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.
For our NINTH year, in 2026, we’re continuing our Saturday event on July 18, 2026! We’ll run all day with books for sale, new and used, speakers, vendor booths, book signings, activities, Author Variety Show, and more! Full schedule coming.
The festival is sponsored by Whistling Rabbit Press and is hosted by the Southern Mono Historical Society. Book sales benefit the Mammoth Museum and the Festival. We are honored to be sponsored by local community-minded coffee shop Stellar Brew.
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.
