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Bay Area Book Festival

Based in Berkeley, California, the annual Bay Area Book Festival brings 200-300 notable authors each year to a two-day festival with approximately 100 programs.

Auckland Writers Festival

New Zealand's premier festival of books and writing, delivering a six-day, 200 event programme annually in May

Boston Book Festival

The Boston Book Festival is New England's largest literary event, annually bringing together 300+ authors and 25,000 attendees in Boston's Copley Square

AKE Arts & Book Festival

Now in its 7th year, Ake Arts and Book Festival has brought over 400 artists, writers, poets, musicians, dancers and thinkers together in Abeokuta

Borris House Festival of Writing and Ideas

Annual weekend-long gathering of international writers across all genres in a bucolic setting in Ireland

Bergen International Literary Festival

The Bergen International Literary Festival for Non-Fiction and Fiction (LitFestBergen) presents international and Norwegian literature of high quality.

Authors' Reading Month

Authors’ Reading Month (ARM), the largest literary festival in Central Europe. It was first held in Brno in the year 2000.

Asian Festival of Children's Content

The Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC), organised by the Singapore Book Council, is theleading festival in Asia focusing on children’s books and storie

Bangalore Business Literature Festival

To celebrate and foster the culture of reading, writing and publishing of business literature in India.

BangkokEdge

The first festival confirmed BangkokEdge as the premier cultural event in the heart of old Bangkok, offering thought-provoking discussions

Brisbane Writers Festival

At BWF our aim is to connect Queenslanders through story, celebrate leading writers and thinkers from around the world and inspire deep thought and curiosity

Bloody Scotland

Bloody Scotland seeks to further the development of Scottish crime writing by bringing together unpublished, debut, sophomore, and best-selling writers

Bay Tales Live

A one day crime fiction festival featuring 20 authors in panel discussions.

Atlanta International Poetry Festival

Atlanta International Poetry Festival features poets from around the world to audiences in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States.

International Literary Festival, to the sea girt shores of Cyprus

It is an open stage, that encourages emerging young poets to participate in order to present their creative identity.

Accra International Book Festival

The Accra International Book Festival is Africa's biggest public gathering of local and international creatives held in #Accra, Ghana.

Berlin International Literature Festival

Since its foundation in 2001, international literature festival berlin [ilb] takes place each year in autum.

Bradford Literature Festival

BLF has been hailed as ‘one of the most innovative and inspirational festivals in the UK’, bringing together literature from all genres

At the First Step, International Literary Festival

Ideogramma is an encounter of writers and poets, from all over the world, who came together for four days of literature

Borderlines Carlisle Book Festival

The much-loved Carlisle based festival, celebrating the written and spokenword, will run from Thursday 30 September to Sunday 3 October

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October 2023

Brooklyn Book Festival

The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers over the course of a celebratory literary week. The festival develops original programming, free of charge, or low cost and welcomes New York City’s cross-cultural book readers as well as national and international…

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October 2023

Litquake Festival

Litquake’s diverse live programs are created with the aim of inspiring critical engagement with the key issues of the day, bringing people together around the common humanity encapsulated in literature, and perpetuating a sense of literary community, as well as a vibrant forum for Bay Area writing. We believe in literature as a public good,…

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October 2023

Cheltenham Literature Festival

The world’s oldest Literature Festival (est. 1949) and the Autumn’s premier literary event. Each year we welcome close to 1,000 writers, thought-leaders and agenda-setters from around the world for a 10-day celebration of the written and spoken word in the centre of regency Cheltenham, a beautiful spa town on the edge of The Cotswolds.