Five Questions for New Mexico Authors - Sharon Oard Warner - New Mexico Mercury

Please see the full interview with Professor Warner at NewMexicoMercury.com!

Professor Sharon Warner interviewed by the New Mexico Maganize

"Taos Summer Writers’ Conference founder Sharon Oard Warner talks about her new novel and tending to D.H. Lawrence’s local legacy."

Please see the full article, "Sharon Oard Warnder:  Homing In", by Candace Walsh from the New Mexico Magazine.

Rananim program, the Online Writing Community of the Taos Summer Writers' Conference

The UNM Taos Summer Writers' Conference began sixteen years ago to create a link between UNM and the D.H. Lawrence Ranch just outside of beautiful Taos, NM. For years, the Conference has taken participants to the Ranch, had fellows stay in the fellowship cabin, and created that thing that Lawrence so desired: a utopian society where writers and artists of all kinds can go to create and commune.
This summer at the Conference, a new program called Rananim was created. The proceeds of Rananim, an Online Writing Community of the Taos Summer Writers' Conference, will go toward the renovation of the D. H. Lawrence Ranch. For more information about the new Rananim program, go to the website at http://www.unm.edu/~taosconf/ or watch the video that describes the ranch and the project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlKpSRK08S8.
The Rananim website includes a blog with posts about the Ranch. Here's the link:
http://rananim.unm.edu/blog

US Poet Laureate Is Keynote Reader for 15th Annual Taos Summer Writers' Conference

On Sunday, July 14th at 8 p.m., our newly installed U.S. poet laureate, Natasha Trethewey, will give the keynote reading for the 15th annual Taos Summer Writers' Conference (July 14-21, 2012).

Trethewey's reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing and reception.

Natasha Trethewey http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/natasha_trethewey/index.html

the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. Ms. Trethewey, 46, was born in Gulfport, Miss., and is the first Southerner to hold the post since Robert Penn Warren, the original laureate, and the first African-American since Rita Dove in 1993.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/natasha-trethewey-is-named-poet-laureate.html

Laurel Coffey receives Pat Smith Teaching Award

The Taos Summer Writers' Conference is pleased to provide the $300 award to MFA student Laurel Coffey, who is this year's recipient of the Patricia Clark Smith Teaching Award.

Taos Summer Writers' Conference

The Taos Summer Writers' Conference will be featured in the May/June Issue of Writer's Digest.

Learn more about this year's workshops at the Conference website here.

12th Annual Taos Summer Writers' Conference

Congratulations to Sharon Warner, Barbara van Buskirk and the dedicated staff of graduate students who worked so hard to make this year's Taos Summer Writers' Conference a success. The conference received glowing reviews from participants and had a fantastic write up in several New Mexico papers.

Read the full article in the Las Cruces Sun-News online here.