Literary Festivals
Not an exhaustive or definitive list, by any means, but links to some of the best and most popular small press and literary festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada.
- Alternative Press Expo (San Francisco, CA)
- Anarchist Book Fair (Montreal, QC, Canada)
- Blue Metropolis (Montreal, QC, Canada)
- Book and Craft Fair (PEI, Canada)
- BookExpo America (New York City, NY)
- Boston Book Festival (Boston, MA)
- Buffalo Small Press Book Fair (Buffalo, NY)
- Canzine (Toronto, ON, Canada)
- CCLA Art and Lit Fest (Brighton, ON, Canada)
- Expozine (Montreal, QC, Canada)
- Indie and Small Press Book Fair (New York City, NY)
- International Edible Book Festival (Chicago, IL)
- Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival (Lowell, MA)
- Mayhem in the Midlands Crime Fiction Conference (Omaha, NB)
- Meet the Presses (Toronto, ON, Canada)
- National Book Festival (Washington, DC)
- Portland Zine Symposium (Portland, OR)
- Quebec City Book Fair (Quebec City, QC, Canada)
- San Francisco Book Festival (San Francisco, CA)
- San Francisco Zine Fest (San Francisco, CA)
- Saskatoon Anarchist Bookfair (Saskatoon, SK, Canada)
- SCBook Festival (Columbia, SC)
- Self-Publishers Online Conference (online)
- Small Press Expo (Bethesda, MD)
- Southern Festival of Books (Nashville, TN)
- SPAN-O (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
- Texas Book Festival (Austin, TX)
- Toronto Small Press Book Fair (Toronto, ON, Canada)
- Twin Cities Zine Fest (Minneapolis, MN)
Got a favorite literary festival we’ve missed? Contact us with a link and we’ll add it!


