ALabama

2026  ALABAMA WRITES CO-COP  Fri, Sep 11, 2026 

2026  IMPACT BOOK FESTIVAL APRIL 18TH

ALASKA  

2026  Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference  May 16-19 

ARIZONA

2026 Annual Payson Book Festival  JULY 18 

2026 Arizona Book Festival. May 3, 2026; Phoenix.

Desert Foothills Book Festival. October 19, 2024; Scottsdale.

2026 Tucson Festival of Books. March 14-15,
2026  Home | White Mountains Chapter APW Book Festival Home Page 

Arkansas

Six Bridges Book Festival. September 25-October 1, 2023; Little Rock. (Soliciting submissions for 2025.)

California

2026 Bay Area Book Festival. May 31-June 1 Berkeley.

2026Literary Festival of Women Authors. March 7th, 2026; Long Beach.

2026 LitLit: The Little Literary Fair. JULY 6 TH-7TH Los Angeles.

2026Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. April 18TH-19TH, 2026; 

2026Orange County Children's Book Festival. September 20, Costa Mesa.

Yallwest Book Festival. May 3, 2025; Santa Monica.

Colorado

Fort Collins Book Fest. February 2025; Fort Collins.

2026 Margins Book Festival. August 7TH-9TH , Denver.

Connecticut

2026  RomantiConn. Trumbull.

Delaware

2026 History Book Festival.

2026Delaconn. MARCH 21ST  Newark.

District of Columbia

2026  ApollyCon. April 23-26, 

2026 Imaginarium Book Festival. June 5-6

National Book Festival. September 6, 2025.

Florida

                Miami Book Fair. November 16-23, 2025; MiamI   

2026 Amelia Island Book Festival. Amelia Island.

2026BAM! Festival. April 11, 2026 West Palm Beach.

2026Books by the Bay. March 28, 2026; Pensacola.

2026F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival. January 29TTH , Daytona Beach.

Small Press Fair. November 9-10, 2024; Dania Beach.

2026 Southwest Florida Reading Festival. March 7, Fort Myers.

Word of South Festival of Literature and Music. April 4-6, 2025; Tallahassee.

georgia

2026 black writers weekend  JULY 31- AUGUST 2 ; Atlanta

2026 Decatur Book Festival. October 2-3, ; Decatur. 

Illinois

2026 Printer's Row Lit Fest. Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - Sunday, April 19, 2026 Chicago.

Indiana

2026 Beyond the Book Festival. September 12, 2026; Starke County.

Iowa

2026 Iowa City Book Festival.  Schedule OF EVENTS Iowa City.

Kansas

Kansas Book Festival. September 20, 2025; Topeka.

Kentucky

Louisville Book Festival. October 11, 2025; Louisville.

Louisiana

2026Louisiana Book Festival. Saturday, October 31, 2026,  Baton Rouge

Maryland

2026Book Fair at Bel Air. August 8TH, 2026; Bel Air.

Massachusetts

2026 Boston Book Festival. Saturday, October 17, 2026  ; Copley Square and Roxbury.

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi
2026 Mississippi Book Festival. September 26, ; Jackson. 

 New Jersey

       2026   Collingswood Book Festival. October 3, 2026; Collingswood.

       2026  Morristown Festival of Books. October 9-10, 2026, Morristown. 

  New york

           2026         Brooklyn Book Festival. September 20-28TH Brooklyn.

                    The Chappaqua Children's Book Festival. September 27, 2025; Chappaqua.

                     Rochester Children's Book Festival. November 8, 2025; Rochester.

                     Saratoga Book Festival. October 2-5, 2025; Saratoga Springs.

   North Carolina

      Bookmarks' Festival of Books and Authors. September 25-28, 2025; Winston-Salem.

   Ohio

             Books by the Banks. November 15, 2025; Cincinnati.

   2026   Buckeye Book Fair. November 7th , Wooster.

   2026   Mid-Ohio Indie Author Book Expo August 8TH   Grove City.

 Oregon

  2026   Portland Book Festival. November 7, Portland.

Pennsylvania 

Harrisburg Book Festival. October 2025; Harrisburg.

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Charleston Literary Festival. November 7-16, 2025; Charleston

South Dakota

2026 South Dakota Festival of Books. September; Deadwood.

Tennessee

2026 Southern Festival of Books. October 17-18, 2025; Nashville.

Texas

2026 National Black Book Festival. October 22-24, 2025; Houston.

Virginia

Fall for the Book. October 7-11, 2025; Fairfax.

Virginia Children's Book Festival. October 15-17, 2025; Farmville. 

Wisconsin

Wisconsin Book Festival. October 23-26, 2025; Madison.

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