Northern AZ Book Festival - April 5-14
Every year, the festival showcases local, regional, and national authors, zine-makers, storytellers, poets, educators, publishers and presses. The festival typically is celebrated throughout the week leading up to a three day literary extravaganza. The festival typically hosts over 30 different events for writers in three days, from a keynote speaker the Friday of to a book fair in Heritage Square with differing events all over downtown on Saturday, and a soft Sunday with fun-runs, storytimes, and virtual readings.
Fostering literary community through the creation, publication, showcase, and investigation of contemporary literary arts from Northern Arizona, the Colorado Plateau, the American Southwest, and beyond.
When: April 5-14, 2024
Where: Throughout Flagstaff
Cost: Free
History
Established in 1997, the Northern Arizona Book Festival (NOAZBF) is a literary nonprofit based out of Kinłání (aka the bordertown of Flagstaff, Arizona). It coordinates readings, panels, workshops, contests, and more that reflect the literary interests and cultural issues that define life in the Colorado Plateau region of Northern Arizona. As part of its regular programming, the NOAZBF includes the Indigenous Writers' Symposium, Young Readers' Festival, Northern Arizona Youth Poetry Council and Flagstaff Off-the-Page,. Throughout the year, the NOAZBF collaborates with and/or supports the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase, the Northern Arizona University MFA Program, Cinder Skies Reading Series, Off the Rails Reading Series, Poet Brews: An Open Mic for Writers, Flagstaff Poetry Slam, Northern Arizona University VisualDesignLab, the McCallister Program for Community, Culture and Environment, Red Ink.,Thin Air Magazine, Carbon Copy, Curios, Eggtooth Editions, Tolsun Books, Salina Bookshelf, Abalone Mountain Press, Outspokin' and Bookish, Poetry Out Loud, Kin'Lani Bordertown Dormitory, the National Park Service, Northern Arizona Museum, Bookmans Entertainment Exchange and Bright Side Bookshop.
