Welcome

Welcome to the Eastern Sierra Book Festival webpage. We’re glad you’re here.

The book festival is a one-day celebration of books, writing, reading, and publishing. It is held annually in July at the beautiful Mammoth Museum at Hayden Cabin in Mammoth Lakes, California, on the Eastside of the Sierra Nevada.

The festival is sponsored by Whistling Rabbit Press and is hosted by the Southern Mono Historical Society. Book sales benefit the Mammoth Museum.

Here’s an interview with Jennifer Crittenden, the organizer of the book festival and author of The Mammoth Letters and Working Dogs of the Eastern Sierra, with Christopher Platt, head librarian of Mono Co libraries and Stacy Adler, superintendent of Mono Co schools, on their Oxygen Starved podcast in which they talk about the origins of the festival, as well as writing and reading and what makes the Eastern Sierra so intoxicating.

2024

We’re moving the festival to a Saturday!

ADMISSION IS FREE!

We’ll be at the Hayden Cabin in Mammoth Lakes, California all day with books, new and used, speakers, games, drinks, music, vendor booths, the Author Variety Show, and more!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

10 a.m.

11 a.m.      

Book Sales / Vendor Booths

Coffee and Breakfast

WELCOME

OPEN ALL DAY

Stellar Brew

Jennifer Crittenden

11:15-11:30

Books I Wish I Would Write

David Carle

11:30-12:00

Literary Agents: What They Do, How to Find One, and How to Work with Them

Eric L. Miller, 3i Books

12:00-12:45

PANEL: The Pupfish Hero

Jeff Gabriel, Susan Greenleaf, Joe Reidhead

1-2

Author Variety Show /

Meet the Authors

ALL

3 -ish p.m.

EVENT CLOSES

AUTHOR VARIETY SHOW / MEET THE AUTHORS FROM 1:00 P.M.

Authors will take the stages for about 7 minutes each to talk about their books, do a reading, sing a song or whatever floats their boat. They then have a spot at one of the tables so that you can purchase a book, have them sign it, or say hello.

Booths include:  Eastern Sierra Interpretive Association, California Writers Club / Ridge Writers, Story Summit, Whistling Rabbit Press

Book sales benefit the Mammoth Museum at the Hayden Cabin and the Eastern Sierra Book Festival.

Hosted by the Southern Mono Historical Society. Sponsored by Whistling Rabbit Press and Stellar Brew

THE BOOKS OF THE FESTIVAL

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Photo Gallery

2023 – THE SIXTH YEAR

Char Miller
The debrief 🙂

2022 – THE FIFTH YEAR

2021 – The Big Year

2020 – The Online Year

The entire event was streamed to Facebook and can be watched here.

The individual author segments can be watched here.

2019 – The Dog Year

2018 – The First Year

Contact

Interested in participating, speaking, having a vendor booth, or volunteering? Get in touch and let us know your great idea. Let’s have some fun.