Events

May 18, 2025 |

Elevate Your Fiction From “Just Okay” to “Jackpot!” (Salida)


 

A Storycrafting Workshop Sponsored by Central Colorado Writers

Join a small group of your fellow authors for an intimate three-day workshop, which will include presentations, writing time, hands-on workshopping, and an open-mic evening, all in the beautiful Central Colorado mountains!

Limited to sixteen on a first registered, first accepted basis.

Presenters include Kelley Lindberg, Jerry Fabyanic, and Laurel McHargue.

Registration now open. Cost is $200 for CCW members, $220 for nonmembers.

May 16-18,  in Salida, CO.

 

 

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Salida, CO

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June 1, 2025 |

The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama (Denver)


The Life and Art of Tokio Ueyama features more than 40 paintings loaned to the museum by the Japanese American National Museum and Ueyama’s family, whose combined efforts to preserve his work have allowed the story of this accomplished and cosmopolitan artist to be told at the DAM for the first time.

At Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy.,Denver, through June 1.

See RMR review of Amache: The Story of Japanese Internment in Colorado During World War II by Robert Harvey.

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100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy.
Denver, Colorado

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June 13, 2025 | varies

Lit Fest 2025 (Denver)


Presented by Lighthouse Writers, June 6-13, in the historic Cole neighborhood in Central Denver. Visiting authors include Steve Almond, Nicole Chung, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Eduardo Corral, Claire Dederer, Paul Harding, Mat Johnson, Katie Kitamura, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Elizabeth McCracken, Eileen Myles, Helen Phillips, Solmaz Sharif, Tony Tulathimutte, and Matthew Zapruder. Events include craft seminars, community events, happy hours, business panels and pop-up bookstores.

Pricing begins at $25 for individual events, up to $1,580 for a Gold Pass, with multiple options in between.

 

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Venues vary.

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June 27, 2025 |

Apply to Summer Words Writers Conference (Snowmass Village)


June 20-27 at Viewline Resort, Snowmass Village.

Juried workshops include Fiction led by Steve Almond, Vanessa Chan, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah; Memoir led by Hector Tobar; Sci-Fi/Fantasy led by P. Djeli Clark; and Screenwriting led by Christina Lazaridi. Deadline to apply for juried workshops is Feb. 26. Guidelines to apply here.

General admission workshops are on a first-come, first-served basis. Topics include Book Branding, Generative Writing, and Readers Retreat.

For full description of workshops and faculty bios, click here.

Writing workshops start at $1,150, Readers Retreat at $755.

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The Beckwith Dynasty: A Ranching Empire in Colorado’s Wet Mountain Valley

Courtney Miller
Filter Press
130 pages
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Once one of the largest cattle ranches in southern Colorado, Beckwith Ranch rises to its former glory in the concisely and neatly written, The Beckwith Dynasty: A Ranching Empire in Colorado’s Wet Mountain Valley by Courtney Miller. The author explores the history of a successful shipbuilding family who traveled west in 1869, and would eventually create through hard work, luck and a handful of shenanigans, an incredibly successful agricultural operation. Miller guides the reader through the origins of the ranch with stories of true cowboys and the Old West.

Beginning with a meager 160 acres, the family created a vast holding of land and livestock that would eventually become a thriving and majestic showplace of 8,800 acres with a very distinctive mansion of white clapboard and red roof. The fortunes of the Beckwith empire grew even more with the discovery of gold and silver in the nearby mountains. The mansion continued to expand as well, becoming a rambling complex with all the latest Victorian fineries accumulated from travels afar. Sophisticated and worldly travelers were entertained with unparalleled grandeur in the hinterlands of Colorado’s Wet Mountains.

As with any great western story about perseverance and triumph, the tale of the downfall of the family and the mansion is equally fascinating. Death, disease and estranged family relations all contributed to the passing of the heyday of the grand place.

Located on Hwy 69 near Westcliffe, Colorado, the site and venue is now listed on National Register of Historic Places. The obvious sincere and deep appreciation the author has for the ranch shines through in his writing. He packs a lot of Wet Mountain Valley history in this small volume with fine research and striking details. This book is a nice resource for any Colorado history buff. — Jeffery Payne