CFTB / Affiliate Programming events in Salt Lake City

Fri Sep 25

7:00 PM

The Entrada Institute Hosts Nonfiction Winner Barbara Jones Brown Literary

Thu Oct 1

4:00 PM

Better Storytelling through Dungeonmastering with Bryan Young at Wasatch County Library Literary

6:00 PM

You Have Something to Share with Sarah Fitzgerald, Writing Workshop at Wasatch County Library EducationLiterary

6:30 PM

Ogden School Foundation Presents Ann Patchett - 30th Annual Fall Author Event Literary

Fri Oct 2

6:00 PM

Why Stories Matter: A Conversation on Books, Censorship, and the Freedom to Read with Rebekah Cummings and Jennifer Nielsen Literary

Sat Oct 3

11:00 AM

Grand Opening of the Kimball Junction Branch at the PEAK Center Community

6:00 PM

2026 Utah Book Awards Literary

Sun Oct 4

1:00 PM

Park City Library: Craft Extravaganza Arts

1:00 PM

Park City Library: Elephant & Piggie Visit Family

1:00 PM

Park City Library: Local Author Meet & Greet Literary

1:30 PM

Park City Library: Puppet Show: THERE’S A MONSTER IN THE BATHTUB FamilyTheater

2:00 PM

Park City Library: Brian Laidlaw Keynote in Conversation with Maya Silver Literary

3:30 PM

Park City Library: Author Reception & Book Signing Featuring Brian Laidlaw & Local Authors Literary

7:00 PM

Annual Speak Easy Event at the Unspoken Bar ArtsLiteraryMusic

Mon Oct 5

6:00 PM

Brigham City Library Presents Heather B. Moore Literary

6:00 PM

Park City Library: Reception with Buzzy Jackson Literary

7:00 PM

Liz Kay FALLOUT Book Launch and Weber County Library, Main Library Literary

7:00 PM

Park City Library: Buzzy Jackson Keynote & Book Signing Literary

Tue Oct 6

7:00 PM

Brandon Mull Evening Event at Weber County Pleasant Valley Branch Literary

7:00 PM

Railtown Readings: Alberto Rios at Weber County Library Main Branch Literary

Wed Oct 7

6:00 PM

Brigham City Library Presents The Great American Table by Michelle Wright FoodLiterary

7:00 PM

Tanner Humanities Center Presents Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Literary

Thu Oct 8

7:00 PM

Weber State University presents Phil Klay Literary

Fri Oct 9

6:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Opening Night SUU Alumni Reading FestivalLiterary

6:30 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Keynote Speaker Sam Weller FestivalLiterary

7:00 PM

Literary Death Match Literary

Sat Oct 10

10:00 AM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Picture This: Books & the Art of Illustration FestivalLiterary

10:00 AM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Page to Stage & Screen: Adapting and Writing for Performance FestivalLiterary

10:00 AM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Writing the Great Outdoors: Utah, the West & Regional Folklore FestivalLiterary

10:00 AM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Reading Circle: "Why Read Horror?" / Reading What Scares Us (Horror Reading Chat) FestivalLiterary

11:00 AM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Beyond Space Opera: Lo-Fi Sci-Fi & Soft Fantasy FestivalLiteraryTheater

11:00 AM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Upmarket Fiction: Blending Commercial and Literary Fiction FestivalLiterary

11:00 AM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Preserving Southern Utah's Stories: Local History & Historical Fiction FestivalLiterary

11:00 AM

Southern Utah Book Festival: READING CIRCLE — Reading What We Love (Romance Chat!) Local History & Historical Fiction copy FestivalLiterary

12:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Tension in Horror FestivalLiterary

12:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Writing Routines & Discipline: How Authors Finish Projects FestivalLiterary

12:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Is Poetry the Fifth Element III FestivalLiterary

12:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Reading Circle: Reading What Intrigues Us (Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reading Chat) FestivalLiterary

1:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Why YA? Why We Love YA/MG Books (WHYA?) FestivalLiterary

1:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Writing Romance 101: Craft, Tropes & Genre Expectations FestivalLiterary

1:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: True Stories: Narrative Nonfiction FestivalLiterary

1:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: WRITERS CIRCLE — Query & Submission Clinic (Workshop / Discussion) EducationFestivalLiterary

2:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Why Love Stories Matter FestivalLiterary

2:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Revision Deep Dive: Cutting, Layering & Trusting the Process FestivalLiterary

2:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: AI, Ethics, and the Future of Writing FestivalLiterary

2:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Creators' Workshop: ZINES! ZINES! ZINES! EducationFestivalLiterary

3:00 PM

The Book that Changed Me Literary

3:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: How We Got Here: Author Origin Stories & the Long Game FestivalLiterary

3:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Agents, Queries & Debuts: Getting Your First Book Out the Door FestivalLiterary

3:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Breaking Into the Biz: Small Presses, Indie Publishing, What New Authors Need to Know FestivalLiterary

3:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Writers Circle 2: Flash Fiction Writing Workshop EducationFestivalLiterary

