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Santa Fe Writers' Conference
"Writing Women's Lives"

Contact:Ellen Bradbury-Reid
Address:Contact: 826 Camino del Monte Rey A-3, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Location: Hotel St. Francis, 210 Don Gaspar Ave., Santa Fe, NM, 87501
Phone:Contact: 505-982-9301
Location: 1-800-529-5700
Fax:505-982-7125
E-mail:litcenter@recursos.org
Website:http://www.santafewritersconference.com
Dates:July 21-25, 2008
Application Deadline:July 15,2008
Tuition:The fee of $575 includes all workshops, talks and receptions. The one-day fee is $130 July 22-24, 2008 and $200 July 25, 2008 (includes lunch and margarita despedida).
Genres: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Playwriting. Children's Literature
Faculty: ELLEN BERKOWITZ, SANDRA BLAKESLEE, SALLIE BINGHAM, ELENA DÃAZ BJORKQUIST, DENISE CHáVEZ, NATALIE GOLDBERG, LEIGH HABER, BARBARA HARRELSON, LAURA HAYS, TERESA JORDAN, LESLEY POLING KEMPES, PAGE LAMBERT, BARBARA BEASLEY MURPHY, LISA DALE NORTON, JULIE SHIGEKUNI, LYNN STEGNER, NANCY WOOD, PAM SMITH, ANA JANE HAYES, SUSAN AND DENIS GONZALES ABRAHAM 
Description:

Not so much a writer's conference as a conference about writing.
Here in the Southwest, a beautiful and a harsh land, has fostered a centuries old heritage of storytelling: women's narratives, indigenous stories, and the stories of the "Antepasados". The ancestral stories from our many cultures that resonate with love, food, drama, and triumph. Women writers honoring this legacy will gather in Santa Fe to share and listen. Performance writer Denise Chávez will host a "Taco-rama," and with repast of celebratory family and food stories, Elena DÃaz Bjorkquist will offer a Corrido (ballad) writing workshop. Sources of inspiration including: the land, families, and dreams will be explored.

There will be opportunity to hear from respected authors who live and work in the Southwest, including author Natalie Goldberg, on memoir; Sallie Bingham, fiction; Julie Shigekuni, fiction; Lisa Dale Norton, narrative non-fiction; Leigh Haber, super agent; and other well known professional authors.

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.

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