Online workshop presented by Tiny Spoon Literary Magazine, featuring Tiny Resident, Anesce Dremen.

Saturday and Sunday, March 1 & 2 from 3-5 PM, MT .

How does poetry exist alongside the tradition of tea? Through an immersive overview of the tradition of Chinese tea ceremonies, participants can steep themselves within translations and a brief overview of two thousand years of tea-inspired writing. Participants will appreciate excerpts of the first book written about tea (“The Classic of Tea” Lu Yu), learn about literary traditions of tea, as well as listen to a tea plucking opera (with lyrics in translation). Participants can contrast the workshop to their experience of drinking or preparing tea by brewing the same or their own tea. Using sensory descriptions, participants will then write about tea and have the option to share their writing.

Donation-based workshop.

Local authors from the Pikes Peak region or across the Front Range can apply to be part of this year’s Mountain of Authors in-person or virtual local author showcases. The event will be held on Sat., May 17 at Library 21c. This is an exciting afternoon of networking and connecting with other authors and the public. Applications will be open from Feb. 10 – March 3.

Annual fundraiser hosted by Western Colorado Writers’ Forum on March 4, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at the Art Center in Grand Junction.

Evening includes a silent auction, live entertainment, performances by guitarist Jake Johnson, Poetry on Demand by the Typewriting Wordsmiths (suggested donation $5), book sale, Pablo’s Pizza, games and prizes, and more.

Happy 2025, Lighthouse community! We’re excited to announce that applications for advanced workshops at Lit Fest are now open, along with applications for the Emerging Writing Fellowship, Veterans Writing Award, and LARRK Fellowships for Writers with Physical Disabilities (applications for the workshops and fellowships are in the same Submittable app).

Every year, Lighthouse adds to our already amazing faculty by bringing world-renowned authors, agents, and editors to Denver during Lit Fest. Visiting authors teach advanced classes, speak on panels, offer craft seminars, and more.

March 8: Deadline to apply for an advanced workshops at Lit Fest

Advanced weeklong and weekend courses are open to participants by application only, and workshops are limited to 10 (prose) or 12 (poetry) writers each. Applications close March 8!

A 4-day festival for writers, readers and lifelong learners, March 6-9 in Palisade.

This four-day festival in the Grand Valley of Western Colorado offers stunning evening performances, writing workshops, round-table discussions on place, poetry and storytelling, stimulating conversations, place-based reflections, heartfelt connections, spoken word, song, dance, movement as medicine, percussion, astrology and more.

Featuring beloved Placerville poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, adventure writer Craig Childs, co-editor of Native Voices, CMarie Fuhrman, Western Slope poet laureate, Wendy Videlock, award winning poets Uche Ogbuji, Kierstin Bridger, SETH, Rick Kempa, Jennifer Hancock, assorted regional musical guests, founder of Talking Gourds Art Goodtimes, Lithic Bookstore’s Danny Rosen and many more.

Events will take place at Ordinary Fellow Winery, The Blue Pig Gallery, and TBA (all in Palisade) with Saturday evening performances taking place at Lithic Bookstore and Gallery in Fruita.

Early Bird, all-access passes will be available for purchase through Feb. 7, after which tickets for individual events will go on sale.

Poetry Night at the Library is a monthly program at the Mesa County Library. Each month poets are invited to read their work based on a previous month’s challenge, or any other poem they’d like to read. Then, a new topic is discussed and a new challenge is issued. Topics range from a particular poet, to a school of poetry, to a new tool for your poetry toolbox such as a form or poetic device. No poetry experience is required – all are welcome! Next event is March 12.

Poetry Night occurs the second Wednesday of every month from 6-7:45 p.m. at the Central Library, 443 N. 6th Street, Grand Junction, CO 81501. No RSVP is needed.

Join us for a two-day celebration of all things thriller, mystery, suspense, crime, and horror, featuring David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Christa Faust, Tiffany Quay Tyson, Carter Wilson, Benjamin Whitmer, and more.

Plunge into a weekend full of seminars, panels, and conversations, and meet your fellow writers at readings and happy hours. You’ll practice plotting and calibrating suspense; consult with experts about genre publishing; and eavesdrop on brilliant novelists confessing their (writing) crimes, all while networking with Denver’s thriller, crime, and suspense community.

March 15-16 at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop, 3844 York St., Denver.

Prices vary for weekend or single-day passes for members and nonmembers. Click here for more details.

Sunday, March 16, 11 a.m. Theme is “Tales of Old Nucla.”

Stories & Poems follows a simple format. The morning begins with a passing of the gourd to introduce everyone in the group. Then those present will be invited to tell a personal story, perform a poem (an original or a favorite written by someone else), read a short section of prose having to do with the month’s theme.

A collaboration of the Naturita Community Library and the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds poetry program, Stories & Poems, is free and open to all ages — thanks to the generosity of the library, private donors and Talking Gourds’ Fischer and Cantor poetry contests.

The Naturita Community Library is located at 107 W. 1^st Ave. in Naturita and can be contacted at 907-787-2270.