2025 Festival Updates

Stay up-to-date on schedule, venue and speaker changes.

Author Jade Chang is hosting a shopping experience at Alice and Olivia (419 E Hyman Ave.) at 3 p.m. - stop in for 25% off purchases.

Family Friendly Mini Fest is happening this morning! Tunes and Tales (musical storytelling) begins at 9:30 a.m. with face painting, an instrument petting zoo and quilting going until 11:00 a.m.

FOR VIP PASS HOLDERS: Patti Callahan Henry is no longer signing books in the VIP lounge. (She will be in the Festival HQ tent at 2:45 PM on Friday, September 26.)

Tayari Jones will join Nathan Hill to speak about “Love and Marriage in Contemporary America” on Sunday, September 28,
4 p.m. at The Wheeler Opera House. Tickets available here.

"Aspen Literary Festival" text on black background.

Fiction. Nonfiction.

Big names. Small town.

Music. Art. Food. Drink.

In the mountains. In autumn.

Literary insiders, outsiders and in-betweeners.

For Aspen. In Aspen.

Open to all. Most of it free.

September 26-28th.

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