High season for book fairs and festivals: Midsummer's Harlem Book Fair highlights a year-round calendar of events

Black Issues Book Review, July-August, 2004 by Bernadette Adams Davis

Finding a Festival Near You

The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress Web site, http://www.loc.gov/loc/ctbook/, has a listing of book and storytelling festivals around the nation. Here area few of the more prominent regional festivals not covered in the main story. Contact the arts and/or humanities council in your area to find out about local book fairs closer to home.

Fall for the Book

Fairfax, VA

September 18-23, 2004

http://www.fallforthebook.org/

National Book Festival

Washington, D.C.

October 9, 2004

http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/

New York Is Book Country

New York City

October 1-3, 2004

http://www.nyisbookcountry.com/

St. Petersburg Times

Festival of Reading

St. Petersburg, Florida

November 6-7, 2004

http://www.festivalofreading.com

South Carolina Book Festival

Columbia, South Carolina

Annually on the last weekend in February

http://www.schumanities.org/bookfestival.htm

(Black Issues Book Review has exhibited annually at several book fairs, including Harlem, Baltimore, Los Angeles and New York Is Book Country.)

Bernadette Adams Davis is a freelance writer and playwright in Orlando, Florida.