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2013 Featured Artist Ouida Touchón - Magpie's flight I

 

Named one of the Top Ten writers' conferences in the United States by USA Today, the Taos Summer Writers' Conference is an annual, weeklong gathering that draws writers from all over the country to the inspirational setting of Taos, New Mexico. Known for its inclusive, nurturing community, the Taos Conference offers numerous weeklong and weekend workshops in fiction, poetry, nonfiction and screenwriting.


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Contact:

Taos Summer Writers' Conference
Sharon Oard Warner, Founding Director
The University of New Mexico
Department of English Language and Literature
MSC03 2170
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Telephone: 505-277-5572
e-mail: taosconf@unm.edu


Taos Summer Writers' Conference Faculty and Guests:

Anya Achtenberg, Jonis Agee, Kathleen Alcala, Dorothy Allison, Michael Amundsen, Elaine Avila, Ana C. Baca, Amy Beeder, Stephen Benz, Bruce Bond, Robert Boswell, Russ Bradburd, Laura Brodie, Andrea Hollander Budy, Sophy Burnham, Jared Bush, Gail Caldwell, Denise Chávez, Lisa D. Chavez, Cindy Chinelly, Steven Chuch, Jane Ciabattari, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, John Crawford, Justin Cronin, Alice E. Dark, Laura Dave, Jeffrey Davis, Jon Davis, Annie Dawid, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Anthony Doerr, John Dufresne, David King Dunaway, Trey Ellis, Blas Falconer, Daryl Farmer, Cristina García, Greg Glazner, Natalie Goldberg, Minrose Gwin, Elizabeth Hadas, Joy Harjo, Tony Hillerman, Pam Houston, Allison Hunter, Alexis Hurley, Frank Huyler, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Porochista Khakpour, Laurie Kutchins, Wally Lamb, Susan Lang, Dana Levin, Aaron Raz Link, Priscilla Long, BK Loren, Sandra Lynn, Evelina Zuni Lucero, Sarah Manguso, Tony Mares, Julie Mars, Gregory Martin, Demetria Martinez, Valerie Martinez, Maureen McCoy, Robert McDowell, Matthew McDuffie, Carolyn Meyer, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Carol Moldaw, Debra Monroe, Pat Mora, Barbara Robinette Moss, Daniel Mueller, Sean Murphy, Antonya Nelson, Michelle (Karen) Otero, Ruth Ozeki, Maritza Perez, Eric Puchner, Nahid Rachlin, Margaret Randall, Emily Rapp, Hilda Raz, Levi Romero, Sandra Scofield, Sarah Sentilles, Julie Shigekuni, Gary Short, Joseph Skibell, Patricia Clark Smith, Marcia Southwick, Brent Spencer, Les Standiford, Elizabeth Strout, Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Mark Sundeen, Mary Swander, Luci Tapahonso, Diane Thiel, Ouida Touchón, Lisa Tucker, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Judith Van Gieson, Alma Luz Villanueva, Marcus McPeek Villatoro, Connie Voisine, Franci Washburn, Robert Wilder, Summer Wood


The Taos Summer Writers' Conference is held in the Historic Sagebrush Inn and Conference Center


15th Annual Conference dates: July 14 - 21, 2013


Registration is open December 3, 2012 through July 21, 2013 - Click here to get to online registration.


Keynote Reading by Natasha Trethewey, US Poet Laureate 2012-2013, Sunday, July 14 at 8 p.m. in the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center. This event is free and open to the public.


Natasha Trethewey - photo credit Matt Valentine


Click here for the 2013 Conference Schedule


Click here for 2013 Special Events.


Scholarship Recipients 2012



Tuition RemissionTuition remission for UNM faculty and staff is available. Click here for the tuition remission form.