Pre-Festival

PRESENTERS >

Sedona Poetry Slam Saturday April 4 @ 7:30 p.m.
Mary D. Fisher Theatre | 2030 W State Rte 89A, Sedona, AZ

Poet Brews
Tuesday April 7 @ 7:00 p.m.
Flagstaff Brewing Company | 16 Historic Rte 66

The Flagstaff Foundry Presents: True Stories Told Live!
Wednesday April 8 @ 6 p.m.
>> feat. Luis Fernandez, Svea Conrad, Rachel Tso Cox, Nicole Walker, Mare Schumacher & Svitlana Libet
Firecreek Coffee Company | 22 Historic Rte 66

Flagstaff Poetry Slam
>> feat. Derrick C. Brown and Alone ft. Company
Wednesday April 8 @ 8:00 p.m.
Firecreek Coffee Company | 22 Historic Rte 66

Thursday, April 9

Welcome Back Reading @ 5:30 p.m.
>> feat. Nicole Walker, Gioia Woods & Matthew Torralba Andrews
Annex Cocktail Lounge | 50 S San Francisco St

Craig Childs at the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival @ 6 p.m.
>> Ticketed Event (Sold Out)
Coconino Center for the Arts | 2300 N Fort Valley Rd

A Very Poet Brews Cinder Skies at the Northern Arizona Book Festival @ 7 p.m.
>> feat. Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick, Tempest Black, Cooper Smith, Ailin Mccullough, Cathy Tompkins, Lise Breakey, Dan Seaman, Erica Peterson & Erik Bitsui
Annex Cocktail Lounge Patio | 50 S San Francisco St

Friday, April 10

Off-the-Page Special Event @ 3 p.m.

>> feat. Derrick C. Brown

Firecreek Coffee Company | 22 Historic Rte 66

Beyond the Glittering World @ 5:30 p.m.

>> feat. Kinsale Drake, Amber McCrary & Cheyenne Dakota Williams

Museum of Northern Arizona | 3101 N Fort Valley Rd

Featured Indigenous Reading @ 6:30 p.m.

>> feat. Chyana Marie Sage & Jon Hickey

Museum of Northern Arizona, North Entrance | 3101 N Fort Valley Rd

Nightcap: An Open Mic for Writers and Reading @ 9 p.m.

>> feat. YOU!! Sign-ups begin at 8:30 p.m. Bring out your work and share it in community!

Hops on Birch | 22 E Birch Ave #2

Saturday, April 11

Poetry Plucked from the Tea Garden: Workshop and Tea Ceremony @ 10:30 a.m.
>> feat. Anesce Dremen
Culture Connection AZ | Historic Ice House, 201 E Birch Ave Suite 14

Editing + Publishing Panel @ 12 p.m.
>> feat. Interim, Write Bloody Press, Wasted Ink Zine Distro, Hayden's Ferry Review
Beaver Street Theatre | 11 S Beaver St. #2

Thin Air Magazine's Silly Goose Writing Workshop presents Comics Workshop @ 2 p.m.
>> feat. Geetha Iyer
Beaver Street Theatre | 11 S Beaver St. #2

"Arizona Authors" Reading @ 3:30 p.m.
>> feat. Ted McLoof, Jonathan Danielson, Dana Diehl, Julie Hammonds & Razi Shadmehry
Beaver Street Theatre | 11 S Beaver St. #2

Environmental Reading @ 5 p.m.
>> feat. Katherine Larson, Steven Law, Erica Watson & Janine Schipper
Firecreek Coffee| 22 Historic Rte. 66

Book Mixer w/ Specialty Cocktails @ 7 p.m.
Firecreek Coffee| 22 Historic Rte. 66

Interference Series Presents: Ursula Rucker and Tim Motzer @ 7 p.m.
>> feat. Ursula Rucker & Tim Motzer
Beaver Street Theatre | 11 S Beaver St. #2

Indigenous Voices at the Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival @ 7 p.m.
>> film screenings: Remember the Children, Shaped by Land, Liam & Friends, Remaining Native
Orpheum Theater | 15 W Aspen Ave

Featured Poetry Reading @ 8:30 p.m.
>> feat. Logan Phillips, Claudia Keelan, Susan Nguyen, Byron Aspaas & Bo Hee Moon
Firecreek Coffee| 22 Historic Rte. 66

Lit Karaoke @ 10 p.m.
>> hosted by NDN Girls Book Club
Flagstaff Brewing Company | 16 Historic Rte 66

NOAZBF Heritage Square

Literary Book Fair

All day Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

@ Heritage Square (22 E Aspen)

>> feat. local authors tent, exhibitor booths, a kids' story tent, pop-up maker spaces, readings & performances

Events

10:30 a.m. Monica Brown at the Kids' Story Tent

>> feat. Monica Brown with up to 28 free books!

