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Stories on Schedule: Denver Author Plans to Write a Story a Week in 2026

By Teague BohlenFebruary 2, 2026

Denver author Nick Arvin is filling 2026 with a story a week, delivered free straight to readers.

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Colorado Has a New Poet Laureate: Crisosto Apache

By Patricia CalhounJanuary 28, 2026

“I hope my time in this role can serve as a bridge, helping young people discover the voices that will shape our futures.”

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Reading Between the Lines: Colorado Study Shows Prison Libraries Could Reduce Recidivism

By Teague BohlenJanuary 16, 2026

“Prison libraries feel very familiar. This isn’t Shawshank.”

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Josiah Hesse’s Visceral Take on Growing Up in Religious Extremism

By Teague BohlenJanuary 15, 2026

The Denver writer’s memoir takes on “fear, shame, poverty, and the making of the Christian Right.”

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West Side Books Enters a New Era With New Owner and Focus

By Teague BohlenJanuary 6, 2026

The Northside’s indie bookstore will close for a week in early January to re-tool and re-focus.

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From a Dream at Sea to the Page: No One Aboard Adds to Emy McGuire’s Breakout Year

By Toni TrescaDecember 17, 2025

Emy McGuire, a Littleton writer, celebrates the release of her debut novel, No One Aboard, this month and reflects on her whirlwind year.

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Rebecca Yarros, Nuggets Announce Fourth Wing Night

By Kristen FioreDecember 9, 2025

The author’s previous collab event with the Avalanche sold out immediately when tickets went on sale in August.

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Colorado Poets Laureate Gather for Release of Begin Where You Are

By Kristen FioreDecember 9, 2025

The book has already sold over 600 copies.

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Colorado’s First Poets Laureate Anthology Features Previously Unpublished Work by Andrea Gibson

By Kristen FioreDecember 3, 2025

Proceeds from the book will help sustain the state’s Poet Laureate program.

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Ten Colorado Books That Would Make Good Holiday Gifts This Year

By Teague BohlenDecember 2, 2025

The work of local authors may be the best Colorado gift of all.

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Denver Writer Explores Publishing, Social Media in Satirical New Novel

By Teague BohlenNovember 3, 2025

“Publishers think that readers don’t like reading about writers, but I don’t think that’s true.”

Ellen O’Clover Imagines a Place Where Broken Hearts Come to Heal in New Romance Novel

Ellen O’Clover Imagines a Place Where Broken Hearts Come to Heal in New Romance Novel

By Maddie BrowningSeptember 29, 2025

“I think that pain and love are so closely related to each other.”

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Why You Seriously Need to Stop Trying to Be Funny at Work

By Peter McGraw, Adam Barsky and Caleb WarrenSeptember 28, 2025

What feels wrong but okay to one colleague can feel simply wrong to another.

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Rock, Scissors, Paper: Central Library to Host Nearly 100 Zine Exhibitors for Zine Fest

By Kristen FioreSeptember 11, 2025

Check out hundreds of zines on Sunday at Central Library.

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The Boy Who Created The Boy and the Thing and a Lot of Other Things

By Teague BohlenSeptember 11, 2025

Denver writer and artist Mariano Velasco wants to become the next Jim Henson.

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Let’s Take This Book on the Road: Denver Teachers Take Their Book Van Around the City

By Teague BohlenSeptember 4, 2025

A Novel Affair is a mobile romance bookshop named Doris.

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What Happened to Silver Dollar Tabor? Rebecca Rosenberg Uncovers the Story of Baby Doe’s Daughter

By Teague BohlenAugust 29, 2025

Author Rebecca Rosenberg writes a second book in her Gold Digger series, this time focusing on Baby Doe Tabor’s daughter.

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Best-Selling Boulder Author Orbits Into the World of Martians With New Book

By Teague BohlenAugust 25, 2025

“We tend to think of space exploration as something that happened in the 1960s, or maybe the ’50s. But it really began with the Mars craze.”

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Romantasy and Ice Hockey Collide: Rebecca Yarros Apologizes After Fourth Wing Night Tickets Sell Out Immediately

Romantasy and Ice Hockey Collide: Rebecca Yarros Apologizes After Fourth Wing Night Tickets Sell Out Immediately

By Teague BohlenAugust 22, 2025

Fourth Wing sensation Rebecca Yarros has some trouble on the ice.

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The Burning Metronome Strikes Back: Local Artist R. Alan Brooks to Reprint His Popular Book

By Teague BohlenAugust 12, 2025

“There’s a reason that dictators immediately come in and ban art, first thing. Because they recognize the power of it.”

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Comic Josh Blue’s Memoir Something To Stare At Has Been Twenty Years in the Making

By Toni TrescaAugust 5, 2025

“I think sometimes people have an idea of what a disability is and what this book will be, and it’s not ‘woe is me’ or inspirational. I’m just telling my story.”

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How a Westword Assignment Turned Into a New Book

By Teague BohlenJuly 30, 2025

Escaping Denver isn’t easy. But writing Escaping Denver? Now, that’s a story…

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