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Anybody know of a website listing book fairs in the US? The Library of Congress used to run one but it seems to have changed.

Thanks,
Terry

You've googled ["book fairs":], of course?

Jenkins might be a start. They are always advertising their packages for paid participation in bookfairs.

Book Fairs. Go to Shaws List. They list many things including book fiars etc. by state.
http:www.RobertMykle.com

Lori, Thank you for this informative information.

Urenna

I'd add the Decatur Book Festival to Lori's list. It's in Atlanta in the summer and I want to say they had upwards of 40,000 people in attendance this past year.

I just went into one of my databases and found this list I'd compiled a few months ago. I noticed the links are broken on this post, darn it.

Some of the fairs might be on the above list, but perhaps there are a few more. I've also got a list of fairs in Europe and Asia if anyone is interested:

North America
• AJC Decatur Book Festival, Decatur, Georgia, September 1–3, 2006
• Antigua and Barbuda International Literary Festival, since 2006, Antigua, West Indies, Nov. 7-9, 2008
• Baltimore Book Festival, since 1996, Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 25-27, 2009
• Banff Mountain Book Festival, October 31–November 2, 2007
• Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, April 30-May 3, 2008
• Brattleboro Literary Festival, October 2–4, 2009
• Burlington Book Festival, September 15–17 2006
• Calabash International Literary Festival, since 2001, Jamaica
• Edmonton International Literary Festival, since 2002, Canada’s only Creative Non-fiction Festival
• The Frye Festival, Moncton, New Brunswick, April 23 -27 2008. Honouring Northrop Frye. International cast.
• Greater Reading (PA) Literary Festival "Reading Reads," October, 2009,[2:]
• Hollywood Book Festival, July 28, 2007
• Litquake, since 2002, San Francisco, annually in October
• Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, late April/early May
• Midwest Literary Festival, Aurora, Illinois, 2nd weekend of September [2005, 2006, 2007:]
• New Orleans Literary Festival, March 30–April 3
• PEN World Voices, the New York Festival of International Literature, New York
• Spring Literary Festival, Ohio University, three days, held in May, since 1986
• Ottawa International Writers Festival, since 1997, twice annually since 2004, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Toronto International Festival of Authors, annually in October
• Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival, annually in October
• Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, Virginia, March 26–30, 2008
• Winnipeg International Writers Festival
• Women Writers Conference, The, Lexington, Kentucky, September 11-13, 2008
• Words Alive Literary Festival, since 2007, Sharon, Ontario at the Sharon Temple National Historic Site and Museum. Next event: September 20, 2009.
• Maine Literary Festival, since 2006, Camden, Maine, November 7-9, 2008

Asia-Pacific
• Adelaide Writers' Week, held during the Adelaide Festival of Arts
• Brisbane Writers' Festival, September 29 - October 2
• Hong Kong Book Festival, November 17 - 19, 24 - 26
• Hong Kong Literature Festival, June 30 - July 16
• Hong Kong International Literary Festival, March 7 - 15
• Kitab in India (see Pablo Ganguli)
• Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival, July 29 - 31
• Melbourne Writers' Festival, August 19 - 28
• Newcastle, New South Wales National Young Writers' Festival, September 28 - October 2
• Perth Writers' Week, February 23 - 1 March
• Singapore Writers' Festival, October 24 - November 1
• Sydney Writers' Festival, May 23 - 29
• Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, October 7 – 11
Europe
• Rencontres aubrac, France, Aveyron
• Arty Malta Festival, Valletta (see Pablo Ganguli)
• Asia House Festival of Asian Literature, Asia House, London, May
• International Literature Festival Berlin
• Cheltenham Literature Festival, October 6-15
• Chester Literature Festival, October
• Correntes d'Escritas, Póvoa de Varzim, Second half of February (the largest literary festival in Portugal, gathers writers from the Portuguese and Spanish speaking world (Iberian Peninsula, Central and South America and Africa)
• Edinburgh International Book Festival, August 13-29, coinciding with the general Edinburgh Festival
• Folkestone Literary Festival, September 20-25
• The Hay Festival, May 27-June 5
• Venice Incroci di Civiltà: Incontri internazionali di letteratura a Venezia / Crossings of Civilizations: Literary Meetings in Venice May 21-23 2009
• Oxford Literary Festival, April 10-17
• Peak Literary Festival, October 25 -Nov 5 /May 25 -June6
• Prague Writers Festival, June 3-10
• Reykjavík International Literary Festival, (Bókmenntahátíd), since 2000
• Runnymede International Literary Festival, since 2006
• Word About Town, Hastings, November 15-20
• Wordfringe, Festival of New Writing in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland [1:]
• Jewel of Russia, St Petersburg(see Pablo Ganguli)
• Venice Literary Biennale (see Pablo Ganguli)
• AngloMockBa, Moscow (see Pablo Ganguli)
Middle East
• Majestic Petra (see Pablo Ganguli)
• BAI - Dubai International Arts and Literary Festival (see Pablo Ganguli)

Thanks all

Tracy L. Conway I know this is an old post, but I recently found this link from last year. It seems like it has a lot of information that could be useful. http://thepeopleslounge.ning.com/prof...