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Clifton Brown's, "In the Ghost's Shadow" is a finalist in the Romance-Fantasy/SciFi category! The posting is listed at https://2025.storytradeawards.com/.

Jerry describes "Chacolata" as a way to transport the reader "into a spiritual menagerie where they can contemplate and explore wondrous potentials for life, as well as life after death, beyond our culture’s traditional conceptions."

This special event is Friday, September 12th at the Denver Woman's Press Club Clubhouse, 1325 Logan St. from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m.

Rick Noble's book King Cotton, has been nominated as a finalist in the 19th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA). And the third book in this trilogy, King Cotton III: Jack & the Ripper, is one of three finalists in the historical fiction category of the CIPA EVVY Awards.

Dianne Blomberg and her co-writer, Joe Carabello, are thrilled to announce their romcom pilot script, HAPPY LANDING, won First Place for Best Television Screenplay at the 2025 International Oxford Script Awards. This is an important IMDb-qualifying win, located in Oxford, UK.

Gini Rifkin is featured on Literal Literary e-magazine's author spotlight!

Faye's Dead Girl is a finalist in the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Awards.

The Colorado Book Awards honored Barbara Nickless as winner of the Mystery category with Play of Shadows, while Mark Stevens, Lisa C. Taylor and Chuck Greaves won the Anthology category for Four Corners Voices.

CAL historical fiction authors Marj Charlier (The Rebel Nun, The Candlemaker's Woman) , Ellen Kingman Fisher (Hill's Gold, The Price of a Contract, The Ring of a Bell), and Jack Maher (Poppy: A Novel About A Colorful Colorado Life) will be at West Side Books in Denver (3434 32nd St.) on Monday, August 18th from 6-8 pm. to discuss their work and sign books. All are also members of the Colorado chapter of the Historical Novel Society.

Luann Atkin Koester’s children’s picture book "Gran Kissed the Blarney Stone" was the 2025 winner of the Bloomsday Literary Award sponsored by the Minnesota Irish Network.

J. Claire's inaugural poetry book "Revelry" won two 2025 American Fiction Awards in Nature and Narrative poetry. It was also a finalist in the Contemporary and General poetry categories.

"Coal Dust and Dreams" by CAL member M.J. Evans (Margi) is a first place winner in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, The Nautilus Book Awards, and the Chanticleer International Book Awards. (All in the middle-grade fiction category.) It was also awarded first in the Literary Global Children's Book awards for Historical Fiction.