2010 Northern Arizona Book Festival
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Silent Auction Fundraiser
and Evening with "Letters from Home"
Columnists from Flagstaff LIVE!
Music and readings by Shonto Begay, Darcy Falk, Tony Norris, Jean Rukkila, and Kate Watters.
Enjoy some munchies. Hear a great show. Bid on unique, fun, and artsy items with all proceeds to benefit literacy efforts in Northern Arizona.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Coconino Center for the Arts - 2300 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, Arizona
Admission: $5 ( with all proceeds to go to the Northern Arizona Book Festival and the Coconino Center for the Arts)
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Event: 4th Annual Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize winners
Selected by award winning poet, Jean Rukkila, winners from the annual Simmerman Poetry Prize for local high school students will read their work.
The Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize for Poets of Flagstaff District High Schools is made possible by a generous donation from Kim Holland and the Authors In Schools program she founded. Jim Simmerman was a nationally renowned poet and Regents Professor at Northern Arizona University. He often times volunteered to teach poetry workshops in local high schools over the course of his long career.
Time: 10:00AM to 10:45AM
Location: Coconino Center for the Arts - 2300 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, Arizona
Admission: Free
Event: Poetry Reading by Northern Arizona High School Students
Students from Flagstaff Unified School District, Winslow, Seligman, and Window Rock High Schools will read their latest work.
Time: 11:00AM to 11:45AM
Location: Coconino Center for the Arts - 2300 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, Arizona
Admission: Free
Event: Reading by One Book Arizona Winner Jana Bommersbach and by novelist Margaret Erhart
Sponsored by One Book Arizona, their 2010 Award Winner, Jana Bommersbach (author of The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd) will read from her award winning work. Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, Margaret Erhart (author of The Butterflies of Grand Canyon) will read her latest work.
Time: 12:30PM to 1:30PM
Location: Coconino Center for the Arts - 2300 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, Arizona
Admission: Free
Event: Readings by Warren Perkins, John DeGraff III, and Eugene Munger
Warren Perkins (author of Putrefaction Live) reads from his premiere novel. John DeGraff (author of Images of America: Flagstaff) presents his work. Eugene Munger (author of "Momma, Don't Ya Want Me To Learn Nothin'?") reads from his latest work.
Time: 2:00PM to 3:30PM
Location: Coconino Center for the Arts - 2300 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, Arizona
Admission: Free
Event: Readings by Annette McGivney and Nicole Walker
Editor and author Annette McGivney (author of Resurrection: Glen Canyon and a New Vision for the American West) reads from her latest work. Poet and Essayist Nicole Walker (author of This Noisy Egg) reads from her poems from her newest publication.
Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Location: Coconino Center for the Arts - 2300 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, Arizona
Admission: Free
Event: An Evening with Lisa Schnebly Heidinger and Rick Bass
Journalist, author and documentary film maker, Lisa Schnebly Heidinger (author of Chief Yellow Horse Lives On: And Other Stories of Arizona People and Placesi) reads from her latest work. Nationally Acclaimed writer and author of dozens of books, Rick Bass (author of The Blue Horse: A Novella) reads from his latest work.
Time: 7:00PM to 9:00PM
Location: Coconino Center for the Arts - 2300 N. Fort Valley Rd., Flagstaff, Arizona
Admission: $5