The Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors (CALMA) will present its Winter event of 2024 on Sunday, December 22, 2024, 11:30 am – 3 pm. The Book Fair will be held at Raíces Brewing Co, 2060 W. Colfax, Denver CO. 10 CALMA Authors will display their literary work and the CALMA Board will share their accomplishments and goals for 2025 with a 12:30pm CALMA screen presentation. This year’s theme is “Somos CALMA” and will feature Anthologies, Academic, Biographical, Children’s, Memoirs, Poetry, Historical Fiction, Thriller, Horror and bilingual and Spanish books highlighting the Latino footprint in the history of Colorado. You are invited to join us as we celebrate the authors sharing their work that day along with our 75 CALMA authors and aspiring writers across the state of Colorado. For more information contact Karen Gonzales at:  info@calmaco.org

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 Send up to five unpublished poems about robots, other planets, Star Trek, imaginary technologies, utopian and dystopian futures, Octavia Butler, clones, Barbarella, Blade Runner, Ursula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.

Western Colorado Writers’ Forum announces a call for manuscripts for its anthology, Western Colorado Voices, showcasing the diverse talents of Colorado residents west of the continental divide. They are seeking fiction, memoir, history and poetry, original work that highlights a love of the human experience and finely-wrought language. All manuscripts will be judged anonymously by their editorial board. The anthology will be printed both as an e-book and print-on-demand hard copy. Submissions open Nov. 1 and end Jan. 31, 2025. For guidelines and more, click here.