Started as a grassroots writers’ conference in 1976, Aspen Words has become the creative center for passionate and curious readers and writers. One of the many thriving programs offered by Aspen Words ...

Benefit Dinner took place on Friday, June 13, at Hotel Jerome on a stunning summer night with authors, poets, book worms, and ...

Aspen Words. Overlapping with the Ideas Festival is the annual Aspen Words program, from June 18 to 23, which is in nearby Snowmass. This is a reading and writing retreat with juried and non ...

Aspen Words Announces 5 Finalists For 2021 Literary Prize The $35,000 prize honors fiction that "illuminates vital contemporary issues." This year's finalists deal with everything from Native ...

Aspen Words Managing Director Caroline Tory said that while the literary nonprofit has been cultivating youth education projects for over a decade through its “Writers in the Schools ...

Updated at 9:40 a.m. ET Friday. For judges of the second annual Aspen Words Literary Prize, there was little question who ought to walk away with the award.In the end, in fact, the decision was ...

Annalise Grueter is a member of the Aspen Writer’s Network and participant in its Summer Words workshops. Currently, a tribe ...

Aspen Words partners with the Catto Shaw Foundation to host one resident per month at Catto Shaw’s property in Woody Creek, offering working writers and authors “an opportunity to nurture ...

Aspen – The war on drugs has turned into a nasty war of words in a town once renowned for drug use. It seems the Aspen of legend – a place where cocaine was openly snorted in restaurant bars ...

Out of 16, just five remain. The Aspen Words Literary Prize, now in its second year, has trimmed its longlist of 16 nominees to just five finalists. The books on the shortlist, unveiled Wednesday ...

ASPEN ” Aspen Summer Words Literary Festival always has been a treat for readers and writers alike, but since organizers began adding a cultural theme, it’s become even more of a moving ...