Plan your Literary Summer Vacation
Here’s a list of Literary/Storytelling Festivals coming up this Summer in North America:
Alaska Book Festival | Fairbanks | Summer
Lakefield Literary Festival | Lakefield | July
The Scream | Toronto | July
Festival of Words| Moose Jaw | July
Iowa Storytelling Festival | Clear Lake | July
Newberry Library Book Fair | Chicago | July
Michigan Storytellers Festival | Flint | July
Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference | Oxford | July
New Jersey Storytelling Festival | Hamilton | July
Harlem Book Fair | New York | July
Timpanogos Storytelling Festival | Orem | Aug
Three Rivers Storytelling Festival | Pittsburgh | Aug
Grand Haven Area Book Festival | Grand Haven | Aug
New Salem Storytelling Festival | Petersburg | Aug
Georgia Literary Festival | venue changes each year |Aug
Steinbeck Festival | Salinas | Aug
Folk Humor, Storytelling and Cowboy Gathering Weekend | Mountain View | Aug
Martha’s Vineyard Book Festival | Chilmark | Aug
And in the U.K.:
July
Buxton Festival, Derbyshire 10-18 July, 2009s
Chichester Fesitval (continues)
Dartington Hall Way with Words Festival
Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival (continues through July)
Port Eliot Lit Fest, Cornwall, 24-26 July, 2009
Theakston Old Peculier Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
West Cork Literary Festival 5th – 11th July, 2009
August
June 10th, 2009 at 11:00 PM
You missed a big one happening this weekend. The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival features more than a dozen authors including Danzy Senna, Gayle Brandeis, and Neil Aitken! Don’t miss it June 12-13 at the Japanese American National Museum, 369 East First Street, Los Angeles. FREE! http://www.mxroots.org.