On TikTok, videos of the Baltimore book event show a huge empty room with rows of plain tables. ‘I planned my pregnancy around this,’ one author said. A book festival took place over the weekend in Baltimore, but even if you’re local, you likely didn’t hear about it until after the fact. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2025-05-05 20:30:00 UTC ]
After two years of virtual events, the 2022 ALA Annual Conference is set for Thursday–Tuesday, June 23–28 at the Washington, D.C., Convention Center. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-06-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Anime NYC 2019, held at the Javits Center November 15-17, expanded to fill the entire 410,000 square foot main exhibition floor of the convention center, with booths from anime, game, and manga companies and all kinds of merchandise. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
More than 110,000 anime and manga fans crowded Anime Expo 2018, held july 4-8 at the L.A. Convention Center, a show that is fast becoming the primary platform to showcase Asian pop culture creators, publishers, animation and gaming releases in North America. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The event, held over the July 4 weekend at the L.A. Convention Center, attracted more than 100,000 Japanese pop culture fans, and welcomed top manga artists visiting from Japan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Less than 24 hours after booksellers left McCormick Place in Chicago at the end of BookExpo America on May 13, the convention center's West Hall was transformed from trade show to literary amusement park. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Photos from the book fair and panels at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference, held this year at the L.A. Convention center in downtown Los Angeles. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The annual AWP conference opened Thursday at the L.A. Convention Center with nearly 11,000 attendees and a record number of exhibitors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Attendees at AWP’s 2015 conference will sometimes want to break out of the cavernous halls of the convention center. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]