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Published On 11/4/2025
Aurora, November 22nd – Manos Sagrados venue, in the Aurora Cultural Arts District, will host TaosPoetix! meets Art Compost collaborative performance Saturday, Nov. 22 at 7pm. Calling themselves “Animal Luminoso,” New Mexico poets Anna MacNaughton, former director of the long running Taos Poetry Circus, and Amalio Madueño, co-founder of the Circus, join forces with Denver performance poet SETH for a unique interweaving of poetic styles. The venue is at 9975 East Colfax Avenue. $20 (in advance), $25 at the door, (students/seniors $5 off).Visit ManosSagrados.com for tix.
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Published On 11/3/2025
Taking place at the Listen To Your Mother Holiday stage show in Boulder on NOV 29TH.
For more information and to attend, visit https://open.substack.com/pub/wordtoyourmotherarts/p/meet-the-cast-of-ltym-boulders-2025?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=16fxh
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Published On 11/3/2025
"Minimum Safe Distance" (2022) has won the 1st place prize in the Literary Fiction category in the International Firebird Book Awards for Q3 2025. This Literary Fiction win is extra special for XHY, since MSD is science fiction, and now all three of his books have won literary awards. Congratulations!
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Published On 10/15/2025
Victress Hitchcock's memoir - A Tree with My Name on It: Finding a Way Home which was the winner of this year's CAL Memoir award just received a Silver Medal in Non-Fiction Spirituality from Reader's Favorites. Congratulations!
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Published On 10/15/2025
Peggy Wirgau's book has been chosen by Pageturner Awards as a Finalist for their Book Award, and the cover has been chosen as a Finalist for their Cover Award.

Peggy has also been busy writing for the e-zine, Girl Talk HQ: The Revitalization of Women’s History Through Historical Fiction - GirlTalkHQ. She has also been a guest on the podcast Spycraft 101. The episode will air on October 20th, 2025.
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Published On 9/3/2025
Clifton Brown's, "In the Ghost's Shadow" is a finalist in the Romance-Fantasy/SciFi category! The posting is listed at https://2025.storytradeawards.com/.
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Published On 9/3/2025
Jerry describes "Chacolata" as a way to transport the reader "into a spiritual menagerie where they can contemplate and explore wondrous potentials for life, as well as life after death, beyond our culture’s traditional conceptions."
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Published On 9/3/2025
This special event is Friday, September 12th at the Denver Woman's Press Club Clubhouse, 1325 Logan St. from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.
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Published On 8/19/2025
Rick Noble's book King Cotton, has been nominated as a finalist in the 19th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA). And the third book in this trilogy, King Cotton III: Jack & the Ripper, is one of three finalists in the historical fiction category of the CIPA EVVY Awards.
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Published On 8/11/2025
Dianne Blomberg and her co-writer, Joe Carabello, are thrilled to announce their romcom pilot script, HAPPY LANDING, won First Place for Best Television Screenplay at the 2025 International Oxford Script Awards. This is an important IMDb-qualifying win, located in Oxford, UK.
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