Welcome to the 2nd annual Lost Horse Writers’ Conference!
This year the conference features an outstanding team of writers, editors, publishers, and agents who welcome you – aspiring or published – to the Lost Horse festival of writing.
This three-day conference, held in the idyllic lake city of Sandpoint, Idaho, offers writers the occasion to harness their creativity and to develop technical skills under the guidance and instruction of published authors and poets, screen writers, literary agents and publishers during workshops, seminars, lectures, one-to-one appointments, and informal networking; writers will benefit from working in small friendly groups to structure their fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, children’s stories, and film scripts.
The theme of the Lost Horse Writers’ Conference is communication: the exchange of ideas and knowledge within an eclectic gathering. This intensive three-day weekend for writers of all ages and all cultures will awaken new ideas, provoke curiosity, add to the writer’s self-confidence, enhance a writer’s understanding of the writing process, and indicate ways that technical skills can lead a writer toward the goal of excellence whether one’s work is for personal pleasure or for publication.
Former conference attendees have praised the excellence of the lectures, workshops, and one-to-one appointments, as well as the facilities, adding how enjoyable it is to meet and exchange ideas with others who possess the same interests. This literary event offers an impressive source of information and a network of support from tutors who are published writers and industry specialists.
Registration fee: $ 250.00
To apply, please send registration fee with 3-5 poems, 10-20 pages of prose, or a screenplay, to:
Lost Horse Press
105 Lost Horse Lane
Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
YOUNG WRITERS OF THE LOST HORSE
Scott Poole, along with the EWU Writers in the Community, will conduct high school-level workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Dancer and writer Renée D’aoust will present a workshop combining movement and text.
Dennis Held, editor of Talking River Review, will teach students how to set up and run a successful literary magazine. High school teachers may register also!
REGISTRATION
To register for elementary, junior high or high school workshops, please fill out the form below (or complete the information on a separate sheet of paper) and return it to the Sandpoint Library by April 10, 2002.
Elementary and junior high workshops will be held at the Sandpoint Library. High school workshops will be taught at Oden Hall, Sunnyside Road.
Three workshops for grades 3-4, grades 5-6, and grades 7-8 will be conducted, with a limit of 12 students per class. Please register your student early to insure a place. Parents are responsible to transport their child to the Sandpoint Library and to provide a sack lunch.
All workshops are free for Bonner and Boundary County students.
Parents are responsible for transporting their child to and from the Sandpoint Library/Oden Hall, and for providing sack lunches.
If you discover your student is unable to attend, please immediately contact Lost Horse Press so that the vacancy may be filled by a wait-listed student.
Writing from Movement
Writers create images while sitting still. Through physical movement and writing exercises, we will explore how moving our bodies enhances our ability to articulate the feeling of movement within our writing. Specific attention to physical placement and movement details will help writers to understand the phrase "show don’t tell." Come prepared to move your body and bring a journal.
Literary Magazines: a Primer
This workshop will teach you how to run a literary magazine, from gathering submissions, to layout and printing, to distribution. Come with questions, leave with answers.
CONFERENCE WORKSHOP LEADERS
Jonathan Johnson received a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University, and has taught at Waynesburg College in Pennsylvania and at the Interlochen Arts Academy. His poems, stories, and critical essays are forthcoming or have appeared in Best American Poetry 1996, Alaska Quarterly, Indiana Review, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs and numerous other national journals. His first collection of poems, Mastodon, 80% Complete was published in 2001 by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Christopher Howell has published seven collections of poems, most recently Memory and Heaven from Eastern Washington University Press (1997) and Just Waking from Lost Horse Press (2002). He has received fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts, and two such awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work has appeared in such journals as Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Field, Harper’s, Hudson Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Gettysburg Review, and many others. His poems have twice been awarded the Pushcart Prize. He has taught at a number of schools, including Colorado State University, Willamette University, Whitman College, Emporia State University, and Oregon State University. He teaches now in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University where he is also editor of the semi-annual journal Willow Springs. Since 1975 he has been director and principal literary editor for Lynx House Press.
Claire Davis has published in the Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and many other literary journals, and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize for her short fiction. Her first novel, Winter Range, was published by St. Martin’s Press (New York). She teaches at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
Ehud Havazelet is the author of two collections of stories: What is It Then Between Us? (Scribners, 1988), which won the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and a Silver Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California; and Like Never Before (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998), which won the Oregon Book Award and was named a Notable Book of 1998 by The New York Times and included on the Los Angeles Times‘ list of Best Fiction of 1998. His work has been published in STORY, DoubleTake, Southern Review, New England Review and other journals, and has been anthologized in Pushcart Prize XIII and 20 Under 30. He received his MFA at the University of Iowa. He has received a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, a Whiting Writers Award, a Bellagio Residency from the Rockefeller Foundation, and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation. He directs the Creative Writing program at the University of Oregon and is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.
