St. Martin Book Fair, June 6 - 8, 2019.

Save the date for the 17th annual St. Martin Book Fair [Le Salon du livre de Saint-Martin], which will take place from June 6 to 8, 2019. Stay tuned via House of Nehesi Publishers for more information on the annual theme, guest speakers, and special events related to this international, multilingual and multicultural event.

Announced as “a book fair for the entire family,” the is organized annually by Conscious Lyrics Foundation, the Book Fair Committee, and House of Nehesi Publishers Foundation, in collaboration with St. Maarten Tourist Bureau, University of St. Martin, LC Fleming Foundation.


http://houseofnehesipublish.com/sxm/st-martin-book-fair/

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Literary & Cultural Expo: Celebrating Jamaican Cultural Icons

The event will be Saturday, August 17,  at the South Regional Library, from 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  This is an excellent opportunity to meet and speak with several Jamaican authors, hear their presentations, purchase books and even get them autographed! 
South Regional-Broward College Library                   Southwest Regional Library 7300 Pines Boulevard, FL33024 

The Literary Hang 2012

By Juliet Emanuel


In 2012 the Literary Hang emphasizes publishing. Self publishers, small presses and larger companies are invited to participate.  This format allows all areas of publishing to display and promote their writers and their works. 

It also allows aspiring writers to explore any publishing options present on that day.  This event is proposed as one that promotes the creativity of Guyanese expression, in particular, and the Caribbean Diaspora, at large.


As part of the activities for the day publishers, accepted for The Literary Hang, may present their contracted writers during the day at their individual spaces. In addition, there will be a public reading by invited writers during the day.  


Part of that program will be an interview with the actors from the hugely successful 2011 adaptation of C. L. R. James' Minty Alley. All publishers will be responsible for the delivery, set up, sales and removal of all their own goods. GCA will not store any material or be responsible for any sales.


All genres of the published word, except pornography, will be considered for inclusion in the general activities of the day.  Magazines, graphic readers, e-books, children's literature, cookbooks, poetry, plays, videos and CD's of performances, novels, short stories and other prose are expected to form part of the offerings on display and for sale. This event is open to all ages and children are especially welcome.


There will be refreshments for sale.

The date of the Literary Hang is Saturday, June 9, 2012, at the Flatbush Reformed Church at the corner of Flatbush and Church Aves.  It will begin at 1 and end at 7 pm.

Interested parties must contact The Literary Hang Committee, Juliet Emanuel, Chair by e-mail, jaemanuel@cs.com or by calling Guyana Cultural Association of New York, Inc. The Secretariat at 718 209 5207, Claire A. Goring, 


Cultural Director.
The Literary Hang (TM) is a production of Guyana Cultural Association of 
New York, Inc.


The Literary Hang 2012 will be a gala celebration of the craft of writing and the book.





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Miami Book Fair International: 2011 Confirmed Authors (Alphabetical)

