Saturday, February 03, 2007
WORKSHOP with Karen Chamberlain
Saturday February 17, 10 am - 1pm at the Taos County Chamber of Commerce Meeting Room.Cost $35 and $30 for S.O.M.O.S. members. For reservations and/or information, call S.O.M.O.S. 505 758-0081 or email us at somos@laplaza.org.
INTIMACY AND SURPRISE: ELEMENTS OF MEMOIR AND STORY - A workshop with Karen ChamberlainThis workshop focuses on methods of infusing clarity, vitality and flow into the writing of personal real-life stories. Lively examples, discussion, and writing exercises are aimed at giving participants confidence in the value of their stories, and specific skills and techniques for writing them.
Please bring a notebook or journal, and pencil or pen. Karen will also be reading on Friday February 16 @ 7:00 as part of the S.O.M.O.S. Winter Writers Series @ the Harwood Museum.
BIO- Karen Chamberlain received a BS degree in zoology and chemistry and a BA in English and history from the University of New Mexico, and later earned a Master's in Literature and Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.Ms. Chamberlain has worked at several occupations, advertising copywriter, tutor. For six years she was senior writer and associate producer for the PBS-television nature series, "Wild America."
During that time, she also directed the Aspen Writers' Conference and established the Aspen Writers' Foundation, developing several supportive programs for writers of all ages. In 1992, she co-founded "Nature Within," a summer outdoor writers' program based at a wildlife sanctuary in the Colorado Rockies and featuring as faculty such nationally noted authors as Jorie Graham and William Kittredge. For ten years she served as Literary Coordinator for Canyonlands Field Institute's Desert Writers Workshop, near Moab, Utah. In 1999, she co-founded the Glenwood Springs Writers' Workshop, a bi-monthly critiquing and support group.
For five years Chamberlain was also the poetry editor for Mountain Gazette magazine.Ms. Chamberlain began writing at age ten. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Hudson Review, The Nation; Poetry, Orion; The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature; and The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado's Western Slope. She has been honored with a 1983 The Nation/Discovery Prize, a 1989 Fellowship in Poetry from the Colorado Council for the Arts, a 1993 Poetry Award from Poets & Writers Magazine and the Poetry Society of America, and a 2004 Contribution-to-Poetry Award from Sparrows Poetry Festival in Salida, Colorado.For a five-year period of her life, Chamberlain lived on a remote ranch in southeast Utah; a memoir of her desert experiences entitled Desert of the Heart: Sojourn in a Community of Solitudes, has been published and is available from Ghost Road Press, Ingram, Amazon She is completing a collection of poetry, Ephedra, and other work in progress includes a collection of essays, Swimming With A Candle; a novel, The Woman Who Said Welcome; and and a fictional tale for horse lovers of all ages, Blackie The Mustang: An American Black Beauty Story.S.O.M.O.S.229 Paseo del Pueblo SurP O Box 3225Taos, New Mexico 87571505-758-0081FAX 505-758-4802www.somostaos.org
INTIMACY AND SURPRISE: ELEMENTS OF MEMOIR AND STORY - A workshop with Karen ChamberlainThis workshop focuses on methods of infusing clarity, vitality and flow into the writing of personal real-life stories. Lively examples, discussion, and writing exercises are aimed at giving participants confidence in the value of their stories, and specific skills and techniques for writing them.
Please bring a notebook or journal, and pencil or pen. Karen will also be reading on Friday February 16 @ 7:00 as part of the S.O.M.O.S. Winter Writers Series @ the Harwood Museum.
BIO- Karen Chamberlain received a BS degree in zoology and chemistry and a BA in English and history from the University of New Mexico, and later earned a Master's in Literature and Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.Ms. Chamberlain has worked at several occupations, advertising copywriter, tutor. For six years she was senior writer and associate producer for the PBS-television nature series, "Wild America."
During that time, she also directed the Aspen Writers' Conference and established the Aspen Writers' Foundation, developing several supportive programs for writers of all ages. In 1992, she co-founded "Nature Within," a summer outdoor writers' program based at a wildlife sanctuary in the Colorado Rockies and featuring as faculty such nationally noted authors as Jorie Graham and William Kittredge. For ten years she served as Literary Coordinator for Canyonlands Field Institute's Desert Writers Workshop, near Moab, Utah. In 1999, she co-founded the Glenwood Springs Writers' Workshop, a bi-monthly critiquing and support group.
For five years Chamberlain was also the poetry editor for Mountain Gazette magazine.Ms. Chamberlain began writing at age ten. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including The Hudson Review, The Nation; Poetry, Orion; The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature; and The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado's Western Slope. She has been honored with a 1983 The Nation/Discovery Prize, a 1989 Fellowship in Poetry from the Colorado Council for the Arts, a 1993 Poetry Award from Poets & Writers Magazine and the Poetry Society of America, and a 2004 Contribution-to-Poetry Award from Sparrows Poetry Festival in Salida, Colorado.For a five-year period of her life, Chamberlain lived on a remote ranch in southeast Utah; a memoir of her desert experiences entitled Desert of the Heart: Sojourn in a Community of Solitudes, has been published and is available from Ghost Road Press, Ingram, Amazon She is completing a collection of poetry, Ephedra, and other work in progress includes a collection of essays, Swimming With A Candle; a novel, The Woman Who Said Welcome; and and a fictional tale for horse lovers of all ages, Blackie The Mustang: An American Black Beauty Story.S.O.M.O.S.229 Paseo del Pueblo SurP O Box 3225Taos, New Mexico 87571505-758-0081FAX 505-758-4802www.somostaos.org
