Denver (city) shops accepting new brands, makers & designers
These 10 shops publicly say they accept submissions. Each card links to a listing with the exact pitch instructions from the shop's own website. Read how to pitch to retailers and grab the free line sheet template before you hit send.
The 10 shops
I Heart Denver Store
Downtown gift shop and artist incubator (since 2011) carrying products from 200+ Colorado artists, designers and creative businesses, plus Denver- and Colorado-themed gifts.
Heads up: Colorado-based artists, designers and creative businesses only.
Fern and Skye
South Broadway shop selling its own wildflower-and-wanderlust art line plus goods by 60+ local makers.
Heads up: Colorado-based makers only, who make or design their own goods (no curators) and can restock in person or ship.
MCA Denver Shop
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver's shop, embracing the weird, the art and originality, with inclusivity, diversity, art and community as core values. No museum admission needed to shop.
Heads up: They look for local makers and small businesses whose brands support their values.
Tattered Cover
Denver's best-known independent bookstore, with several locations around the metro.
Heads up: Their site names the Local Author Consignment Program but gives no requirements or terms; ask by email.
West Side Books & Curios
Small Highland bookstore and curio shop that hosts local author events.
Heads up: Zero tolerance for generative AI (text or cover).
Denver Book Society
Two-floor independent bookstore, bar and cafe in Capitol Hill.
Heads up: Paid program: consignment requires booking a paid author event.
Show of Hands
Cherry Creek gift gallery (their 'Happy Place') showing work by artists.
Heads up: Submissions aren't reviewed during the holiday season (November and December).
Kilgore Books & Comics
Capitol Hill used bookstore and indie comics/zine shop next to Wax Trax, which also publishes comics and the Kilgore Quarterly zine.
Heads up: Artists handle their own follow-up on sales and restocking.
Wax Trax Records
Long-running Denver record store that sells Colorado artists' releases on consignment and lists them in its online store.
Heads up: For Colorado musicians' releases only.
Second Star to the Right
Independent children's bookstore on Old South Pearl with storytimes and book clubs.
Heads up: Colorado authors/illustrators only.
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