Alphabetical Listing as of September 30, 2011  

Adam Haslett -   Union Atlantic
Adam Mansbach -   Go the F**k to Sleep
Adrian Castro -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
Adrian Tomine -   Scenes From an Impending Marriage
Agustin Fernandez Mallo -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: Encuentro de la Generación del
Crack y La Generación Nocilla
Agustin Fernandez Mallo -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Aida Levitan, Ph.D. -   The City of Possible Unity
Alan Cheuse -   Songs of Slaves in the Desert
Alan Pauls -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas:La literatura en el cine
Alan Pauls -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Alberto Muller -   Wordpress:un blog para hablar al mundo, de Yoani Sánchez
Alejandra Ferrezza -   The City of Possible Unity
Alejandro Anreus -   Memento mori
Alex Fumero -   Hialeah Haikus
Alex Nodarse -   Hialeah Haikus
Alexandra Styron -   Reading My Father: A Memoir
Alina Galiano -   Indómitas al sol. Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Alison Thompson -   The Third Wave
Allan H. Barr -   China in Ten Words
America Manzano -   The City of Possible Unity
Aminatta Forna -   The Memory of Love
Amor Towles -   Rules of Civility
Amy Krouse Rosenthal -
Amy Rennert -   Writers Institute Agent
Amy Waldman -   The Submission
Ana Istarú -   Hombres en escabeche (teatro) (Editorial Costa Rica)
Ana Istarú -   Poesía Escogida
Ana María Cruz -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Ana Menendez -   Adios, Happy Homeland!
Ana Menendez -   Blue Christmas
Andrea Herrera -   Cuban Artists Across the Diaspora
Andrés Jorge González -   Barcos que se cruzan en la noche
Andrew Carmellini -   American Flavor
Andrew Downes -   Labour Markets in Small Developing States
Andrew Smith -   The Marbury Lens and Stick
Andy Borowitz -   The 50 Funniest American Writers* (*according to Andy Borowitz): A
Humor Anthology from Mark Twain to The Onion
Angel Antonio Moreno -   The City of Possible Unity
Angela Barry -   Goree: Point of Departure
Angela Farris Watkins -   My Uncle Martin's Words for America
Ann Bannon
Ann Hood -   Blue Christmas
Ann Hood -   The Red Thread:  A Novel
Ann Napolitano -   A Good Hard Look:  A Novel
Arturo Rodríguez -   Expo Memento Mori
Belle Yang -   Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale
Ben Cherot -   NAW'LINS
Ben Katchor -   The Cardboard Valise
Beth Ann Fennelly -   Unmentionables: Poems
Beth Brickell -   William and Mary Brickell: Founders of Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Biang Jiang -   Chinese Author Delegation - need titles in English
Bill Clegg -   Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man: A Memoir
Bob Edwards -   A Voice in the Box: My Life in Radio
Bobbie Ann Mason -   The Girl in the Blue Beret
Bonnie Clearwater -   Rita Ackerman
Bradford Morrow -   The Diviner's Tale
Brenda Flanagan -   In Praise of Island Women and Other Crimes
Brian Meeks -   The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonisation
Brooke Hauser -   The New Kids:  Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for
Immigrant Teens
Calvin Trillin -   Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Campbell McGrath
Caridad Moro -   The City of Possible Unity
Carl Phillips -   Double Shadow: Poems
Carlos Alberto Monaner -   Wordpress:un blog para hablar al mundo, de Yoani Sánchez
Carlos Alberto Montaner -   La mujer del coronel
Carlos Alberto Montaner -   Wordpress:un blog para hablar al mundo, de Yoani Sánchez
Carmela Ciuraru -   Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms
Carmen Duarte -   Donde empieza y acaba el mundo
Carmina Trueba -   El intenso aroma del café
Cedella Marley -   One Love
Charles J. Shields -   And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life
Charles Kropke -   South Beach: Stories of a Renaissance
Chef Daniel Orr -   Paradise Kitchen: Caribbean Cooking with Daniel Orr
Chely Lima -   Lucrecia quiere decir perfidia
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan -   A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
Chris Wilson -   School of Comics
Christopher Kenneally -   Panel discussion on e books
Christopher Paolini -   Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle)
Chuck Palahniuk -   Damned
Colleen Houck -   Tiger's Voyage
Colson Whitehead -   Zone One: A Novel
Conor McCreery -   Kill Shakespeare
Cristina Diaz Gonzalez -   The Red Umbrella
Cristina Garcia -   Dreams of Significant Girls
Cyril Pedrosa -   Trois Ombres
D.J. MacHale -   The Black (Morpheus Road)
Da Chen -   Brothers
Damien Lichtenstein -   Discover the Gift
Dan Clowes -   The Death-Ray
Dan Santat -   Sidekicks
Darrell Hammond -   God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*CKED: Misadventures in Stand-up,
Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem.
Dava Sobel -   A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Dave Barry -   I'll Mature When I'm Dead
David Brooks -   The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
David Unger -   The Price of Escape
Dean Haspiel -   Harvey Pekar/The Pekar Project
Debbie Levy -   The Year of Goodbyes: A True Story of Friendship, Family, and Farewells
Debbie Viguie -   Damned (Crusade series)
Deborah Sharp -   Mama Sees Stars
Deborah Willis -   Posing Beauty:  African American Images from the 1890s to Present
Denis Fortún -   The City of Possible Unity
Denis Kitchen -   Chipboard Sketchbook and Crime Does Not Pay
Diana Abu-Jaber -   Birds of Paradise:  A Novel
Dina Knapp -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
Dominic Smith -   Bright and Distant Shores
Don Van Natta Jr. -   Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Donna Weir-Soley -   Caribbean Erotica
Dorothy Allison
Dr. Arthur Agatston -   The South Beach Wake-Up Call
Dr. Paul S. George -   The Paths to Justice: The Story of Florida's Eleventh Judicial Circuit
Dr. Silvio Ambrogi -   The City of Possible Unity
Dr. Thierry Brun -   Napoleon's Chinese Spy
Dwayne Booth A.K.A Mr. Fish -   Go Fish
Dyan Cannon -   Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant
Edmundo Paz Soldán -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: El complicado arte del cuento
Edmundo Paz Soldán -   Norte
Edna Buchanan -   A Dark and Lonely Place
Elena Santayana -   Hialeah Haikus
Elena Tamargo -   Días ya vacíos
Elizabeth Berg -   Once Upon A Time, There Was You
Elizabeth Nunez -   Boundaries
Elizabeth Stuckey-French -   The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
Ellen Hopkins -   Pefect
Ellen Hopkins -   Triangles
Ellen Prager -   Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime: The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They
Matter
Emma Trelles -   Tropicalia
Ena Columbié -   Solitar
Enrique Ros -   Cuba: Mambises nacidos en otras tierras
Eric Dezenhall -   The Devil Himself
Eric Skillman -   Liar's Kiss
Erin McHugh -   The Life
Ernesto Ravelo -   The City of Possible Unity
Esmeralda Santiago -   Conquistadora
Espido Freire -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: La profundidad de lo superficial
Espido Freire -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Eucario Bermúdez -   El talento no se jubila
Eugenio Tuya -   Wordpress:un blog para hablar al mundo, de Yoani Sánchez
Eunice Heath-Tate -   When God Wasn't Looking
Farid Matuk -   This Isa Nice Neighborhood
Félix Lizárraga -   The City of Possible Unity
Francisco Corces -   The City of Possible Unity
Francisco Goldman -   Say Her Name:  A Novel
Francisco Martín Moreno -   Arrebatos carnales II
