Today, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams celebrated the return of the ninth annual Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21st to Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza, the main site of the largest free literary event in New York City. The festival annually...
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National Book Awards Reveals Longlist for YA Award-2014
Happy Monday! It's an especially happy one here at Scholastic as we celebrate our two titles included in this year's longlist for the National Book Awards for Young People's Literature:Threatened by Eliot Schrefer andRevolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two by...
NOOK® Signs Multi-Platform Partnership with ESI Media – 2014
Partnership to build on success of last year’s Get London Reading initiativeNOOK to sponsor Best Play accolade at 2014’s Evening Standard Theatre AwardsActress Cush Jumbo to visit a London primary school to promote partnership LONDON – 12th September, 2014, ESI Media...
Florida Writers Association Sets October Conference — 2014
The Florida Writers Association will present the 13th Annual Florida Writers Conference at the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary from Thursday, October 23 – Sunday, October 26. The Conference offers workshops, presentations by New York Times bestselling authors, and...
2014 Southern California Book Fest – Call for Entries
The 2014 Southern California Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the fall. The Southern California Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
KOBO Contest Challenges Mystery Lovers — 2014
When not one but two bestselling thrillers are turned into highly anticipated, soon-to-be-released films, it is an opportunity too good to miss. In anticipation of the release of film adaptations of Gillian Flynn’s hit suspense novels Gone Girl and Dark Places, Kobo,...
National Book Foundation to Honor Literarian Kyle Zimmer– 2014
Kyle Zimmer, Co-Founder and CEO of First Book, will Be Honored by the National Book Foundation as the 2014 Literarian Medalist The Literarian Award, now in its 10th year, honors individuals for a lifetime of achievement in expanding the audience for literature....
2015 San Francisco Book Fest Call for Entries
The 2015 San Francisco Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the spring. The 2015 San Francisco Book Festival will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books,...
BISG Reveals Shortlist for Most Valuable Volunteer Award — 2014
The Book Industry Study Group has announced its shortlist for the annual Most Valuable BISG Volunteer Award, recognizing the recipient’s commitment to solving industry challenges and finding new opportunities by working collaboratively with industry peers. The...
2014 New England Book Fest – Call for Entries
The 2014 New England Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season. The competition will accept entries in non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, young adult, how-to,...
