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Saturday, May 24
 

10:15am MDT

Historical Fiction Panel
Saturday May 24, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
2 King Room
Join four exceptional novelists for a deep dive into creating the historical novel. Moderated by Shelley Read (Go As a River) this is a rare opportunity for festival workshoppers to peer into the research and writing of times long ago. 
Speakers
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Shelley Read

Shelley Read’s international bestselling debut novel, Go As A River, is translated into thirty-four languages and appears on bestseller lists worldwide. Winner of the 2024 High Plains Book Award for Fiction and the 2023 Reading the West Award for Best Debut, Go As A River is also... Read More →
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Ramona Ausubel

Ramona Ausubel’s fifth book, The Last Animal was a national bestseller, a Barnes & Noble book of the month and named a best book of 2023 by NPR, Kirkus and the Oprah quarterly. Her previous books are Awayland: stories, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, A Guide to Being Born... Read More →
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Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Elizabeth Gonzalez James is a screenwriter and bestselling author of the novels, The Bullet Swallower and Mona at Sea, as well as the chapbook, Five Conversations About Peter Sellers. The Bullet Swallower was named a best book of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, and elsewhere, was a Book of... Read More →
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Karen Russell

Karen Russell is the author of six books of fiction, including the New York Times bestsellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove. She has received MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowships and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, she now lives... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 10:15am - 11:15am MDT
2 King Room
  Community Event, Panel

3:30pm MDT

Publishing Panel-From No to Yes with Shelley Read and Olivia Chadha TICKETED
Saturday May 24, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT
2 King Room
The road to publishing a book can be long and filled with personal struggle, especially in sustaining a string of rejection, a hallmark of writers everywhere. Join beloved Mountain Words authors, Shelley Read (Go As a River) and Olivia Chadha (Rise of the Red Hand) as they talk about the pitfalls of a career in writing, 
Speakers
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Olivia Chadha

Olivia Chadha writes science fiction, fantasy, comic books, and literary novels for MG, YA, and adult audiences. She has a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing and her research centers on the history of exile, India’s Partition, precarious borders and boundaries, global folklore... Read More →
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Shelley Read

Shelley Read’s international bestselling debut novel, Go As A River, is translated into thirty-four languages and appears on bestseller lists worldwide. Winner of the 2024 High Plains Book Award for Fiction and the 2023 Reading the West Award for Best Debut, Go As A River is also... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 3:30pm - 4:30pm MDT
2 King Room
  Community Event, Panel

6:00pm MDT

Native Writers Read TICKETED
Saturday May 24, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
1 Steddy Theater
This is THE premier reading for Mountain Words. These writers come to readers from the edges of a collective history that demands more than rote understanding of what it means to be Indigenous in the US. This is sure to be an evening of powerful storytelling from voices too powerful to be ignored. 
Speakers
avatar for Suzi Q. Smith

Suzi Q. Smith

Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning author, artist, educator, and organizer who lives in Denver, Colorado. While primarily known for her poetry, Suzi is also a singer-songwriter, playwright, and interdisciplinary creative. She has created, curated, coached, and taught for over 20 years... Read More →
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Aaron John Curtis

Aaron John Curtis is an enrolled member of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, which he’ll tell you is the white name for the American side of Akwesasne. Aaron has judged for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance prizes, the 2019 Kirkus... Read More →
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Chris La Tray

Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays From the World At Large (2018, Riverfeet Press) won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High Plains Book Award.His second book, a collection of haiku and haibun poetry called De... Read More →
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CMarie Fuhrman

CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and the co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published poetry and nonfiction... Read More →
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Deborah Taffa

Deborah Taffa’s Whiskey Tender, a National Book Award Finalist 2024, as well as a longlisted title for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence, was named to the year’s best lists at Time Magazine, Esquire, Publisher’s Weekly, The Atlantic, Audible, Esquire, and other outlets... Read More →
Saturday May 24, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
1 Steddy Theater
  Community Event, Panel
 
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