Gabrielle Hamilton -   Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Gene Luen Yang -   Level Up
Geoffrey Philp -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
Geoffrey Philp -   Marcus and the Amazons
Gerald Nicosia -   One and Only: The Untold Story of On The Road
Gerald Stern -   Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992
Gerald Stern -   New Jersey Noir
Gilberto Dihigo -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual
Gina Rudan -   Practical Genius: The Real Smarts You Need to get Your Passions and Talents
Working for You
Gordon Rohlehr -   Transgression, Transition, Transformation: Essays in Caribbean Culture
Grace Lin -   Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same/The Year of the Rat/The Year of the
Dog/Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Grace Zong -   Orange Peel's Pocket
Greg Iles -   Rock Bottom Remainders
Guillaume Gueraud -   Sans la tele
Guillermo Lousteau Heguy -   Mesa: Autoritarismo y democracia en América Latina
Gustavo Nielsen -   La otra playa
Harry Belafonte -   My Song: A Memoir
Heather Graham -   Phantom Evil
Hector Tobar -   The Barbarian Nurseries
Helon Habila -   Oil on Water:  A Novel
Henry Cole -   A Nest For Celeste: A Story About Art, Inspiration and the Meaning of Home
Hilda García -   Panel:Escritores hispanos en Estados Unidos
Hillary Jordan -   When She Woke
Hong Ying -   Chinese Author Delegation
Ian Vasquez -   Mr. Hooligan
Inflammation Relief for an Active Life
Iraida Iturralde -   Indómitas al sol.Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Isabel Wilkerson -   The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Jack Harney -   The Millstone Prophecy
Jacquelyn Mitchard -   Second Nature: A Love Story
Jaime Bayly -   El secreto de Alma Rossi
Jaimy Gordon -   Lord of Misrule
James Gleick -   The Information
James Grippando -   Afraid of the Dark
James W. Hall -   Blue Christmas
Jason Shiga -   Empire State:  A Love Story
Jason Skipper -   Hustle
Javier Sierra -   El ángel perdido
Javier Sierra -   The Lost Angel
Jay Edlin -   Grafitti 365
Jeff Abbott -  Adrenaline
Jeff Hirsch -   The Eleventh Plague
Jeff Jensen -   Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
Jeff Kinney -   Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
Jeff Lindsay -   Double Dexter
Jeff Newelt -   Harvey Pekar/The Pekar Project
Jeffrey Eugenides -   The Marriage Plot: A Novel
Jeffrey Siger -   Prey on Patmos
Jennifer Hayden -   Underwire
Jess Row -   Nobody Ever Gets Lost: Stories
Jessica B. Harris -   High On The Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Jessica Martinez -   Virtuosity
Jesús Barquet -   Ediciones el Puente en la Habana de los años 60
Jill Bialosky -   History of s Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life
Jim Lehrer -   Tension City
Jim Ottaviani -   Feynman
Jim Rasenberger -   The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of
Cuba's Bay of Pigs
Jim Ray Daniels -   Tigertail, a South Florida Annual
Jim Ray Daniels -   Trigger Man: More Tales of the Motor City
Joanne Slan -   Make, Take, Murder
Joe McGinniss -   The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin
John Barth -   Every Third Tought
John Connolly -   The Burning Soul
John Connolly -   The Infernals
John Dufresne -   Blue Christmas
John Dufresne -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
John G. Jacobsen -   A Commodore of Errors
John Hogan -   moderator, comics panel
John Jeremiah Sullivan -   Pulphead: Essays
John R. Schmidt -   The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad
John Sayles -   A Moment in the Sun
John Shableski
Jon Scieszka -   SPHDZ Book #3!
Jonathan Auxier -   Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes
Jonathan Case -   Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
Jonathan M. Hansen -   Guantanamo: An American History
Jorge Castaneda -   Manana Forever
Jorge Ruiz -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Jorge Volpi -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: Encuentro de la generación del Crack y la
generación Nocilla
Jorge Volpi -   Leer la mente: el arte del cerebro y la ficción
José Abreu Felippe -   El instante
Jose Alvarez -   Los Alamos del Bosque
José Ignacio Valenzuela -   La mujer infinita
José Luis Muñoz -   Llueve sobre la Habana
José Soroa -   The City of Possible Unity
Joseph Remnant -   Harvey Pekar/The Pekar Project
Joyce Brabner -   Harvey Pekar/The Pekar Project
Joyce Carol Oates -   A Widow
Joyce Carol Oates -   New Jersey Noir
Juan F. Benemelis -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual/El miedo al negro
Juan Gabriel Vásquez -   El ruido de las cosas al caer
Juan J. Almeida -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual
Julie De Grandy -   La elección de Salomón
Julie de Grandy -   The City of Possible Unity
Julie Salaman -   Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
Julie Stav -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Juliet Eilperin -   Demon Fish:  Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Justin Torres -   We the Animals
Kadir Nelson -   We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
Karen Russell -   Swamplandia!
Kate Whouley -   Remembering the Music, Forgetting the Words: Travels with Mom in the Land
of Dementia
Katharine Weber -   The Memory of All That
Kathi Goldmark -   Rock Bottom Remainders
Kathy Patrick -   The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life
Katie Chaple -   Pretty Little Rooms
Kelle Groom -   I Wore the Ocean in the Shape of a Girl
Kelly DiPucchio -   Zombie in Love
Kola Boof -   The Sexy Part of the Bible
Kostya Kennedy -   56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
Lauren Book -   It's OK to Tell: A Story of Hope and Recovery
Le Roy Clarke -   Voice of a Smouldering Coal
Lee Bennett Hopkins -   Full Moon and Star
Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming -   Immortelle and Bhandaaraa Poems
Leo Selis -   Loco
Leslie Brody -   Irrepressible: The Life and Times of Jessica Mitford
Leslie Marmon Silko -   The Turquoise Ledge
Lev Grossman -   The Magician King:  A Novel
Leylha Ahuile -   Panel:Escritores hispanos en Estados Unidos
Liliana Colanzi -   Vacaciones permanentes
Lin Arison -   Feast of the Senses: A Musical Odyssey in Umbria
Linda Gassenheimer -   Fast and Flavorful: Great Diabetes Meals from Market to Table
Lisa Napoli -   Radio Shangri-La: What I Learned in Bhutan, the Happiest Kingdom on Earth
Li-Young Lee -   Behind My Eyes: Poems
Liza Gyllenhaal -   So Near
Lori Roy -   Bent Road
Lourdes Gil -   Indómitas al sol. Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Lourdes Vázquez -   La mujer, el pan y el pordiosero
Luis Alberto Lacalle -   Mesa: Autoritarismo y democracia en América Latina
Luis Alberto Urrea -   Queen of America:  A Novel
Luis Hurtado -   Mesa: Autoritarismo y democracia en América Latina
Lynn Schnurnberger -   The Best Laid Plains
Lynne Barrett -   Magpies
Lynne Barrett -   Tigertail, a South Florida Annual
Madeline Cámara -   María Zambrano: Palabras para el mundo
Magali Alabau -   Indómitas al sol.Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Magda Kraw -   The City of Possible Unity
Manny Miranda -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Manuel Vasquez Portal -   The City of Possible Unity
Marc Agronin -   How We Age: A Doctor's Journey Into the Heart of Growing Old
Marcela Landres -   Writers Instiute Editor
Marco Ramirez -   Hialeah Haikus
Margaret Cardillo -   Just Being Audrey
Margo Glantz -   Conversaciones trasatlánnticas: La profundidad de lo superficial
