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Festival Updates

March 1, 2010

Stay tuned for more book festival news this spring including:

Announcement of the two festival keynotes
Roster of featured authors
Themes and panel sessions
2010 local Book Club Initiative
The Comic Book Festival
The Childrens’ Literature Festival
Book Signing Expo
Spoken Word & Poetry events
“Feasting on Words” — Literature of Food project
Las Vegas Writes project
Our series of pre-festival events
Illustrated Word exhibitions
The 2010 festival poster

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Locations

March 1, 2010

Last year, the book festival found its permanent home at the historic Fifth Street School, 401 S. Fourth Street, a 1930’s Mission-style building that has become a cultural hub in the heart of downtown. Most author sessions take place in the auditorium of the school with some events in the fountain courtyard while the Children’s Book […]

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Serving the Reading and Writing Communities

March 1, 2010

The Vegas Valley Book Festival annually provides a variety of exciting literature experiences to a growing audience widely representative of the community. The festival has brought together a number of key literary organizations in the valley to share resources, build audiences, advance the craft of writing and share the joys of reading.
This year over 100 […]

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Festival Producers

March 1, 2010

The five-day festival is presented by the City of Las Vegas Office of Cultural Affairs, Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, UNLV’s Black Mountain Institute, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and Nevada Humanities, a festival founder. In addition, the festival is supported by a wide range of community partners and sponsors.

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2010 Festival Planning Now Underway

March 1, 2010

Planning is now underway for the Vegas Valley Book Festival, the largest literature event in Las Vegas, to be held November 3 – 7, 2010. Most events will take place at the historic Fifth Street School downtown. Now in its ninth year, this annual community festival was founded on the simple premise of “bringing together those who […]

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Vegas Valley Book Festival in Top 25 Book Fairs and Festivals

January 7, 2010

The Vegas Valley Book Festival was ranked 10^th in a list of 25 book fairs and festivals deemed to be the best for readers, fans, publishers and authors to attend according to book publicist and president of Westwind Communications, Scott Lorenz. In his post on sellingbooks.com, Lorenz evinces the reasons why fairs and festivals are […]

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Restless City Published!

November 4, 2009

RESTLESS CITY is available at www.RestlessCity.com and will be available on Amazon and in local bookstores shortly. Both a print and eBook formats are being published. The book will debut at the Vegas Valley Book Festival with a reading by final author Vu Tran on Saturday, November 7 at 4:00 PM at the Historic Fifth Street School (on Fourth Street). Authors will be available to sign books.

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Book Festival Website Now Live on iPhones

October 7, 2009

Lightweight. Fast. Easy.
Great news! We’ve optimized our site for viewing on the Apple iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. The site will still show up on first and second-generation iPhones as well. iPhone users will be able to get all the great content without having to squint their eyes or double-tapping to read it. You […]

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Vegas Valley Book Festival Features Mark Twain Event

October 5, 2009

October 22
Nevada’s Literary and Architectural History Celebrated at Morelli House Reception
The Vegas Valley Book Festival celebrates “The Genius of Mark Twain” in a special literary program on Thursday, October 22, 7:00 pm in the auditorium of the Downtown Senior Services Center, 310 South 9^th Street. This pre-festival event, co-sponsored by the Junior League of Las Vegas, […]

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Readers’ Choice

September 17, 2009

The Vegas Valley Book Festival (VVBF) created a book club project, “Readers’ Choice,” that invited local book clubs to recommend their favorite authors to present at the festival in November. About 10 book clubs responded and over 40 authors were recommended.
The VVBF literary committee selected three authors based on book club suggestions:
Indu Sundaresan, Splendor of […]

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