Oct 17, 2026 | The Gateway, Salt Lake City
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about us
Salt Lake Book Festival is where the Mountain West comes to meet its favorite authors, discover its next obsession, and remember why stories matter. Every October, we’ll fill multiple stages with the writers behind today’s most talked-about books — and we design every moment to be as welcoming to a first-timer as it is to a lifelong reader. Come for the author you love. Stay for the one you haven’t met yet.
Celebrate the written word, and the voices that give it life.
To be the premiere literary destination for the Intermountain West, where every individual discovers the story that sparks a lifelong love of reading.