Ahead of the 20th National Book Festival, Laura Bush, Scott Turow, Michael Beschloss and others look back at the event’s storied beginning. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-09-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
Jenny Offil, Richard Osman and Ann Cleeves are among the authors taking part in the first digital Durham Book Festival this October. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-10 10:23:16 UTC ]
Edinburgh International Book Festival director Nick Barley has said this year's event has "generated its own sense of community", despite being entirely online for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-31 15:56:44 UTC ]
Jay Rayner, Douglas Stuart and Kirsty Wark are among the authors confirmed for the last stretch of this year's digital Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-28 17:42:59 UTC ]
The Aké Arts and Book Festival has a strong activist context for many of its 2020 events, set around the theme 'African Time.' The post Coronavirus Impact: Nigeria’s Aké Arts and Book Festival 2020 is Digital appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-24 17:43:21 UTC ]
The 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival will be presented online from Saturday 15 to Monday 31 August. The programme, made up of over 140 events for adults, families and children, will offer both live and pre-recorded conversations featuring leading writers, poets and participants from... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-08-07 14:45:31 UTC ]
Graham Norton, Joanna Trollope and Nadiya Hussain are among the speakers joining Henley Literary Festival's online event this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-05 01:02:31 UTC ]
Appledore Book Festival is to go ahead with its annual fixture this autumn, reinventing itself as the UK's first drive-in literary festival. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 00:18:18 UTC ]
The Guildford Book Festival is appealing for funds for the first time in its 31-year history, after learning the Covid-19 pandemic could make this October's edition its last. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-09 01:35:14 UTC ]
What happens when you hand over the reins of a literary festival to the hosts of the popular feminist podcast Call Your Girlfriend? You get By The Books: A Collection of Rising Voices, a highly diverse online lit fest. By The Books starts today and is curated by Ann Friedman and Aminatou... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2020-07-06 20:50:30 UTC ]
The latest live event to shift its plans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic: the National Book Festival. Organizers announced Thursday that the festival, which was originally set to take place Aug. 29 at the Washington Convention Center will now run online from Sept. 25-27. The event... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-28 16:22:19 UTC ]
The Library of Congress’s annual event usually draws hundreds of thousands of attendees. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-28 15:10:21 UTC ]
This year's Wigtown Book Festival will now be held online due to the pandemic, its organisers have confirmed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-16 02:24:56 UTC ]
THREE MUSLIM GIRLS — two sisters and their cousin — stood in the sunshine on the grounds of the Diggi Palace Hotel in Jaipur, where the world’s largest literary festival took place over five days in late January. All around them, young people streamed into the sprawling compound, before a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-05-14 17:00:42 UTC ]
Book events worldwide are on hold, but Afrolit Sans Frontieres uses social media to host frank discussions around writing, creativity, sex and violence. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-05-14 14:18:46 UTC ]
Bradford Literature Festival, originally scheduled for 26th June-5th July, has been cancelled amid the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-08 15:04:29 UTC ]
This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival has been cancelled, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-02 00:46:13 UTC ]
The moment they hit the press, the reviews for The Mirror And The Light were glowing. A “shoo-in for the Booker Prize” said the Guardian. “A masterpiece of historical fiction” according to the Independent. “Does it merit another Booker?” asks the Evening Standard, before concluding “yes it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-27 10:51:38 UTC ]
While German publishers are still reeling from the cancellation of the major spring fair Leipziger Buchmesse last week, the industry has been dealt two more blows in the wake of the coronavirus crises. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-11 07:50:07 UTC ]
Tamara Zimet is joining the Edinburgh International Book Festival as deputy programme director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-09 04:56:58 UTC ]