Margo Glantz -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Maria Duenas -   The Time In Between
María Dueñas -   El tiempo entre costuras
María Rosa Lojo -   Bosque de ojos
Mario Andrés Moreno -   Foro Cuentas Claras: aprenda a manejar su dinero
Mark Childress -   Georgia Bottoms
Mark Kalesniko -   Freeway
Mark Kurlansky -   Battle Fatigue
Mark Kurlansky -   Hank Greenberg: A Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One
Mark Kurlansky -   What?
Marlon James -   The Book Of Night Women
Martha Medeiros -   For a de Mim/Outside Myself
Martha Southgate -   The Taste of Salt
Mary Alice Monroe -   The Butterfly's Daughter
Mary L. Zamore -   The Sacred Table: Creating a Jewish Food Ethic
Mary Stanton -   Angel Condemned (A Beaufort & Company Mystery)
Mat Johnson -   Pym
Maureen Seaton -   Sinead O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds
Maurice Ferré -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual
Maya Islas -   Indómitas al sol. Cinco poetas cubanas en NY
Megan McDonald -   Judy Moody and Stink series
Meghan O'Rourke -   The Long Goodbye:  A Memoir
Melissa Boyajian -   Lies of the Heart
Michael Bitz -   Manga High: Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School
(Harvard Education Press) and When Commas Meet Kryptonite: Classroom Lessons from the
Comic Book Project (Teachers College Press
Michael Connors -   Splendor of Cuba
Michael Haskins -   Free Range Institution
Michael Hettich -   I'm the One with the Blue Cap On by Jeffrey Knapp
Michael Hettich -   The Animals Beyond Us
Michael Kupperman -   Mark Twain's Autobiography: 1910-2010
Michael Moore -   Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life
Michael Morris
Michael Ondaatje -   The Cat's Table
Mireya Mayor -   Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National
Geographic Explorer
MK Reed -   Americus
Nadja Sailesman -   Teacher/School of Comics
Nancy Álvarez -   Nancy, ¿qué hago?
Nancy Holder -   Damned (Crusade series)
Nathan Larson -   The Dewey Decimal System
Neil de la Flor -   Sinead O'Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds
Neil Plakcy -   Mahu Blood
Nell Irvin Painter -   The History of White People
Nelson George -   The Plot Against Hip Hop
Néstor Díaz de Villegas -   Cuna del pintor desconocido
Nicole Krauss -   Great House
Nicole Mary Kelby -   White Truffles in Winter
Norma Watkins -   The Last Resort: Taking the Mississippi Cure
Opal Adisa -   Painting Awat Regrets
Orlando Rossardi -   The City of Possible Unity
P.J. Parrish -   The Killing Song
Pablo Medina -   The Man Who Wrote on Water
Pat MacEnulty -   Wait Until Tomorrow: A Daughter's Memoir
Patricia Engel -   Vida
Patricia Intriago -   Dot
Patricia Poleo -   Fugitiva
Paul Buhle -   Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land
Paul Farmer -   Haiti After the Earthquake
Paul Levine -   Lassiter
Pedro Corzo -   Cuba: Desplazados y pueblos cautivos
Peter Filkins -   Panorama
Peter Godwin -   The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Peter Selgin -   Confessions of a Left-Handed Man
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza -   Entre dos aguas
Quing Yi -   Chinese Author Delegation
Ramabai Espinet -   The Swinging Bridge (novel) and Nuclear Seasons (poetry)
Randall Kennedy -   The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama
Presidency
Randall Robinson -   Makeda
Raquel Rabade Roque -   The Cuban Kitchen:  500 Simple, Stylish and Flavorful Recioes
Raúl Eduardo Chao -   Jimaguayú
Ravi Shankar -   Deepening Groove
Ricardo Cortes -   Go the F**k to Sleep
Ricardo Cravo Albin -   Vinicius De Moraes
Richard Friedman -   The Bible Now
Richard Graham -   Government Issue:  Comicxs for the People, 1940s-2000s
Ridley Pearson -   Kingdom Keepers IV: Power Play
River Jordan -   Praying for Strangers: An Adventure of the Human Spirit
Robert K. Massie -   Catherine the Great
Robert Leleux -   The Living End: A Family Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving
Robert Olen Butler -   A  Small Hotel:  A Novel
Robert Pinsky -   New Jersey Noir
Robert Sabuda -   Chanukah Lights
Robert Venditti -   The Homeland Directive
Rodolfo Martinez Sotomayor -   The City of Possible Unity
Rodrigo de la Luz -   The City of Possible Unity
Rodrigo Hasbún -   El lugar del cuerpo
Rolando Tarajano -   Sexo Salvaje
Rosalind Brackenbury -   Becoming George Sand
Rosanne Cash -   Composed: A Memoir
Rose Lewis -   Orange Peel's Pocket
Rosemary Harris -   Slugfest
Roy Peter Clark -   HELP! FOR WRITERS: 210 Solutions to theProblems Every Writer Faces
Rubí Arana -   The City of Possible Unity
Russell Banks -   Lost Memory of Skin
S.J. Rozan -   New Jersey Noir
Sam Barry -   Rock Bottom Remainders
Sandra Balzo -   Running On Empty
Sandra Beasley -   Don't Kill The Birthday Girl:  Tales From an Allergic Life
Sandra Beasley -   I Was The Jukebox: Poems
Sandra Gutierrez -   The New Southern-Latino Table
Sandra Rodriguez Barron -   Stay With Me: A Novel
Sarah Dessen -   What Happened to Goodbye
Sarah Glidden -   How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
Scott Turow -   Rock Bottom Remainders
Selwyn Ryan
Sen. Robert Graham -   Keys to the Kingdom
Senator George McGovern -   What it Means To Be A Democrat
Sergio Ramírez -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: El complicado arte del cuento
Sergio Ramírez -   La fugitiva
Seth S -   The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists
Shajen Joy Aziz -   Discover the Gift
Shara McCallum -   This Strange Land
Sharon Potts -   Someone's Watching
Siddhartha Deb -   The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Silvia Núñez del Arco -   Hay una chica en mi sopa
Stephanie Leduc -   Les aventures de Titi Krapouti et Cie
Sterling Watson -   Fighting in the Shade
Steve Inskeep -   Instant City:Life and Death in Karachi
Steve Sem-Sandberg -   The Emperor of Lies
Sunny Chen -   Mona Lisa Eclipsing (A Novel of the Monere)
Susan Briante -   Utopia Minus
Susan Orlean -   Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
T.M. Shine -   Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You
Tasha Alexander -   A Crimson Warning (Lady Emily series)
Tayari Jones -   Silver Sparrow
Tea' Obreht -   The Tiger's Wife
Teresita Herrera Muiña -   The City of Possible Unity
Terry Walters -   Clean Start
Thierry Labrosse -   Ab Irato
Tim Dorsey -   When Elves Attack: A Joyous Christmas Greeting from the Criminal Nutbars of
the Sunshine State
Todd Zuniga -   Literary Death Match
Tom Angleberger -   Darth Paper Strikes Back: An Origami Yoda Book
Tom Franklin -   Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel
Tom Hayden -   Panel: 50th Anniversary of Port Huron
Tom Lichtenheld -   E-mergency!
Tommy Greenwald -   Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading
Travis Denton -   The Burden of Speech
Vera Brosgol -   Anya's Ghost
Verene Shepherd -   Livestock, Sugar & Slavery: Contested Terrain in Colonial Jamaica
Vicente Molina Foix -   Conversaciones trasatlánticas: La literatura en el cine
Vicente Molina Foix -   De la voz de los autores: lecturas breves
Victoria Griffith -   The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont
Victoria Ruiz Labrit -   Panel:Racismo en la Cuba actual
Vijay Dr. Vad -   Stop Pain:
Wayne Wiegand -   Florida Book Awards Panel Moderator
Wilfredo Guibert -   Panel: Racismo en la Cuba actual
Will Potter -   Green is the New Red
Will Potter -   Green is the New Red
William Kennedy -   Chango's Beads and Two-Toned Shoes
Yang Lianke -   Chinese Author Delegation
Yu Hua -   China in Ten Words
Zhu Wen -   Chinese Author Delegation

