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It’s ne'er excessively aboriginal to deliberation astir what publication festivals are successful store for america adjacent year! The past 2 years caused galore publication festivals to delay, cancel, oregon spell virtual for everyone’s wellness and safety, but we’ve seen a fig of them spell backmost to in-person festivities this summertime and fall.
A fewer of the festivals you whitethorn person expected to spot earlier successful 2023 are conscionable present having their time successful the prima for this year, similar Printer’s Row Lit Fest successful Chicago, which usually occurs successful June each twelvemonth but took spot connected September 10-11. A batch of our favorites are coming backmost successful 2023, and person begun announcing their dates and writer attendees already.
Here is simply a database of 10 publication festivals confirmed for 2023, breached down by wide fiction, YA, and children’s publication festivals. Registration is either conscionable opening oregon hasn’t rather opened up yet and not each of the festivals person finalized their attendees list, but it’s ne'er excessively aboriginal to program which ones you’d similar to attend! Many of these festivals are escaped and unfastened to the public, with a fewer exceptions wherever determination are ticketed other events/a azygous outgo for the full festival. A prime fewer person not yet announced their fees.
There are a batch of large opportunities present to observe books, and a bully substance of festivals occurring each implicit the U.S. offering some indoor and outdoor bookish activities. You’ll besides find festivals for literate fiction, subject fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, and YA. Something for everyone!
General Book Festivals
Savannah Book Festival
Location: Savannah, Georgia
Dates: February 16-19, 2023
Price: Free with ticketed headliner events astatine assorted costs (TBD)
The Savannah Book Festival hosts national, regional, and section authors for writer presentations and publication signings astatine 7 venues strewn crossed 3 historical squares successful downtown Savannah (it fundamentally takes implicit a information of downtown, and I deliberation that’s beautiful). Although 2023’s writer lineup has not been revealed yet, past writer headliners person included John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, Diana Gabaldon, Lisa Ko, and Colson Whitehead.
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Location: Los Angeles, California
Dates: April 22-23, 2023
Price: Free, though indoor panels volition necessitate tickets
The largest publication festival successful the state returns adjacent April successful its 2nd in-person iteration since the pandemic. The L.A. Times Festival of Books is simply a monolithic solemnisation of books and the bookish community, with writer booths, signings, sheet discussions, and show creation stages. The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes besides footwear disconnected the festival connected the 21st. They person not released their database of attendees yet, but past year’s festival brought successful authors and poets specified arsenic Amanda Gorman, Daniel José Older, Ali Hazelwood, Dhonielle Clayton, Grace D. Li, and rather virtually hundreds more.
The Imaginarium Book Festival
Location: Washington D.C.
Dates: May 20-21, 2023
Price: General admittance is free, but determination are VIP summons options that springiness you aboriginal entree to signing rooms and swag ($45), time tickets that springiness you entree to the signing rooms and 1 portion summons ($15) and a cosmic brunch buffet with authors ($50).
The Imaginarium Book Festival celebrates each things fantasy, subject fiction, paranormal, and fantastical. In summation to panels and a Lit Talk wherever authors volition reply your questions, you’ll get to conscionable and get signed books from your favourite authors and person the enactment of brunching with them astatine the cosmic brunch buffet. The authors who person already confirmed attendance are retired of this satellite amazing: Chelsea Abdullah, Kalynn Bayron, Roseanne A. Brown, Scarlett St. Clair, Andrea Tang, and truthful galore more!
Book Bonanza
Location: Grapevine, Texas
Dates: June 23-24, 2023
Price: $250
Book Bonanza, started by Colleen Hoover and her sisters, is simply a solemnisation of books spanning aggregate genres (with a dense romance presence) and ever nets a immense database of unthinkable writer attendees (this year’s Book Bonanza hosted implicit 170 authors!). What makes Book Bonanza basal out, however, is not conscionable its awesome database of attendees: it’s the charitable focus. All proceeds are donated to charitable causes, which successful the past person included charities that payment women and children, victims of home violence, and literacy. Next year’s bonanza volition diagnostic (naturally) Colleen Hoover, Mia Sosa, Scarlett St. Clair, Sonali Dev, Zoraida Córdova, Emily McIntire, and a full batch much but we’d beryllium present each time if I listed them all.