11 a.m. Interference Series

>> feat. Owen Davis & Rob Wallace

11:30 a.m. Water Conservation at the Kids' Story Tent

>> feat. a reading of We Are Water Protectors and a water-themed activity

12 p.m. The Youth Poetry Council presents Youth Poets Laureate of Arizona

>> feat. Flagstaff Youth Poet Laureate Carson Redmon, Sedona Youth Poet Laureate Anya Blue Lior & former Phoenix Youth Poet Laureate Sareya Taylor

12:30 p.m. Matthew Henry Hall at the Kids' Story Tent

>> feat. Matthew Henry Hall with a story and his guitar

1 p.m. "Finding Balance"

>> feat. Pat Tsoh Tso (Cecil Tso)

1:30 p.m. The Museum of Northern Arizona at the Kids' Story Tent

>> feat. stories and activities led by museum staff

2 p.m. Local Small Press readings

>> feat. Sedona Poet Laureate Gary Every, Steve Kenney (The Thalweg), J.W. Rowan Wentworth (Rinky Dink Press), Megan Merchant (Shō Poetry Journal)

3 p.m. Haiku Death Match

>> feat. YOU! Sign up to win CASH prizes for your haikus! Simply show up, sign up, and recite your poems.

Authors Area

Meet authors and purchase their books all day Saturday, April 11th at Heritage Square.

10:55 to 11:55

Steven Wesley Law: Gone, ISBN 9781957483283
Nancy Oelklaus: Live the Life You Truly Want, ASIN B0FQ7XZFYL
Wilson Edward Reed: Junebug: A Novel, ISBN 9781631959349
Edmund Stump: Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock, and Wind at the Polar Extreme, ISBN 9780226829906; The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains, ISBN 9780300171976

12:10 to 1:10

Lalo León: Las Bugambilias: A bilingual queer novel, ISBN 9798991382402
Jeffrey Jay Levin: A Safe Space, ISBN 9798897958610
HJ Corning: Then The Trees Said Hello, ISBN 9798985824414
Michele Lee Sefton: Jade's Broken Bridge, ISBN 9798999150608
P. Scott Camponeschi: Resurgence: Adventure and Evolution, ISBN 9781961677951

1:25 to 2:25

Lisa Balocca: Words Unspoken, ISBN 9798885908986; Second Chances, ISBN 9798822960893
Sally Harper Bates: A Canyon Cowboy Spring, ISBN 9798319437969
Krocky Meshkin: The Dirt That Feeds You, ISBN 9781521275443
V. A. Sanchez: Awakening Fire, ISBN 9798992298512
NH Schwabacher: Inyo's Ring, ISBN 9798987774908

2:40 to 3:40

Korina Maestas: This is Forty, ISBN 9798246397831; On A Mother Level, ISBN 9798891225930
Lynn Natal Hartman: Cycling Through the 70s, ISBN 9798224919789
Cindy Lee Neighbors: TOO MUCH, ISBN 9798890341600; Benji and Briana Become Booger Doctors, ISBN 9798890341686
L. Cammie McGehee: Clear Creek, ISBN 9780692233276; The Language of Water and Grass, ISBN 9781942461036; White Sky, ISBN 9781942461005
Hilary Giovale: Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers toward Truth, Healing, and Repair, ISBN 9798994064702

3:55 to 4:55

Michele Feeney: Like Family, ISBN 9781685134631
AnnElise Makin: A Cowboy in Pune, ISBN 9798990232037; The Bandana Book III (Hero Stories Anthology), ISBN 9798262744152; The Celtic Stallion, ISBN 9798353391333
Sharon Lynn: Death Takes a Bath: A Cotswold Crimes Mystery Book 1/Level Best Books, ISBN 9781685122423 (and other books in the series)
Natalie Bryant Rizzieri: Muddy Mysticism: The Sacred Tethers of Body, Earth and Everyday, ISBN 9781910559659

Sunday, April 12

Community Workout: Walk/Run w/ Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival @ 8 a.m.
Meet up at Buffalo Park | 2400 N. Gemini Rd.

From Narrative to Action: Storytelling for Local Climate Justice w/ Flagstaff Mountain Film Festival @ 10 a.m.
Center for Native American and Indigenous Futures | 810 S Knoles Dr

Drag Story Hour @ 10 a.m.
Yogaert | 3 E. Aspen Ave

Join us Sunday, April 12 at 10:00a.m. for a children’s reading at Yogaert with special guests from Drag Story Hour! Our storyteller will share picture books, songs, rhymes, and more to encourage the development of early literacy skills. A free kid-sized yogurt cup will provided to each kid in attendance. “This free event will be capped at 40 people. Please arrive on time to secure your spot.”

Youth Poetry Showcase @ 11 a.m.
>> feat. winners of the 2026 Youth Poetry Council Contest
Yogaert | 3 E. Aspen Ave

American Archaeology @ 6 p.m.
>> feat. R.E. Burillo
Bright Side Bookshop | 18 N. San Francisco St