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A literary art show and story festival

Want to be a featured writer?

Wyoming writers, published or not, we invite you to become a Featured Writer of the Bookmarked Literary Arts Festival. We want to hear a 10 minute snippet of the story you are most excited to share with us. We will feature you on our state-wide marketing including social, website, and print. You will have the opportunity to sell your work at the book fair, participate in a literary art project, and have lunch on us.

Wyoming readers, lovers of all kinds of stories from mystery to sci-fi to memoir to poetry, we write stories for them to be read, heard, and loved. Come find your new favorite writer that you didn’t know was your Wyoming neighbor!

An origin story

The Bookmarked Literary Arts Festival began in 2020 when a Wyoming author approached a Lander librarian looking for help launching her book. A book that WASN’T about cowboys. A book that explored the SHARED WYOMING EXPERIENCE. The Wyoming experience that is MORE THAN, but also includes, the Wild West. The library didn’t have a system for helping connect local authors to local readers and as a writer herself, that librarian began to wonder what it might look like to create a space that celebrated Wyoming writers as literary artists and connected them with Wyoming readers.

The idea bloomed through the pandemic years and grew into a literary art show for writers and a story festival for readers.

Over three days each fall, we gather to share stories:

Poetry Slam

Houlihan Narratives

Youth Short Story Contest

Readings from Wyoming authors who write: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Romance, Fantasy, YA, Memoir, Research, Inspirational

Well known keynote speaker with ties to Wyoming