Montana Book Festival

07/31/2024

We’re Baaaaaaaaack!

Thanks for your patience as we get the 2024 Montana Book Festival up and running! We’re working on updating the website and getting info out to you, but what we can say right now is …
- our dates are September 6-8th
- we will be located at the
- it is always FREE to attend !!

DM us, email us, flag us down on the street-we’ll answer any and all questions we have answers to for ya !

02/09/2024

Hey folks, as part of this Super Book Sunday, we are giving away prizes for the THREE HEAVIEST BOOK BAGS. Fill a bag for $10, $15, $25, or $35 and have a chance to win a BPR gift card (V-Day is coming up!) Or a bottle of wine from the Director's personal collection.

01/25/2024

How it works: you buy a tote from us (in $10, $15, $25, and $35 sizes) and fill it with as many books as possible. Prizes for the heaviest bags! Come join us before the big game and come home with books for the whole year!

04/26/2022

The Montana Book Festival is pleased—thrilled—to announce that John Samuel Brown has joined our team as our new Director! John (his friends call him Sam) is a lifelong Montanan who has resided in Missoula since 2010, where he has worked tirelessly for the arts at a variety of organizations, most notably KBGA and The Roxy Theater. He received his bachelors in English at the University of Montana and has written for publications such as the Missoula Independent, Brine the Zine, and Off Latch Press. You may have also encountered him cooking at one of your favorite restaurants or picking up your material donations for Home ReSource.

The Montana Book Festival is so excited to see how Sam *builds* upon his community experiences here in Missoula to make this year's IN-PERSON festival (Sept. 15-18, 2022) one to remember! Welcome aboard, Sam!

03/14/2022

Thanks for the shout-out, Montana Arts Council!

Are YOU the next Director of the Montana Book Festival?We are currently looking for a new Festival Director, tasked with conceiving, planning, and executing our 2022 autumn festival. Is that person you? Details in the form, below.2022 author submissions will open SOON!Author submissions for our 2022...

03/11/2022

We are searching for a new leader to helm our event and organization! Learn more on our Submittable page: https://montanabookfestival.submittable.com/submit

Submissions open through March 31st!

02/02/2022

We are so grateful for everything Tom Benson has done for arts and cultural programs in Missoula, especially the work he's done in his role on the Montana Book Festival Board of Directors (one of many groups of cats). Endless thanks, Tom!

After 18 years, Tom Bensen is planning to retire from his post as executive director of Arts Missoula, the nonprofit local arts agency.

12/20/2021

Aaand we have a winner! 👏🏼 Congratulations to Rebecca Ashcraft, who won the /MBF Best Worst Movie Pitch competition with “Walking in a Vinter Wonderland”! 🎅🏼🎉 We received some really wonderful so-bad-they’re-good submissions, and we want to thank everyone who submitted. You can watch Rebecca read her pitch in our stories and at artsmissoula.org. Happy holidays, everyone!

12/01/2021

A ❤️ hearty THANK YOU to everyone who contributed their time, energy, and money to this year’s Montana Book Festival, and to yesterday’s . We 💯 could not do what we do without you! 🙏🏼

11/30/2021

We are all hungry for more community connection, and what better way to feel that special bond than by listening to a reading or telling a good story, sharing our experiences? We at MBF wish to continue to build a state-wide literary community through gatherings, both in-person and online, and we hope you will join us in our passion by giving to the Montana Book Festival on Giving Tuesday—today, November 30th, 2021. Every gift counts. Thank you for loving literature as much as we do!

https://www.montanabookfestival.com/donate-00