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Last Chance for Workshops!

If you have an idea and want to be on faculty at the 2025 Pikes Peak Writers Conference, please submit your workshops now. 

We are looking for a minimum of two workshops per faculty member, so please submit multiple ideas. 

Topics include craft, storytelling, business, project management, marketing and publishing.

Receipt of entries for the 2025 conference end on October 1, 2024.  Any entries after that date will be considered for the following year.

 

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION ENDING APRIL 25TH!

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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

A Little Post About Blogs

By Deborah Brewer Blog, Blog, Blog… The idea behind the word “blog” is “web log.” It’s an online journal—information and experiences shared through a personal lens and in conversational tones. A decade or so ago, it seemed every writer was urged to start a blog and post three times a […]

Volunteering is All-Pro, No Con

By Bowen Gillings I have never attended a Pikes Peak Writers Conference. Oh, I have been to every PPWC since 2016. Even co-created our 2020 virtual experience, the Colorado Writers Collaborative, in partnership with Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and Northern Colorado Writers (now Writing Heights Writers Association). And yet I […]

Exploring Children’s Literature

Part 2 – A Chat with Darby Karchut Welcome back, dear readers. In January, I began my “Exploring Literature with Children” blog series. Today, I will continue it as we delve into the world of Middle Grade (MG) fiction.  Several beloved titles come to mind when I think of the […]

Sweet Success for Darby Karchut

Yippee skippy happy news! Darby Karchut’s Middle Grade contemporary, THE HORSE WHO CARRIES THE STARS, recently won the 2025 Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Juvenile Fiction. ABOUT THE BOOK  Thirteen-year-old Reece Harding has both hands full dealing with one headstrong mare who’s all go and no whoa. When […]

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