Keynote Speaker - Faculty Readings and Signings - Round Tables - Open Mic

Sagebrush Inn Conference Center, 1508 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur, Taos, New Mexico

2012 Keynote Speaker: Dani Shapiro - Free and Open to the Public

Sunday, July 15, 2012 – 8 pm

We are delighted to announce that Dani Shapiro, author of this year's National Bestseller "Devotion," has accepted our invitation to speak at this year's Conference!

Dani Shapiro is the bestselling author of the memoirs Devotion and Slow Motion, and five novels including Black & White and Family History. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, One Story, Elle, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, and has been widely anthologized. She has taught in the writing programs at Columbia, NYU, The New School and Wesleyan University, and she is co-founder of the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano, Italy. She is a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure. She lives with her family in Litchfield County, Connecticut. Her new book, STILL WRITING, will be out in 2013.

Dani Shapiro

Faculty Readings and Signings - Free and open to the public

Monday, July 16 at 5:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, July 17 at 5:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, July 18 at 5:30 p.m.
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Thursday, July 19 at 5:30 p.m.
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Friday, July 20 at 5:30 p.m.
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Saturday, July 21 at 5:30 p.m.
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Round Tables

Monday, July 16 at 1 p.m.
Dani Shapiro

Tuesday, July 17 at 1 p.m.
Hilda Raz and Elise McHugh: Publishing and Poetry

David Perez: Bookstores, Independent and Otherwise: What Writers Need to Know

Wednesday, July 18 at 1 p.m.
John Kremer: How to Outsell a New York Times Bestseller: Book Promotion and Marketing

Thursday, July 19 at 1 p.m.
Wendy Weil and Emily Forland: The Ins and Outs of Agenting

Friday, July 20 at 1 p.m.

John Nichols: How Many Drafts Does it Take to Fail?

John Nichols has lived in Taos since 1969. His first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo, came out in 1965. His twelfth novel, On Top of Spoon Mountain, will be published by the University of New Mexico press in the autumn of 2012. Hichls is best known for his New Mexico Trilogy, which includes The Milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues. He is also the author of 7 non-fiction memoirs and/or environmental essays, and has scripted over a dozen screenplays, among them "Missing" for Costa-Gavras and "The Milagro Beanfield War" for Robert Redford.

Nichols claims to have written upward of 60 books but only published 20 of them. He rewrites endlessly, often to no avail. Writing is hard work. He will read from and discuss his most recent small (almost a novella) novel, which took 11 years and one hundred drafts to complete. This hour could be a fascinating wake-up call to those who think professional novelists "have it made."

Saturday, July 21 at 1 p.m.
Ruth Ozeki: A Writer's Meditation

Sunday, July 22 at 1 p.m.
Carole DeSanti: An Editor's Take

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Open Mic

Sagebrush Inn Cantina
Thursday, July 19, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.