Bookselling Without Borders, founded in 2016 to connect U.S. booksellers with the international book industry, is relaunching as a nonprofit and is taking a new name, Books Across Borders.
In normal times, the program focuses on offering fellowships for U.S. booksellers to attend international book fairs and includes participation in panels and seminars, bookstore visits, meetings with people from across the industry, and more. For the coming year, Books Across Borders will offer virtual itineraries to international book fairs for booksellers and an array of additional international bookseller networking opportunities. These fellowships are part of building a transnational network of literary connections. It will also work to support works in translation and #ownvoices titles with book reviews, a directory of key international book industry contacts, and other activities. Those interested in the Books Across Borders mission are encouraged to attend its virtual Frankfurt Book Fair panel and summit next week.
Independent booksellers from across the country will be welcomed to apply for the book fair fellowships in January 2021.
To support its mission to make more international and diverse voices available to readers in the U.S. and throughout the world, please visit the Fundly campaign. For further information, contact Anna Thorn, program coordinator for Books Across Borders, via e-mail.
Books Across Borders is grateful for the support of its publisher and industry partners, which include Akashic, Catapult, Counterpoint, Europa Editions, Milkweed Editions, Other Press, Princeton University Press, Restless Books, Rutgers University Press, Seagull Books, Seven Stories Press, Soft Skull, Shambhala Publications, the University of Chicago Press, Aufbau DuMont, Edizioni E/O, Hanser, C.H. Beck, Hoffmann & Campe, Klett-Cotta, Suhrkamp, Frankfurter Buchmesse, Salone del Libro, Torino, Bologna Children's Book Fair, Shanghai Children's Book Fair, Bogotá International Book Fair, Ingram Content Group and Shelf Awareness.