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Registrations are now being accepted
for Ghost Writers of the Lost Horse, the
5th annual young adult writing and book arts conference, sponsored
by Lost Horse Press and the East Bonner County Library on 27 and 28 October 2006
in the Rude Girls Room of the Sandpoint Library. Celebrating Halloween, this year’s
theme is “Telling Our Scary Stories,” and features nationally
acclaimed writers and creative writing instructors Sarah Conover, Maureen McQuerry,
and Carolyne Wright. Children in grades 5 through 12 will gain knowledge of the
process of writing both prose and poetry, as well as discovering the joys of book
binding with Ann Nichols and Christine Holbert, and cartooning with Sandpoint
artist and poet, Tom Kramer. Ghost Writers of the Lost Horse conference
is free for all Bonner County students, including home-schooled children. For
additional information, please contact Lost Horse Press at 208.255.4410, email
losthorsepress@mindspring.com. Registration
forms and additional information are also available at all three branches of the
East Bonner County Library. This project is made possible by a grant from the
Idaho Commission on the Arts.
Sarah Conover explores life with
teenagers in a number of professional and non-professional arenas in her life.
She teaches Radio Writers at a public high school in Spokane, Washington,
and assists her students in broadcasting commentaries, features and creative writing
aimed at a teen audience. She also co-leads an on-going mediation and discussion
group for teens.
Ms. Conover earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University.
She is a published author of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. She is
the author and co-author of four books in the arena of spirituality and parenting.
Daughters of the Desert: Remarkable Women from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim
Traditions was published by SkylightPaths Press in 2003. Her three
books in the This Little Light of Mine Series, published by Eastern Washington
University Press, include Kindness: a Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children
and Parents; Ayat Jamilah, Beautiful Signs: a Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children
and Parents; and At Work in Life’s Garden: Writers on the Spiritual
Adventure of Parenting. Kindness was recommended by Booklist as one of the
five best spiritual books for children in 2001; Ayat Jamilah, Beautiful Signs,
was cited by Newsweek as one of the best multi-cultural books of 2004.
Carolyne Wright has been a visiting
professor at colleges, universities, and writers’ conferences throughout
the U.S., and has recently moved back to her native Seattle, where she is on the
faculty of the Whidbey Writers Workshop MFA Program, teaches community writing
workshops for Seattle’s Richard Hugo House, and serves on the Board of Directors
of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
She has taught writing workshops in middle schools and high schools in Seattle,
Oklahoma City, and Cleveland, Ohio; and she has led a year-long writing workshop
for middle-school kids at the Firehouse Arts Center in Norman, Oklahoma, and a
summer workshop for middle-schoolers at the Poets’ and Writers’ League
of Greater Cleveland. On two notable occasions, she has worked as a long-term
substitute teacher-—once at the John F. Kennedy Bilingual Elementary School
in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, teaching a class of Puerto Rican, Cuban, and
Central American 4th graders, many of them recent immigrants, in all subjects
and in both English and Spanish; and during the first Gulf War, as a teacher of
high-school Spanish classes for the American International School in Dhaka, Bangladesh,
when many of the regular teachers were evacuated back to the U. S. for security
reasons.
Ms. Wright has published eight books and chapbooks of poetry; a collection of
essays; and three volumes of poetry in translation from Spanish and Bengali, which
have won awards from the NEA, the New York State Arts Council, and the Witter
Bynner Foundation. Her new book is A Change
of Maps (Lost Horse Press, 2006), finalist for the Idaho Prize and the
Alice Fay di Castagnola Award of the Poetry Society of America. Her previous collection,
Seasons of Mangoes and Brainfire, (Eastern Washington UP/Lynx House Books,
2nd edition 2005), won the Blue Lynx Prize and the American Book Award.
Maureen McQuerry is a writer and
teacher living in Richland, Washington. She is the author of Nuclear Legacy
and Student Inquiry. Her fantasy novel, Wolfproof, is scheduled
for publication in the fall of 2006 with Idylls Press. Her poetry was a finalist
for the Hearst, Pablo Neruda and Beulah Rose awards and appears in numerous journals
including: Smartish Pace, The Atlanta Review, Southern Review, North American
Review, and Nimrod. It can also be found in the anthologies Margins,
Pontoon8 and The Washington Poetry Association collection Tattoos on
Cedar. Most recently she won the New Eden Chapbook Competition for her collection
Wingward. Maureen gives author presentations and workshops for students
in 5th-12th grade on poetry and fiction writing, and she coordinates a gifted
middle school program. Ms. McQuerry was the McAuliffe Fellow for Washington State
in 2000.
Sandpoint poet, musician and artist, Tom Kramer,
has taught his “Cartooning For Kids” classes to hundreds of participants.
His own work has appeared in numerous books, periodicals, and galleries.
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