Form Fetish: Celebrating Defiance Against Convention
A two-day (Sept. 28 and 29) writing workshop via Zoom with Denver’s Tiny Spoon‘s Tiny resident, Anne Marie Wells, playwright, memoirist and oral storyteller (annemariewellswriter.com). Participants will be guided through traditional poetic forms before diving head first into modern poetic forms that defy constraining structures while exploring experimentation and fun. “This workshop is for the established form fetishist, the form curious, and form skeptics.” Donations suggested on a sliding scale, $25 to $50, or what you can afford. All funds will be used to support Tiny Spoon’s Tiny Residency Program. To learn more, visit https://tinyspoon.org.
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Zoom link will be provided
Duneshredder book event in Alamosa
Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative in Alamosa hosts a reading, book signing and Q&A with author Corveaux Millions. Millions has been writing books for children and teenagers for over a decade. His latest book, The Duneshredder: The Gold of San Luis, is a teen adventure set among the Great Sand Dunes. Visit the store’s website for more: https://www.narrowgaugebooks.com
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602 Main St, Alamosa, CO 81101
Submissions open to present at Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2025
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First Storytellers Festival 2024: A Celebration of Native American Theatre
In response to the need for Native theater artists to work with other Native creatives to develop their shows, First Storytellers Festival was created. This is the first of what will be an annual event. For full schedule of events and more information, visit https://www.creative-nations.org/first-storytellers-festival.
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Various locations
October Writer’s Night and call for manuscripts, Western Colorado Writers Forum
The WCWF is pleased to announce a new upcoming anthology, Western Colorado Voices: An Anthology of Stories, Essays and Poetry, with submissions open to western Colorado residents from Nov. 1 to Jan. 31, 2025. Short stories of any genre and nonfiction pieces under 5,000 words will be considered as well as poetry. Full submission guidelines and pay rates will be released at Writer’s Night in October where the editors will answer questions about what they’re looking for and the process of creating the book from start to finish. Please RSVP at the registration link below.
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The Art Center, 7th and Orchard, Grand Junction, CO
Lala Delgado Day of Flor y Canto Poetry Festival
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Lalo Delgado Day of Flor y Canto Poetry Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 5 at the Metro State University campus, Denver. This is a day dedicated to the written and spoken word, in memory of Abelardo “Lalo” Delgado, the grandfather of Chicano poetry. Special guest and keynote speaker, Poet Laureate of Lafayette, Colorado, ZBassSpeaks (also known as Z). The event is free and open to the public with special tributes, poetry workshops, open mic, Unknown Poets Contest Winners and food from Comida Deliciosa de Tamale Kitchen. RSVP registration is required; click on the link below. For more information, email info@dwcponline.org
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Metro State University of Denver Music Building, 800 Kalamath St., Denver
All Pikes Peak Reads welcomes Shelley Read for author events
Join the Pikes Peak Library District community in reading Go As a River by Colorado author Shelley Read. The district has added a second session of the author visit due to the event’s popularity. For full details, visit https://ppld.org/appr. Registration is recommended for this event as space is limited.
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Library 21c, 1175 Chapel Hills Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80920
Liberating Latin American Genre Fiction: In Conversation with Silvia Moreno-Garcia
New York Times bestselling and highly acclaimed novelist Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican Gothic) will discuss Latin American genre fiction, her writing process and her newest book, The Seventh Veil of Salome in an online chat. To learn more, visit https://libraryc.org/ppld/57882?uMarketingSource=_LSC_ME_09_4. View upcoming events in this series at https://libraryc.org/ppld/upcoming.
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Online
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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Film actor and author Griffin Dunne’s Colorado connection, briefly noted in his charming, disarming and satisfying family memoir, is that he honed his acting skills as a teenager at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs where he “knocked it out of the park” as Jerry in Edward Albee’s Zoo Story and was changed by the experience. Dunne was forced to leave the next semester after getting caught smoking hashish in the dorm the night before he was due to perform in Othello. This brief misadventure mirrors many others in young Dunne’s developing years as he relocates from coast to coast, rubs elbows with his parents’ Hollywood coterie, is best friends with Carrie Fisher and constantly adores his eclectic and glamorous parents, brother Alex and sister Dominique. Dominique’s 1982 murder at the hands of an abusive ex-boyfriend and the subsequent, highly publicized trial of her killer become the focus of much of the book’s second half. Dunne’s book rises well above the category of celebrity memoir to a true family memoir, unwaveringly honest and filled with moments of despair as well as laughter as the Dunnes pull together and fall apart, like most families, in the face of tragedy.