4:00 PM

Let Utah Read Advocacy Event Literary

4:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Mystery FestivalLiterary

4:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Worldbuilding Across Media: Comics, Games & Novels FestivalLiterary

4:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Self Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing FestivalLiterary

4:00 PM

Southern Utah Book Festival: Writing Circle 3: Writing Spooky Stuff (Workshop) EducationFestivalLiterary

5:30 PM

Screening of The Librarians Film

7:00 PM

John Green and Brandon Sanderson Discuss Hollywood Ending Literary

7:15 PM

Rebekah Cummings and Eli McCann Book Discussion Panel Literary

Sun Oct 11

3:00 PM

The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake with Michael McLane and Other Contributors Literary

Mon Oct 12

6:00 PM

The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake with Michael McLane and Other Contributor Literary

Tue Oct 13

6:00 PM

THE NOMAD Literary Magazine - Issues 3 & 4, "Breakthroughs" Literary

6:00 PM

Betsy Gaines Quammen at Marmalade Library EducationLiterary

Wed Oct 14

4:00 PM

Betsy Gaines Quammen at Hell's Backbone Grill Literary

Thu Oct 15

6:00 PM

Moon in the Rye Press Reading and Celebration Literary

6:00 PM

Bluff Arts Festival Literary Event Opening Ceremony FestivalLiterary

Fri Oct 16

9:30 AM

Bluff Arts Festival Literary Event Session One FestivalLiterary

4:30 PM

Bluff Arts Festival Literary Event Session Two FestivalLiterary

6:00 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: The Prologue, a festival kickoff — The Night Before FestivalLiterary

Sat Oct 17

4:30 AM

Bluff Arts Festival Literary Event Session Four FestivalLiterary

9:30 AM

Bluff Arts Festival Literary Event Session Three FestivalLiterary

10:00 AM

Salt Lake Book Festival FestivalLiterary

10:00 AM

Salt Lake Book Festival: The Language of Stone with Brian Laidlaw & Nicholas Triolo FestivalLiterary

10:00 AM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Magic, Desire, and Destiny: Inside the World of Romantasy FestivalLiterary

10:00 AM

Salt Lake Book Festival: How to Escape a Playdate: Storytime FamilyFestivalFreeLiterary

11:45 AM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Outwit, Outplay, Out-Plot FestivalLiterary

11:45 AM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Horrifyingly Good Frights, Middle Grade Horror Panel FestivalLiterary

12:15 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Perspectives Over Pints: Is It a Book? FestivalLiterary

1:15 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Spanish Language Story Time with Zyanya Bejarano FamilyFestivalLiterary

2:00 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Fire in Your Belly: A Story Hour with Aly McKnight FestivalLiterary

2:00 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Love, Death, and Things That Lurk in the Dark: Where Horror and Romance Collide FestivalLiterary

2:00 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Environmental Panel with Jason Dove Mark & Merritt Turesky FestivalLiterary

3:45 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Habibi Means Beloved FestivalLiterary

3:45 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival Presents: Greg Jackson in conversation with Robert Gehrke FestivalLiterary

4:00 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: Kills the Rules, Bury the Bones: A YA Horror Showdown FestivalLiterary

5:30 PM

Salt Lake Book Festival: A Conversation with Jodi Picoult FestivalLiterary

Mon Oct 19

7:00 PM

R. E. Burrillo at Don L. Burge Room at the Eastern Prehistoric Museum, Utah State University Arts

Wed Oct 21

11:30 AM

Utah State University Brewer Festival of Writing with Nicole Walker FestivalLiterary

2:45 PM

Utah State University Brewer Festival of Writing--Work of Art Panel FestivalLiterary

Thu Oct 22

6:00 PM

Helicon West presents Teo Rivera-Dundas Literary

Fri Oct 23

11:00 AM

Stokes Nature Center Nature Tales Outdoors

7:00 PM

R. E. Burrillo at Star Hall with Back of Beyond Books and Moab Library Literary

Sat Oct 24

11:00 AM

Stokes Nature Center Kids and Launch of Half Moon Family

1:40 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Doors Open, Early Browsing / Vendor Tables ArtsFestival

2:00 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Welcome & Introduction Festival

2:15 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Panel 1 — Kiss Me or Kill Me: When Horror Meets Romance Literary

3:00 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Book Signing Literary

3:15 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Panel 2 — Red Flags Are Just Flags When He's Hot Literary

4:00 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Book Signing Literary

4:15 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Panel 3 — Sex Death & Everything in Between Literary

5:00 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026:Book Signing Literary

5:15 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Panel 4 — Anatomy of Yearning Literary

6:00 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Book Signing Literary

6:15 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Who Would You Rather: Horror Edition Festival

6:45 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Social Time LiteraryMarket

7:00 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Erika K. Wurth Kiersten White & Sarah Hawley Literary

8:00 PM

Utah Horror and Romance Day 2026: Closing / Final Signings LiteraryMarket

Wed Oct 28

7:00 PM

Tanner Humanities Center Presents Mongane Wally Serote Literary