Sleuthfest
Location: Boca Raton, Florida
Dates: July 6-9, 2023
Price: TBD, registration has not yet opened
The biggest league for the mystery, suspense, and thriller genres returns adjacent July. Sleuthfest is simply a large league to be if you’re either a mystery/thriller writer oregon a scholar (or both!) due to the fact that they ever person a ton of inventive, amusive presentations connected the trade of penning mystery, on with readings and writer signings. It’s excessively aboriginal for writer attendee announcements, but erstwhile guests of grant person included Meg Gardiner, Dennis Lehane, Jeffery Deaver, Tracy Clark, and Genevieve Essig.
Readercon
Location: Quincy, Massachusetts
Date: July 13-16, 2023
Price: TBA
Readercon has returned! The premiere publication festival for subject fiction, fantasy, and speculative fabrication took a interruption implicit the pandemic (including past year), but they are each acceptable for an in-person normal adjacent July. This con is chock afloat of panels, writer readings and signings, workshops, and hosts the Shirley Jackson Awards for acheronian phantasy and intelligence suspense. No connection connected writer attendees for adjacent twelvemonth yet, but erstwhile years person included the likes of T. Kingfisher, Catherynne M. Valente, Amal El-Mohtar, Megan Whalen Turner, and Darcy Little Badger, to sanction a few.
YA Book Festivals
North Texas Teen Book Festival
Location: Irving, Texas
Dates: March 3-4, 2023
Price: Free! Parking astatine the normal halfway is $10 per car.
The North Texas Teen Book Festival brings YA authors and YA readers unneurotic to observe teen literature, cultivate a emotion of reading, and animate lifelong readers (the 3 halfway components of their ngo statement). They strive for divers writer panels, and person not yet announced their writer attendees for 2023 yet, since the writer submission deadline is this month. Last year, their writer lineup included Melissa Albert, Soman Chainani, Chloe Gong, Angie Thomas, V.E. Schwab, Claribel Ortega, and Nnedi Okorafor, conscionable to sanction a few.
BAM Festival
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Date: April 15, 2023
Price: Free!
BAM Festival merges books, art, and euphony for teachers, students, and families, and features a fig of children and young big authors and illustrators. Although 2023’s writer and illustrator lineup has not yet been announced, past attendees person included Rena Barron, Stephanie Garber, Dev Petty, Jason Reynolds, Sabaa Tahir, and Katie Zhao.
Don’t forget: YALLFEST is happening this November 11-12 successful Charleston, SC!
Children’s Book Festivals
Children’s Literature Festival
Location: Redlands, California
Dates: March 3-4, 2023
Price: TBA
The Children’s Literature Festival has been hosted by the University of Redlands for the past 26 years, and it returns in-person this coming March. It’s designed to bring unneurotic students, librarians, teachers, parents, authors and illustrators for a solemnisation of children’s literature. Next year’s authors/speakers person not yet been announced, though immoderate of the grant winning festival module successful attendance see Marla Frazee, Cynthia Leitich Smith, and Liz Garton Scanlon.
Hudson Children’s Book Festival
Location: Hudson, New York
Date: May 6, 2023
Price: Free!
The Hudson Children’s Book Festival had to cancel their 2022 festival owed to the pandemic, but they are backmost for 2023. This festival emphasizes sustaining and nurturing literacy successful a beardown concern with schools and parents. They’ve already announced their children’s writer and illustrator attendees for adjacent year’s festival, and it includes grant winnings authors specified arsenic Salina Yoon, Nancy Castaldo, Leslie Connor, Jerry Craft, and Nikki Grimes.
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