- Aran Islands Prose and Poetry Festival
 - Features readings from celebrated international and Irish authors, lectures, workshops, and more. August 14-21, 1999. - Bath Literature Festival
- Annual event featuring performances by authors, musicians, and storytellers, as well as lectures and creative activities.
- Blue Metropolis
- International literary festival.
- Border Book Festival
- Held annually in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
- Dublin Writers Festival
- Annual festival of Irish and international poetry and fiction, taking place in mid June.
- Edinburgh International Book Festival
- Fall for the Book Festival
- Annual literary festival, sponsored by the City of Fairfax and George Mason University, held on the last weekend in September.
- Festival of Words
- Celebrates creative language with a summer literary and film festival, youth writing camp, and open mike coffee houses. Held annually in July.
- Hay Festival
- Annual spring festival celebrating literature and the arts.
- Hong Kong International Literary Festival
- May 11-13, 2001, Hong Kong. Features local, regional, and international authors.
- Ilkley Literature Festival
- Providing up-to-date information on the North of England's largest annual literary event.
- Inland Empire Bookfest
- At San Bernardino Valley College.
- Montana Festival of the Book
- Featuring readings and discussions with regional writers. Sept. 8-9, 2000.
- National Book Festival
- Annual event sponsored by the Library of Congress.
- North Carolina Literary Festival@
- Ottawa International Writers Festival
- Plays host to emerging and established authors every September. Site features info on past and current festivals.
- Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
- Annual event held each March in the French Quarter, with literary panels, master classses, theatre events, and walking tours of Williams' New Orleans haunts.
- Texas Book Festival - Austin, TX
- A celebration of books by Texans and about Texas, and of the joys of reading.
- The Word: The London Festival of Literature
- Annual celebration of the written and spoken word.
- Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival
- Held annually over six days in late October. Offers an opportunity for writers and readers to get together and to find out what others are thinking, and how they're expressing those thoughts.
- Vegas Valley Book Festival
- Two-day celebration of books and reading. Includes an outdoor book fair, book signings, readings, and discussions.
- Virginia Festival of the Book
- Roundtable and panel discussions, author presentations and signings, bookselling and book swapping.
- William Carleton Summer School
- Aims primarily to present Carleton as a significant writer, worthy of serious critical attention, and to promote the study of his writings. Held annually, during the first full week in August
- www.readings.org
- Provides information for the Harbourfront Reading Series and International Festival of Authors.
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