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 of over 300 annu­al writ­ers’ con­fer­ences in the nation. Named by USA Today as one of the ten best writ­ers’ con­fer­ences in the Unit­ed States, the Taos Sum­mer Writ­ers’ Con­fer­ence became a des­ti­na­tion for writ­ers from across the coun­try and around the world – par­tic­i­pants trav­eled each year from 35 or so states and from coun­tries around the world: Spain, Zim­bab­we, Nor­way, New Zealand, and elsewhere.

For 17 years, the Sage­brush Inn was a won­der­ful home for the event. For most of those years, we were grate­ful for the hos­pi­tal­i­ty and effi­cien­cy of long-time own­ers Ken and Louise Blair.