NDN Girls Book Club announces inaugural Blue Corn Festival in Phoenix, AZ!
On March 1st, 2025, NDN Girls Book Club will partner with AZ Humanities to host the inaugural Blue Corn Festival, a celebration of Diné culture, literature, and futures at the AZ Humanities House in Phoenix, Arizona. The event serves to center Diné women writers, including Amber McCrary, whose book Blue Corn Tongue will be published by University of Arizona Press’s Suntracks Series on January 28th, 2025.
Other featured writers include NDN Girls Book Club’s Kinsale Drake, who will be in conversation with McCrary, and Laura Tohe, the Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation, who is the author of several collections of poetry. The poets will be joined by Alana Yazzie, the owner of The Fancy Navajo, a lifestyle blog since 2014. Yazzie recently published The Modern Navajo Kitchen, a cookbook that features contemporary and traditional Diné recipes. Yazzie will lead a cooking demonstration for blue corn strawberry shortcakes at the Blue Corn Festival.
All are welcome to join this blue corn-themed event, which will host a variety of Diné vendors, artists, and chefs, including local eatery Hope’s Frybread, Blue Corn Custom Designs, Blue Naadaa Sweets, and more.
The Blue Corn Festival will run from 12-5pm on March 1st, 2025 at the AZ Humanities House in Phoenix, Arizona. Registration is required for Alana’s cooking demonstration and for attendance.
