book fest x 2

Ann Arbor Book Festival:
runs may 15-17th, featuring about 100 guest authors flooding the beautiful streets of ann arbor.

"The Ann Arbor Book Festival’s mission is to promote reading, heighten awareness of literacy challenges, and showcase the rich culture of the written word in Michigan and beyond."

http://www.aabookfestival.org/index.htm

highlights: 2009 literary symposium, breakfast with the authors, 2009 writers' conference, "the art of the play" @ the Arthur Miller Theatre

writers: they are currently (as of may 1st) accepting submissions for their Ann Arbor Book Festival Short Story Contest. the prize is $25o and publication. the entry fee is $10. you can go here for more info.

Toronto Small Press Book Fair:

"On June 13, 2009, from 9 to 5 p.m., up to 80 small- to medium-sized presses from the Greater Toronto Area—and a number from as far afield as Montreal, Calgary, and even Vancouver—will gather in the atrium of the Toronto Reference Library to sell their books, chapbooks, graphic novels, audio-books, magazines and comics, and a wide array of high-quality arts and crafts."
http://www.torontosmallpressbookfair.org/

some of my favourite small presses will be there: broken pencil, Carousel Magazine, Maisonneuve...

and a local one!: Rampike
and some i've never heard before that sound fun: Robot Kissing Booth, Sweetie Pie Press, & Peachy K Press whose write-up reads, "Drinking tea, sewing clouds, puttering,wandering,walking and wondering... welcome all to my opened suitcase."

see the full list here.