4/2009 | Gargoyle #54

Zacatecas returns to print with Ian Christoper Hooper's short story "Asakusa Station," appearing in the latest edition of the venerable literary mag Gargoyle. Buy it on Amazon.com

3/2009 | Arvada Center

Lorri Frisbee's piece "Seated Buddha" (Collage & Acrylic on Canvas) is accepted for the 5th Annual Jeffco Juried Teachers Exhibition. Opening Reception is Friday, April 17, 7-9 p.m. Should be a blast...

1/13/2009 | Charlie Mehrhoff Reads

Koch, Frisbee, and Hooper drop by Louise Chawla's place in Boulder to attend a reading by noted poet Charlie Mehrhoff.

Koch plays some guitar, Hooper reads a little of his own work, and everyone agrees the glug is excellent.

11/2007 | Carve Magazine's Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

A.C. Koch takes 1st place again, this time for his short story "Agashi." The judge was Ben Fountain, winner of the 2007 PEN/Hemingway Award.

10/2007 | Colorado Book Award for General Non-Fiction

Zacatecas insider Ben Fogelberg takes home the big prize for Walking Into Colorado's Past, the book he co-authored with Steve Grinstead. Buy it on Amazon.com And conspiracy theorists take note-- Hooper and Frisbee make covert appearances on page 173.

8/2006 | Art Trading Cards

6/2006 | See You Next Tuesday

Better Non-Sequitur Press. A.C. Koch & Ian Christopher Hooper represent with one story each in this perfect bound anthology. Out of print but available used on Amazon.com

3/2005 | North American Review

Ian Christopher Hooper's poem "Formula on a White and Empty Page" is a finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize. The judge was Billy Collins, former U.S. poet laurate.

11/2003 | Carve Magazine's Raymond Carver Short Story Contest

A.C. Koch takes first place with "The Only Cuauhtémoc in Town." The judge was Pulitzer-prize winning author Robert Olen Butler.

2003 | Exquisite Corpse

Zacatecas appears yet again in the Corpse, this time with Ian Christopher Hooper's short story "The Monk Who Never Sleeps."