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NOW ACCEPTING WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS 

Pikes Peak Writers Conference April 23-25, 2027!

If you’ve been dreaming about hosting a workshop at PPWC, now is the perfect time to dust off those brilliant ideas. 

We’re primarily a genre/fiction conference looking for craft, business, marketing, publishing – anything related to the art and business of writing and publishing books.

Whether you’re a seasoned presenter or a first-time applicant, if you have three or more workshops you can submit, we’d love to hear from you.

Receipt of entries for the next year’s conference end on September 30th.

Check out what we have planned for Conference 2026!

PPW CONFERENCE APRIL 17 – 19 2026

2026 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW OPEN

SADDLE UP AND WRITE!

APRIL 17 – 19 2026

NOW AVAILABLE!

Pikes Peak Writers Fourth Anthology, The Other Side of the Mountain

Featuring an all-new Monk Addison Case File by NYT bestselling author Jonathan Maberry

Join us as we travel to the other side. Who knows what we might find.

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NEWS

Throwback Tuesday: Going Wide-ish

by Jeff Schmoyer Editor’s Note:  For this week’s Throwback Tuesday, we’re revisiting a 2023 post from Jeff Schmoyer that breaks down what it really means for indie authors to “go wide.” If you’ve ever wondered or just want to know more about the topic, this one’s for you. Jeff’s practical […]

Sweet Success for T.M. Hedlund

Congratulations to T.M. Hedlund on the recent release of LADIES’ NIGHT. Coloradans in particular may enjoy this story, since the setting is Denver, 1979. Disco was fading, and a new wave of music was hitting the record charts and dance clubs. Full of nostalgia, LADIES’ NIGHT will take you back […]

Wasting Time Reading Classical Literature

by Merida Bass Hot take: Reading classical literature is a waste of time. Every writer has been encouraged to read the stuff. They are books we must all learn from so that we can craft the next generation of classics. However . . . Now don’t get me wrong! I […]

The Virtue of Ignorance and My Decision to Self-publish

by Steven Anderson If I had known everything I needed to learn, I might not have ever started. What a marvelous advantage it is, being ignorant and overconfident. But overconfidence is still confidence of a sort, so I enthusiastically started the journey to self-publish. Not that I went in completely […]

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