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WINTER
- Date: Winter 2023
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
African American Children’s Book Fair
- Date: Winter 2023
- Location: TBD
- Registration Price: Free
North Texas Teen Book Festival
- Date: Winter 2023
- Location: Irving Convention Center, Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Winter 2023
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Winter 2023
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
Penguin Teen Book Fest
- Date: TBD
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
SPRING
- Date: Spring 2023
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
Northwest Ohio Teen Book Festival
- Date: April 23, 2022
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: Whitney D. Grandison, Kosoko Jackson
- Date: April 23-24, 2022
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: Brandy Colbert, Claire Kann, Dhonielle Clayton, Nnedi Okorafor, Rita Williams-Garcia, Ashley Woodfolk
National Antiracist Book Festival
- Date: April 30, 2022
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBA
- Date: April 30, 2022
- Location: Santa Monica, CA
- Registration Price: General Attendance Free, Keynotes TBD
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: Kacen Callender, Dhonielle Clayton, Tracy Deonn, Namina Forna, Ebony LaDelle, Ashley Woodfolk
- Date: May 1, 2022
- Location: Jewish Public Library
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: Natasha Bowen, Namina Forna, Kekla Magoon, Sarah Raughley, Julian Winters
The Festival of Literary Diversity
- Date: May 1-7, 2022
- Location: Virtual + In Person (Canada)
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: May 21, 2022
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Spring 2022
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Spring 2022
- Location: Virtual
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
Brooklyn Caribbean Book Festival
- Date: Spring 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
Greater Rochester Teen Book Fest
- Date: Spring 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBA
SUMMER
- Date: June 3-5, 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: TBD
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: June 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Date: June 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: June 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Black Agents in Attendance: TBD
- Date: June 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: August 4-7, 2022
- Location: Online / Atlanta, GA
- Registration Price: TBD
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
FALL
DV Book Festival
- Date: September 17, 2022
- Location: Chicago, IL
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: October 13-14, 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Fall 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Fringe Pass – Free / Weekend Pass TBD
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Black Agents Repping YA in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Fall 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: N/A
- Date: Fall 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Fall 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: November 12-13, 2022
- Location: Charleston, SC
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Fall 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD
- Date: Fall 2022
- Location: Online
- Registration Price: Free
- Black YA Authors in Attendance: TBD