WHAT’S NEW

Submissions and volunteer judges/selector applications are open for the 2025 Colorado Book Awards. The 34th annual Colorado Book Awards season begins September 9, 2024 for books published for the first time between November 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024. The submission deadline is January 3rd, 2025. The deadline to volunteer as a judge/selector is December 1, 2024.

Host an Author Talks Speaker

Our Author Talks program, formerly called Center for the Book Speakers Bureau, is an opportunity for our finalists and winners of the 2024 Colorado Book Awards to give talks at libraries, cultural centers, and schools across the state. View the updated roster of speakers on our page.

Museum on Main Street in Burlington

“Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition drawing on the history and culture of rural America to provoke fresh thinking and spark conversations about the future and sustainability of rural communities, will open in Burlington on September 23 at the Old Town Museum and will remain open until November 2.

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FACILITATOR TRAINING

Learn How to Facilitate Community Conversations Free Facilitator Training for Reflective Conversations prepares people to plan and facilitate conversations about vital issues and questions across different beliefs and backgrounds. Coloradans who complete

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