Find me at AWP 2025!

Better late than never! I’m looking forward to connecting with so many of you! Here are my two public events:

FIND ME AT AWP!

THURSDAY: Ghost Parachute Reading: 7-8 pm, The Count’s Den, 1039 S. Olive Street

Readers: Kim Magowan, Amy Marques, Sarah Freligh, Nancy Stohlman, Kim Steutermann Rogers, and Melissa Llanes Brownlee

SATURDAY: Book Signing 12-2 pm @ Table 907/905

The fun tables!! Thanks Amy Marquez, Melissa Flores Anderson, and Melissa Llanes Brownlee for hosting! Come grab a bingo card, listen to some ukulele and more!

ALL my books: $10 each!

After the Rapture

Going Short: an Invitation to Flash Fiction

Madam Velvet’s Cabaret of Oddities

The Vixen Scream and Other Bible Stories

The Monster Opera

Searching for Suzi: a flash novel

NEW Spring Virtual Retreat and 2026 retreat announcements!

New 2026 retreats (and surprises!) will be announced April 1!

But…you need a retreat NOW!

I get it!

You’ve seen the smiling pictures. You’ve seen the testimonials. Maybe you’ve even looked longingly at the 2025 retreat offerings and wondered: is this for me?

On Friday, April 25, you get a chance to “try it out” and retreat with us–without buying a plane ticket!

Join us for 2 hours on Friday, April 25, to go deep into your work in the truest sense of a retreat. Close the door, close the window browsers, put the phone in the other room, and emerge refreshed: with a new creative spark, momentum to energize your spirit, and camaraderie with your creative community.

Whether you’ve retreated with us before and need a little spring boost, are planning to retreat with us in 2025, or you’re still in the dreaming phase, come see what all the hype is about.

For 2 hours, let me immerse you in the retreat experience–which is more than just a workshop in a pretty place, but an opportunity to do the deep work of listening, connecting, and collaborating with your muse. Come to write, come to learn, come to share space with your creative community, come to nourish your spirit: come to be part of our extended retreat family–wherever you are!

AND–everyone who registers for the Virtual Retreat gets EARLY REGISTRATION ACCESS to the 2026 retreats.

It’s a win-win-win.

Questions? Reach out!

See you on retreat!

xo Nancy

April 3: Lit Circus! A new event from the makers of the Fbomb Reading Series!

From the minds behind the Fbomb Reading Series comes an experimental new event in West Denver:


What is Lit Circus, you ask? Lit Circus is a throwback variety-style show featuring a changing line-up of Denver’s best and weirdest talents: writers, yes, of course writers—but also musicians, actors, dancers, filmmakers, contortionists, crazy cat tricks: who knows??
(IMPORTANT: this is an 18+ event that may have adult themes).


Partnering with the new Night Owls Bar, a speakeasy-style cocktail lounge and event space hidden in plain sight inside the Denver Mills Mall (can you get more subversive than right in the middle of a mall?) we will once again let our brilliance rise on a new stage, with a new aim: to showcase and cross-pollinate local artists of all genres and remind us that we always need more art. Especially now.


This debut event is FREE–but you must claim your free ticket here: https://www.multipass.com/litcircus
Come be part of the experiment.
In weird and strange times, we need our creative community more than ever.


Thursday, April 3
The Night Owls Bar
14500 W. Colfax
Get your FREE ticket: https://www.multipass.com/litcircus
Age: 18+
Doors: 6:30
7-9 pm

A Motivational Message: Your creativity is an act of resistance xo

Dear Friend,
In dark, weird, crazy times, we need the visionaries more than ever.
That means you. 
xo

Links mentioned in the video:

THE 12-WEEK FLASH MASTERMIND:

Whether your book is fiction or creative non-fiction, if you are a dedicated writer working on a larger project, this is the long-term container of inspiration, motivation, community and support you have been wanting,
UPCOMING 2025 RETREATS:
 France, Grand Lake, and Iceland

Now is not the time to be silent. Now is the time to double down and make art.

I would love to help: Reach out with any questions.

We need you. We need your vision.