Credit: Nevada Humanities/Ronda Churchill.
The Las Vegas Book Festival returns to downtown Las Vegas on Saturday, October 18, 2025.
Nevada Humanities founded the Las Vegas Book Festival in 2002 and partners with the City of Las Vegas each year to produce the Las Vegas Book Festival. Visit lasvegasbookfestival.com for details on panel discussions, book signings, readings, workshops, poetry, exhibitions, and special events for all ages. Free and open to the public.
Nevada Humanities Events at the Las Vegas Book Festival
Nevada, P.S. I Love You Postcard and Mini Sketch/Flip Book Project
10:00 am–4:00 pm | Nevada Humanities Tent
For all ages, free while supplies last.
Join us at the Las Vegas Book Festival in the Nevada Humanities Tent for a special community activity. Create your own handmade postcard or flip book story. Nevada artists and poets will be on hand throughout the day with their creative energy in helping you create a little art and write a poetic message about what you love about Nevada. Nevada, P.S. I Love You Postcard Project is part of an ongoing project to connect Nevadans across the state by sharing the things we all love about Nevada.
Meet Jen Nails
12:00–1:00 pm | Nevada Humanities Tent
Nevada Humanities and its Nevada Center for the Book selected two books by Nevada authors to represent Nevada at the 2025 Library of Congress National Book Festival as a part of the Great Reads from Great Places program. Come meet our featured YA author, Jen Nails, at the Nevada Humanities table at the Las Vegas Book Festival on Saturday, October 18, 2025, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. During this informal conversation hour, participants will have the chance to create postcards about the things they love most about Nevada and discover how food, family, and place are central to her storytelling, alongside the value and importance of libraries in Nails’ life. This event is free and open to the public.
Spark! Youth Poetry Competition
1:00–3:00 pm | Poetry Pavilion
High school students residing in Clark County, Nevada, present original poems to be judged by a panel of poets, authors, educators, and other community members. The annual Spark! Youth Poetry Competition is a program of Nevada Humanities.