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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Mandy Houk In the spring of 2007, I attended my very first Pikes Peak Writers Conference, then held at the Colorado Springs Marriott. I’d recently moved to Colorado, recently finished my first novel, and had zero idea what to do next. The week before the conference, I attended my […]
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