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# Sharon Oard Warner

Author, teacher, founder of the Taos Summer Writers' Conference

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- [Blog](https://sharonoardwarner.com/blog/)
- [Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Starry, Starry Night”](https://sharonoardwarner.com/georgia-okeeffes-starry-starry-night/) - 7 Sep­tem­ber 2014 This past Wednes­day and Thurs­day, Nation­al Geo­graph­ic pho­tog­ra­phers vis­it­ed the D.H. Lawrence Ranch. Unlike most folks, who go to the Ranch dur­ing the day­light hours, these pho­tog­ra­phers trekked up to the Home­stead­er Cab­in after night­fall, when noc­tur­nal ani­mals emerge under the cov­er of darkness. The owls and coy­otes must have been watch­ing as the
- [Georgia O'Keeffe and Fear](https://sharonoardwarner.com/georgia-okeeffe-and-fear/) - 16 Sep­tem­ber 2016 “I’ve been absolute­ly ter­ri­fied every moment of my life and I’ve nev­er let it keep me from doing a sin­gle thing that I want­ed to do.” —Geor­gia O’Keeffe This week, the Geor­gia O’Keeffe Research Cen­ter is spon­sor­ing a forum on “Bal­anc­ing Authen­tic­i­ty, Ide­al­ism, and Expec­ta­tions at a Sin­gle-Focus Insti­tu­tions.” This three-day event (Sept. 14–16)
- [Dr. Virginia Hyde: an Appreciation](https://sharonoardwarner.com/dr_virginia_hyde/) - 27 Jan­u­ary 2019 In Jan­u­ary of 2004, the D. H. Lawrence Ranch was added to the Nation­al Reg­is­ter of His­toric Places (NRHP) at the Nation­al lev­el, which means the prop­er­ty is eli­gi­ble for Nation­al Land­mark Status. This sin­gu­lar achieve­ment was made pos­si­ble by two scholars–Tina Fer­ris and Dr. Vir­ginia Hyde. On Jan­u­ary 2, 2019, we lost Dr. Hyde. As
- [Teaching the Young the Value of the Past](https://sharonoardwarner.com/teaching_the_young/) - 27 Jan­u­ary 2019 At the D. H. Lawrence Ranch Ini­tia­tives, we are work­ing to impart the val­ue and impor­tance of the prop­er­ty we serve, not only to poten­tial donors, Uni­ver­si­ty staff and fac­ul­ty — but also to future generations. On Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 8th, 2017, a few days before Lawrence’s Sep­tem­ber 11th birth­day, Ranch care­tak­er Ricar­do Med­i­na
- [Must-Read Novella in the Era of Trump](https://sharonoardwarner.com/must-read_novella/) - 16 Jan­u­ary 2018 I will always remem­ber the cir­cum­stances: I read Jerzy Kosin­s­ki‘s Being There at the Tides Book­store in Sausal­i­to, CA. (I am sor­ry to report that the Tides is closed now. ) This would have been 1971, when I was nine­teen and liv­ing on my own in north­ern Cal­i­for­nia. I didn’t have the mon­ey to pur­chase the book. (I
- [Hawkmoths and Moonflowers: Facts of Nature](https://sharonoardwarner.com/hawmoths_and_moonflowers/) - 15 Octo­ber 2019 Last Sun­day, my hus­band and I ven­tured over to East Austin for brunch. As we walked down the side­walk to a great lit­tle place called Cenote–honest-to-god, the apple­sauce pan­cakes are one of the best things I’ve ever put in my mouth–I spot­ted a large moon­flower plant, and, then, even bet­ter, a hawk­moth caterpillar.

