Santa Fe Writers Conference New Mexico

Santa Fe Writers' Conference

Writing Women's Lives
JULY 21 TO JULY 25, 2008

A quality I've so often encountered in the great women leaders of our time, as well as in the amazing novels we write (is) largeness of spirit, generosity, a quality of respect and regard that were once the hallmarks of a gentleman; and here this sterling quality is recognized as ours---as surely it had always been, but buried under the misapprehensions, willed or unconscious, of the powerful who decide who reads and who doesn't read, which books matter and which books don't.-Sallie Bingham

Not so much a writer’s conference…as a conference about writing….

Here in the Southwest, a beautiful and a harsh land has fostered a centuries old heritage of storytelling: women’s narratives, indigenous stories, the stories of the antepasados, ancestral stories ancestors from our many cultures that resonate with love, food, drama and triumph. Women writers honoring this legacy will gather in Santa Fe to share and listen. Performance writer Denise Chávez will host a “Taco-rama,” with repast of celebratory family and food stories, Elena Díaz Bjorkqüist will offer a Corrido (ballad) writing workshop. Sources of inspiration including the land, families and dreams will be explored.There will be opportunity to hear from respected authors who live and work in the Southwest, including author Natalie Goldberg, on memoir; Sallie Bingham, fiction; Julie Shigekuni, fiction, Lisa Dale Norton, narrative non-fiction; Leigh Haber, super agent and other well known professional authors.

Join a distinguished gathering of writers and publishing professionals for workshops, private conferences, and readings in legendary Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now in its twenty-third year, the Santa Fe Writers Conference each summer brings aspiring writers from near and far to work with accomplished and dedicated faculty and guests.

Among past faculty and guests of the Santa Fe Writers Conference from 1985-2006 are: Lee K. Abbott, Alice Adams, Lucille Adler, Francisco Alarcon, Agha Shahid Ali, Rudolfo Anaya, Max Apple, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Madison Smartt Bell, Marvin Bell, Molly Bendall, Elizabeth Benedict, Roo Borson, Robert Boswell, Kate Braverman, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Ron Carlson, Denise Chavez, Lisa D. Chavez, Alan Cheuse, Ted Conover, Robert Creeley, C. Michael Curtis, Jon Davis, Percival Everett, Jennifer Foerster, Richard Ford, Judith Freeman, Samantha Gillison, Natalie Goldberg, Jorie Graham, Lee Gutkind, Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Hass, Ehud Havazelet, Elizabeth Hightower, Tony Hillerman, Brenda Hillman, Tony Hoagland, Garrett Hongo, Lewis Hyde, Mark Irwin, Charles Johnson, Diane Johnson, Teresa Jordan, Donald Justice, Laura Kasischke, Pagan Kennedy, Brian Kiteley, William Kittredge, Carolyn Kizer, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Karla Kuban, Mark Levine, Alison Lurie, Tony Mares, Kevin McIlvoy, Christopher Merrill, Jane Miller, Mary Jane Moffat, Carol Moldow, N. Scott Momaday, David Morrell, Antonya Nelson, Susan Neville, John Nichols, Sharon Niederman, Naomi Shahib Nye, Grace Paley, Ann Patchett, Margaret Sayers Peden, Michael Pettit, Robert Pinsky, Melissa Pritchard, Annie Proulx, Ron Querry, Judy Reeves, Katrina Roberts, Janet Rodney, Pattiann Rogers, Suzanna Ruta, David St. John, Scott Sanders, Bob Shacochis, Julie Shigekuni, John Skoyles, Carol Houck Smith, Gibbs M. Smith, Roberta Smoodin, Marcia Southwick, Kathleen Spivack, Gerald Stern, Robert Stone, Arthur Sze, Elizabeth Tallent, Nathaniel Tarn, James Thomas, Frederick Turner, Leslie Ullman, David Wagoner, Larry Watson, Rob Wilder, Eleanor Wilner, Diane Williams, Kimberly Witherspoon, Charles Wright, Dean Young, Norman Zollinger.

The Santa Fe Writers Conference is presented by the Southwest Literary Center, a division of Recursos de Santa Fe, a private not-for-profit organization which presents nationally-recognized seminars & conferences in the arts, sciences, letters, & humanities. Funders include the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers Tax.