literary arts + lectures

Mountain Words Festival

The annual Mountain Words Literary Festival is Crested Butte’s multi-day literary celebration at nine-thousand feet, featuring workshops, panel discussions, readings, live theatre, film, children’s events, and more.

 

Workshops and events in fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, nature writing, playwriting, publishing, journalism, long-form, research, and more.

 

For more info including scholarship opportunities visit mtnwords.org.

Our literary workshops and classes strive to provide the highest caliber of craft, support, and community for writers and readers in the Gunnison Valley and beyond. We focus on the whole writer, providing an exceptional, inclusive learning experience.

Look out for our Mountain Words Literary Festival on Memorial Day weekend, which brings some of the nation's best writers to Crested Butte for a literary celebration of grand proportions.