Fair to Feature Out-of-Print Books : Ventura club is planning a display and sale of thousands of titles.

California Book Fair Associates of Ventura is organizing a book fair in the Burbank Airport Hilton Hotel Saturday and Sunday, Halloween weekend. Nearly 150 booksellers will be offering thousands of used, rare and out-of-print titles. Also on display and for sale will be prints, maps, autographs and related paper ephemera. Collectors can browse among the ghostly reminders of publishing’s past in search of weird and wonderful items and books. Call 643-3407 for details.

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Heads up writers. Looking for a publisher? Come and network from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at the second annual Santa Barbara Book Festival. About 30 publishers will be displaying their wares in booths set up on Anapamu Street between State and Chapala streets. The Earthling Bookshop hosts the festival to showcase local book publishers and as a benefit for the Santa Barbara Public Education Fund.

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Mary Bowen Hall will sign her “The Mother Lode Marauder” at 1 p.m. Sunday at Mysteries to Die For, 2940 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks.

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Gold Coast Fiction Writers are hosting an Open Critiquing meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Carrows Restaurant, Seaward Avenue and Harbor Boulevard, Ventura. Bring your work, leave with new ideas. Guests are welcome. The fee is $4. Call 683-6340 for meeting and membership details.

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Weekly story times are beginning at Adventures for Kids, 3457 Telegraph Road, Ventura. Bring the youngsters to hear stories and songs performed by special guest storytellers from 3:30 to 4 p.m. Saturdays and from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Tuesdays.

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Ojai native Jim Williams is sitting in for vacationing Dave Ciniero of the “Dave and Bob Show” heard from 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays and from 6 to 8 a.m. Saturdays on KVEN-AM 1450. Williams, a retired Santa Barbara City College public information officer, is writing a novel while he free-lances across the radio dial. Now living in Montecito, Williams says, “You have to love this business to crawl out of bed at 3:15 a.m. and be in the studio by 4:30 a.m., alert and prepared to broadcast news and entertain the listeners.” Dave, who is squiring a group of Venturans on a KVEN-sponsored East Coast jaunt, will return to the airways Monday.

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The Moorpark Old Town Merchants Assn. is seeking poets to read its work at 1 p.m. Nov. 6 at Market Day on High Street, a monthly event also featuring crafts, art and music. If there is enough interest, poetry readings will be a regular part of the event held the first Saturday of the month outside the Gas Station Clothing Store, 213 E. High St., Moorpark. Call Joy Cummings at 529-8262.

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Joan J. Bernard and Anita Hunter of Camarillo and Joyce La Mers of Oxnard are among the 21 finalists in the Dorothy Daniels Honorary Writing Award competition sponsored by the National League of American Pen Women, Simi Valley Branch, P. O. Box, 1485, Simi Valley 93062. There were 448 entries from writers throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. Bernard was honored for a short story, Hunter for nonfiction and La Mers for her poem “Conversation with a Gopher.” Proceeds from the contest support scholarships for college students, music and writing programs for seniors and a writing intern program.