2026 Event Dates

January 24, 2026 noon — Kick Off the Year party

Quarterly Events — all day
March 7, 2026 ... Lone Tree Library ... 10:00am ... Details are here!
June 27, 2026 ... Lone Tree Library ... 10:00 am
August 29, 2026 ... Lone Tree Library ... 10:00 am
October 17, 2026 ... Castle Rock Library ... 10:00 am

Details about these and any field trips will be posted as the dates get closer.

If you'd like to attend one event to see if joining the Rocky Mountain High Crimes Chapter is for you, then show up at one of the Quarterly Events listed above, or email the Programming Team for more info.

Events

We provide many educational and fun (usually both) events at Sisters in Crime-Colorado.

Since we are a statewide organization, we knew monthly meetings would be challenging for people to attend. So we decided to have Quarterly Events which are all day on a Saturday. They're not technically quarterly because we work around conference season and the holidays.

Quarterly Events are held in a library conference room. The morning session is always a topic about the craft of writing or the business of being a writer. Then we break for lunch and chatter. Then the afternoon session is always a topic of interest to us as crime writers, emphasis on crime—we hear from police officers, FBI profilers, CSI investigators, psychologists, private eyes, arson investigators ... anyone who can teach us anything we can use in our fiction. After the event there is usually a small group who convenes at a nearby restaurant to hang out longer and rehash what we've learned.

If you're looking to learn about writing, or to dig into the minds of criminals and law enforcement, or just have tons of fun with like-minded writers, Sisters in Crime-Colorado is truly the place to be!

Check out these past Quarterly Events!

March 7, 2026
Nobody Writes Alone: Who, When and How to Ask For Help and Crime Scene and Accident Investigations

2025 Events

October 4th, 2025 - I want to start a podcast. Now What? and The Real CSI. Not That Stuff on TV
August 9th, 2025 - Book Brush Tools for Author Success and Murder in Westminster
June 14, 2025 - Developing Quality Panels and A Three-Decade Journey to Justice: The Roger Dean Homicide Investigation
February 15, 2025 - Meet! Greet! Speak! and You’re Not Going to Believe What I Saw Today

2024 Events

November 16, 2024 - Sit and Be Fit” and Captain Joel White of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office
August 10, 2024 - The Psychological Health of Writers and Witness Statements
June 8, 2024 - Book Launches and Polygraphs
February 17, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence As It Impacts Writers and The Psychology of Police Officers/Dealing with Dangerous Individuals

2023 Events

October 21, 2023 - Eight Weeks to a Complete Novel and The Mind of a Hunter/Mercenary vs. Contractor
September 30, 2023 - Special Event with Hank Phillippi Ryan
August 5, 2023 - Complex Villains and The World of Art Theft and Forgery
June 3, 2023 - Great Characterization: More Than Description and Murder in the Kitchen
February 4, 2023 - Finding and Wrangling Historical Research and Writing Believable Fight Scenes

2022 Events

November 12, 2022 - Marketing for Authors and True Community Policing
August 13, 2022 - How to Write a Synopsis and Character Workshop: The Life and Writing of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
June 11, 2022 - Editing Fiction for Content and Being a Mitigation Attorney and Saving Someone from the Death Penalty
February 12, 2022 - Exploring Short Stories and What I Learned in Jail

2021 Events

November 6, 2021 - Setting and Writing the Law: A Guide to Avoiding Landmines
October 9, 2021 - A Day with Author Ellen Byron
August 14, 2021 - 8 Weeks to a Complete Novel and So You Found A Body, Now What?
June 19, 2021 - A Season to Play Mindfully, Write Miraculously and CSI: The Real Story (Not That TV Show)
February 27, 2021 - Self-Publishing in 2021 – Tips for Finding Success in the World of Self-Publishing

2020 Events

November 7, 2020 - Beating Writer’s Block
August 8, 2020 - 14 Tips for Writing Suspense
June 6, 2020 - From Manuscript To Masterpiece
February 1, 2020 - Social Media 101: A Tutorial for Authors and NecroSearch International: Murder, Mayhem and Mysteries

2019 Events

November 16, 2019 - Stand Out Submissions: What Makes a Literary Agent Say “Yes” (or at the very least, “Maybe”) and True Crimes and Presumptions of Guilt
August 17, 2019 - Creating Complex Characters and The Craft of Writing Q&A/Brainstorming Session
June 8, 2019 - Kathy Fish: “Setting the Tone: Skills to Borrow from the Flash Fiction Toolbox” and Laura Manuel: “Underutilized Forensic Evidence in Fiction”
February 9, 2019 - The Nuts and Bolts of Blood and Guts for Writers

2018 Events

Nov 17, 2018 - Nail Your Research: A Writer’s Guide to Disasters, Drug Dens and Other Surprising Sources and Behind Bars: What it’s Like to Be an Inmate, Deputy, or Research Scientist in the Denver County Jails
Aug 11, 2018 - Writing a Successful Series and Interviewing without a Badge
July 14, 2018 - A Day with Author Nancy Pickard
February 24, 2018 - No Pain, No Gain: Increasing Conflict In Your Story and The Groomer: The Story of Ronald Stanley and Those Who Brought Him to Justice

2017 Events

October 28, 2017 -Writing Compelling Characters panel and Private Eye Stories and Secrets panel
August 5, 2017 - Becky Clark, Karen Docter, Rebecca Martinez: “Take Two Beckys and Call Your Docter: Plotting Panel” and Human Trafficking 101 and Then Some
June 10, 2017 -The ABCs of Author Branding/Giving Your Book A Voice and Anatomy of an Arson
February 11, 2017 - PR 101: Promoting and Branding Your Book to The Masses and Homicide for Writers, Not Criminals

2016 Events

November 12, 2016 - Communications Director for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation
July 30, 2016 - Book Trailers as Marketing Tools
July 9, 2016 - Firearms: What Crime Writers Should Know
June 25, 2016 - Networking
April 24, 2016 - Top Ten Medical Pitfalls When Killing Your Characters
January 9, 2016 - Criminal Profiling with an FBI Profiler