Northern AZ Book Festival - April 10-13

The Northern Arizona Festival is back!

April 10th – April 13th, 2025 the book festival will take place throughout Downtown Flagstaff with various streamed events. Please join us this year!

This entire festival is presented for FREE thanks to the many donations, community partnerships, and grants we have received. If you’d like to donate to the festival, please visit our website.

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 10-13, 2025
Where: Throughout Flagstaff
Cost: Free
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2025 Schedule:

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, and Flagstaff Off-the-Page (FLG OTP, new in Fall 2021). 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, Juniper House Reading Series, 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, and Bright Side Bookshop.