There's no quizzing with this event - Sir Lanka will play themed rounds of music videos, you mark them off your bingo sheet, and shout BINGO as loud as you can!

All materials are provided and it's free to play. Just show up, have fun, drink beer, and win prizes.

Music video bingo with Sir Lanka will now be at Fiction the first Friday of EVERY month. Add it to your calendars now!

We're excited to welcome local author Ali VanCleave into our taproom with copies of her debut novel, Roses are Royal, which just came out on September 9th. Swing by for a beer, a signed book, and to chat about romance, writing, and life in general.

About Ali:
Ali VanCleave is a fiction author drawn to stories that live in the tension between desire and consequence. Her work explores identity, power, intimacy, and the quiet moments that crack people open.

Ali writes fiction that prioritizes mood as much as plot. If you like characters who are self-aware enough to know better and reckless enough to do it anyway, you’re in the right place.

Ali didn’t arrive at writing through a linear path. Instead, her creative lens was shaped by years immersed in branding, visual storytelling, and culture — learning how narratives are built, sold, and felt before ever putting her own on the page.

When she’s not writing, Ali is probably watching or playing sports, traveling to new places and romanticizing her own life just enough to stay inspired, and drinking coffee...lots and lots of coffee. She believes fiction should entertain first, linger second, and occasionally make you question your own choices.

Ali lives in Colorado with her two senior fur babies, Lola, her 18-year-old kitty and Guiness, her 14 year old puppy and is a lover of skulls and all things neon.

About the book:
He never feared losing control...until he met her.

Rose has spent her entire life relying on one person: herself.

Abandoned at birth and shuffled through the foster care system, Rose learned that independence isn’t a choice…it’s survival. So when she walks away from a prestigious interior design firm in New York City to launch her own business, failure isn’t an option.

Her first client should be the break she’s been waiting for.

The estate is breathtaking. Its owner is enigmatic, attractive, and impossible to read.

As their connection deepens, Rose can’t shake the feeling that her client knows things he shouldn’t. He notices details no stranger could possibly know.

While Rose has been fighting to build a future of her own, someone has been quietly watching her past.

As the long-buried secrets begin to surface, the more dangerous it becomes to hide why she was brought into his life in the first place.

Because she was never brought into his life by chance.

She was never hired for the job.

She was the job.

Roses are Royal is book 1 in the Darkness Blooms series with morally grey characters, packed with humor, SLOW BURN/yearning spice, and delicious plot twists.

Tropes: Stalker romance / Morally grey MMC / He falls first / Witty Banter / Hidden Identity / Love Triangle / Suspense

What's a re-release book party? It's simply a great excuse to come out to an iconic literary-forward brewery and celebrate two incredible poetry books that have made their way to second editions. Becca Downs' Acid Rain Epithalamium (2024) and Marissa Forbes' Surviving Peter Pan (2023), published by Beyond The Veil Press, will enter the world with new covers, and renewed energy, and you're invited to the reading party. Come prepared for authentic smiles and tears plus an open mic to share your own work - because poets love that sh*t.

Oct. 4 • 3-6pm
Fiction Beer Company
Free and open to all

About the authors:
Becca Downs (she/they) is a Denver-based writer, editor, and educator who earned her MFA from the Mile-High MFA program at Regis University. She’s a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of Acid Rain Epithalamium (Beyond the Veil Press 2024). She’s also co-Editor-in-Chief of Switchback Books poetry press and a managing editor for Treeline Review. You can find her at beccadownswriting.com, her Substack (Invoice Day), and on Instagram at @beccad___.

Marissa Forbes (she/her) is an award-winning author and visual artist. Her poetry books, Surviving Peter Pan (Beyond the Veil Press) and Brief & Bleeding Margins (World Stage Press) were published in 2023. As 2025-2026 Poet Laureate for 40 West Arts District, Marissa curated and edited the first district art & poetry anthology, PROGRESS (not perfection). She was the Managing Editor for Twenty Bellows from 2020-2026, and named the 2026 Colorado Poet for the AM250/CO150 Public Arts Project by the Governor's Office. Other published poems and short fiction stories can be read on marissaforbes.com and you can learn more about her community events at word_nerd_ris on IG.