## Pages

- [Home](https://sharonoardwarner.com/) - Sharon Oard Warner is the author of two novels, a short story collection, and an edited anthology of stories on AIDS. Her craft book, Writing the Novella was published in March of 2021 by the University of New Mexico Press.
- [Upcoming Opportunities](https://sharonoardwarner.com/upcoming_opportunities/) - Upcoming Opportunities
- [Upcoming Opportunities Not Used](https://sharonoardwarner.com/upcoming-opportunities-not-used/) - Upcoming Opportunities The 8th Annual Taos Writing Conference Keynote Speak­er: Ali­son Hedge CokePre­sent­ed by SOMOS, a Place for Words in TaosFri­day, July 19, to Sun­day, July 21, 2024 Vis­it the SOMOS: Taos for details: fee and registration. Ear­ly Bird reg­is­tra­tion by end of day, June 17, 2024All reg­is­tra­tions close on July 11, 2024 Some of the ses­sions
- [Articles](https://sharonoardwarner.com/articles/) - Writing Articles “Are You Read­ing (or Writ­ing) a Novel­la?” Sharon Oard Warn­er, Fic­tion Writ­ers Review, 18 Novem­ber 2021 “The Fairest in the Land: Blonde and Black Water, the Non­fic­tion Nov­els of Joyce Car­ol Oates,” Sharon Oard Warn­er, Stud­ies in the Nov­el, vol­ume 38, num­ber 4, (Win­ter 2006), pub­lished by the Uni­ver­si­ty of North Texas Essays “The Hawk Moth Sto­ry,”
- [Writing the Novella](https://sharonoardwarner.com/books/writing_the_novella/) - Writing the Novella writ­ten by Sharon Oard Warn­erUni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press, 2021ISBN 978–0‑8263–6255‑1 Sharon’s new book, Writ­ing the Novel­la, was pub­lished in March of 2021. While the novel­la has exist­ed as a dis­tinct lit­er­ary form for over four hun­dred years, Writ­ing the Novel­la is the first craft book ded­i­cat­ed to cre­at­ing this inter­me­di­ate-length fic­tion. Inno­v­a­tive, inte­grat­ed
- [About](https://sharonoardwarner.com/about/) - About Biography Sharon Oard Warn­er is the author of two nov­els, a short sto­ry col­lec­tion, and an edit­ed anthol­o­gy of sto­ries on AIDS. Her craft book, Writ­ing the Novel­la was pub­lished in March of 2021 by the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press. Her essays and arti­cles have appeared in The AWP Chron­i­cle, The Writer, Writer’s Digest,
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- [Sophie's House of Cards](https://sharonoardwarner.com/books/sophies_house_of_cards/) - Sophie’s House of Cards writ­ten by Sharon Oard Warn­erUni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co Press, 2014ISBN 978–0‑8263–3077‑2 When six­teen-year-old Sophie Granger sus­pects she is preg­nant, she digs out her moth­er Peggy’s tarot cards. Peg­gy hasn’t read for­tunes since her hip­pie days in Taos, but as soon as she flips the cards, Peg­gy sees both her daughter’s predica­ment and
- [Deep in the Heart](https://sharonoardwarner.com/books/deep_in_the_heart/) - Deep in the Heart, a novel writ­ten by Sharon Oard Warn­erThe Dial Press, 2000ISBN 978–0‑3853–2006‑1 In the tra­di­tion of John Irving’s The Cider House Rules and Sue Miller’s The Good Moth­er, this emo­tion­al­ly charged debut nov­el explores the moral com­plex­i­ties sur­round­ing one of the most con­tro­ver­sial issues in Amer­i­can culture. In her own shel­tered cor­ner of Austin, Texas, twen­ty-three-year-old
- [Learning to Dance](https://sharonoardwarner.com/books/learning_to_dance/) - Learning to Dance and Other Stories writ­ten by Sharon Oard Warn­erNew Rivers Press, 1996ISBN 978–0‑8982–3132‑8 Recognition Min­neso­ta Voic­es Project Win­ner 1990 Reviews “At first, few of the women and men in Sharon Oard Warn­er’s debut col­lec­tion seem capa­ble of danc­ing. The book includes char­ac­ters who are actu­al­ly hand­i­capped— women with polio and cere­bral pal­sy, a pro­found­ly
- [Way We Write Now](https://sharonoardwarner.com/books/way_we_write_now/) - The Way We Write Now Short Stories from the AIDS Crisis edit­ed by Sharon Oard Warn­erCitadel Press, 1995ISBN 978–0‑8065–1638‑7 The diverse ways AIDS has infused new expe­ri­ences of love, loss, eroti­cism, ill­ness, tragedy, and courage into the province of con­tem­po­rary fic­tion is pow­er­ful­ly dis­played in this col­lec­tion by a wide range of cel­e­brat­ed and gift­ed writ­ers,
- [UNM Summer Writers' Conference](https://sharonoardwarner.com/unm_summer_conference/) - UNM Summer Writers’ Conference I con­ceived and found­ed the Taos Sum­mer Writ­ers’ Con­fer­ence (TSWC) in 1998 to forge a con­nec­tion between the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co in Albu­querque and the D. H. Lawrence Ranch, 20 min­utes north of Taos. What began as a mod­est, self-sup­port­ing endeav­or became one of the largest and most well respect­ed
- [DH Lawrence Ranch Initiatives](https://sharonoardwarner.com/lawrence_ranch_initiatives/) - D.H. Lawrence Ranch Initiatives Since 2014, I have served the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co (UNM) as co-chair for the D. H. Lawrence Ranch Ini­tia­tives, a post I share with Al Sena, direc­tor of UNM’s Facil­i­ties Management. The goal of the UNM D. H. Lawrence Ranch Ini­tia­tives is to pre­serve the lega­cy of world-renowned British nov­el­ist

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