Line-up Announced for Jackson Writers Conference

The 15th annual Jackson Hole Writers Conference will be held June 28-July 1 in Jackson. Special tracks for this year include travel and outdoor writing, with featured speaker Daniel Glick, young adult fiction with Todd Strasser, and a teachers’ track with Lee Zacharias. An array of other fiction and nonfiction writers will talk about their work. They include Tiffanie DeBartolo, Terry Tempest Williams, and William Haywood Henderson.

Attendees can discuss their work through individual manuscript critiques with local writers (including Tina Welling and John Byrne Cooke) and these New York agents and editors: Katherine Ives, Alpinist Magazine; Amanda Murray, Simon & Schuster; Zoe Pagnamenta, PFD; Rebecca Friedman, Sterling Lord Literistic; and Karen Marcus, Doubleday.

JHWC offers a special offer for parents of teens interested in writing. Register and bring your teen (or teens) for half-price. Full registration info will be available soon at the conference web site.

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NATURE WRITERS GATHER AT MAMMOTH: The Yellowstone Nature Writers Field Conference will be held Jan. 28-Feb. 3 at the Mammoth Hotel in Yellowstone National Park. This five-day workshop "seeks literary inspiration through park exploration and expert guidance from accomplished writers and publishers." Conference director is Digger Jerry George, author of several books and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. The conference faculty features best-selling Wyoming mystery writer C.J. Box; award winning author and publisher of Hayday Books, Malcolm Margolin; literary agent Judy Klein; and on-line magazine editor Courtney Lowery.

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