"A born writer… she’s also a synesthete, whose mixed-up senses serve as a gateway to multiple creative mediums." – Westword
Mon, Feb 24, 2020, – Fri, Feb 28, 2020 At the Black Monarch Hotel in the ghost town of Victor, Colorado Fans of Stephen King and Edgar Allen Poe know that isolation can lead to writing epiphanies...if the writer doesn’t go mad, that is. “One of the U.S.’s most haunted hotels” (The Metro UK), the … Continue reading The Haunted Writer’s Retreat at the Black Monarch Hotel
I love how Suspect Press is supporting the underground literary scene in Denver, and it made sense for my edgier work, a very visceral excerpt from Glory Guitars, to debut there. I was thrilled to be featured alongside Mar Williams, Charly Fasano, Merhia Wiese, Sarah Gilstrap and other bad-asses. I was also thrilled at the … Continue reading “Bathroom Graffiti Beau” in Suspect Press
Some moments aren't our proudest ones; as a 35-year-old mother of two, I found myself getting altogether too huffy at the online quiz results of a young adult novel website. But instead of brushing away the immaturity, I decided it was more hilarious, and potentially enlightening, to see why this online quiz was making me … Continue reading Up on Syfy: Does Being a Slytherin Make Me a Bad Person?
Great citizens of the Queen City of the Plains: I’ve been commissioned by a New York publisher, Countryman Press (a division of W.W. Norton), to write a guide to Colorado weekend getaways, expected to come out in Spring of 2020. They want a quick guide packed with opinionated, insider tidbits on the best places to go … Continue reading The Colorado Weekender
From the memoirs of a teenage degenerate: CHAPTER 2: BATHROOM GRAFFITI BEAU Soundtrack: “London Dungeon” by the Misfits If you’re the wrong kind of guy, the best kind of marketing to attract the bad kind of girl is having your name scrawled in bathroom graffiti. When I was 16, Tana, Dar and I went to … Continue reading Glory Guitars: Memoirs of a Teen Degenerate
Silence is a sounding thing, to one who listens hungrily. ~Gwendolyn Bennett Tintabula is a story of sensory delight and overstimulation, exploring the moment when rapture turns to derangement. A modern Alice in Wonderland for the neurodivergent set, the novel follows a young woman with Sensory Processing Disorder on her odyssey through the dream world, navigating the twists and … Continue reading Tintabula, a bedtime novel
I'm in goth heaven.
For six years, I've done PR and penned the Weekly Mix for Illegal Pete's. It all began when I was doing music publicity for a record label, and gave a round-table talk on PR for Ben Desoto's "The Conversation" music industry shindig at Forest Room 5. There was a guy in the audience asking a … Continue reading Illegal Pete’s
It was wild to watch my good friend Ricardo Baca become the nation's first Marijuana Editor at The Denver Post, a move which was initially met with excitement, skepticism and plenty of stoner jokes. He went on the national TV circuit, appearing on The Colbert Report and The View, assuring them all that he was … Continue reading Grasslands Content Agency
Thanks to Susan Froyd and Westword for featuring me as a Colorado creative! In the interview, I talk about synesthesia, Bill Murray, and being a creative who was temporarily displaced from Nu Denver.
Erin K. Barnes 