Featuring What? | April 25 | 6 – 8:30 pm | Center for the Arts Conference Room | FREE
So many interests so little time. The stories we follow and the stories we choose to tell intrigue us for their worth – how they represent, teach or perhaps entertain. From the favored gear bag to the ins and outs of getting a spinal tap to the state of the education system, the knack for uncovering the truth takes an ear for more than the relevant. Learn how to look at a story and all its parts with Kelsey Dayton as she reveals the adventures of crafting, researching, interviewing, and seeing a great story to its end.
Bio: Kelsey Dayton graduated with a bachelor’s of journalism from the University of Missouri. She has worked at the Jackson Hole News&Guide for the past four and a half years and has covered stories from branding to rock climbing to hot air ballooning.
To Publishing! | May 11 | 6 – 8:30 pm | Center for the Arts Green Room | FREE
Jackson Hole author and publisher Rebecca Woods discusses the pros and cons of traditional and non-traditional avenues for getting your manuscript published, with an emphasis on how to self-publish. A realistic assessment of trends in the book market will be included in this insightful workshop. Becky will outline components of the publishing process and delve into the financial and marketing considerations of book publishing. A 30-minute question and answer period anchors the end of this information-packed, two-and-a-half hour workshop.
Bio: Rebecca has been involved in the full spectrum of book publishing for over 20 years. She owns and operates White Willow Publishing, a respected regional publishing house that specializes in the Greater Yellowstone area.
Paper, Pen – Rock! | Tuesdays, May 10 –June 14 | 7 – 9 pm | Teton Literacy Program | $90
Energize your writing life with this loosely structured opportunity to move your work forward to the next place. This class is offered for writers of any interest, any level. Come to class to work and to get feedback on your own personal projects or come to work from the writing prompts that are offered each week. Prompts get the writer going and offer fresh perspective, even if not followed precisely. During each class, participants may bring in pages to receive private feedback from Tina. And following in-class writing time, class feedback is available. Writers are offered space and time for writing, private feedback, class feedback and writing prompts to bring to the next week’s class.
Bio: Tina Welling is the author of Cowboys Never Cry and two other novels, published by the Penguin Group. Her nonfiction has been published in four anthologies and national magazines.
Ecopoetics | Wednesdays, May 18 –June 15 | 6 – 9 pm | Teton Literacy Program | $90
What power do words have? Might they—and how might they— change the course of our cultural/environmental crisis? What’s been done/sung/written in this vein and where might you take it in your own writing? We will address these and other fundamental questions in a survey of some of the various thrusts and endeavors taking place in the realm of ecopoetics today, coupled with explorations into these ideas and urgencies in our own work.
Bio: Led by Marcia Casey (MFA Goddard College 2009; published in Jacket magazine) and incorporating the work of numerous and diverse contemporary writers. Marcia at mcasey@bresnan.net or 733.9296.
Please sign up for any or all of these classes with nicole@jacksonholewritersconference.com. Classes – especially the free workshops – have limited seating options and are available to those first to sign up. Questions: 307-413-3332.
These workshops and classes are supported in part by grants from the Community Foundation. Other generous donors and sponors make year round creation possible for Jackson Hole Writers.
