prize winner and author Alice Walker will lecture at The Brooklyn Museum in May on the 25th, and the lecture will be inspired by the We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 and her own life. For more information and how to secure tickets to this event, click here. Please follow and like us:
To be held at Millenáris on April 20th through 23rd, the 24th International Book Festival Budapest will feature author and 2006 Nobel Prize winner in literature Orhan Pamuk who has written international bestselling books such as My Name is Red, The Black Book which won him the Nobel Prize, and The White Castle among many…
Taking place on April 8th at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel in Pasadena, California, various female authors will speak about their own personal journeys, and among these authors are bestselling authors Yaa Gyasi of the book Homegoing and Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney of The Nest. Both books are to have film adaptations. Yaa Gyasi and Cynthia…
Author Margot Lee Shetterly will be keynote speaker at New Mexico State University inside the ASNMSU Center for the Arts Medoff Theatre. There will be opportunities for the attending public to have an open Q&A with the Hidden Figures best selling author as well as attend the book signing. The film adaptation Hidden Figures earned the number…
Celebrated around the world in countries like Brazil, Germany, the United States, Japan and even Australia, the International Edible Book Festival is preparing for another round of books made of food. Yes, they are edible. The International Edible Book Festival is for any and everyone to enter, however, all entries must be made of food. For those…
The title Devil in a Blue Dress may sound very common to many who are movie fanatics and are fans of movies starring Denzel Washington, however, this famous movie started off as a hardboiled book by author Walter Mosley. The St. Joseph County Public Library is hosting One Book, One Michiana 2017, and it is Devil…
