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Meet Shannon Hale
Shannon Hale is the New York Times best-selling author of over fifty books for preschoolers, kids, teens, and adults, selling more than fifteen million copies and translated into twenty-five languages worldwide. You can meet this author Monday 21 September (6:30 to 8 p.m.) at the Library! at Hillcrest. Utah resident Hale will discuss her newest…
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15-Tango to Covid-19
15-TANGO to COVID-19 is a vivid, deeply personal memoir of resilience and perseverance across civilian life, military service, and nursing. Kristin L. Smith traces her journey from a civilian helicopter pilot buried in debt, to a Black Hawk crew chief deployed to Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom—and later, to the front lines of the COVID-19…
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Until Fall
In Margaret Koger’s collection Until Fall,we are transported to a world of nature that is both cruel and beautiful. With deft language, Koger writes of birds, flowers — morning glory, roses, lilacs, dandelions. She writes of the pandemic and of how a spring storm carries away the birds she looked forward to feeding. Her tender care…
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Add to prizes: the WILLA
Linda Sandifer’s novel, Lost and Broken Things, has been named the Women Writing the West 2026 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction. The awards will be received at the annual WWW convention held this year in Phoenix, Arizona, October 15-17th. This follows an award earlier this year from the Western Writers of America: the Spur Award for…
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Writing about crime?
The role of the Public Defender and how to portray them accurately in fiction, presented by Mystery Writers of America (NW) 19 Sept. $10 for nonmembers
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Submissions (list of 50)
50 magazines and anthologies publishing speculative fiction (sciFi, fantasy, horror, etc.) from Authors Publish. Many offer payment. Submission dates vary. As always: writer, beware–vet all submission opportunities well.
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A (not so) Small Wrinkle
…IN YOUR COPYRIGHT RIGHTS. Last April, about twenty-five authors were fortunate enough to attend one of the last in-person meetings of MMMWriters—the one featuring Mr. Bradlee Frazer, partner at the firm of Hawley Troxell in Boise.
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Dreamcatcher
When a string of brutal murders terrorizes a small town, crime reporter Tazia Drake is drawn into an investigation. Guided by chilling visions rooted in her Sioux heritage, she races to uncover a killer who hides in plain sight. Blending psychological suspense, Native spirituality, and a touch of the supernatural, The Dreamcatcher is a gripping thriller about…
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Boise Comic Arts Fest
As announced on the Boise Public Library’s page: Boise Comic Arts Festival returns for its 14th year … It will include all the features you know and love including a two-day Artist’s Alley, cosplay, panels, performances, and workshops at Boise Centre. At the Boise Centre. Free to attend. No registration required. There’s a full slate…
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Revenant Writer is Keynote
We’ve just updated our 2026 Writer’s Conferences page as we were informed of the longstanding conference, held this year in Kalispell, Montana 25-27 September, practically next door 🙂 The conference is hosted by Authors of the Flathead and a keynote speaker this year is Michael Punke who will speak to the topic: Writing the Story…
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Bear Lake Conference
THE TOOLS OF WRITING The Bear Lake Writers Workshop invites you to participate in our 8th annual conference being held Saturday 10 October 2026. Our featured presenters are Gregg Luke, Josi S. Kilpack, Kirsten Osbourne, and Mark Bennion. Join us in beautiful Montpelier, in southeastern Idaho, for a full day of instruction on a wide…
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News Bits 20 July 26
(Nationally published short story) (How write picture books) (playwright’s play produced) Idaho writer James Patrick Focarile has been published by the Saturday Evening Post. You can read his story, “What Whiskey Won’t Cure,” online on their website. Pamela Kleibrink Thompson, author of the delightful The Horse Who Wanted to Fly, is teaching a workshop —…
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Poetry + Polar Science
A national open call for poetry in dialogue with polar science. PRAx, Spring Creek Project and Terrain.org invite poets to create one to three original poems in response to polar science research papers from Oregon State University scientists, with topics ranging from deep time, arctic drift, ice algae, humpback whale migration, and more. Poets will…
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