Wednesday, March 28, 2012

More Details on Schedule

The article in the Idaho State Journal gave more details on some of the readers reading during the festival.

In summary: April 3-7 at 7 p.m.

Tuesday April 3, Co-Ho coffee house, Host Carly Beebe, readings from a variety of local writers, some for their first festival appearance.

Wednesday Apr. 4. Portneuf Valley Brewing, Host Cathy Peppers, well-known local writers and singer songwriters in the brewery loft.

Thursday, Apr. 5. College Market, Host Carlen Donovan, many of this nights readers are connected to ISU as instructors, students, former students and staff or residents of the college neighborhood.

Friday, Apr. 6. Main Street Coffee and News, Host Jill Jorgensen. local writers plus Star Colebrook and some of her writing students from Logan Utah.

Saturday, Apr. 7. Cafe Rowan in Station Square. a tribute to Rose and Rick Ardinger and their Limberlost Press--see more details in the article below.

Check out previous postings over the past two weeks for more details. I will post as much information as I can find here.

Rocky Mountain Writers Festival highlights

I hope you saw the article in Idaho State Journal's Sunday March 25, 2012 issue. Leslie Leek wrote "Writers Festival to honor Ardingers, Limberlost Press.

In case you missed it, some of the highlights were that Saturday will feature a tribute to Rick and Rosemary Ardinger of Limberlost Press, plus a celebration of Ray Obermayr's 90th year, and a remembrance of Pocatello's literary past.

Limberlost has published Margaret Aho, Ray Obermayr, gino Sky, Martin Vest, Harald Wyndham, Fort Swetnam, Bruce Embree, Gerald Grummet, and Utah writers Sandy Anderson, Nancy Takacs, and Ken Brewer.

The Saturday night reading will feature Obermayr, Sky, Anderson, Taklacs, Ardinger, Wyndham, and more.

See the article in the Journal for a lot more details about the Writers Festival.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Reading Poetry of Poets Who Will Be at the Festival

One of my favorite things to do is to re-read works of some of my favorite authors who will be reading at the RMWF. It gets me even more in the mood for it. Both Marshall Public Library and Oboler Library at Idaho State University have a lot of books by Pocatello authors. And don't forget Walrus and Carpenter Bookstore in downtown Pocatello as a source of books by festival authors. And thanks to Will Peterson for organizing the festival!

In random stream of consciousness order, here are some of the authors I know I can find books by: Harald Wyndham, Leslie Leek, Margaret Aho, Dough Airmet, Will Peterson, Michael Corrigan, Joan Juskie, Carlen Donovan, and many other Pocatello Blend authors. sorry for all the people I'm leaving out--there are so many. Ask at the public library circulation desk about a copy of the Pocatello authors, fiction and nonfiction, that Ramona compiled.

And to me it wouldn't be complete if I didn't also look for some poetry by my two favorite departed Pocatello authors: Ford Swetnam and Bruce Embree. So many memories of the past 21 years of writer's festivals....

Harald Wyndham is working on a history of Rocky Mountain Writer's Fest. Hopefully we'll hear more about it at the festival.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Making Rocky Mountain Writer's Festival a Writing Retreat

Since the Festival is still almost two weeks away, I wanted to share a fun idea I've used in the past, before I retired. I use to take the week of the Festival (or a few days if I didn't have much vacation leave left)and make it a vacation, like a writing retreat, or writer's conference. Being on vacation gives you the freedom of staying up as late as you want, spending the day reading and writing, getting together with friends, etc. I took vacation for many of the past festivals, and it was always so much more fun and productive when I had that freedom--it felt more like a writer's conference, with a lot of independent study.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Find Rocky Mountain Writers Festival on Facebook

If you're on Facebook, you can find information about RMWF there too! Just look for the group titled "Rocky Mountain Writers Festival April 3-7 2012". (The Facebook page from last year is still there too, just not updated.)Be sure to "Like" it so the group grows bigger! Jill Jorgensen is doing this page, and it looks wonderful!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Rocky Mountain Writers Festival 2012

The Rocky Mountain Writers Festival will be held April 3 to 7 in Pocatello. All readings begin at 7 p.m., and are free to the public.

The schedule will be:

Tuesday--Coho Coffee Shop, 900 S Fourth Ave.

Wednesday--Portneuf Valley Brewery, 615 S. First Ave.

Thursday--College Market, 604 S. Eighth Ave

Friday--Main Street Coffee and News--234 N. Main St.

Saturday--Cafe Rowan in Station Square, 200 S. Main St.
There will be a no-host dinner at Cafe Rowan before the reading, 5 to 7 p.m.

For more information call Walrus and Carpenter Books at 233-0821.

If you have more information on RMWF that you would like posted on this blog, please contact Joan Juskie, or send a comment to this blog.