LITERARY EVENTS
(List will be added periodically)

November 2008

Write His Answer Greater Yorktown Christian Writer's Conference
Yorktown, VA.  http://www.writehisanswer.com

Louisiana Book Festival
Baton Rouge, LA.
http://lbf.state.lib.la.us

Texas Book Festival, Austin, TX.  http://www.texasbookfestival.org

Miami Book Fair International, Miami, FL.  http://www.miamibookfair.com

7th Annual New Orleans Book Fair
New Orleans, LA.  http://www.nolabookfair.com
 

January - February 2009

Zora Neale Hurston Festival
Eatonville, FL.  http://www.hurston-wright.org/writers.html

Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI.  http://www.hichumanities.org

San Diego State University 25th Annual Writer's Conference, San Diego, CA. http://www.ces.sdsu.edu/writers/speakers.html

Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, NV.  http://www.westernfolklife.org/site

AWP Annual Conference and Book Fair, Hilton & Sheraton New York, NY, NY. http://www.awpwriter.org/conference

Vancouver International Storytelling Festival, Vancouver, BC.  http://www.vancouverstorytelling.org

Smokey Mountain Storytelling Festival, Pigeon Forge, TN. For more information,  http://www.mypigeonforge.com/winterfest-storytelling.asp

San Francisco Writer’s Conference
San Francisco, CA.
http://www.sfwriters.org

Writing Research Across Borders Conference,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.  http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/wrconf08

 
March 2009

29th Annual Writing Today Writer's Conference, Walter Mosley Grand Master, Birmingham, AL.  http://www.bsc.edu/events/writing-today/index.htm

Los Angeles Times
Festival of Books
UCLA Campus
April 25-26, 2009
latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks

Book Expo America 2009
Jacob K. Javits Center
New York, NY
May 28-31, 2009
bookexpoamerica.com

If you have an ongoing event in your city, bookstore, or poetry cafe, please notify Charles Chatmon at authorsnfocus@gmail.com

BOOK SIGNINGS
A list of new, aspiring and established authors book signings.

November 8, 2008
Author Toni R. Coleman signs copies of her new release, Blood Money: The Beginning

Malik's Books
3650 M.L. King Blvd#285
Los Angeles, CA 90008
(Inside the African Marketplace Boutique - Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw Mall)
(323) 293-3277

NEW RELEASES
Every new author's dream is to finally show off their new book. Here are a few new projects coming soon: