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Literary Prize • 2026

2026 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist Conversation and Award Ceremony

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Winter Words • 2026

Winter Words with Susan Orlean (2026)

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Winter Words • 2026

Winter Words with Lily King (2026)

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Winter Words • 2026

Winter Words with Tara Roberts (2026)

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Summer Words • 2026

Summer Words 2026 Orientation Video

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Literary Prize • 2025

2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize Ceremony & Winner Announcement

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Winter Words • 2025

Winter Words with Lauren Groff (2025)

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Winter Words • 2025

Winter Words with Kevin Fedarko (2025)

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Summer Words • 2025

Aspen Words Summer Benefit featuring Lucy Kalanithi with Ann Patchett (2025)

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Video • 2025

Chasing My Writing Dream While Working a 9-5 — participant coverage (2025)

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Video • 2025

Facing Self-Doubt & Fear: How I Got Into a Literary Workshop in the US — participant coverage (2025)

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Literary Prize • 2024

2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalists Announced

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Literary Prize • 2024

2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Award Ceremony — Morgan Library

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Winter Words • 2024

Winter Words with Safiya Sinclair (2024)

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Alisyn Camerota Attends Aspen Literary Festival

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Gary at Aspen Literary Festival with Luis Alberto Urrea, Dispatches from the West

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Aspen Literary Festival — Book of the Month

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Aspen Words Literary Prize Presents: 2020 Winner Christy Lefteri and Qutaiba Idlbi

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Closing Ceremony – 2020 Aspen Summer Words (Virtual)

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PEOPLE PLACES POV – 2020 Aspen Summer Words (Virtual) Panel

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Aspen Words Presents: Lisa Taddeo at Winter Words 2020

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2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize Award Ceremony

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Aspen Words Presents: Tayari Jones

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Aspen Words Presents: Margot Lee Shetterly, Peter Ho Davies, J. Courtney Sullivan

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Aspen Words Presents: Literary Prize Winner Mohsin Hamid in conversation with Dan Porterfield

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Billy Collins at Annual Benefit Dinner 2014

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Maria Semple at Winter Words 2014

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Writers in the Schools 2014

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Aspen Literary Festival Sizzle Reel

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Recordings

Aspen Ideas to Go

We are proud to partner with the Aspen Institute to bring you podcasts from Aspen Words’ events. Aspen Ideas To Go is a weekly show featuring fascinating speakers who have presented at Aspen Institute programs. Speakers from Winter Words, Summer Words, and other AW programs will be featured on the Aspen Ideas to Go podcast channel on iTunes and SoundCloud.

Aspen Public Radio

Founded in 1980 as Roaring Fork Public Radio Translator, Aspen Public Radio has grown from broadcasting the daily hog prices from the University of Wyoming to being considered one of the most relied-upon broadcast news institutions serving Pitkin, Eagle, and Garfield counties.

Each weekday, Aspen Public Radio broadcasts 16 hours of national radio programming from NPR, American Public Media, PRX, and WNYC, along with 8 hours of international programming from the BBC and PRX (The World). From 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m., local newscasts and radio features are broadcast within national programming. On the weekend, the station broadcasts a schedule of 22 national radio programs along with an evening special each Sunday night at 7 p.m., which often features a locally-recorded community conversation captured in front of a live local audience.

In addition to providing an award-winning, daily local news service, Aspen Public Radio is an NPR member station, making us a partner in producing quality journalism for our nation as a whole.

You can also access recording on the Aspen Public Radio website.

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

A Podcast by Mitzi Rapkin

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, non-fiction, essay, and poetry writers. First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. This weekly show hosted by Mitzi Rapkin is a celebration of creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in.

Press Clips

2025

Aspen Public Radio

Aspen Words: Winter Words with Lauren Groff

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Aspen Public Radio

Aspen Words: Winter Words with Kevin Fedarko

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Aspen Times

First-ever Aspen Literary Festival announces A-list lineup

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Aspen Times

Renowned New York auctioneer coming to Aspen

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Aspen Times

Aspen Words announces finalists for literary prize

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Aspen Public Radio • 2025

Aspen Words: 2025 Literary Prize Ceremony

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2024

Aspen Public Radio

Aspen Words: An Evening with Mary Louise Kelly

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Aspen Public Radio • 2024

Aspen Words: 2024 Literary Prize Ceremony

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Aspen Public Radio, October 15, 2024

Aspen Words: An Evening with Mary Louise Kelly

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Aspen Public Radio, April 26, 2024

Aspen Words: 2024 Literary Prize Ceremony

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Aspen Public Radio, Kayla Williams, April 21, 2024

With her latest novel, ‘Enter Ghost,’ Aspen Words Literary Prize finalist Isabella Hammad wants to engage with ‘human history and human experience’

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Rocky Mountain Community Radio, Kaya Williams, February 7, 2024

‘My chance to own my voice’: World champion rock climber Sasha DiGiulian speaks about her new book

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2023

Aspen Daily News, Molly Gilmore, December 21, 2023

Thanks to community for Flamingo event

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Sopris Sun, Myki Jones, December 20, 2023

Winter Words 2024 is underway

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Aspen Times, Molly Gilmore, December 19, 2023

Gilmore: Sharing the magic of AEF

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Aspen Times, Staff Report, December 1, 2023

5 authors slated for Winter Words speaker series

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Aspen Times, Staff Report, December 1, 2023

Ann Patchett and Elizabeth McCracken will open the 2024 Winter Words speaker series, tickets on sale Friday

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Aspen Public Radio, November 15, 2023

Aspen Words: Spoken Word Poetry Showcase at TACAW

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2022

Aspen Public Radio, October 19, 2022

Aspen Words Author Talk: Leath Tonino

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Aspen Daily News, October 9, 2022

Changing the tune about arts education in the schools

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Aspen Daily News, Jacqueline Reynolds, October 3, 2022

Aspen Words launches a weeklong poetry project for students

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Aspen Times, Don Rogers, September 25, 2022

Rogers: Aspen Words brings it home

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Aspen Public Radio, September 22, 2022

Aspen Words Author Talk: Tochukwu Okafor

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Aspen Daily News, September 21, 2022

Nigerian writer to lead Aspen Words free talk

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2021

The Aspen Times, December 23, 2021

Most Anticipated Arts Events in the Roaring Fork Valley, Winter 2021-22

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Locus Magazine, December 21, 2021

Aspen Words Announces New SF/F Writing Workshop

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Aspen Public Radio, November 11, 2021

Aspen Words Author Talk: Casey Gerald

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Aspen Times, Andrew Travers, November 2 , 2021

Pulitzer winner Anthony Doerr discusses new book ahead of Winter Words event

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Aspen Times, October 31 , 2021

Aspen for Arts raises $53,000 for ballot measure 2A

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Aspen Times, Andrew Travers, October 22 , 2021

Aspen Winter Words Lineup Includes ‘Powder Days’ Author Hansman, Pulitzer winners Doerr and Powers

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2020

Aspen Daily News, Erica Robbie, Dec. 22, 2020

In the Arts We Trust

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Aspen Times, Andrew Travers, Nov. 12, 2020

An Aspen Winter Words Reading List for 2021

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Aspen Daily News, Erica Robbie, Oct. 26, 2020

“Caste” author, Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson to Kick off Winter Words; Aspen Words Releases Lineup Today

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Aspen Times, Andrew Travers, July 16, 2020

“Beekeeper of Aleppo” author Christy Lefteri discusses Aspen Words prize-winning novel, community read

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Aspen Public Radio, Kirsten Dobroth, July 6, 2020

Chosen for Aspen’s Community Read, “The Beekeeper of Aleppo” puts readers in refugees’ shoes

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Aspen Times, June 4, 2020

Aspen Summer Words festival hosting free online author events

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2019

Aspen Times, December 5, 2019

On ‘Wild Game’: Aspen Words Executive Director, author Adrienne Brodeur Discusses New Memoir at Event Tonight

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Aspen Times, December 5, 2019

Adrienne Brodeur brings ‘Wild Game’ Book Tour to Aspen

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Aspen Sojourner, December 4, 2019

5 Things to do This Weekend: December 6 – 8 2019

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NPR, Colin Dwyer, November 14, 2019

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Nickel Boys’ ‘The Other Americans’ Among Nominees for Aspen Words Prize

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Lit Hub, Aaron Robertson, November 14, 2019

The Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist includes Colson Whitehead, Laila Lalami, and more.

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Aspen Times, November 14, 2019

16 books make Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist

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