Mountain Words Festival 2026 has ended

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Mountain Words Festival 2026

5:30pm MDT

Festival Kick-Off Party! Grace Atrium

6:30pm MDT

Come See Me in the Good Light (Documentary Screening) Steddy Theater

9:00am MDT

Creativity with Mashuq Mushtaq Deen: Mapping the Inner Landscape of Your Work Jones Performance Hall Claire Boyles Fiction Workshop: Beyond the Forest and the Trees: Layers of Landscape and Place King Room The Secret Magic of the Soulful Poem with Wendy Videlock Hawk Studio

10:15am MDT

Instant Story Map Part 1 King Room Rajiv Mohabir Poetry Workshop Jones Performance Hall

11:30am MDT

Mitzi Rapkin First Draft Podcast Live Recording with Emily Rapp Black Steddy Theater

1:30pm MDT

Instant Story Map Part 2 King Room

2:45pm MDT

Writing Immersive Fiction Jones Performance Hall Zooming In and Out in Memoir with River Selby King Room Michael Hettich Poetry Workshop: Techniques for Discovery Hawk Studio

4:00pm MDT

How to Be a Good Ancestor with John Hausdoerffer Jones Performance Hall Drafting the Novel Discussion with Nina McConigley and Claire Boyles King Room Writing Poems of Imagination and Resistance with Karen Terrey Hawk Studio Crested Butte Magazine Release Party Bruhaus

6:00pm MDT

Community Read @Gunnison Branch Library w/David Baron - American Eclipse Gunnison Branch Library

7:00pm MDT

Myth Understandings: An Evening of Comedy with Shane Mauss Steddy Theater

9:00am MDT

In-Conversation Megan-Kate Nelson with Ryan Warner Colorado Public Radio Steddy Theater Poets In-Conversation with Michael Hettich and Erica Reid Hawk Studio The Editor is In! Conversation with Rakesh Satyal King Room Re-Enchantment, a Walk with Brooke Williams and Nancy Gex Jones Rumors Coffee and Tea House/ Townie Books

10:15am MDT

The Science of Funny: A Comedy Writing Deep Dive with Shane Mauss Hawk Studio World-building and Setting Through Rap Lyrics Jones Performance Hall Martians! The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America with David Baron and Laura Krantz Steddy Theater NEW Inside the Author-Agent Relationship King Room

11:30am MDT

ON COMICS with Benjamin Percy and Dan McClellan Jones Performance Hall A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF: In-Conversation- Megha Majumdar and Nina McConigley Steddy Theater Megan-Kate Nelson and Garrett Peck on Researching History King Room Generative Poetry Session with Tiana Clark Hawk Studio

1:30pm MDT

Terry Tempest Williams with Ben Goldfarb Steddy Theater

2:45pm MDT

Book Signing in the Atrium #1 Grace Atrium Terry Tempest in Convo with Nina McConigley on Art and Life King Room In-Conversation Hillary Rosner and Ben Goldfarb Steddy Theater It’s a Partnership: The Author/Editor Relationship Jones Performance Hall

4:00pm MDT

Book Signing in the Atrium #2 Grace Atrium Benjamin Percy Fiction THRILL ME King Room Poet Tiana Clark in Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir Steddy Theater Publishing Panel Discussion with Karen Terrey, Terri Lewis, Dane Bahr, Phil Coleman Jones Performance Hall

9:00pm MDT

Stargazing with Garrett Peck OUTDOOR (Near Center for the Arts)

9:00am MDT

Novel Conversation- Skylark with Paula McLain and Shelley Read Steddy Theater Map Your Memoir Part 1 - Orientation King Room Poetry with Suzi Q Smith Hawk Studio

10:15am MDT

Novel Conversation-How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder with Nina McConigley and Megha Majumdar Jones Performance Hall The Bible Says So with Dan McClellan and Ian Wrisley with special Music Performance Steddy Theater Building a Sustainable Writing and Editing Group Hawk Studio Map Your Memoir Part 2 - Implementation King Room Four Poets Read Grace Atrium

11:30am MDT

Ramona Ausubel UNSTUCK! A Writer's Guide King Room Poetry with Erica Reid: Plains Poems & Prairie Tarot Hawk Studio

11:45am MDT

River Selby in Conversation with Laura Krantz HOTSHOT: A Life On Fire Steddy Theater

1:30pm MDT

Fiction workshop with Nina McConigley King Room On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right – a Personal History with Josiah Hesse and Ian Wrisley Steddy Theater What Kind of Essay Are You? With River Selby Hawk Studio

2:45pm MDT

Fiction with Shelley Read Jones Performance Hall