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WI15: Adult Authors to Meet
More than 130 adult and children’s authors and illustrators will be attending this year’s Winter Institute. Here are well-known and up-and-coming adult authors who will be signing at the conference.
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WI15: Writing in A Time of Crisis
How fiction and nonfiction writers have been affected by political turmoil in the U.S. and abroad.
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WI15: Preserving African-American Writings: PW Talks with W. Paul Coates
In this conversation with a featured speaker, PW checks in with W. Paul Coates, who will participate in a keynote panel entitled “Bookselling and Liberation: Black Bookstores in America, from the ’60s to the Present” on Friday, January 24.
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WI15: Unearthing the Roots of Racism: PW Talks with Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
In a conversation with Winter Institute's featured speakers, PW checks in with Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, who will discuss 'Stamped' at a panel on January 24.
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WI15: Writing About Love—and Dogs: PW Talks with Jennifer Finney Boylan
In this conversation with a featured speaker, PW checks in with Jennifer Finney Boylan, who will discuss gender and resistance with Parul Sehgal, 'New York Times' book critic, on Thursday, January 23.
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WI15: Finding Her Voice: PW Talks with Rebecca Solnit
In this conversation with a featured speaker, PW checks in with Rebecca Solnit, who will give the afternoon keynote on Wednesday, January 22.
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WI15: Celebrating Winter Institute’s Sweet 15 in Baltimore
Maryland’s largest city, once nicknamed the City That Reads, will host ABA’s leading educational conference.
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RWA Cancels 2020 RITA Awards
The U.S.'s foremost writers association for romance writers has announced that it will postpone the 2020 RITA Contest, the country's top prize for romance fiction, until next year.
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Select Book Conferences, Fairs, and Festivals in 2020
Here’s our roundup of some of the big stops on the publishing meeting circuit for 2020.
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School & Library Spotlight 2019: Checking Out Midwinter
We offer some educational events of interest at the ALA Midwinter Meeting, which will take place January 24–28 in Philadelphia.
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A Final Farewell to Susan Kamil
On December 5, New York's trade publishing community packed the TimesCenter in Manhattan to hear a who's who of authors remember the highly regarded Random House publisher Susan Kamil, who died suddenly on September 8 at 69.
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A Unique Literary Festival Grows
Grand Marais, Minn., held its third North Shore Readers & Writers Festival early last month, attracting literary types from across the state.
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Miami Book Fair 2017: A Conversation with the Fair’s Organizers
The Miami Book Fair’s director of operations, Delia Lopez, and director of programs, Lissette Mendez, have been working together for 15 years.
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Miami Book Fair 2019: All Our Coverage
Once again, the Miami Book Fair offers a week of rare opportunities to see and hear some of today’s biggest writers and influencers. We interview festival authors including Debbie Harry, John Waters, Stephen Chbosky, Nathan Englander, Jamaica Kincaid, and more.
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University Press Week Wants You to 'Read. Think. Act.'
The Association of University Presses has announced the theme for this year’s University Press Week, which runs from Sunday, November 3 through Saturday, November 9: “Read. Think. Act.”
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LéaLA, the Latino Los Angeles Lit Fest, Returns
After a four-year absence, the free literary festival will be back in Los Angeles in October with 40 leading Latin-American writers and artists.
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Indies Had Another Successful BKBF
This past weekend, the 14th Brooklyn Book Festival was held on a hot and sunny Sunday in downtown Brooklyn, and saw another good year for indie publishers.
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Something for Everyone at DBW
A thousand people turned up for the revamped Digital Book World, which ran last week in Nashville.
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Are Trade Shows Disability-Friendly?
Accommodation for people with disabilities varies at book industry shows and fan fests, our investigation has found.
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Regional Show Highlights 2019
A roundup of key happenings at all eight shows, including panels and roundtables, author signings and mini-TED talks, and even a few pajama parties.