Source: http://miamibookfair.com/events/confirmed_authors.aspx

The Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta

Impressive Lineup of Jamaican Writers at

Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta.

The Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta has released its programme, with an impressive lineup of established and new Jamaican writers reading their own work.

The 13 Jamaican writers cover the areas of short stories, novels, plays, poetry and journalism. The Fiesta’s international writer is A. Igoni Barrett, the award-winning Nigerian short story writer with Jamaican roots. A panel discussion, Writing it down, explores the pros and cons of self-publishing or working with a publisher, paper or electronic publishing.

Open to the public at no charge, the Fiesta’s first readings start at 10:00 a.m. with the segment Party Pizzazz, featuring novelist Garfield Ellis and journalist, Robert Lalah. Ellis recently launched his latest novel, Till I’m Laid to Rest. Lalah is popular for his columns, Roving with Lalah and the book of the same name.

The panel discussion starts at 11:30 a.m. and features founder of Independent VoYces Literary Fair, Judith Fulloon Reid; publisher of the eZine, TALLAWAH, Tyrone Reid; and Chairman of Ian Randle Publishers, Ian Randle. The moderator of the discussion is composer and director of the music production collaborative, Sounds of Joy, Joy Simons Brown.

Best of the Fests starts at 12:30 p.m. featuring from Independent VoYces Literary Fair writers Sonia King (Jacket or Full Suit) and Veronica Blake Carnegie (The Tie that Came Back and Other Stories). Two writers from the Asante Adonai Literary Lyme will be invited to participate in this segment.

Open Mike will run from 1:10 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. and will be moderated by Joy Simons Brown. Writers are invited to read their best material in two minutes or less.

Sneak Peek starts at 2:00 p.m. and is a reading of Keiran King’s upcoming play “Last Call” – a musical set in 1949 at the Myrtle Bank Hotel, Kingston, Jamaica.

Our Talk starts at 2:30 p.m. with readings from foundation dub poet based in Florida, Malachi Smith; co-founder of the Jamaica Poetry Society and broadcaster, Tomlin Ellis; writer and UTech lecturer in Communication Studies and Creative Writing, Nova Gordon Bell; and Northern Virginia-based fiction writer, Pamela K Marshall.

