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"Figuratively Speaking"

Now Showing @ Inkberry Books
December, 2025
Artist reception is happening on First Friday Niwot! December 5th, 5-9pm
*For more info contact corcoranartstudio@gmail.com

Figuratively Speaking; of course, is Now Showing at INKBERRY BOOKSTORE in Niwot's Cottonwood Square. This a collection of figurative work from the artist CJ Corcoran. This is his 3rd time exhibiting work at Inkberry.

Corcoran Art Studio lives in Longmont, Colorado. He is a transplant from the South where he studied Art & graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 1991. He has lived in
Boulder County since moving here in 2002 and has been actively involved in the local art scene. For more info about the artist check out his website @ corcoranartstudio.com

Inkberry Books: January 8, 2026 at 7 p.m:

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Local Writers Reading January 8, 2026 at 7 p.m.

Boulder author and journalist Christine M. Tracy is launching a monthly reading night at the newly expanded Inkberry Books in Cottonwood Square. Five local writers will read from a variety of genres followed by a lively discussion. Nibbles and wine served too.

Email: [email protected]

to join the list of readers.

Chris Chandler

Chris Chandler is a storyteller, author, and book lover. Her memoir, "Stay Sweet: Tales of Quirky Southern Love," was published in May 2023. She edited and contributed to "Notes from Motherland: The Wild Art

of Raising Humans," a collection of essays about motherhood, in 2024, and is a three-time cast member of Boulder's Listen To Your Mother show. Chris lives in Boulder, CO with her husband, is the mother of two young adults, and has a house full of rescue animals. She helps others find and tell their stories by facilitating writing circles for women. Her website is www.WritingUnleashed.net.

Loie Rawding

Loie Rawding is the author of Tight Little Vocal Cords, a Finalist for the Big Other Book Awards and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book of 2020. In 2016, Loie earned her MFA at the University of Colorado, was

nominated for a Pushcart Prize and gave birth to twins. Loie is the co-founder of Fireside Ink Writers Workshop, a literary nonprofit based in Boulder county that uses the power of story to build connection, shift culture, and inspire personal and social resilience. For more, you can find her at: www.loierawding.com or www.firesideinkwriters.org.

Kathleen Williams Renk

Kathleen Williams Renk writes and publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary criticism. While completing her Ph.D. in British literature, she studied fiction writing at the University of Iowa with the Pulitzer Prize winning author James Alan McPherson. In November 2020,

Cuidono Press published her debut novel, Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley, which won Story Circle Network's 2021 May Sarton Award in Historical Fiction.

In 2023 Bedazzled Ink Publishing published her second novel, The Rossetti Diaries and in 2024 they published her third historical fiction novel, No Coward Soul Have I. Both novels were long listed for the Chautauqua literary prize. Her fourth novel, Toward Her Awakening (about the author Kate Chopin), is forthcoming in spring 2026. Dream Not of Other Worlds, which focuses on John Milton's daughters, is her work in progress. She’s also writing a family memoir called Kinfolk.

Williams Renk's short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in Iowa City Magazine, Literary Yard, Page and Spine, CC & D Magazine, Gaia, Dark Passions, and Bewildering Stories.

In her spare time, Williams Renk plays violin and guitar. She also loves to hike on Colorado's Front Range where she lives with her sheltie puppy Odie. You can read more about her work at kathleenrenk.com

Amanda McCracken

Amanda McCracken is a journalist passionate about experiences that highlight the intersection of wellness, travel, and relationships. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Vogue, National

Geographic, Elle, NPR, Outside, ESPN, SELF, Runner's World, and many others.

She published her first article about longing in 2013, which led to additional articles featuring personal anecdotes and deep research and interviews with the BBC and Katie Couric. She is now considered a "limerence expert" and intimacy advocate. Her 2023 TED Talk, "How Longing Keeps Us from Healthy Relationships," and her podcast, The Longing Lab, highlight how longing can become self-sabotaging and shares how to change our patterns of longing. McCracken is also a part-time university instructor, massage therapist, triathlon coach, and competitive athlete. Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, McCracken put down roots with her husband and daughter in Boulder, Colorado, after a trip around the world aboard the Peace Boat.

Amanda will be talking about her new book, When Longing Becomes Your Lover.

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