Top attractions for the 2021 Las Vegas Book Festival

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In summation to keynote speakers, the 20th day Las Vegas Book Festival volition connection sheet discussions, workshops, poesy readings, cooking demonstrations and performances.

Here are a fewer of the much than 50 sessions scheduled.

■ “Spark! Youth Poetry Competition,” featuring Clark County precocious schoolhouse students speechmaking their work, moderated by Maryjane Dorofachuk. (1 p.m. Saturday, Poetry Pavilion)

■ “A Map to Nowhere: Featuring Poet James Norman,” a 10-minute code astir creation arsenic commodity vs. creation arsenic spontaneous inspiration, followed by a showing of Norman’s documentary “A Map to Nowhere: Or How to Become Poet Laureate of a Truckstop Diner.” (1 p.m. Saturday, Fifth Street School auditorium)

■ “Documenting Social Movements Through Images” featuring Judy Polumbaum. (Noon Saturday, Room 125, Fifth Street School)

■ “Beyond the Neon Spoken Word,” moderated by Ms. AyeVee and featuring Smokey Tone, Petit Monstre, Wynter Storm and Vanessa Latrice Williams. (9:15 a.m. Saturday, Poetry Pavilion)

■ “New Ways to Write About Vegas,” moderated by Review-Journal features exertion Scott Dickensheets and featuring Nicholas Russell, Summer Thomad, Soni Brown and Jennifer Battisti. (9:30 a.m. Saturday, Empowered Tent)

■ “Covering the News: Past, Present and Future,” moderated by Review-Journal authorities exertion Steve Sebelius and featuring Stephen Bates, Jonathan Rauch and Christina Bellantoni. (2:30 p.m. Saturday, Fifth Street School auditorium)

■ “Musings connected the Mojave” moderated by Geoff Schumacher and featuring Ken Layne, Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder, Teri Vela and Krystal Ramirez. (12:15 p.m. Saturday, Empowered Tent)

■ “Fractured Narratives, Truth and Trauma,” featuring Las Vegas poets and authors Jennifer Battisti and Heather Lang-Cassera. (10:30 a.m. Saturday, Poetry Pavilion)

■ “Far From Respectable,” astir creation professional and essayist David Hickey, with Daniel Oppenheimer, writer of a caller captious survey of Hickey’s work, and David L. Ulin. (10:45 a.m. Saturday, Empowered Tent)

■ A cooking objection with Las Vegas cook DJ Flores of Milpa. (Noon Saturday, Engaged Tent)

■ “Writing for Teens and Tweens,” a sheet treatment moderated by Cyndy DeLeon featuring Axie Oh, Brandie June, Veeda Bybee, Lindsay Leavitt and Ken Lamug. (9 a.m. Saturday, Inspired Tent)

■ “Let’s Talk About Romance,” moderated by Crystal Perkins featuring Priscilla Oliveras, Farrah Rochon, Jayci Lee and Sonali Dev. (1 p.m. Saturday, Inspired Tent)

■ A show by Las Vegas-based euphony performers The Nik Naks. (9:30 a.m. Saturday, Discovery Tent)

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