Wigtown Book Festival has launched a £25,000 fundraising appeal to help secure its future following the financial challenges of Covid-19. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-31 11:52:47 UTC ]
Following readings for the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Royal Shakespeare actors will be seen in the International Booker ceremony. The post International Booker and Edinburgh Book Festival Announce RSC Program appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-28 17:41:34 UTC ]
In 2016, while touring in support of my debut novel, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, I appeared on a panel at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson. Despite (or perhaps because of) its troubled history, Mississippi is the Ground Zero of Southern literature, chiefly because of the towering... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-22 09:49:24 UTC ]
Simon Mackay, formerly of Edinburgh Book Festival and W H Smith, is joining Oxfordshire-based AwesomeBooks in the newly created role of head of books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 04:55:32 UTC ]
A digital Irish children's book festival is launching later this month, in association with Dublin's Pavilion Theatre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-04 03:24:57 UTC ]
“We have taken a path of improvisation and experimentation.” How the literary world reinvented the book festival in real time. | Lit Hub “To be forever alone in your own kingdom seems a unique kind of heartbreak.” LA’s resident mountain lion is a lonely hunter. | Lit Hub Nature The age of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-03 11:30:17 UTC ]
As the literary world moved online in 2020, a central question for many organizations was how to manage the annual festivals that gather thousands of readers from around the world. Here, the directors of five festivals—Sara Ortiz of the Believer Festival, Lissette Mendez of the Miami Book Fair,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-03 09:57:24 UTC ]
The seventh Aké Arts and Book Festival in Lagos is all online and available for all to see. Events are free and open to the public. The post Nigeria’s Digital Aké Arts and Book Festival Opens Today appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-10-22 19:32:42 UTC ]
Interviews Photo by Beowulf Sheehan / Courtesy of www.tayarijones.com Tayari Jones is a New York Times best-selling author from Atlanta, Georgia. Her most recent novel, An American Marriage, won the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Jones has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-10-22 14:14:35 UTC ]
The Brooklyn Book Festival, launched in 2006, is New York City’s largest free festival that connects readers with local, national, and international writers over the course of a grand literary week. This year, due to COVID-19, the book festival is being held virtually. In addition to hosting a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-02 08:47:52 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 ]
This year's virtual Wigtown Book Festival will host the world premiere of Alexander McCall Smith's song cycle, "Ninian's Gift". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-02 14:58:18 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 Boston Book Festival has announced that a short story by Grace Talusan is the 10th annual selection for its One City One Story initiative. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-24 04:00:00 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 ]
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 ]
The growing impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the publishing industry came into view this week as some independent bookstores reported slowing sales and the number of book festival and author tour cancellations rose. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-12 04:00:00 UTC ]