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Aspen Words

Aspen Words was founded in 1976 as a literary center based in Aspen, CO. A program of the Aspen Institute, our mission is to encourage writers, inspire readers, and connect people through the power of stories. AW’s year-round programs include Summer Words, a writing conference and literary festival; Winter Words, a speaker series presenting the best of contemporary literature; the Aspen Words Literary Prize, a $35,000 annual award for fiction with social impact; as well as a writers-in-the schools program and writing residencies.

2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist
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Calling for a Blanket Dance
The Consequences: Stories
All This Could Be Different
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Aspen Words Literary Prize 2023 Longlist
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The Town of Babylon
All This Could Be Different
Memphis
Harry Sylvester Bird
The Consequences: Stories
What We Fed to the Manticore
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories
Calling for a Blanket Dance
The Last White Man
If I Survive You
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
When We Were Sisters
Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022 Shortlist
by Aspen Words View all (5)
The Five Wounds
What Storm, What Thunder
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
The Arsonists' City
2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize Longlist
by Aspen Words View all (14)
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Bewilderness
The Five Wounds
Bewilderment
Hell of a Book
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick
Abundance
Swimming Back to Trout River
A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
What Storm, What Thunder
The Startup Wife
The Arsonists' City
Radiant Fugitives
2021-2022 Winter Words Author Speaker Series
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Bewilderment
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir
Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns and the Future of Chasing Snow (Original)
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Ask Again, Yes
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Autumn Words 2021 Faculty and Featured Speakers Books
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Phantom Noise
Here, Bullet
My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir
Writing Great Books for Young Adults: Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Getting Published
You Should Really Write a Book
The Risotto Guru: Adventures in Eating Italian
My Salinger Year
When You Reach Me: (Newbery Medal Winner)
The Book of Otto and Liam
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
Community Chest
The House of Broken Angels
The Still Point of the Turning World
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Maggie Brown & Others: Stories
Winter Words Author Series: 2020-21
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Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook
Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
Homeland Elegies
The Light of the World: A Memoir
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Aspen Words Literary Prize 2021 Finalists
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If I Had Two Wings: Stories
The Night Watchman
Leave the World Behind: A Read with Jenna Pick
Aspen Words Literary Prize 2021 Longlist
by Aspen Words View all (10)
A Girl Is a Body of Water
A Children's Bible
If I Had Two Wings: Stories
The Night Watchman
Fiebre Tropical
The New Wilderness
The Vanishing Half
Leave the World Behind: A Read with Jenna Pick
Paradigm Shifting Books
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Devil's Highway: A True Story
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
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