The Teton Mountain Writer’s Workshop will be held at Grand Targhee Resort outside Alta on Saturday, Dec. 15, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost is $40, which includes all-day instruction, lunch, and snowshoe tour. Discounted packages available, space is limited. To register, call 307-353-2300, ext. 1375; <cthomure@grandtarghee.com>.
This workshop will be conducted by writers from Alpinist Magazine. Here’s a description from the Grand Targhee web site:
The workshop is for those interested in writing to celebrate and help preserve our wild lands. We will spend a day exploring the outdoors through discussion of literature and a snowshoe tour. We'll discuss and practice how to translate ideas into stories that help promote environmental sustainability, look at how elements of literary writing craft can be applied to outdoor subjects in order to create compelling short fiction, creative nonfiction and feature articles, and talk about how to get published in outdoor, travel and adventure sport magazines.
A graduate from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, with an MFA in Fiction, Katie Ives is the senior editor for Alpinist Magazine. Her fiction, nonfiction and translations have appeared in Rock & Ice, Alpinist, The American Alpine Journal, She Sends, The Mountain Gazette, Urban Climber, The Harvard Mountaineering Club Journal, Circumference, 91st Meridian, The Mongolian Studies Journal and Ideya Magazine. In 2004, she won the Mammut/Rock & Ice Writing Contest.
After graduating from Dartmouth Colleges MALS program, where he earned a masters in nonfiction and journalism, Erik Lambert became the online editor for Alpinist Magazine. A contributor to Thin Ice: Inuit Traditions within a Changing Environment, Erik has also written for Rock & Ice, Alpinist, Homestead Magazine and a number of newspapers.
Both instructors have extensive teaching experience.