Pierre Delattre is the author of Tales of A Dalai Lama, Walking On Air, Episodes and Woman on the Cross. He has published stories, poems and essays in many magazines. During the Beat era, his coffee house in San Francisco’s North Beach was a gathering place for poets, actors and musicians. Delattre lived and taught in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, for fifteen years, aligning himself with the ‘magical realists’ both in writing and in painting. He manages his own studio/gallery in Truchas, New Mexico where he also holds salons and workshops on the relationship between the arts and the spiritual disciplines.
Natalie Kusz is the author of the memoir Road Song, and of essays published in Harper’s, Threepenny Review, McCall’s, Allure, and other periodicals. Her work has earned, among other honors, a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the NEA, the Bush Foundation, and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. A former faculty member of Bethel College and of Harvard University, she now teaches in the MFA program at Eastern Washington University.
Carolyn Kremers writes literary nonfiction and poetry, and teaches in the MFA/Creative Writing Program at Eastern Washington University. Her first book, Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup’ik Eskimo Village, was published in 1996 (Alaska Northwest Books). She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Spokane.
Robert Glatzer is a film critic and screenwriter in Spokane, Washington, where he hosts the weekly NPR show, Movies 101. A former film director in New York and Hollywood, his films have won awards at festivals around the world. He has taught film at New York’s School of Visual Arts and at Eastern Washington University. His book Beyond Popcorn: A Critic’s Guide to Looking at Films, was published by EWU Press.
A former modern dancer, Renée D’aoust recently graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University where she majored in literature/writing. As a modern dancer in New York City, she trained at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, developed collaborative choreography at the Ceres Gallery, taught at the Alvin Ailey Center and Ballet Academy East, and performed at The Yard on Martha’s Vineyard and in NYC with Mary Anthony Dance Theatre and the Kevin Wynn Collection. She currently lives and writes in north Idaho.
Leon Atkinson attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. There, he met and performed with poet Langston Hughes. While at the High School of Performing Arts, he played regularly at Greenwich Village coffee houses. Eventually, his passion for the guitar led him to Maestro Andrés Segovia in Spain. Upon returning from Spain, Leon became Chairperson of the Guitar Department at Jersey City State College, and taught Classical Guitar in the Extension Division of the Manhattan School of Music. In 1974, Atkinson debuted at Town Hall, New York City. The following year he played Carnegie Hall. He also played in the Broadway shows "Promises Promises," "Sea Saw," "Hurry Harry," and "A Chorus Line." Leon was solo guitarist with the Alvin Ailey Ballet, and performed in the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Mass Ballet on stage and on record. Locally, he has performed with the Spokane Symphony. After moving west, Leon founded the Classical Guitar Guild, and the Guitar Departments at Whitworth College, Spokane Falls Community College, Gonzaga University, and North Idaho College. He presently heads the Guitar Department at Eastern Washington University.
Glen Moore is a jazz bassist with early classical piano training. His formal bass instruction began after college with Jerome Magil in Portland, James Harnett in Seattle, Gary Karr in New York, Plough Christenson in Copenhagen, Ludwig Streicher in Vienna and Francois Rabbath in Paris. Mr. Moore helped found the group Oregon in 1970 with Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless and Collin Walcott. The groups 23rd album Oregon in Moscow received four Grammy nominations. With Oregon Glen has toured Europe, Northern Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Australia. They have just completed their 24th CD, a live series of four days at YoshiÕs in Oakland, California. His most recent solo CD is called Nude Bass Ascending featuring Steve Swallow, Carla Bley, Rabih Abou-Khalil and Arto Tuncboyaciyan. Currently he is at work on an album of his piano songs. Moore has worked with many great jazz pianists, saxophonists, violinists, vibraphonists, drummers, bassists, and tap dancer Peg Leg Bates. His work in other styles of music includes folk singers Cyrus Faryar, Tim Harden, Taj Mahal and Jim Morrison; Celtic singers Loreena McKennit and Susan McKeown; oudists Rabih Abou-Khalil, Humza al Din and Simon Shaheen; sitarists Ravi Shankar and Collin Walcott; tabla players Ala Roca, Trilok Gurtu; conce;rts with the Kronos Quartet, Winter Consort, the Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Stuttgart Opera Orchestra, The Stavanger, Norway Orchestra, and the Tchaikovsky Orchestra of Moscow. Glen teaches music privately, and lives with his son Alexander and wife Samantha, in North Plains, Oregon.