Creative Writing Conference
Hone your writing skills with some of the best writers in the country in one of the most beautiful places.
2014 Cliff Notes Conference Schedule
Time
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10
Location
1:00 pm
David Lee's Writing Assignment - Sharing by Participants
Boulder Community Center
6:00 pm
David Lee Reading
Kiva Koffeehouse
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11
8:00am
Continental Breakfast (full or $10)
Boulder Community Center
9am – 12pm
Writing with Craig Childs
Boulder Community Center
12pm-1pm
Lunch (full or $10)
1pm-4pm
Poetry with David Lee
Boulder Community Center
7:00pm
Craig Child's Reading
Boulder Community Center
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12
8:00am
Continental Breakfast (full or $10)
Boulder Community Center
9am – 12pm
Writing with Craig Childs
Boulder Community Center
Faculty
Craig Childs writes about the relationship between humans, animals, landscape, and time. His stories come from visceral, personal experience, whether in the company of illicit artifact dealers or in deep wilderness. He has published more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, and is a commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside, and Orion. At High Country News, he's a contributing editor, and he teaches writing for both University of Alaska in Anchorage and Southern New Hampshire University.
The New York Times says "Childs's feats of asceticism are nothing if not awe inspiring: he's a modern-day desert father." He has been called a born storyteller by the New York Sun, and the LA Times says his writing is like pure oxygen, and "stings like a slap in the face." He has won several key awards including the 2013 Orion Book Award, the 2011 Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, 2008 Rowell Art of Adventure Award, and twice he has won the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, first in 2007 and then 2013.
Childs is an Arizona native, and he grew up back and forth between there and Colorado, son of a mother hooked on outdoor adventure, and a dad who liked whiskey, guns, and Thoreau. He has worked as a gas station attendant, wilderness guide, professional musician, and a beer bottler, though now he is primarily a writer. He lives off the grid with his wife and two young sons at the foot of the West Elk Mountains in Colorado.
David Lee. Dave was named Utah’s first Poet Laureate in 1997, serving in this capacity until 2002 at which point he received a Commendation Award in the Utah House of Representatives. He has been honored with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities and has received both the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. In 1999, his collection News From Down to the Café was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, a testament to the wide national interest in his work. Dave has been chosen as one of Utah’s top twelve writers of all time by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and has been honored with the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. In 2001, he was chosen as a finalist for United States Poet Laureate. Dave taught at Southern Utah University and is currently retired.
There are only 3 motels in Boulder. Make your reservations now!
Pole's Place still has rooms. Please say you are attending the "writer's conference" as their rooms are reserved for this event.
Pole's Place: 435-335-7422 Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch has cabins, tents, campsites visit their website to make reservations at http://www.bouldermountainguestranch.com/
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