1 pm Check-in opens at The Sagebrush Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality Inn
Saturday, July 12
First Weekend Workshops
9-10 am Registration & Orientation
10 am-12 pm Workshop Session #1
2-4 pm Workshop Session #2
2-5 Mini Workshop: Preparing to Write a Life- David King Dunaway
5:30 pm Taco Buffet Dinner & Social
7-8 pm Reading: David King Dunaway
Sunday, July 13
10 am-12 pm Workshop Session #3
2-4 pm Workshop Session #4
2-4:30 Mini Workshop: Evoking Place and People: Choosing the Perfect Detail - Susan Lang
5 pm Reading: Susan Lang
Weeklong Workshops
3-5 pm Registration & Orientation
6 pm Buffet Dinner & Opening Ceremonies
8 pm Keynote Reading: Natalie Goldberg
Monday, July 14
9 am-12 pm Morning Weeklong Workshop
12-2 pm Lunch Buffet with Fellow & Scholar Readings
2-5 pm Afternoon Weeklong Workshop
5:30-6:30 pm Faculty Readings
Tuesday, July 15
9 am-12 pm Morning Weeklong Workshop
12-2 pm Lunch Buffet & Open Mic
2-5 pm Afternoon Weeklong Workshop
5:30-6:30 pm Faculty Readings
Wednesday, July 16
9 am-12 pm Morning Weeklong Workshop
12-2 pm Lunch Buffet & Open Mic
2-5 pm Afternoon Weeklong Workshop
5:30-6:30 pm Faculty Readings
Thursday, July 17
9 am-12 pm Morning Weeklong Workshop
12-2 pm Lunch Buffet & Open Mic
2-5 pm Afternoon Weeklong Workshop
5:30-6:30 pm Faculty Readings
Friday, July 18
9 am- 12 pm Morning Weeklong Workshop
2-5 pm Afternoon Weeklong Workshop
5:30 pm Barbecue Buffet Dinner
7:30 pm Joy Harjo and Arrow Dynamics Band
Saturday, July 19
Second Weekend Workshops
9-10 am Registration & Orientation
10 am-12 pm Workshop Session #1
2-4 pm Workshop Session #2
2-5 Mini Workshop: Giving Shape to Experience: Structuring the Creative NonFiction Essay - Daryl Farmer
5:30 pm Taco Buffet Dinner & Social
7-8 pm Reading: Daryl Farmer
Sunday, July 20
10 am-12 pm Workshop Session #3
2-4 pm Workshop Session #4
Keynote Speaker
Keynote speaker Natalie Goldberg - photographer Mary Feidt
The keynote speaker this year will be Natalie Goldberg. Natalie Goldberg is an author, poet, teacher and painter. She has written eleven books, including Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (1986), which has sold over a million and a half copies, is translated into fourteen languages, and has started a revolution in the way we practice writing today. People from around the world attend her life-changing workshops and retreats, and she has a reputation of being a great teacher. With the filmmaker Mary Feidt, she completed the documentary Tangled up in Bob, about Bob Dylan's childhood on the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota. Her lively paintings can be viewed at the Ernesto Mayans Gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. she currently lives in northern New Mexico. Her most recent book is Old Friend from Far Away: the Practice of Writing Memoir that came out in February 2008. For more information, see her website.
Reading by David Dunaway
David King Dunaway
David Dunaway has been teaching biography and other professional writing courses at UNM since he received his Ph.D. at the University of California Berkeley in 1981. Dunaway’s published work includes Huxley in Hollywood, Aldous Huxley Recollected and How Can I Keep from Singing?: The Ballad of Pete Seeger. Since the Fall of 1995, his national radio series, Writing the Southwest, has been broadcast on National Public Radio. His specialty is producing documentaries presenting literature and history to a wide public audience. Dunaway is the author of a half-dozen volumes and has taught in Denmark and as a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia and Kenya.
Reading by Susan Lang
Susan Lang
Susan Lang is the author of a trilogy published by University of Nevada Press about a woman homesteading in the southwestern wilderness during the years 1929 to 1941. The first novel in the trilogy, Small Rocks Rising, won the 2003 Willa Award. Her second novel, Juniper Blue, was released in 2006 and the third, Moon Lily, is forthcoming in 2008. Presently Faculty Emeritus at Yavapai College in Prescott, she founded and still directs the Southwest Writers Series. She was also director of the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing, which she founded in 1996.
Reading by Daryl Farmer
Author Daryl Farmer - Photographer Sarah Ulrich
Daryl Farmer is the author of Bicycling Beyond the Divide, a road narrative about the West, which has just received a Summer 2008 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writer’s Award. Farmer’s work has appeared in such journals as Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Laurel Review, Quarter After Eight and Prairie Schooner. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has taught writing at the University of Nebraska and Georgia Tech. He will join the Stephen F. Austin State University creative writing faculty in the fall, where he will teach creative nonfiction and direct the SFASU reading series. Farmer was an attendent of the Taos Summer Writer’s Conference in 2000 and 2004.
