The CAL Awards opens for submissions Nov. 1! If you are a Colorado Author with writing published in 2024 or 2025, your work may qualify to compete in one of the top Colorado writing contests! Check out membership and CAL Awards details at coloradoauthors.org.
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BREAKING NEWS: Return To Sender: A Book of Poetry, Prose, and Otherwise Unsent Letter won the 2025 #CALAwards in the Prose Collection category!
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AND THE LAST CATEGORY IS... Book Cover Design: YA/Adult. The finalists are Momir Borocki for A Warrior's Path, Jody Chapel for Four Corners Voices, and Tristan Bowersox for Tales of the Incorrigible: A Song of Wood and Meat. Congratulations!! #calawards #coverdesign #awardwinning
In the Anthology category, the finalists are At Home in Nature, by Mary Taylor Young, Four Corners Voices by Chuck Greaves, Lisa C. Taylor, & Mark Stevens, and Colorado Mystery Merge by the Colorado Chapter of Sisters in Crime. Congratulations!
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CAL's Illustration finalists are Gabby Zapata (center, top) for The Ofrenda That We Built , Jessica Robin Harkey for Boo Bear's Light and Flo Minowa (not pictured) for the Year Santa Took the Toys Back. Congratulations!
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Surprise! I might be celebrating Return To Sender being a Prose Collection Finalist for the 2025 #CALAwards, but I couldn’t miss this drop! My Curse by Alice Allis.
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Congratulations to CAL's Middle Grade finalists, Keeper of the Gremkat Key by John Lyon and Brad Lyon, Coal Dust and Dreams by M.J. Evans, and Skyriders by Polly Holyoke.
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The finalists for Pre-20th Century Historical Fiction are The Ring of a Bell by Ellen Kingman Fisher, King of the Gulls by Stefan Scheuermann & Paul Alexander, and Fairest of the Fayre by Sheri Cobb South. Congratulations!
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Congrats to CAL's Amateur Sleuth Mystery finalists: Wild Ride by Lenore Mitchell, The Suicide Detective, by W.L. Bach, and Trailridge by Kevin Wolf.
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Congrats to CAL's Children's Book finalists: Little Lou and Just Being You by Leslie Mitchell Assini, The Year Santa Took the Toys Back by Sheri Cobb South, and Cat & Rabbit by J. B. Stockings.
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CAL's Mainstream/Literary Finalists are Chocolata by Jerry Fabyanic, The Wild Road Home by Melissa Payne, and Burying Norma Jeane by Leah Rogin. Congrats!
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Cover Design finalists: Jessica Santiesteban for Always Flying Bobby by C.S. Boyll, Flo Minowa for The Year Santa Took the Toys Back by Sheri Cobb South, and Anna-Maria Crum for Skippy, Farm Dog of the Year by Anna-Maria Crum and Laura Adams.
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CAL's Sci Fi Finalists are Messenger by Collin Irish, KEID: A Lost Civilization by Robert G. Williscroft, and Epoch: A Poetic Psy-Phi Saga by Dave Jilk. Congratulations!
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Congrats to CAL's Nonfiction Finalists, Fiddler on the Roof of Africa by Derek Lowstuter, In the Land of Forgetfulness by Wayne A Ewing, and The December Dilemma by Jody Pritzl.
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The Article Finalists are "House of Mirrors" by Carol Ann Wilson, "The Day the Asteroid Changed the World (And Left its Mark on a Colorado State Park)" by Mary Taylor Young, and "Early Medieval Art of the British Isles: Celtic or Anglo Saxon?"
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Congrats to CAL's Prose Collection Finalists, Return to Sender by Alice Allis and The Devil's Library by Joachim Glage.
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Congrats to CAL's Short Story Finalists: "A Place to Heal" by Cassi Clark, "Subversive" by Colin Irish, and "The Purgatory of Emily Gray" by Fleur Bradley Visscher (found in the Colorado Mystery Merge anthology).
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The finalists for the Thriller category are Operation Vela Redux by Robert G. Williscroft, A Waffior's Path by Steve Stratton, and Black Dog Escape by W.L. Bach. Congratulations!
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Congrats to CAL's YA finalists: Unmasked by Kendra Merritt, Dead Girl by Kerrie Faye, and Dogs Don't Cry by John F. Andrews!
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The CAL Awards finalists for Poetry Collection are Good Ash by Kika Dorsey, This Visible Speaking by Kathryn Winograd, and Liberties by Constance Boyle. Congratulations!
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Congrats to CAL's Essay Finalists: "On Mystery: Fragments about Art, Religion, and Philosophy" by Joachim Glage, "Unexpected Visitors" by Lou Dean, and "Trust" by Carol Ann Wilson.
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The Cozy Mystery Finalists are Court Human by Hawkings Austin, Murder, Mystics, and Menopause by Theresa Crater, and Lawyers, Dogs, and Money by Tracy Carter. Congrats!
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Congrats to CAL's Fantasy/Paranormal Finalists: Slayter and the Dragon by Todd Fahnestock, The Death Bringer by Kendra Merritt, and Bane of Giants by Todd Fahnestock.
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The finalists in the Law Enforcement Mystery category are A Well Too Full by Daniel Ginsberg, Lethal Blues by R. Weir, and Kakuloa: The Downhill Slide. Congratulations!
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Congrats to the Early Reader finalists: The Miracle of the August Snow and Mother Cabrini by Claudia Cangilla McAdam, Magic on the Mountainside by Nancy Godbout Jurka, and SKIPPY Farm Dog of the Year by Anna-Maria Crum & Laura Adams.
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Congrats to the Early Reader finalists: The Miracle of the August Snow and Mother Cabrini by Claudia Cangilla McAdam, Magic on the Mountainside by Nancy Godbout Jurka, and SKIPPY Farm Dog of the Year by Anna-Maria Crum & Laura Adams.
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Return To Sender: A Book of Poetry, Prose, and Otherwise Unsent Letters is a finalist in the 2025 #CALAwards for the Poetry Collection Category! I’m so incredible excited for this opportunity to be a finalist. 🥹
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Congratulations to Single Poem finalists: "Through the Pane" by Petra Perkins, "Collaring the Wolves" and "Tracking Lynx" by Dan Guenther.
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In the Memoir category, the finalists are Falling to Fly by Todd Fahnestock, The Mountains We Climb by Erin Boydstun Kohler, and A Tree with My Name on It by Victress Hitchcock.
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