Email Author Alan Prendergast

Awards

• 2011 - Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 30, 2010

  "Black Out"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published November 4, 2010

  "Like an Open Book"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 22, 2009

  "The Quality of Mercy"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 14, 2009

  "The Giveaway"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2009 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published April 10, 2008

  "Miles and Miles"

• 2008 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published August 16, 2007

  "The Caged Life"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 8, 2007

  "The Punisher"

• 2006 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published December 8, 2005

  "Catch-16"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 12, 2005

  "If the Shoe Fits"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2005

  "Welcome to America"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 8, 2005

  "Duke of Oil"

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2013 Stories by Alan Prendergast

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  FEATURED STORY

  Corbin Clay: Beetle-killed furniture startup wins $100,000 GQ contest

  published Jan 15, 2013

  When Denver craftsman Corbin Clay launched his own custom furniture company a few years back, he saw an opportunity to make stylish, affordable pieces out of an abundant resource: the vast stands of d... More >>

• Russian lit and combat tales make the reading list for the Limon prison book club

  published January 17, 2013

  The list of books discussed in the Words Beyond Bars Project, a pilot program at the Limon Correctional... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  The lifers book club: Of mice and men, hopes and regrets at the Limon prison

  published January 17, 2013

  The prisoners report to the officer at the desk, then head into a room awash in sunlight in the visitation area of the Limon Correctional... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Darrell Havens: Paralyzed inmate denied clemency, surgery

  published Jan 14, 2013

  His doctors have told Darrell Havens that surgery could help relieve his deteriorating condition, but the wheelchair-bound inmate's keepers in the Colorado Department of Corrections aren't exactly eag... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Artist Jill Powers explores insects, climate change at show opening tonight

  published Jan 11, 2013

  Like pine beetles, Boulder artist Jill Powers does some of her best work in bark. Her mixed media fiber sculptures and installations draw on exotic natural materials, from seed pods to a tough inner b... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Hentzell Park: Mayor Hancock forges ahead with open space land swap

  published Jan 03, 2013

  Despite an emphatic recommendation against the move by her advisory board, Denver Parks and Recreation manager Lauri Dannemiller has okayed Mayor Michael Hancock's plan to swap open space in the Cherr... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Ongoing drought news great for beetles, bad for us

  published Jan 02, 2013

  It's now official: In some areas of Colorado, 2012 was the driest year since 2000. A late dump of snow in December has failed to take portions of the Western Slope and the southern part of the state o... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Kimmyan Franklin couldn't escape her uneasy past

  published January 3, 2013

  Take me up into your mind once or twice before I die (you know why: because the eyes of you and me will be full of dirt some day).... More >>