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Book Readings & Poetry Open Mic with CALMA

Join us on Sunday, August 2, 2026, from 1:30 - 3:30 pm at the DWPC Clubhouse for an Open Mic session in collaboration with CALMA (Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors…

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Welcome New Members Karen Gonzales and Charlene Garcia-Simms

Please welcome two of our newest members! The DWPC welcomes local author and community activist Karen Gonzales. As a co-founder and board secretary of the Colorado Coalition of Latino Mentors and…

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February 12, 2026

Love Poetry Open Mic February 15

Coming Feb. 15th at the DWPC. "LOVE Poetry" Open Mic from 2 - 4 p.m. just in time for Valentine's Day! Join the Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors…

Self-Publishing Crash Course – RSVP by October 31

Are you ready to take your book from manuscript to market? Join Veronica Yager, award-winning book designer and former Colorado Independent Publishers Association president, as she breaks down the key…

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A 15-minute video will introduce you to the club's historic brick house, its history, and its current members. Written by club members and filmed in 2012 by Dean Shalmoni, the video has been posted on YouTube. Find it there under "Denver Woman's Press Club."

The Denver Woman’s Press Club (DWPC), founded in 1898, is one of the oldest women’s press clubs in the nation. But we’re far from old-fashioned!

Our more than 200 members are professional writers all—including journalists, novelists, magazine editors, essayists, freelance writers, poets, historians, and corporate and mass communications specialists.

Read our membership requirements

We offer a range of public programs, author receptions, and writing seminars for budding and experienced writers.

For upcoming events and seminars, view our current Events.

We award scholarships to talented journalism, mass communications, and creative writing students at area colleges and universities. Read more about our Scholarships.

More than anything, we gather in our historic 1912 clubhouse on Denver’s Capitol Hill to share stories of our myriad writing lives, learn from one another, become better writers, and, at the direction of our founders, “drive dull care away.”

Come visit us!

Unknown Writers Contest

Contest is open to both men and women who are Colorado residents, age 18 or older. Entrants must never have been professionally published. Contestants may not have won first place in prior year's competitions.

Categories include short-form fiction, nonfiction essays and poetry. Rules will be published on this site in January, and the contest deadline usually falls in February every year.

Book Readings & Poetry Open Mic with CALMA

Welcome New Members Karen Gonzales and Charlene Garcia-Simms

Love Poetry Open Mic February 15

Self-Publishing Crash Course – RSVP by October 31

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