Submission Guidelines
Rocky Mountain Reader welcomes all reader comments and emails. Send to editor Kathryn Eastburn at kathryn@rockymountainreader.org or to info@rockymountainreader.org. We cannot promise a personal response due to small staff and high volume of emails.
Book Coverage: If you are an author with a Colorado connection and want your book considered for review, please contact the editor with full publication information (publisher, publication date, ISBN, publicity contact). We’re a nonprofit organization with a small staff and limited resources, so except in the case of poetry collections, the titles we consider for review should be traditionally published unless you or your readers can make a strong case for your self-published or subsidy-published books of any kind.
Poetry: We print poetry by invitation only, generally in the form of a book excerpt. Please don’t send unsolicited poetry submissions.
Essays: We welcome original essay submissions from anyone with a Colorado connection, whether you’ve published a book or not. We’re interested in thoughtful, timely, pertinent, well-written essays that tell a true story in a compelling way. Send essays for possible publication to the editor and be sure to include a note explaining your Colorado connection. Ideal length is 800-1,200 words. We pay on publication: $150.
Review and Features Contributors: Rocky Mountain Reader operates on an assignment basis, and some reviews and features are assigned well in advance of publication and/or a book’s release date. If you’d like to contribute book reviews, please contact us with an email of introduction along with links to some of your published work. Reviews and Features generally range from 700-1,200 words in length. We pay on publication: $150.
Event coverage: We’re always eager to receive information about literary festivals, public conferences and other literary events of interest to readers across the state. Please send notices well in advance of the event with key information to the editor, marked Events Listings in the subject line. Provide: name of event, date, description, location and contact information as well as registration information if required.
Independent booksellers: All independent bookstores in Colorado are invited to submit their pertinent information—name, location, contact information, description of inventory and programs offered — to be published under our Independent Booksellers tab. Timely events at your store should be submitted separately, marked Events Listings in the subject line of your email. Send bookseller listings info to: kathryn@rockymountainreader.org or info@rockymountainreader.org. Bookseller listings will be placed at a cost of $10 per month, $50 for six months or $100 for an entire year with payment made to Colorado Humanities on behalf of Rocky Mountain Reader using the QR code below, or by sending a check, clearly marked ‘bookseller listings for Rocky Mountain Reader’ to: Colorado Humanities, 7935 E. Prentice Ave., Suite 450, Greenwood Village, CO 80111.
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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.