We're in for a very fall-y treat at this month's Smutty Book Club! Not only are we reading Meet Cute Magic, but the author, Morgan Elizabeth, will also be video calling in to chat with everyone! Plus, we'll have swag and bookplates for a few lucky people to take home with them.

We'll meet to discuss on Monday, October 5th at 7pm.

As always, Spicy Librarian is our recommended bookstore to grab your copy.

The Fiction Beer Company Smutty Book Club meets on the first Monday of every month. We discuss our current reads, our darkest desires, and share a beverage (or two) with fellow smut enthusiasts. Be sure to check out the Facebook page to join the community and to keep up to date on the monthly polls!

About the Book:
A cozy cute enemies-to-lovers witchy fantasy for readers of Sydney J. Shields' The Honey Witch and Sarah Beth Durst's The Spellshop.

She's a witch who can't fall in love without getting her heart broken. He holds a grudge like no other.

Bookstore owner Rosie Mayfield wants a love of her own, but it's not meant to be--because of her family's curse. To break it, she conjures a ghost who will break her curse, but for a cost--she has to brew a potion to help him transition to the other side. The problem? There's only one person who hates Rosie in all of Heartwood Hollow, and she needs his help to complete the required task.

Jack Haggerty, the ghost's grandson, has lamented about Rosie for years--she's a disaster and she's forbidden from visiting his gaming shop. He doesn't believe in ghosts, so he's stunned when his beloved grandfather makes an appearance. While he loves his family and will do anything to help his grandpa, he fights against the chemistry brewing between him and Rosie until he can't anymore. But he doesn't know how to tell her he no longer wants to go through with the plan, and she won't admit that she's falling for him because they're doomed from the start.

Our regular group of game nighters are back - and now for every first AND third Tuesday! Swing by our taproom on Tuesday, October 6th & 20th from 6pm onward for an open game night.

New members are always welcome. Open game nights offer easy, moderate, and higher level access points for all interests and capacities (because we know, we all sometimes just want to learn something fun and easy to relax after a long week!). You can jump in on a game that seems interesting to you or come prepared with a game you want to teach and share with others.

Regular game nighters are invited to join a Discord channel to stay connected on events and sign up for featured games.

We look forward to seeing you there! All are invited. Our game night space welcomes neurodiverse folx and is LGBTQ+ friendly.

QTs & Cuties is a Comedy Open Mic Safe Space for those who identify as Queer, Trans, and/or women! During a night of laughs and love, we will also be working diligently to cultivate community, connection, and camaraderie!

Punchlines hit better when everyone feels safe and seen! All comics will be made aware of this expectation, and additionally, there will be active moderation throughout the event to ensure our audience members feel safe.

This QTs & Cuties Comedy Series Event will be held at Fiction Beer Company on Wednesday, October 7th, 2026. The show starts at 7PM, you can show up earlier to sign up!

For more of their queer comedy events, check out qtcomedy.com or follow them on Instagram @qts_and_cuties_comedy!

Word on the street is the best trivia in Denver is at Fiction Beer Company - and our team of hosts-turned-owners would love to challenge your knowledge of obscure (and not-so-obscure) topics.

Each week, our regular trivia starts with a round on current events, includes a third round chosen by previous third-place winners, and finishes with a final Jeopardy-style round.

First and second-place winners get money off their next bar tab, while third-place winners get to choose a third-round topic for the next general trivia night.

One of our Fiction favorites is playing a live set! Join us on Friday, October 9th at 6pm for a couple hours of tunes by John Mielke.

Calling all card sharks! Join us at Fiction for a monthly low-stakes poker night - now on the second Friday of every month. It's free to play, so just show up, grab a beer, and enjoy a fun evening playing cards!

Winners will receive Fiction prizes, including some free beer on your next visit.

Feeling crafty but want to get out of the house? We have just the event for you! Join us on Saturday, October 10th from 1-5pm to get creative - together.

