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.