Talking Drums at 3:30 p.m. – a performance by twin brothers of Treasure Beach, the Shane Drummers – ushers in the featured presenter, A. Igoni Barrett, in Roots and Branches at 4:00 p.m.

Based in Lagos, Barrett is the author of the short story collection, Caves of Rotten Teeth. The son of the noted Jamaican poet and essayist, Lindsay Barrett, who lives in Nigeria, A Igoni Barrett also organizes literary events in his home country. He was a writer in residence at the Chinua Achebe Center in Mombassa, Kenya last year and will be in residence at the Norman Mailer Center in Massachusetts in July, and in September, he will be at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. He has completed a second collection of short stories which is awaiting publication.

The Fiesta gates open at 9:00 a.m., when patrons will be treated to an hour of Recorded Talk, featuring recordings of speeches, recitations and literary work interspersed with musical selections. MC for the day is author of the novel, Bad Girls in School, and the adventure audio drama, Fly Guy, Gwyneth Harold Davidson.

The Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta is the literary stage of the Treasure Beach Bread Basket Festival (TBBBF). Information on the Fiesta is at www.2seasonsguesthouse.com/blog.

The TBBBF will stage seven events from Friday May 27-Sunday, May 29. For more, visitwww.treasurebeach.net/BreadBasketFestival .

CONTACT:

Proprietor Two Seasons Guest House, Christine Marrett

Christine.marrett@2seasonsguesthouse.com

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*Bangarang in Jaipur

For all its flaws, the film Shakespeare in Love has always had a special place in my movie library. According to the script,  written by  Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, young Shakespeare,(Joseph Fiennes) who is always broke and in search of inspiration falls in love with Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), the daughter of a wealthy merchant who is betrothed to Lord Wessex (Colin Firth). From the ill-fated romance, Shakespeare goes on to write Romeo and Juliet and a literary star is born.

But it isn’t the plot that interests me. One of the more interesting subtexts, a conflict among political, mercantile, and artistic forces, appears in various guises throughout the film. And although it may be argued that the artist finally “wins” by writing a masterpiece, the action of the film is driven by a strange alliance between the theatre manager Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) and  loan shark Hugh Fennyman (Tom Wilkinson). And Shakespeare’s dalliance with Viola, which is fraught with class conflicts, is resolved with the action of Queen Elizabeth I (Judi Dench). It’s the classic struggle of money and power with the artist caught in the middle.

Which leads me to the Jaipur Literature Festival and the row between Hartosh Singh Bal and William Dalrymple. Observing the fracas from afar, three issues become readily apparent:

·         White privilege

·         Commerce or what sells

·         Post-colonialism and its effects

In the red corner and hailing from Scotland, is William Dalrymple, who has lived “off for more than 25 years in India.” According to Dalrymple, one of the main organizers of the Jaipur Literature Festival, “I conceived, co-founded and co-direct the DSC Jaipur Lit Fest, which is now the largest in the Eastern half of the globe, and brings fine writers together in 12 of India’s 22 official language.” The event, which takes place in an area that sorely needed the assistance, has brought extra income and tourism to the area. Dalrymple should be congratulated for his vision and skill in creating the festival.

In the blue corner and hailing from India, is Hartosh Singh Bal, Open Magazine’s political editor. Bal’s critique of the festival, provocatively titled, The Literary Raj, traced the history of White privilege in India and by association linked Dalrymple to “inheritors of a Raj that still lingers.” Bal detailed some of the derogatory effects of White privilege on the Indian populace which included “fawning” for “British approval.” This tendency, which extended to publishing and book sales, is exacerbated by Bal’s claim about the exclusion of “local” writers from the Jaipur Literature Festival:

How did a White man, young, irreverent and likeable in his first and by far most readable India book, The City of Djinns, become the pompous arbiter of literary merit in India?

If Jaipur matters as a festival, it is because of the writers from Britain it attracts. When I talked this piece over with a top publisher at one of India’s leading publishing houses, the person, seeking anonymity ‘to protect the interests of the authors at the publishing house’ said: “Indian publishers and writers are peripheral to the enterprise. The list of authors that I send year after year is casually ignored—and that, I believe, is the case with most Indian publishers.

To many Caribbean writers, this is all too familiar. Barbara Blake Hannah raised similar concerns about “homed-based authors” and the Calabash Literary Festival:

We home-based authors thought a break had come with the Calabash Literary Festival, which we thought would give us access to international publicity and distribution opportunities. But over the years, we have seen that the scores of home-based authors do not get invited to read from our work at Calabash unless we line up in the sun for a "rush-the-mike" moment. The only "Jamaican authors" privileged to be promoted at Calabash each year are those who live abroad. Instead, the event gives headline and microphone space to a plethora of international authors, some of whom we have never heard of.

The “local” artists in Jamaica and Jaipur thought they would be better represented in the respective festivals. But money and power see things differently.

Ugly compromises are made in the organization of a book fair. It takes a lot of money to organize a literary festival. And if the organizers want to keep admission free, as Dalrymple did, in order to encourage readership and patronage, then they must make concessions to money and power. Organizers charge sponsors for space to sell their goods and/or a percentage of the book sales. But before sponsors invest any money, they will want certain “guarantees” in return for their investment.

