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.
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.
PROGRAMS
Inspiring conversation and exploration of our shared cultural heritage