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Young Writers of the Lost Horse
March 5 & 6, 2004
Lost Horse Press and the Sandpoint Library have again teamed up to bring you the third annual children's writing conference--Young Writers of the Lost Horse--for students in grades 5 through 12. The intensive two-day event takes place at the Sandpoint Library on March 5 & 6, 2004, and features workshops in poetry, fiction, book illustration and bookbinding, a reading by students and faculty, and a pizza party. Faculty include Meghan Sayres, author of The Shape of Bett's Meadow (The Millbrook Press), a John Burrough's Nature Book for Young Readers 2002; and coauthor of Daughters of the Desert: Remarkable Women from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim Traditions (Skylights Paths Press); Scott Poole, associate director of Eastern Washington University Press, whose first book, The Cheap Seats, was a finalist for Foreward Magazine's Book of the Year awards, and whose second collection of poems, Hiding from Salesmen, was published recently by Lost Horse Press; and Dennis Held, who taught for many years at Lewis-Clark State College, and was faculty advisor to the Talking River Review. His awards include the American Academy of Poets Prize, the Wilderness Essay Award from the University of Idaho, and the Fuller Poetry Prize. His first collection of poems, Betting on the Night, was published by Lost Horse Press.
The conference is funded this year by Verizon Northwest, and is free to all Bonner County students in grades 5 through 12. To register, fill out the registration form available at the Sandpoint Library. For additional information, please contact Lost Horse Press at 208.255.4410 or email losthorsepress@mindspring.com.
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