Pikes Peak Writers

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Last Chance for Workshops!

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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Check out what we have planned for Conference 2024!

PPWC 2024

EVENTS

NEWS

Villains and More—with Barbara Nickless

An Interview by Deborah L. Brewer Every story, if it is to be a compelling read, needs conflict and obstacles for its protagonists to overcome on their heroic journeys. Enter, the villain, to a chorus of boos and hisses. Villains are the characters readers love to fear and hate. But […]

Sweet Success for Sam Pisciotta

Congratulations to Sam W. Pisciotta! His short story “House of the Hidden Moon” appeared in the September 2024 issue of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE, a publication of horror and dark fantasy. The story takes a unique and literary twist on the ghost story. “House of the Hidden Moon” is free to read […]

Sweet Success for Bowen Gillings

Cheers to Bowen Gillings! His latest story, DEATH AND DECEPTION, releases Jan. 2025 from Sally Port Magazine. The fantasy features Rom and Drood, the stars of two stories featured in the Pikes Peak Writers anthologies Fresh Starts and Journeys into Possibility. ABOUT THE STORY: Rom and Drood are back once […]

NaNoWriMo Alternatives

By AJ Metzger I’ll admit I planned for the past 3 years to participate in NaNoWriMo and each year I started strongish but all the things interfered. Mainly for me, November is a crazy busy month for planning and organizing the upcoming year for both work and home, and trying […]