In order to create and sustain a viable product, organizers face a stark financial question: What sells? Will readers come out to hear “foreign” writers XYZ or “local” writers LMNOP? We know the answer. Without the support of the “local” readers, money and power talk. Hence Bal’s assertion: “If Dalrymple appears central to our literary culture, it says something far more damaging about us than about him.” Namit Arora echoes a similar sentiment:

Sixty years after political independence, we still carry an inferiority complex about our literary culture. Our English language literati, chronically insecure and hungry for external validation, pursue British publishing venues and accolades over Indian ones. Yes, target markets and economics explain many things but there is more—it is as if we accord a higher caste to the British and subconsciously elevate and mimic their literary culture. It is one thing to admire and be inspired by other literary cultures, but our attitude here is one of deference, lacking the self-confidence of equals. Nothing like Bookers and Oscars, or reviews, endorsements, and fat book deals in Britain (also increasingly in the U.S.) to turn our heads. Indian novels that "make it" in the Anglophone West are then taken seriously in India—not vice-versa. Do we ever grant the same cachet to books that win Sahitya Akademi and other awards in India? Or crave translations of our best non-English books?

British colonialism has cast a long shadow over the psyches of Commonwealth citizens. It is the great project about which Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote in Decolonizing the Mind. In the Caribbean, artists and writers such as Rex Nettleford and Kamau Brathwaite and many others have dubbed the effort as creating somebodiness in “our people.”

But are “our people” in the Commonwealth listening? There is a story about Bob Marley and the Prince of Wales that Lorna Goodison told at a recent conference in New York that is relevant to the discussion:

Another way in which he helped us to shape a new kind of identity was by his insistence on always being his authentic self, for it is clear that Bob never saw himself as less than anybody. There is, for example, a story about Bob and the Prince of Wales both finding themselves in an African airport on their way back from the independence celebrations in Zimbabwe. According to people, some of whom claim to have been there, Prince Charles heard that Bob was in the airport and dispatched an equerry to him to say he’d be delighted if Bob would come and meet with him. And Bob told the equerry that if Prince Charles wanted to see him, he should feel free to come himself.

Although Bal was confrontational with the use of phrases such as “pompous arbiter of literary taste,” the failure of the Indian literati to envision such a project seems to be the crux of Bal’s argument. Or to put another way, why should it take British approval to recognize Indian genius? For as Karan Majahan concludes, “Dalrymple's success may carry a whiff of colonial advantage.”

In the case the Jaipur Literature Festival, Dalrymple, who seemed to have been genuinely offended when Bal voiced his “inconvenient truth,” could learn from White entrepreneurs like Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records. Mr. Blackwell, who traded on his White privilege, was thoroughly aware of the legacy of colonialism in the Commonwealth. As a result, there are only a few photographs of Blackwell and Marley, which were taken only when Bob learned he had terminal cancer. Neither Blackwell nor Marley, who were aware of the sensitivities surrounding their relationship, ever wanted to give the impression that Blackwell was Marley’s White overload. With Marley and Blackwell, there was mutual respect and a balance in the recognition of money, power, and talent. Both Marley and Blackwell had a tacit agreement about the optics, which served both parties well.

Dalrymple should also realize that he may be just a foil for Bal's ire  Frank Collymore, a pioneer of Caribbean literature who also happened to be white, faced similar kinds of criticism, yet he was instrumental in launching the careers of writers such as George Lamming, Derek Walcott, and Edgar Mittelholzer.

Book fairs in the Commonwealth have not reached that level of sophistication where there is a balance of the “local” and “foreign” writers and these dramas are played out in the public arenas. Unfortunately, moneymen only understand money and they will get their money one way or another. In Shakespeare in Love, the “negotiations” between Henslowe and Fennyman take place over hot coals. I’m not saying it could get as ugly as that scene, but if sponsors think they can make more money from “selling “foreign” authors over “local” authors, they will continue to pressure organizers for time and space. Organizers, who are always critically underfunded, can only compromise. And don’t blame the writers, they have to eat.

Part of the solution is political. But I am not advocating government involvement. This calls for reader to vote with dollars. But I suspect for as long as “our people” continue to devalue “our authors,” book fairs in the Commonwealth will continue to experience these kinds of challenges.

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*Bangarang (For the Patwa Challenged): A hubbub, uproar, disorder, or disturbance. 

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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Book Fair

One of the great things about the Miami Book Fair International is meeting new friends like January Gill O’Neil. Well, January isn’t exactly a “new” friend.

January and I have known each other’s work through Rethabile Masilo’s blog, Poefrika, but this was the first time that we’d met each other face-to-face. We greeted each other like old friends and started a conversation that grew too include Susan Rich, one of the poets, which included Kevin Pilkington and Mark Statman, with whom January was reading.

We attended each other’s readings and I was riveted when she read “How to Make Crab Cake,” a poem that is more about transformation of “experience into a narrative of becoming” than mastering the preparation of a culinary delight. I’d first read the poem on  Poefrika,  and I was pleased to hear her read. But it was even better to know that we had made our acquaintance through Poefrika.

So thank you, January, for a wonderful reading from Underlife, and  here’s to you, Rethabile, for introducing me her poetry.

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My Ideal Schedule: Miami Book Fair International

The lineup of authors for the Miami Book Fair International will again present some logistical problems. Translation: I will have either have to clone myself in a hurry or borrow the Time Turner from Hermione Granger.

Here would be my ideal schedule:

Saturday

Michele Voltaire Marcelin on Lost and Found, Ruth Miriam Garnett on Chole’s Grief, Diana McCaulay on Dog-Heart and Mervyn Taylor on No Back Door.

Saturday, Nov. 20, 10:00 a.m., Room 3314 (Building 3, 3rd Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/michele_voltaire_marcelin_on_emlost_and_.aspx

Walter Mosley on The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey.

Saturday, Nov. 20, 10:00 a.m., Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/walter_mosley_on_emthe_last_days_of_ptol.aspx

Gideon Hanoomansingh, Merle Hodge, Lasana Kwesi and Raoul Pantin, Earl Lovelace with moderator Winston Maynard.

