- Aran Islands Prose and Poetry Festival
Features readings from celebrated international and Irish authors, lectures, workshops, and more. August 14-21, 1999.
www.aranfestival.com
- Bath Literature Festival
Annual event featuring performances by authors, musicians, and storytellers, as well as lectures and creative activities.
www.bathlitfest.org.uk
- Blue Metropolis
International literary festival.
www.blue-met-bleu.com
- Border Book Festival
Held annually in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
www.zianet.com/bbf
- Dublin Writers Festival
Annual festival of Irish and international poetry and fiction, taking place in mid June.
www.dublinwritersfestival.com
- Edinburgh International Book Festival
www.edbookfest.co.uk
- Fall for the Book Festival
Annual literary festival, sponsored by the City of Fairfax and George Mason University, held on the last weekend in September.
www.fallforthebook.org
- Festival of Words
Celebrates creative language with a summer literary and film festival, youth writing camp, and open mike coffee houses. Held annually in July.
www.festivalofwords.com
- Hay Festival
Annual spring festival celebrating literature and the arts.
www.hayfestival.co.uk
- Hong Kong International Literary Festival
May 11-13, 2001, Hong Kong. Features local, regional, and international authors.
www.paddyfield.com.hk/festival
- Ilkley Literature Festival
Providing up-to-date information on the North of England's largest annual literary event.
www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
- Inland Empire Bookfest
At San Bernardino Valley College.
bookfest.sbccd.cc.ca.us
- Montana Festival of the Book
Featuring readings and discussions with regional writers. Sept. 8-9, 2000.
www.bookfest-mt.org
- National Book Festival
Annual event sponsored by the Library of Congress.
www.loc.gov/bookfest
- North Carolina Literary Festival@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Entertainment_and_Arts/Literature
- Ottawa International Writers Festival
Plays host to emerging and established authors every September. Site features info on past and current festivals.
www.writersfest.com
- Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Annual event held each March in the French Quarter, with literary panels, master classses, theater events, and walking tours of Williams' New Orleans haunts.
www.tennesseewilliams.net
- Texas Book Festival - Austin, TX
A celebration of books by Texans and about Texas, and of the joys of reading.
www.texasbookfestival.org
- The Word: The London Festival of Literature
Annual celebration of the written and spoken word.
www.theword.org.uk
- Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival
Held annually over six days in late October. Offers an opportunity for writers and readers to get together and to find out what others are thinking, and how they're expressing those thoughts.
www.writersfest.bc.ca
- Virginia Festival of the Book
Roundtable and panel discussions, author presentations and signings, bookselling and book swapping.
www.vabook.org
- William Carleton Summer School
Aims primarily to present Carleton as a significant writer, worthy of serious critical attention, and to promote the study of his writings. Held annually, during the first full week in August
www.williamcarletonsummerschool.org
- www.readings.org
Provides information for the Harbourfront Reading Series and International Festival of Authors.
www.readings.org
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