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Have a workshop idea for conference?

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 23 – 25, 2027

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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Sweet Success for Win Scott Eckert

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Throwback Tuesday: Mind Mapping Your Story

by Trista Herring Baughman What is Mind Mapping? At some point in your school days, you learned about mind mapping. You might have tucked the knowledge away, back in the warehouse of your brain on a dusty shelf, or perhaps you still use it today. If it’s the former, let […]

It’s Your Conference, You Can Cry If You Want To

by Marin Stratus I am in the women’s restroom of the DoubleTree hotel. It is day 2 of PPWC, and I am blinking back tears at a conference. Again. But this time, they aren’t the kind of tears brought on by criticism or exclusion. Instead, this was the kind of […]

A Chat with Dustin Hendrix

Happy Spooky Season, Dear Readers! October is a crazy-busy month for me, but it’s also my absolute favorite! Gorgeous, multicolored foliage, outdoor movie nights, pumpkin patches, spooky books and movies, the smell of roasting marshmallows… Ah! As Anne Shirley said, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there […]

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