Taos Summer Writers' Conference

Bob Shacochis wins Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction

2014-09-25T12:09:00.000-07:00

2014 Taos Summer Writers' Conference keynote speaker, Bob Shacochis, has won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction. Many of you may remember Bob's fantastic keynote reading this summer in which he read from and discussed the themes of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul. While Bob's reading and subsequent roundtable focused on the craft of writing--specifically the way time functions in the

Nick DePascal's New Book

2014-09-09T13:24:00.001-07:00

Former Taos Summer Writers' Conference graduate assistant, Nick DePascal is the winner of the first West End Press Poetry Prize. His book, Before You Become Improbable is just out from West End Press/University of New Mexico Press. Of the book, Sasha Pimentel says, "Before You Become Improbable is rich with the artifacts we are left with just before, or in the wake of, absence. It

WASH by Margaret Wrinkle

2014-09-02T13:16:00.000-07:00

Margaret Wrinkle attended the Taos Summer Writers' Conference ten years ago. Of the Conference she says, "My time in Taos was so pivotal. I found my best reader there and the novel I was working on when I came in 2004 was recently published by Grove Atlantic. In a great coincidence, my book deal came through the same week as that of another student in my Taos workshop named Kristen

Participant Accomplishment: Congrats Teddy Jones!

2014-08-18T12:36:00.000-07:00

A huge congratulations to Teddy Jones! Her novel, Jackson's Pond, Texas, has been named a finalist by Women Writing the West for the annual Willa Awards Contest in the Contemporary Fiction category. The winner will be announced at their conference in October. Teddy workshopped this novel at the Conference in John Dufresne's master class in 2011. Past Willa Award winners include TSWC faculty

Until Next Year

2014-07-21T12:16:00.000-07:00

What a year! We have to thank you all for making the 16th annual Taos Summer Writers' Conference so incredible. It was such an honor to spend another beautiful week in Taos with all of you. Among the highlights, of which there were many, was the launch of Rananim. If you still haven't watched this video, which was directed by Conference Assistant Director, Eva Lipton-Ormand, please do,

RANANIM: It Is Finally Here!

2014-07-16T14:34:00.001-07:00

Many of you may know that the Taos Summer Writers' Conference founder and director, Sharon Oard Warner, began the Conference sixteen years ago in order to create a link between the University of New Mexico and the D.H. Lawrence Ranch just outside of beautiful Taos, New Mexico. For years, the Conference has taken loads of participants to the Ranch, had fellows stay in the fellowship cabin

Meet the Native Writer Award Winner: Matthew Skeets

2014-07-10T13:51:00.000-07:00

Saturday’s roundtable will feature a lively discussion on the indie publishing revolution and what writers can do to capitalize on it. The 1:00 PM event will be in the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center and is free and open

Meet the Taos Resident Award Winner: Kate Crawford

2014-07-07T11:56:00.000-07:00

Julia Thacker is a poet, fiction writer, private consultant, and teacher who could not think of a more suitable career. Driven by her love of storytelling and the fulfilling process of

Herb Thompson Writes About His Experience at the TSWC

2014-07-01T14:05:00.000-07:00

Herb Thompson has been to the Taos Summer Writers' conference twice. In the most recent issue of the Virginia English Journal, Herb wrote about his experience at the Conference, one of the highlights being when he visited the D.H. Lawrence Ranch. "I went to the D.H. Lawrence Ranch and laid under the famous pine tree that Georgia O’Keefe immortalized in her 1929 painting." He went on to write

Meet the Hispanic Writer Award Winner: Elaine Manzanilla

2014-06-27T14:15:00.000-07:00

This weekend workshop will be the perfect way to end your writing week in Taos this summer. In Lisa Lenard-Cook's class, Innovative Revision, you will be listening to the way words work in your peers' offerings and in your own work. Les Standiford will be teaching a weeklong workshop that is all about how to make readers want to "turn the page." The class is designed for writers of fiction, memoir, and narrative nonfiction alike. Les has published in all three genres and says that learning how to drive tension through narrative structure has made all the difference in his career. "

Poet Richard Vargas and The Writer's Almanac

2014-03-31T11:31:00.000-07:00

April is National Poetry Month and The Writer's Almanac is kicking it off with a poem from the 2011 TSWC Hispanic Writer Awardee, Richard Vargas. Garrison Keillor will be reading from Vargas's book, Guernica, Revisited. The show airs in Albuquerque on KANW, 89.1, tomorrow, April 1st, around 8:15 AM. Be sure to tune in and enjoy!