Looking to continue to celebrate and promote books and reading during the pandemic, literary organizations in the U.K and the United Arab Emirates are launching virtual book festivals. In the U.K. a nonprofit collective of writers is launching BookBound 2020, a free online literary festival that will run from April 27 to May 3. And in the UAE, the Sharjah Book Authority will launch the Sharjah Virtual Reading Festival, which will run from May 27 to June 5.
