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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

Sweet Success for Jean Alfieri

Congratulations to Jean Alfieri! Her newest book, THE DOG HEAVEN SENT, was named one of four Finalists in this year’s Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s Gold Rush Literary Contest – Middle Grade/YA category. The genre winners will be announced at RMFW fall conference gala dinner on Oct. 3, 2026. ABOUT THE […]

How Themes Emerge

by Debra Hunt What is the source of our story themes? When I sat down to write Unlikely Hero, my goals were pretty simple: write a complete story and finally call myself a novelist. Like all of us, I wanted to craft a compelling plot with engaging characters. I knew […]

Grounding Impossible

by Erica Balfour Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. Three stories walk into a bar . . .  Story 1: An astronaut gets stranded on Mars and must figure out how to grow potatoes to survive.  Story 2: A mercenary shows up in ancient China and gets pulled […]

A Chat with Adam Marrow

Ahoy, Mateys! I’ve always had a soft spot for Talk Like a Pirate Day—my crew and I celebrate with movie marathons, pirate snacks, and the occasional raid on Long John Silver’s. So when the chance came to interview a true pirate author, I jumped aboard without hesitation. In honor of […]

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