The festival will include 40 individual presentations by authors in restaurants, coffee shops, art galleries, patios, and shops in downtown Mancos. The day will also include 11 panels on a variety of reading and writing topics.
Authors are travelling from around Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Wyoming, Montana, Missouri, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, and Pennsylvania. The authors write non-fiction, poetry, memoir, and fiction in a variety of genres including literary, mystery, thriller, horror, young adult, and romance.
The day will include a festival bookstore, managed by Hand in Hand Bookstore, so festival attendees can buy books from visiting authors—and have them signed. The festival will also offer two writing workshops for teens at Mancos Commons.
The festival will begin at 9 a.m. and run through 8 p.m. at such downtown Mancos venues as Fenceline Cider, Bomdiggity Mystical Market, Kilgore American Indian Art, El Rio Cantina, The Boathouse on Grand, Painted Turtle, and Columbine Restaurant. Panels will be held at the Mancos Community Center and the Mancos Public Library, a short walk over the Mancos River.