Want to work on something else crafty while you're in our taproom? Bring your own project to work on while chatting with other artsy people for the afternoon, and enjoy some delicious craft beer at the same time.

We'll also have some supplies for coloring, origami, and crochet for those of you who don't have a project in process but still want to join in and get creative.

We're excited to have Dungeons n Drafts back in our taproom! If you love tabletop roleplaying games and craft beer, this is the event for you.

How it Works:
- Buy your ticket in advance. There are a limited number for this event.
- There will be two Dungeon Masters. You can choose one or the other when you buy your ticket.
- Games run about 3 to 4 hours.

Step into the dark and meet the minds behind the tales during the latest of our author panel series: Horror on Tap! For everything that goes bump in the night there is someone writing it into existance. Listen in during a panel discussion as local authors give us a peak behind the veil to see what's lurking in the depths. For those brave enough, there will be a Q&A to follow to ask your burning questions...if you dare.

We're partnering with Denver's first horror exclusive bookstore, Broom, Book, & Candle, to provide you with even more twisted tales to add to your collection. Works from our incredible panelists will also be available for purchase! Following the Q&A, gather your courage for a book signing and oportunity to chat one on one!

Meet our panel of local authors:
Ava Tenny
Cyan LeBlanc
Kalvin Ellis
Marissa Yarrow
Mel Lake
KJ Brantley

Miscreant Book Club has a new monthly lair! Join us every 2nd Monday at 7pm at Fiction Beer Company for live, out-loud play readings — scripts in hand, big choices encouraged, bad accents celebrated.

Want to read? Sign up ahead of time or at the event.
Want to listen and enjoy the chaos? Also perfect.

New plays
Excellent beer
Zero homework, maximum fun

All ages welcome, but heads up: new plays often include adult language and situations.
Free to attend — please buy beer, tip your servers, and if you’re feeling generous, donations to Miscreant Theatre Collective help keep our programming alive and delightfully unruly.

We're excited to welcome our regular group of gamers and game designers into our taproom on the second Tuesday of each month.

This game night is open to all board game designers of ANY experience level, as well as players who want to help test out games still in development.

Bring prototypes in any stage or just come and give constructive feedback on your experience playing the games offered. All are welcome!

Hoping to fall for a great book this fall season? Denver Public Library's book buzzers are here to help! Our expert readers' advisors will share the inside information on 30 new titles across multiple genres - something for everyone. Stick around until the end to pick out a free book to take home (while supplies last)!

To request ASL, CART, or other disability related accommodations, contact programs@denverlibrary.org or call 720-865-1111 with a minimum five (5) business day notice.

We know many of you are readers, but this evening, we're looking for those of you who write. Whether you enjoy writing poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction, we'd love to welcome you into our taproom to workshop and share with peers.

Fiction Beer Company's Writers Group will meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 7pm. You'll have dedicated writing time, plus an opportunity to share your work with peers, get feedback, and be part of a collaborative group to help continue refining your writing skills.

Word on the street is the best trivia in Denver is at Fiction Beer Company - and our team of hosts-turned-owners would love to challenge your knowledge of obscure (and not-so-obscure) topics.

Each week, our regular trivia starts with a round on current events, includes a third round chosen by previous third-place winners, and finishes with a final Jeopardy-style round.

First and second-place winners get money off their next bar tab, while third-place winners get to choose a third-round topic for the next general trivia night.

Chocolatina Q Dessert will be in our taproom selling pies and performing a few songs - singing along is encouraged! Get here early to make sure you can get the pie you want, because she sells out fast.

To guarantee you get the pies (or quiche) that you want, you can preorder on her website. Just wait until the week of the event and select Fiction's pick-up location!

Link to order: https://www.thepiequeen.co/product-page/friday-pick-up

She accepts payment via cash or Venmo - or you can pay ahead when you preorder.

Hear ye, hear ye! Bards of the Bar is back for another bardically inspiring show, hosted by Arachnophobia and Rex Monstrosity.

