October 2011 Book Festivals & Conferences

October Book Events

Searching for some engaging book events? Check out this month’s schedule of book festivals and conferences happening in your area!  

October 6-8, 2011

Montana Festival of the Book

Missoula, Montana

http://www.humanitiesmontana.org/BookFestival/bookfest.php

October 7-9, 2011

2011 Festival of Books

South Dakota

http://www.sdhumanities.org/programs_festival.htm

Oct. 7 - 8, 2011 

Talk Story Festival

McCoy Pavilion

Ala Moana Park

Kapolei, Hawaii

http://www1.honolulu.gov/parks/programs/talkstory/index.htm

October 11 , 2011

Corn Island Storytelling

Clifton Center

2117 Payne Street

Louisville, Kentucky

http://www.cornislandstorytellingfestival.org/

October 15, 2011

Boston Book Festival

Boston, Massachusetts

http://www.bostonbookfest.org/

October 22-23, 2011

West Virginia Book Festival

Charleston Civic Center

Charleston, West Virginia

http://wvbookfestival.org/

October 22, 2011

2011 Children's Literature Festival

Keene State College

Keene, New Hampshire

http://www.keene.edu/clf/

October 29, 2011

2011 Louisiana Book Festival

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/

Utah Center for the Book

Throughout the month of October

Utah Humanities Book Festival

Celebrating books and authors throughout October

Salt Lake City, Utah

http://www.utahhumanities.org/BookFestival.htm

(from Read.gov)