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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 10/6/2025
Former Colorado poet laureate, Joe Hutchison announces Begin Where You Are: The Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology will be released in late November 2025.



For the past two years, Joe has served on the editorial committee for this book alongside other Colorado Poets Laureate. Together, they've gathered poems by all ten Colorado poets who've held the Laureate position.



The proceeds (as well as donations) will go towards an endowment fund aimed at enhancing equitable access to poetry across the entire state. The newly-established nonprofit, Colorado Poets Laureate Anthology, will manage the endowment fund going forward.



Feel free to make your donation here. Your support will help us enhance the awareness and appreciation of poetry among readers today and in the future.
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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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Published On 8/4/2025
Gini Rifkin is featured on Literal Literary e-magazine's author spotlight!
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Published On 8/1/2025
Faye's Dead Girl is a finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards.
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Published On 8/1/2025
The Colorado Book Awards honored Barbara Nickless as winner of the Mystery category with Play of Shadows, while Mark Stevens, Lisa C. Taylor and Chuck Greaves won the Anthology category for Four Corners Voices.
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