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Northern Arizona Book Festival

Overview

The Northern Arizona Book Festival (noazbookfest.org) is a long running 'literary extravaganza' founded by the Literacy Volunteers of Coconino County in 1998, though their website suggests that 2019 is its 24th year. The event became an independent non-profit organisation in 2002. It grew to fill a full week at many venues in downtown Flagstaff. A revamp during COVID made massive changes. Venues changed. Their logo changed. Event dates changed from September/October to March/April. Their domain shifted from nazbookfest.org to noazbookfest.org, their Facebook similarly and Twitter from nothing to something. Even the host city changed, in name if not location: Flagstaff changing to its Native American name, Kinłání.

History

Chronology of Arizona Conventions

#	Date	Location	Chair	Guests	Book	Web	Notes
1	1998	Flagstaff
2	1999 17 Mar 21 Mar	Flagstaff
3	2000 28 Apr 30 Apr	Bookman's Used Books Northern Arizona University Monsoons Bar Mountain Oasis Restaurant Flagstaff City Hall Coconino County Board of Supervisors Auditorium Old Post Office McGaugh's Newsstand Charly's Bar Starrlight Books DV-8 Flagstaff
4	2001 30 Mar 1 Apr	Café Espress The Alley Northern Arizona University Heritage Square Charly's Bar Flagstaff City Hall Flagstaff Public Library Starrlight Books Flagstaff City Hall McGaugh's Newsstand Hotel Weatherford Flagstaff
5	2002 12 Apr 14 Apr	Flagstaff
6	2003 11 Apr 13 Apr	Flagstaff
7	2004 16 Apr 18 Apr	Museum of Northern Arizona Orpheum Theater Charly's Bar Flagstaff
8	2005 15 Apr 17 Apr	Museum of Northern Arizona Orpheum Theater Charly's Bar Bookman's Book Exchange Coconino Center for the Arts Coconino Community College Flagstaff
9	2006 21 Apr 23 Apr	Flagstaff
10	2007 20 Apr 22 Apr	Flagstaff
11	2008 15 Apr 20 Apr	Flagstaff
12	2009 24 Apr 26 Apr	Orpheum Theater Cline Library Flagstaff			168k
13	2010 17 Apr	Museum of Northern Arizona Flagstaff
14	2011 15 Apr 17 Apr	The Arboretum Coconino Center for the Arts Bookman's Book Exchange Flagstaff		Jamie Ford Michael Collier
15	2012 18 May 19 May	Coconino Center for the Arts Flagstaff		Eddie Chuculate Stella Pope Duarte
16	2013 18 May	Coconino Center for the Arts Flagstaff
17	2014						1
18	2015 7 Sep 13 Sep	Uptown Pubhouse Firecreek Coffee Co Flagstaff Public Library Orpheum Theater Buffalo Park Starrlight Books Flagstaff
19	2016 10 Oct 16 Oct	Orpheum Theater Coconino Center for the Arts Uptown Pubhouse Firecreek Coffee Co Barefoot Cowgirl Books Flagstaff Public Library Flagstaff
20	2017 6 Oct 13 Oct	Bright Side Bookshop Coconino Community College Firecreek Coffee Co Northern Arizona University Uptown Pubhouse Flagstaff					2
21	2018 14 Sep 17 Sep	Bright Side Bookshop Firecreek Coffee Co Uptown Pubhouse Flagstaff
22	2019 9 Sep 16 Sep	Bright Side Bookshop Firecreek Coffee Co Sedona Public Library Starrlight Books Theotrikos Theatre Company Uptown Pubhouse Flagstaff					3
23	2021 1 Apr 4 Apr	Bright Side Bookshop Firecreek Coffee Co Sedona Public Library Starrlight Books Theotrikos Theatre Company Uptown Pubhouse Flagstaff			1 MB
24	2022 31 Mar 10 Apr	Coconino Center for the Arts Culture Connection AZ Flagstaff Brewing Company Late for the Train Liminal Flagstaff Museum of Northern Arizona Northern Arizona University Flagstaff
25	2023 31 Mar 2 Apr	The Annex Cocktail Lounge Bright Side Bookshop Downtown Flagstaff Public Library Flagstaff Brewing Company Flagstaff High School Late for the Train Liminal Flagstaff Mary D. Fisher Theater MOCAF Murdoch Community Center Flagstaff

Notes

Northern Arizona Book Festival 17 was cancelled. Northern Arizona Book Festival 20 was held over two consecutive weekends: 6-7 and 13-14 Oct. While the majority of the Northern Arizona Book Festival in 2019 occupied the weekend of 14th to 15th September, the Narrow Chimney Reading Series ties into it, both before and after, while other activities take place throughout the preceding week.

Last update: 19th March, 2023