Saturday, Nov. 20, 11:30 a.m., Room 3314 (Building 3, 3rd Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/gideon_hanoomansingh_merle_hodge_lasana_.aspx

Michele Norris on The Grace of Silence: A Memoir

Saturday, Nov. 20, 12:00 p.m., Auditorium (Building 1, 2nd Floor, Room 1261)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/michele_norris_on_emthe_grace_of_silence.aspx

Dr. Paul Farmer on Partner to the Poor

Saturday, Nov. 20, 1:30 p.m., Room 3314 (Building 3, 3rd Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/dr._paul_farmer_on_empartner_to_the_poor.aspx

Kwame Anthony Appiah on Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen and Thomas C. Holt on Children of Fire: A History of African Americans

Saturday, Nov. 20, 1:30 p.m., Presentation Pavilion B (N.E 3rd Street and 1st Avenue)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/kwame_anthony_appiah_on_emhonor_code.aspx

Lynn Emanuel on Noose and Hook, Chase Twichell on Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems, Michael Hettich on Like Happiness and Lola Haskins on Still, the Mountain

Saturday, Nov. 20, 1:30 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/lynn_emanuel_on_emnoose_and_hookem_chase.aspx

Les Standiford and Joe Matthews on Bringing Adam Home: The Abduction that Changed America

Saturday, Nov. 20, 1:30 p.m., Room 7128 (Building 7, 1st Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/les_standiford_and_joe_matthews_on_embri.aspx

James W. Hall on Silencer, Jeff Lindsay on Dexter is Delicious and Ridley Pearson on In Harm’s Way and Greg Rucka on Last Run: A Queen & Country Novel

Saturday, Nov. 20, 2:30 p.m., Room 7128 (Building 7, 1st Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/james_w._hall_on_emsilencerem_jeff_linds.aspx

Heather Russell on Legba's Crossing: Narratology in the African Atlantic and Donna Weir-Soley on Eroticism, Spirituality and Resistance in Black Women's Writings

Saturday, Nov. 20, 3:30 p.m., Room 3315 (Building 3, 3rd Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/heather_russell_on_emlegbas_crossing.aspx

Carlos Eire on Learning to Die in Miami, Edwidge Danticat on Create Dangerously: Immigrant Artists at Work and Ngugi Wa Thiong'o on Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir (free ticket required for admission)

Saturday, Nov. 20, 3:30 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/carlos_eire_on_emlearning_to_die_in_miam.aspx

Tigertail presents A South Florida Poetry Annual: Selected Collective, Poetry, Prose and Projects by The Miami Poetry Collective

Saturday, Nov. 20, 4:00 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/tigertail_presents_ema_south_florida_poe.aspx

Salman Rushdie on Luka and the Fire of Life (free ticket required for admission)

Saturday, Nov. 20, 5:00 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/salman_rushdie_on_emluka_and_the_fire_of.aspx

Sunday

T Cooper on The Beaufort Diaries, Preston Allen on Jesus Boy and Vicki Hendricks on Florida Gothic Stories

Sunday, Nov. 21, 10:00 a.m., Prometeo Theatre (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/t_cooper_on_emthe_beaufort.aspx

Haiti Noir with Edwidge Danticat, M.J. Fievre, Mark Kurlansky, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel and Josaphat-Robert Large

Sunday, Nov. 21, 12:00 p.m., Presentation Pavilion A (N.E 3rd Street and 1st Avenue

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/haiti_noiremwith_edwidge_danticat_m.j._f.aspx

Geoffrey Philp on Dub Wise, James Brock on Gods & Money and Nina Romano on Coffeehouse Meditations

Sunday, Nov. 21, 1:00 p.m., Room 3410 (Building 3, 4th Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/geoffrey_philp_on_emdub_wise.aspx

C.K. Williams on Wait and On Whitman in conversation with Campbell McGrath

Sunday, Nov. 21, 1:00 p.m., Prometeo Theatre (Building 1, 1st Floor, Room 1101)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/c.k._williams_on_emwait_and_on_whitmanem.aspx

Norberto Fuentes on Autobiography of Fidel Castro, Earl Lovelace on Is' Just a Movie and Mark Kurlansky on Edible Stories

Sunday, Nov. 21, 2:00 p.m., Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, 1st Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/norberto_fuentes_on.aspx

Roberto González Echevarría on Cuban Fiestas, Gustavo Pérez Firmat on The Havana Habit, Octavio Roca on Cuban Ballet and Mark Weiss on The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry

Sunday, Nov. 21, 3:30 p.m., Room 7106/7107 (Building 7, 1st Floor)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/roberto_gonzalez_echevarria_on.aspx

Jonathan Franzen on Freedom: A Novel (free ticket required for admission)

Sunday, Nov. 21, 5:00 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)

http://www.miamibookfair.com/events/jonathan_franzen_on_emfreedom_a_novel_em.aspx

Hope I'll see you there!

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MIAMI BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL AND FLORIDA CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS

Miami Book Fair International is the largest and finest literary gathering in America. It is the premier event of the Florida Center for the Literary Arts at Miami Dade College. The Center promotes reading and writing throughout the year by consistently presenting quality literary activities open to all in South Florida. Literacy projects target children of all ages—from kindergarten to high school—as well as college students and adults.

Established and emerging writers from South Florida and all over the U.S. read, lecture, and teach workshops. They work with K-12, MDC students, and diverse members of the community, helping to deepen their understanding of literature, and encouraging the work of writers at all stages of development. The Center envisions South Florida as a nexus of literary activity in the Americas and beyond, and will continue to champion its mission of promoting the advancement and appreciation of the literary arts in all forms.

Miami Book Fair International is made possible through the generous support of the State of Florida and the National Endowment for the Arts; the City of Miami; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; Miami-Dade County Public Schools; the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau; the Miami Downtown Development; and the Friends of the Fair; as well as many corporate partners.