To arrange an event, please email me at cynthiaswansonbooks@gmail.com or fill out my Contact form.

2025 Events:

• Friday, June 6, 12:00 PM, Denver: Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest Business Panel: “Beyond Big Book Publishing—Hybrid, Indie, Self.” Registration is here.

  Monday, June 9, 1:30 PM, Denver: Lighthouse Writers Workshop Lit Fest Craft Seminar “So You Want to Go Indie.” Registration is here.

• Monday, June 16, 6:00 PM, Castle Rock, CO: Douglas County Libraries Writers Workshop: “Advanced Revision Techniques.” In this seminar, we’ll explore how to make your writing stronger, better paced, and more compelling. Registration is here.

• Thursday, June 26, 9:00 AM: Wheat Ridge Library Author Talk: Anyone But Her. We’ll be talking spoilers—read the book first if you plan to join us! More info is here.

• Friday, June 27, 5:00 ; 8:00 PM, Monument, CO: Covered Treasures Bookstore, Downtown Monument Art Hop. Art! Books! Make-your-own chalk art! More info is here.

A select list of previous events:

• Lighthouse Writers Workshop (Lit Fest), instructor / panelist: 2015 - 2024

• Colorado Sun SunFest 2025, May 2025, panelist

• Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Colorado Gold Conference, instructor: 2023, 2024

• Stories on Stage, April 2023: Denver Noir performance

• Tattered Cover Colfax, May 2022: Launch celebration for Denver Noir

• Northern Colorado Writers Conference, Ft. Collins, CO, May 2021, May 2020, May 2019 (keynote speaker)

• 21st Annual Tattered Cover Writers Respond to Readers, Denver, CO, February 2019

• LitCrawl, Denver, CO, September 2018

• Door County, WI, July 2018: Fair Isle Books and The Peninsula Bookman (with Write on Door County and Friends of the Door County Library)

• Arapahoe Libraries, Centennial, CO, April 2018 (watch a video here)

• Chautauqua Author Series, Boulder, CO, March 2018

• Tucson Festival of Books, Tucson, AZ, March 2018

• 702WI, Madison, WI, February 2018

• Literature Lovers' Night Out, February 2018: two locations in the Minneapolis area

• Tattered Cover Colfax, February 2018: Launch celebration for The Glass Forest

• Rocky Mountain Literary Festival, Golden, CO, October 2016

• Douglas County Libraries, "Fête des Fables" Gala, September 2015

• Tattered Cover Colfax, March 2015: Launch celebration for The Bookseller, with Colorado Public Radio's Ryan Warner (to listen to podcast here),