| PROGRAM
For twenty-three
years, since 1985, the Santa Fe Writers Conference has brought writers together
from across the country to devote time and attention to their art. In workshops,
private conferences, readings, panels, craft talks, and informal discussions,
accomplished writers share their experience with those learning or refining their
writing. A spirit of common enterprise helps shape a conference long-recognized
for its intimate yet professional program. Agents, editors, and publishers help
acquaint new writers with the realities of creating and marketing their work;
participants absorb a wealth of new ideas and information, and are able to return
to their writing with renewed energy and insight.
This conference will explore the necessity
of stories: your own and others; finding a narrative that makes sense of a torn
and chaotic world; and the particular role of women in knitting together stories,
all kinds of stories from the heartland of women's lives. It is arranged rather
like a sampler, set up so that writers may explore new forms of writing and expand
their creativity. Register for the entire conference or for an intriguing one
or two-day session. Your
first day in Santa Fe includes registration and an introduction to the Hotel
St. Francis, followed by an orientation, where you meet faculty and fellow students.
The following days center on morning or afternoon workshops. Each afternoon a
guest lecturer will speak on an aspect of craft, editing or the business of writing.
Each evening participants are invited to read from their own work.
When
not in workshops you may write, visit with new friends, or explore the City
Different. On your own for lunch you can pick up a sandwich at a local coffee
house or deli and sit out in the summer sunshine on the plaza. Your evenings are
free to have dinner at one of many renowned Santa Fe restaurants, attend nightly
faculty and visiting writer readings, gallery openings, a performance of the Santa
Fe Opera or Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, a quiet stroll around the Santa Fe's
historic Plaza and much more. Your time in Santa Fe can be relaxed or active,
as you choose.
2008
Santa Fe Writers Conference*
Schedule of Events
(All events at Hotel St. Francis.)
ct to change
| Monday, July 21 |
| 5pm | Afternoon
registration and Welcome Reception |
While
there will be opportunities to write, the conference is arranged like a sampler,
a five day dialogue filled with the stories of many different women writers, journalists,
fiction, non-fiction and children's book authors. And take time to enjoy Santa
Fe. Especially this festive time just before Spanish Market. Remember to tell
the St Francis Hotel if you want to extend your stay into the weekend of July
25-26. For more information on this signature event visit Spanish Market www.spanishmarket.org.
| | Tuesday,
July 22 | | 8:30
am 9am 10am 10:15am 11:45am 1pm 3pm
3:15pm 4:15pm 5:30pm 7:00pm | Coffee,
welcome, orientation
Sallie Bingham,
author, playwright, feminist, her new book is Red Car.
Break
Lisa
Dale Norton, Narrative Non-Fiction
Lunch
on your own
What makes a reader
care about story? a panel discussion
:
Laura Hays, winner in the fantasy category of the SW writers competition,
Sallie Bingham, Julie Shigekuni, Lisa Dale Norton, Sharon Franco, leader of reading
groups.
Break
Reading,
Julie Shigekuni, teaches Creative Writing at UNM, and is the author of three books.
Reading, Sallie Bingham
Barbara
Harrelson, a literary walk through Santa Fe, ending at Collected Works Bookstore,
208 W San Francisco, near the hotel. Dinner
on your own |
| | Wednesday,
July 23 | 8:30
am 9am 10:30am 11:30am 1pm 2pm
3pm 4pm 4:15pm 5:45pm 7:30pm |
Coffee
My Life is
a Storyline, Natalie Goldberg, well known and loved author of Writing Down
the Bones and new book, Old Friend From Far Away:The Practice of Writing
Memoir.
Learn about
hand crafted books. Pam Smith, book-maker
Back
to Hotel St. Francis, or peel off and find a restaurant for lunch on your own.
Children's Books: Nancy Wood, photographer, children's book author; Barbara Beasley
Murphy, children's book author and Anna Jane Hays.
Susan
Gonzales Abraham and Denise Gonzales Abraham speaking
about books for young adults. Writing
for the Media, Ellen Berkovitch, art criticism, Sandra Blakeslee, science writer
for the New York Times Break Carolyne
Wright When Politics
Gets Personal--The Investigative Memoir in Poetry and Prose
Dinner
on your own or stay at the St. Francis for an open reading by Santa Fe Writers'
Conference Participants
Music
on the Plaza, free, just wander over. Should be Mariachis.
|
| | Thursday,
July 24 |
8:30am 10am 11am 11:15am 1pm 2pm 3pm 5pm 6pm 5:30-6:30pm | Carolyne
Wright Workshop When Politics Gets
Personal--The Investigative Memoir in Poetry and Prose
Page
Lambert, writer creative outdoor adventures. Break Elena
Díaz Bjorqüist, Corridos are a Mexican folk song form rather like
an English ballad. They can be songs about life and its troubles and everyday
heros. You'll write a personal corrido in English using rhyme, rhythm and narrative
style Lunch on your own
A
Sense of Place in Abiuqiu, Lesley Poling Kempes, living and writing about a special
place.
Okay, Want to Publish
it? Leigh Haber, Rodale Press, VP and editorial director of a new imprint, Modern
Times, a division of Rodale.
Anne
Hillerman, The Mystery of Writing a Mystery. Daughter of Tony Hillerman and writer
in her own right. Dinner on your
own or Join
Us for an Open Reading at St. Francis where the Writers' Conference Participants
are free to read their own writing Slide
lecture on restoration of Spanish Colonial furniture, La Fonda, New Mexico Room,
Free and open to public
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| Friday July 25 |
| 9am 11am 1pm 3pm |
.Growing Up Chicana in the Shadow of the Smokestack, Elena Díaz Bjorkqüist.
Through a Power Point presentation of life in Morenci and readings from oral history
interviews and her own short stories, Elena will show us what life was like for
Mexican American girls growing up in a copper mining town in Arizona.
Go
to La Taqueria for Taco-Rama Denise
Chávez presents a Taco-Rama. Chávez will show us the finer points
of
making tacos while sharing stories from her memoir, A Taco Testimony:
Meditations
on Family, Food and Culture. Listen
to Consuelo Luz Chilean-Cuban singer/songwriter, sing the song you wrote and listen
to others and hear new Mexican Corridos
Margarita
Despedida, a farewell to new and old friends with margaritas and song.
| | *This
program is subject to Change |
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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. |