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If you have an idea and want to be on faculty at the 2025 Pikes Peak Writers Conference, please submit your workshops now.

We are looking for a minimum of two workshops per faculty member, so please submit multiple ideas.

Topics include craft, storytelling, business, project management, marketing and publishing.

Receipt of entries for the 2025 conference end on October 1, 2024. Any entries after that date will be considered for the following year.

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Pikes Peak Writers Fourth Anthology, The Other Side of the Mountain

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NEWS

Exploring Children’s Literature

Part 2 – A Chat with Darby Karchut Welcome back, dear readers. In January, I began my “Exploring Literature with Children” blog series. Today, I will continue it as we delve into the world of Middle Grade (MG) fiction. Several beloved titles come to mind when I think of the […]

Sweet Success for Darby Karchut

Yippee skippy happy news! Darby Karchut’s Middle Grade contemporary, THE HORSE WHO CARRIES THE STARS, recently won the 2025 Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Juvenile Fiction. ABOUT THE BOOK Thirteen-year-old Reece Harding has both hands full dealing with one headstrong mare who’s all go and no whoa. When […]

Sweet Success for Terence Robinson

Here’s some great news! Terence Robinson is pleased to announce the release of his debut novel, THE MAFIA’S TELEPHONE COMPANY: INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY (Feb. 2025 from Bitterroot Mountain Publishing House). ABOUT THE BOOK Erick Olson’s financing to purchase Whitman Telephone falls through. He’s left scrambling for funds to […]

Setting Up Your Story for Success

By Trista Herring Baughman You have a great story idea. Or you’ve started a book, but you’re stuck. Now what? How can you go from a seedling of a story to a fully branched, deeply rooted one? If you’re a panster, you’ll likely begin by sitting down to write. If […]