Literary festival
In a literature festival various books or other literary works will be presented. Most of the readings are held by the authors of the works.
Germany
- Anderseits.Literaturfestival, Hamburg
- Book Lust, Hannover (November)
- German -Israeli Literature Festival
- Eifel Literature Festival
- A book for the city, Cologne
- Erfurt autumn harvest, Erfurt
- Erlanger Poetry Festival, Erlangen
- Fontane Festival, Neuruppin
- All earrings - Koblenz Literature Days, Koblenz on the Rhine (March)
- Göttingen Literaturherbst, Göttingen (October)
- HAM.LIT, Long Night of young literature and music, Hamburg (February)
- Harbourfront Festival, Hamburg (September)
- Heidelberg Literature Days
- International Literature Festival Bremen - poetry on the road
- RE: WRITE! International Literature Festival, Freiburg
- International literature festival berlin (September)
- Karlsruhe Book Show (November / December )
- Crime Festival Munich
- Leipzig literary autumn, Leipzig (October)
- Leipzig reads, Leipzig ( Europe's largest literary festival in the Leipzig Book Fair)
- Lesen.Hören, Mannheim
- Read Lenz, Hausach, Black Forest (June / July)
- Lit.Cologne, Cologne
- Literature Festival Munich
- Festival of Literature " page by page. ", Braunschweig ( April, May )
- Literatürk, Food
- Mainz Literature Festival
- Literature Festival Meissen
- Murder on the Hellweg, Thriller Festival, Unna
- International Literature Festival " Poetic sources ", Bad Oeynhausen & wages
- PoeZone - World Poetry Festival, Heidelberg
- Prosanova, Hildesheim 2005 & 2008
- Rheingau Literature Festival
- Shame Rock - festival of poets Munich, Vienna 2012 & 2014
- Stuttgart's book of the week ( November / December )
- Days of Poetry, Wuerselen
- Tatort Eifel
- Tübingen Book Festival
- Usedom Literature Festival, Usedom Island ( March / April)
- Weiden Literature Days - Weiden Literature Festival
- Wiesbaden Literature Festival, Wiesbaden
- Word Games
- Between / breeze, Freiburg im Breisgau
Austria
- BuchWien
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt, since 1977
- Literature in the fog in Heidenreichstein, since 2006
- Literature Festival Salzburg, since 2008
- Sound bites in Vienna
- Rauris Literature Days in Rauris
- Around the castle in Vienna
- Sprachsalz in Hall
- City reading
- Tyrolean playwright festival
Switzerland
- Solothurn Literature Days, since 1978
- Poetry on the River, 1994-2006
- Zurich reads
- BuchBasel
- Burgdorfer Crime Days
- International Literature Festival Leukerbad, since 1996
- Frauenfelder Poetry Day, 1991
- Seetaler poetry summer, since 2000
- Rilke Festival in Sierre, since 2000
Other countries
- Festa Literaria Internacional de Paraty, Brazil
- International Poetry Festival Medellín (Colombia ), since 1991
- International Poetry Festival Rosario ( Argentina), since 1993
- Evenings of Poetry in Struga, since 1962
- European Borderlands Festival
- Literary festival Prima Vista in Tartu (Estonia), since 2004
- Semana Negra (Spain )
- Lit.ALGARVE - International Literature Festival (Portugal ), annually in September