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Registration for the 8th annual Taos Writers Conference closes July 11
WRITERS CONFERENCE IN TAOS
Registration closes Thursday, July 11, for the 8th annual Taos Writers Conference. The conference runs from Friday, July 19, through Sunday, July 21.
Award-winning poet-memoirist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke is the keynote speaker. She will be reading and giving a talk at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 19, at SOMOS Salon, 108 Civic Plaza Drive, Taos.
Registration for the 8th annual Taos Writers Conference closes July 11
Coke鈥檚 reading is free for those registered for the Taos Writers Conference. The reading is $8 for SOMOS members not registered for the conference, and $10 for non-SOMOS members.
Coke will also teach a three-hour workshop on Saturday, July 20, for conference attendees.
Coke鈥檚 many honors include the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture. Her book-length poem 鈥淟ook at This Blue鈥� was a 2022 National Book Award finalist. She is a Fulbright scholar.
Among the New Mexico writers and poets who are instructors at the conference are Minrose Gwin, Valerie Martinez and Connie Josefs of Albuquerque; Lauren Camp, Jamie Figueroa, Johnny D. Boggs, Julia Goldberg and Tommy Archuleta, all of Santa Fe. Among the Taos area conference instructors are Veronica Golos, Sawnie Morris, Allegra Huston and Sean Murphy.
For details on registering, go to .
COLLECTED WORKS
Collected Works is hosting two author events.
Noted writing teacher and author Natalie Goldberg will talk about her new book 鈥淲riting on Empty: A Guide to Finding Your Voice鈥� at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 9. In the book, Goldberg shares her inspiring journey out of a period of writer鈥檚 block and her return to a life of creativity, growth and healing.
And at 6 p.m. Friday, July 12, environmental journalist Justin Nobel talks about his new book 鈥淧etroleum-238: Big Oil鈥檚 Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It.鈥� Nobel鈥檚 book is the culmination of his seven-year investigation into how the U.S. oil and gas industry has avoided lax governmental regulations and legal loopholes, creating a radioactive public health crisis. Nobel contends that more comes to the surface at a well than just oil and gas; the industry produces billions of tones of waste, much of it toxic and radioactive. What happens to this waste? It is spilled, spread, injected and dumped across the country.
Collected Works is located at 202 Galisteo St., downtown Santa Fe.
AWARDS
Albuquerque鈥檚 Lynn C. Miller has received two awards for her 2023 short story collection 鈥淭he Lost Archive.鈥� The book received a gold medal in the category of Fiction-Short Story/Anthology from the Midwest Independent Publishers Association, and it was a bronze medalist in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
鈥� By David Steinberg/ For the Journal
