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Pages in category "Literary festivals in the United States" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and ...
Chinua Achebe lived between 16 November 1930 to 21 March 2013, when he died in Massachusetts, United States. The literary festival was initiated in 2016, three years after Achebe's death, by award-winning Nigerian writer, journalist, and Igbo-language activist Izunna Okafor who is also Anambra State's Coordinator of Society of Young Nigerian ...
National Book Festival 2019 National Book Festival 2009. The National Book Festival is an annual literary festival held in Washington, D.C. in the United States; it is organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress, and was founded by Laura Bush and James H. Billington in 2001.
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books is a free, public festival celebrating the written word. [1] It is the largest book festival in the United States, drawing approximately 150,000 attendees annually. [2] The festival began in 1996 and is held on the penultimate weekend of April, hosted by the University of Southern California. It features ...
The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival coordinates the event and provides the staff and resources to make the Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival possible. In addition, The Haworth Press Inc. serves as a major sponsor of Saints and Sinners. In 2020, this festival went on hiatus. In 2021 the festival was virtual.
The festival was organized from 8–10 March 2019. [3] Day 1, March 8, 2019. Inaugural lecture by Mr. Siddhart Varadarajan on Under Siege- The Media and the Idea of a University. He talked about the media and educational institutions becoming besieged by certain forces, giving examples of controversies in universities like AMU and JNU.
Literary Death Match is a reading series co-created in 2006 by Todd Zuniga, Elizabeth Koch, and Dennis DiClaudio.Each event features four readers who read their own writing for seven minutes or less, and are then critiqued by three judges (often actors, comedians, authors, musicians or dancers) in the categories of literary merit, performance and intangibles.