Collection of 12 short stories, 24 poems and 13 essays selected as finalist for the 2025 Colorado Book Award

Local "Four Corners Voices" Anthology is Named a Colorado Book Award Finalist

news release
Four Corners Writers
April 7, 2025

Four Corners Voices, an anthology featuring stories, essays, and poetry from over forty area writers, has been named by Colorado Humanities and the Colorado Center for the Book as a finalist for the 2025 Colorado Book Award in the “Best Anthology” category.

The anthology was published in December of 2024 by Four Corners Writers, a Cortez-based nonprofit whose mission is to “identify, develop, and promote literary voices in the American Southwest,” and its volunteer editors were local authors Chuck Greaves (fiction), Lisa C. Taylor (poetry) and Mark Stevens (nonfiction). The anthology is available both in paperback and e-book formats, is available wherever books are sold, and all proceeds from its sale go to support Four Corners Writers in its charitable mission.

According to Colorado Center for the Book Programs Coordinator Valerie Eddy, “Our selectors felt that [the anthology] was beautifully crafted, and it transports you to the Four Corners region with a combination of story, poetry, and essay. This book provides a great reader experience, and one that can be enjoyed again and again.”

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Rocky Mountain Reader describes the collection of 49 titles in a January 23, 2025 review: 0024

Four Corners Voices Vol. 1 includes 12 short stories, 24 poems and 13 essays gathered through submissions in the summer of 2024, edited by novelist Chuck Greaves for fiction, novelist Mark Stevens for nonfiction and poet Lisa C. Taylor for poetry. The collection covers a wide range of subjects from the whimsical to the political, from a wide variety of contributors as various in age as high school emerging writers to solidly established and award-winning adults. Unsurprisingly, several write lovingly and knowledgeably of the spectacularly beautiful and often brutal high-desert environment they live in.

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Area writers invited to submit for next anthology

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A second anthology from Four Corners Writers is currently in the works, and all area writers are encouraged to submit their work for consideration. Submissions are due by July 1, 2025, and detailed guidelines are available online at: fourcornerswriters.com.

The 2025 anthology is made possible by grants from the Ballantine Family Fund, the LOR Foundation, and Hutton Broadcasting.

About Four Corners Writers

In the desert southwest of the Four Corners states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah lies a hidden oasis of bestselling, award-winning, and internationally recognized writers. Four Corners Writers is committed to initiatives that spread the power of the written word and shine a light on both the established and the undiscovered talent tucked in this breathtaking landscape. For more information, please visit fourcornerswriters.com.

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• Four Corners Voices anthology
• other Four Corners Writers publications

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