A Celebration of Writers, Books, Readers, and Ideas!

The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival brings together 50 of the finest writers and panelists with 1,000 readers. The fifth annual Rancho Mirage Writers Festival will be January 24-25, 2018.

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We received some great feedback on our 2017 Festival, and we listened to you, our readers. You told us that the evening sessions made the long days too exhausting. Next year we are incorporating the evening sessions into the day and adding our biggest stars and most popular speakers to the daytime sessions.

Daily schedule

The regular passes for the 2018 Festival are sold out, but we just added 20 more passes. Get yours now before these last passes disappear!

Staycation Packages Available Now!

We are offering a limited number of Staycation Packages for the 2018 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival.

Packages include three nights at the Omni Rancho Las Palmas and two all-access passes to the Festival for $2,150.

Click here to discover more about our Staycation Packages.

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The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Foundation proudly announces a new event this year, the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Writers Series. The Foundation will present a series of talks by eminent authors throughout the year. This is a FREE event and will take place at the Rancho Mirage Public Library.

We continue the series with Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author and recipient of multiple awards. Don has written twenty novels, including The Force, his latest book.

Please note the time for this event has been changed. Because of Don Winslow’s popularity and hectic schedule, he will be appearing later in the day on Thursday.

Don Winslow
Thursday, June 29th
NOW APPEARING AT 6:00 PM
Rancho Mirage Public Library
FREE event: talk, Q&A, Book Signing

Can’t make it on Thursday? You can still watch Don Winslow talk about his new book The Force. The Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Foundation is thrilled to announce that we will be live streaming this event for our RMWF Writers Series.

Questions? Contact thofmann@rmwritersfest.org

The theme for 2018 is “Gloriana Britannia,” aka The British Invasion, featuring 8 of the best of English writers. We even have a surprise Royal to be announced. We also have our reader and C-SPAN favorites Bret Stephens, H.W. Brands, Dave Barry and Douglas Brinkley returning, not just because they give the best talks ever but because they love our “smart audiences.”

Our goal is to offer you a rich and diverse program with topics ranging from humor, mystery, international politics, history and health to great fiction. Our writers are all experts in their field, distinguished historians, respected journalists and gifted storytellers. For 2018, we have 40 writers, including 8 Pulitzer Prize winners and 2 National Book Award winners.

See all the past writers from Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in our Hall of Honor.

RMWF Cruise to Alaska

If you enjoyed the 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, we hope that you will join us for the first Writers Festival Cruise!

Experience the Best of Public Broadcasting Aboard the #1 Cruise Line in the World. This 10-night itinerary begins in beautiful Vancouver, Canada, travels north to the stunning expanse of Alaska and disembarks in the cosmopolitan ‘city by the bay’ San Francisco, all the while offering travelers access to some of the country’s most fascinating people.
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Be an angel. Donate $5000 and help support honoraria and travel for our truly amazing Festival writers. The Angels fund the programing that has made our Writers Festival the best in the nation.

Only a limited number of people can be angels each year. Festival angels receive:

See the full list of Angels.

Did You Miss a Festival Session?

Rancho Mirage residents can watch sessions on local RMTV. Sessions from the Fourth Annual Rancho Mirage Writers Festival are also available on the C-SPAN Book TV website.

Select sessions are also available on our Festival website video page.