BCL Books - Book Festivals and Fairs

Book Festivals & Fairs - Australia and International

We no longer keep dates on this page.  You can now post details of writing festivals and events in Australia and New Zealand on the BCL events forum. Post in the relevant region and month and your event will also appear on the BCL What's On pages.  Book and writing events. Events in the UK, USA and Canada can be posted on the Maxinfo events forum.

Ongoing Events

• (Australia) Book and Record Bazaar - Book categories include children, religion, science, history, bestsellers, textbooks, travel and rare books. CDs, sheet music, records, DVDs and more are also for sale. Held in Sydney, NSW. For market dates visit 2MBS.

March

• (Australia) The Norman Lindsay Festival of Children's Literature Norman Lindsay Gallery, 14 Norman Lindsay Crescent, Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains, NSW.
   
  
• (Australia) Lifeline South Coast NSW Book Fair - at Kembla Grange Racecourse, New South Wales

April

• (Australia) Giant Book Fair Thornleigh, New South Wales.
   
• (England) The London Book Fair  Earls Court, London.
   
• (Australia) University of New South Wales Book Fair - 22 to 24 April 2010 at the Roundhouse, UNSW, Anzac Parade, Kensington.

May

• (Australia) Clunes Back to Booktown. An annual event in which rare, out-of-print and second hand book dealers set up shop in the buildings of Clunes, Victoria. There will also be workshops and writers talks.

June

• (USA) New York Book Festival - Tompkin's Square Park, USA.

August

• (Scotland) Edinburgh International Book Festival - Edinburgh, Scotland.
   
• (Australia) Australian Children's Book Week - For information on the winning books and costumes that celebrate characters from children's books see our BCL Book Week page

September

• (Australia) The University of Sydney Chancellor's Bookfest - in the Great Hall, Camperdown Campus.
   
• (Australia) Lifeline Canberra Book Fair - Entry by gold coin donation. Held at the Exhibition Park In Canberra (EPIC).

October

• (Germany) Frankfurt Book Fair
   
• (Australia) Mountains of Books Bookfair  Huge bookfair at Ferny Creek Recreational Hall, Hutton Rd, Ferny Creek, Victoria.

November

• (Switzerland) International Conference on the Book For authors, publishers, printers, librarians, IT specialists, book retailers, editors, literacy educators, and academic researchers. University of St Gallen, Switzerland. 
   
• (Australia) Lifeline Book Fair Northern Beaches - Thousands of books suited to all ages at Ted Black Hall, Cnr Jacksons & Boondah Rds, Warriewood New South Wales.

• (Australia) Lifeline Macarthur Book Fair
   
• (Australia) Lifeline Newcastle & Hunter Book Fair
   
• (Australia) S.H. Ervin Gallery Spring Book Fair - Presented by the National Trust of Australia. An annual fundraiser for the Gallery. Art books and catalogues, fiction, nonfiction, travel, lifestyle books, magazines, and children’s books, plus antiquarian works, and collectable Trust publications.
   
• (Australia) Royal Historical Society of Victoria Book Sale
   
• (Australia) UQ Alumni Book Fair - The UQ Centre, University of Queensland, Brisbane every second year.
   
• (Australia) Lifeline Canberra Book Fair
   
• (Australia) Multicap Book Bonanza - Queensland. Proceeds go to Multicap, a charity that supports people with multiple disabilities.
   
• (Australia) Mountains of Books Used Rare and Out-of-Print Book Fair - Ferny Creek, Victoria.
   
• (Australia) Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers Book Fair, New South Wales.

• (Canada) International Conference on the Book -  For authors, publishers, printers, librarians, IT specialists, book retailers, editors, literacy educators, and academic researchers. University of Toronto, Canada. 
   
• (Australia) Lifeline Bookfest - date is to be confirmed.