A collection of writing from the Four Corners will represent Colorado at the 2026 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Colorado Humanities and the Colorado Center for the Book selected Four Corners Voices: Stories, Poetry, Essays as one of two books representing the state at this year’s festival.
The anthology was published in December 2024 by Four Corners Writers, a Cortez-based nonprofit. It features fiction, nonfiction and poetry from more than 40 writers across the Four Corners region. Local authors Chuck Greaves, Lisa C. Taylor and Mark Stevens edited the collection.
The book won the anthology category at the 2025 Colorado Book Awards. Colorado Humanities later chose the collection and its editors to participate in the National Book Festival’s Roadmap to Reading program.
The Roadmap to Reading features books selected by Centers for the Book representing states and U.S. territories. Colorado’s other selection this year is the children’s book Adela’s Mariachi Band by Denise Vega and illustrator Erika Rodríguez Medina.
Four Corners Writers began in 2017 as a group of published authors discussing the craft and business of writing. The organization later expanded its meetings to include free public workshops and formally became a nonprofit in 2024. Its stated mission is to identify, develop and promote literary voices from the American Southwest.
The 2026 National Book Festival will be held Saturday, Aug. 22, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
The event is free and open to the public, although advance tickets are required. Some festival programs will also be livestreamed, with recordings scheduled to become available afterward.
