Nov. 21, 2024
November 22, 2024 | 4:30 - 6 p.m.
Western Colorado Writers Forum Spoken Word Open Mic
| A monthly open mic program in collaboration with Carboy winery. Purchase not required to attend. Five to seven-minute time limit. Poetry, prose, storytelling, slam. Note: There will be no Carboy Open Mic in December. Learn more here. (A little birdie told us we may see the Western Slope Poet Laureate at this session …) |
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3572 G Road, Palisade, CO 81526
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November 30, 2024 | 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Colorado Book Blitz at The Bookies
In partnership with Colorado Humanities and Colorado Center for the Book, The Bookies is excited to bring you Colorado Book Blitz in partnership with The Bookies for Small Business Saturday. Join us on November 30 at The Bookies from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. to meet your favorite Colorado author and get your holiday shopping done! The day will feature author talks, meet-and-greets, book signings, snacks, treats, and activities. Author appearances and talks will be spread throughout the day so visit The Bookies website for confirmed times and authors. Learn more here.
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2085 Holly St., Denver, CO 80222
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December 1, 2024 | Ongoing
Judge or select for 2025 Colorado Book Awards
Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book assigns volunteer selectors and judges of diverse readers from across the state for the 2025 Colorado Book Awards. Selectors and judges receive a complimentary ticket to the Colorado Book Awards celebration and may keep the books they review. To volunteer to select or judge for the 2025 awards, please complete an application by visiting www.coloradohumanities.org. Please do not submit to select or judge in a category you may be entering in. Deadline to apply is Dec. 1.
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December 3, 2024 | 6-7:30 p.m.
December Writer’s Night/Annual Open Mic Event, Western Colorado Writers Forum
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The Art Center in Grand Junction near 7th and Orchard
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December 31, 2024 | ongoing
Submit to the 2025 Colorado Book Awards
Colorado Humanities and Center for the Book is now accepting submissions for its 34th annual Colorado Book Awards for books published between Nov. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2024. They are particularly interested in receiving and reviewing works created by authors of communities that have been historically marginalized and excluded. Deadline for submission is Jan. 3, 2025. For submission guidelines, categories and more, visit the Colorado Humanities website or contact Valerie Eddy, Center for the Book Programs Coordinator, valerie@coloradohumanities.org, 303-894-7951, X15
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January 10, 2025 | Ongoing
Call for poetry submissions, Snakeskin
Colorado Springs-based poet Jessy Randall will guest-edit the March, 2025 issue of the long-lived online poetry magazine Snakeskin. The theme is SCIENCE FICTION. Send up to five unpublished poems about robots, other planets, Star Trek, imaginary technologies, utopian and dystopian futures, Octavia Butler, clones, Barbarella, Blade Runner, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doctor Who, the singularity, Princess Leia, black holes, the uncanny valley, alien invasions, time travel, soylent green, Zaphod Beeblebrox, sentient microbes, and so on, to jessyrandall@yahoo.com. Put your poems in the body of the email, please – no attachments (unless it’s a visual poem or something that needs special formatting). Simultaneous submissions are fine. Deadline is January 10, 2025 and you can expect a response by February 1. Share this call for submissions with anyone you wish.
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Briefly Noted
The Last Animal
Ramona Ausubel
Riverhead Books, paperback 2024
276 pages
Fort Collins-based author-wizard Ramona Ausubel’s most recent novel, The Last Animal, released in 2023 and out now in paperback, makes leaps of imagination across continents and millennia seem perfectly plausible. The story involves single mother Jane, a frustrated grad student in paleobiology, recently widowed; and her two teenage daughters, Eve and Vera, The Last Animal opens with this codependent family unit on a scientific expedition to Siberia where the girls, on a typically boredom-filled afternoon, stumble upon the bones of a 4,000-year old woolly mammoth. That’s just the beginning. Mother and daughters, through a series of subterfuge-fueled moves, end up at an exotic animal farm in Italy where the DNA of their fossil is implanted into an elephant with the goal of resurrecting an extinct species. What happens beyond that is a series of tender, hilarious, heart-rending and suspenseful moments that testify to the unbreakable ties of family, for better or worse, alongside the loneliness and impossibility of thriving without connection. Smart, beguiling, touching and entertaining, The Last Animal peers into our shared animal souls, at once raising pertinent questions about the limits of bioengineering and taking the reader on a helluva good ride. — Kathryn Eastburn
