Tag: Idaho locale
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Sawtooth Mountain Retreat 2026
Mac Test, director of BSU’s Hemingway Center, is excited to announce the dates for the 2026 Sawtooth Writing Retreat: September 23-28, 2026. They’ve added two more days to the retreat, and are elated to welcome the 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner for a Feature Story, Mark Warren. Here’s the new Sawtooth Writing Retreat website! The Retreat is designed for adults who wish to elevate their writing skills,…
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Nancy K. Camp
Horses are majestic creatures, as Camp has learned over four decades in working with them, and learning from them. She is an award-winner for her short story, “The Roundup,” published in IDAHO Magazine, and has written numerous nonfiction pieces including a series of articles in Natural Horse Magazine. She is also the author of In…
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Linda Sandifer
She has fourteen published novels, including historical fiction, western and paranormal romance, a contemporary novel, and her most recent, Lost and Broken Things, set in eastern Idaho’s backcountry in 1929. She’s been the recipient of numerous awards, including Idaho Writer of the Year for her first book way back in 1985. Do you have a…
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Julie Weston, WILLA Finalist
Congratulations to this Idaho author whose book, Salmon Moon: River of No Return was just awarded Finalist of the WILLA Award for Mystery/Thriller by Women Writing the West. Julie also reports that her story Blue Shades, about a madam in northern Idaho in the 1920s or so, was included in the anthology She Rode West…
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I Am From Idaho
I Am From Idaho is a series of humorous adventures of a boy growing up in Idaho. Adventures include everything from building a go-cart from an old lawn mower to being trapped in a cave with the school bully. It is a nostalgic and sometimes poignant look at youth and adventure in a different world from…
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When the Aspens Turn to Tinder
Before Boise has blue turf, it has boxing, and the Basques have their champion. Al Berro is “The Fighting Basque from Jordan Valley.” He fights in the prize ring, he fights in the barrooms, he fights City Hall⎯and he wins. When the Aspens Turn to Tinder tells the story of this colorful downtown figure, who…
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Two-Faced Wolf: A Novel of Idaho’s Wolf War
“…a thrilling picture of pro-wolf versus anti-wolf protagonists. Set in the Sawtooth mountains, the suspense is found page after page.” This book is a new edition, revised and with a new cover, of Joe IDAHO’s novel of a perennial subject of debate in this state: the reintroduction of wolves. (Note: We’d previously profiled Joe IDAHO…
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Teddy Roosevelt’s Goblin
TEDDY ROOSEVELT and his hunting companions battle a creature unlike anything they’ve encountered. The year is 1888. Teddy Roosevelt is twenty-nine, vigorous, and an avid hunter. Donning buckskins and carrying a repeating rifle, he’s tracked and killed nearly every big game species in the continental United States. Now, he’s after caribou. But things aren’t what…
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Joe IDAHO
He has published two novels: Two-Faced Wolf and Teddy Roosevelt’s Goblin: A Bigfoot Story. His books are action and adventure thrillers, social commentary, and contemporary and historical fiction. Teddy Roosevelt’s Goblin: A Bigfoot Story delves into themes of cryptozoology. Do you have a writing routine? Where and when do you write? Writing is a daily…
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How Do You Idaho?
Rick Just, Idaho historian and author of numerous books, has just released a definitive guide to How To Be An Idahoan — The Idaho Conversion Kit. This is the second book in his Speaking of Idaho history series. The Idaho Conversion Kit is a tongue-in-cheek instruction manual on becoming an Idahoan in ten easy steps. One…
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Ghosts in the Desert
The making of a novel, featured in IDAHO Magazine.
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Podcast: Murder in Idaho
It’s called “Ghosts and Garnets” and at last count there were forty-three episodes running mostly around forty minutes. Who knew there was so much fertile ground for discussing murder in Idaho. But then, on the other hand… Hat tip to the BSU/NPR newsletter for alerting us to this free podcast. Photo by David von Diemar on Unsplash
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Hover Point
When America’s most-celebrated TV newscaster begins broadcasting the nightly network news not from a major city studio but from a ranch in Southwest Idaho, he jeopardizes his marriage, uncovers small town secrets, encounters dangers and discovers much about nature and about himself. Filled with intriguing characters, philosophical observations, lyrical writing and humor, HOVER POINT raises…