Doors open at 7 pm and show starts at 8 pm.

Bring your singles to tip the cast, and come dressed in your best ren faire outfit to participate in our costume contest.

We hope to see you adventurers there!

If you're like us, plants may have become your latest hobby during COVID. Enter plant bingo! Your ticket includes one new plant to take home, plus you have 10 rounds to win more leafy friends.

We're back! This is an open and free session at Fiction Beer company, our new regular location. The third Saturday of each month, we'll have an hour of tune learning and then follow it up with a faster-paced session.

Can't get enough of The Pie Queen? Us either! We're welcoming her back to our taproom for Drag Brunch + Bingo on Sunday, October 18th from 1-3pm. She'll be selling quiche, heading up bingo, and singing tunes. Come ready to sing along!

Bingo cards are $5 each. Quiche is $15 each.

Think you have the best chili in town? Prove it!

Bring a crock pot of your favorite chili for a chance to win prizes and bragging rights. Or just show up to taste every chili and vote for your favorite! Everyone in the taproom is welcome to take part in voting.

Max one chili per person. Show up by 4:30pm for your chili to be in consideration. Winners will be announced between 5:30-6pm.

Sign up to let us know you're bringing chili.

Spooky Season is upon us! And who better to tell tales of what creeps in the night than the Indigenous authors behind this month's pick, Never Whistle at Night, an anthology of dark fiction.

About the book:
Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and even follow you home.

These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.

Featuring stories by:
Norris Black • Amber Blaeser-Wardzala • Phoenix Boudreau • Cherie Dimaline • Carson Faust • Kelli Jo Ford • Kate Hart • Shane Hawk • Brandon Hobson • Darcie Little Badger • Conley Lyons • Nick Medina • Tiffany Morris • Tommy Orange • Mona Susan Power • Marcie R. Rendon • Waubgeshig Rice • Rebecca Roanhorse • Andrea L. Rogers • Morgan Talty • D.H. Trujillo • Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. • Richard Van Camp • David Heska Wanbli Weiden • Royce K. Young Wolf • Mathilda Zeller

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The Fiction Beer Company Book Club meets on the third Monday of every month at 7pm. We discuss the monthly read, our ever-growing TBR list, and enjoy a beverage (or two) with the company of our fellow bookish nerds. Finishing the book isn’t required, but you’ll just have to live with the spoilers.

Our regular group of game nighters are back - and now for every first AND third Tuesday! Swing by our taproom on Tuesday, October 6th & 20th from 6pm onward for an open game night.

New members are always welcome. Open game nights offer easy, moderate, and higher level access points for all interests and capacities (because we know, we all sometimes just want to learn something fun and easy to relax after a long week!). You can jump in on a game that seems interesting to you or come prepared with a game you want to teach and share with others.

Regular game nighters are invited to join a Discord channel to stay connected on events and sign up for featured games.

We look forward to seeing you there! All are invited. Our game night space welcomes neurodiverse folx and is LGBTQ+ friendly.

If you've ever wanted to take over the music in our taproom, here's your chance! Bring in a favorite record (or more), choose a side, and we'll queue it up to play. We'll switch over to vinyl from 5pm to close, but arrive early to get a jump start in the lineup!

It's nearly Halloween and we're setting the taproom vibes with spooky themed vinyl! Bring your spookiest, most Halloween-y vinyl to add to the queue.

Vinyl Night is now on the third Wednesday of each month, each with its own theme.

We're excited to welcome local meetup group Denver Ten Forward back into our taproom! If you're a Trekkie, swing by on October 21st for a beer and to chat about all things Star Trek with fellow fans.

Word on the street is the best trivia in Denver is at Fiction Beer Company - and our team of hosts-turned-owners would love to challenge your knowledge of obscure (and not-so-obscure) topics.

Each week, our regular trivia starts with a round on current events, includes a third round chosen by previous third-place winners, and finishes with a final Jeopardy-style round.

First and second-place winners get money off their next bar tab, while third-place winners get to choose a third-round topic for the next general trivia night.

