This year’s festival will feature the Simmerman Poetry Prize for young poets; cookbook authors; children’s book authors; Arizona historians discussing the centennial; accomplished NAU creative writing faculty; a bookfair of authors, presses and businesses who support literature in Flagstaff; and the poet Katherine Larson. The evening headliners are Eddie Chuculate, author of Cheyenne Madonna, a writer of Muscogee (Creek) and Cherokee descent and winner of a PEN/O. Henry Award and Wallace Stegner Fellowship; and Stella Pope Duarte, who was recently awarded a 2009 American Book Award for her latest work, If I Die in Juárez. The daytime events are free, but the two evening headliners have a $5 entry fee.

This year’s artwork, shown on the above poster, has been created by Mike Bielecki and will be raffled on the day of the festival. Tickets will be available at upcoming ArtWalks and at the Book Festival. Individual tickets are only $5.00! “Words in Flight” is a composite photographic design.

Other authors participating will be this year’s ONEBOOKAZ winners: Lisa Schnebly Heidinger, author of Arizona: 100 Years Grand, and Conrad Storad, children’s book author of Arizona Way Out West and Witty.

2012 Schedule:
the Children’s Book Authors program in the CCA’s Jewel Gallery.

10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Children’s Book Authors

• Monica Brown
• Susan Lowell
• Adam Rex
• Conrad Storad, ONEBOOKAZ Kids winner

in the CCA’s Indoor Amphitheater
10:00-10:45 AM

• Simmerman Poetry Prize winners (TBD)

11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Full Bleed: Taking Creativity Past the Margins,

• Darcy Falk
• Peter Friederici
• Laura Kelly
• Marianne Roccaforte

12:00-1:15 PM
Cookbook Demos
Main Gallery

• Cottage Place
• Dahl & DiLuca
• Elote Cafe
• Salsa Brava
• and more!

1:15-2:00 PM

• ONEBOOKAZ winner, Lisa Schnebly Heidinger

2:15-3:15 PM
Arizona Centennial

• Gregory McNamee
• Thomas Sheridan

3:45-4:45 PM
NAU Creative Writing Faculty

• Jane Armstrong
• Nicole Walker
• Allen Woodman

5:00-5:45 PM

Poetry Feature, Katherine Larson

5:45-6:45 PM

Circus Bacchus Performance

7:00-9:00 PM

Evening Program

• Eddie Chuculate
• Stella Pope Duarte

The mission of the Northern Arizona Book Festival is to celebrate literature and promote reading by providing literary events to the people of northern Arizona that feature both up-and-coming as well as established authors.