Open Mic night is back with our hosts, Tess Halonen & Colin Farnsworth! Whether you're a musician, poet, comedian, or any other type of entertainer, we'd love to see what you can do.

All ages are welcome. We ask that content and performances are kept radio-appropriate.

Think you know books? Prove it!

Join BookGive and Fiction Beer Company for BookGive Trivia Night—a night of literacy-inspired trivia that will include a Halloween costume contest, prizes, beer, and a little friendly competition, with portions of the night’s proceeds going back to BookGive.

Fiction Beer Company | 7101 E. Colfax, Denver 80220
6–8 p.m. | Trivia begins at 6:30 p.m.
Registration is FREE, but BookGive always appreciates monetary or book donations in support of its mission!

Bring some new or gently used books to donate, your smartest friends, and form a team or come solo and make some new trivia friends! There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place and a prize for the best costume with YOU voting for the winner.

BookGive provides free books to thousands of people through community partnerships and our Free Book Room. By joining us, you're helping support our mission of book accessibility and book equity for all—and helping keep the work behind that mission moving.

Grab your friends. Pick a team name. Start thinking about your costume. Registration is free, but we’d love to know you’re coming!

We'll see you at Fiction.

Books, brews, and a very good Sunday afternoon. Join us for a Grown-Up Book Fair at Fiction Beer Company on Sunday, October 25th from 3–6 PM. Come browse, sip, shop, and find your next great read!

This year, spooky season calls for the start of a brand new book club at Fiction Beer Company - all for horror fans! The first pick is Wolf Worm by T Kingfisher, so buckle up for a chilling read and join us for our meeting on Monday, October 26th at 7pm.

About the book:
Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher.

"I saw the devil in these woods."

After her father's death, Sonia Wilson is without work, prospects, or hope. She is a talented scientific illustrator, but jobs are scarce for women in science in 1899.

So when the reclusive Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his vast collection of rare insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house and put her talents to use.

Once there though, she encounters dark happenings in the Carolina woods, and even darker questions come to light, like: what happened to the illustrator who came before her? Why are animals acting so strangely? And what is behind the peculiar local whispers about "blood thiefs?"

With the aid of a healer, a housekeeper, and clues found in the journals of her mysterious predecessor, Sonia discovers that Halder's entomological studies have taken him down a twisted road. His ground-breaking experiments come with a cost-one that Halder is paying with human flesh.

If Sonia can't find a way to stop the monstrosity, she may be next under the knife.

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Horror Book Club meets on the fourth Monday of every month at 7pm. We discuss the monthly read, share spooky stories, and enjoy a beverage (or two) with the company of our fellow bookish nerds. Finishing the book isn’t required, but you’ll just have to live with the spoilers.

Join our regular group of game nighters for an evening of fun, casual tabletop games with a friendly tournament that carries from one month to the next.

We know many of you are readers, but this evening, we're looking for those of you who write. Whether you enjoy writing poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction, we'd love to welcome you into our taproom to workshop and share with peers.

Fiction Beer Company's Writers Group will meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 7pm. You'll have dedicated writing time, plus an opportunity to share your work with peers, get feedback, and be part of a collaborative group to help continue refining your writing skills.

Join Ghoul's Night Out Trivia for their 6th annual Halloween trivia night! This year they'll be raising nostalgia from the grave; for some it was their gateway into spookier things, this year the Ghouls will be bringin some brain eating trivia all about R.L. Stein's beloved series Goosebumps! From the books to screen adaptations they'll be testing your knowledge over 4 hair raising rounds.

Halloween is just around the corner. Don't be afraid of the dark, gather your crew and see who can slay the competition!

Parents, are your kids all dressed in their costumes, but now you're just waiting around for trick-or-treat time?

Millennials, going out for Halloween but the party doesn't start til (gulp) after 8pm?

Everyone else, love beer, candy, and spooky season?

Come by our taproom! We'll have candy out for early trick-or-treaters and adults in need of a treat, PLUS get a free koozy with purchase of a 4-pack of beer.