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  1. Aug 22

    . 's memoir "Wild Game" was selected as one of the best reads for fall 2019 by , books editor! Listen to an excerpt on

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  2. Aug 21

    Last night was a wonderful evening of beautiful poetry & words of wisdom from August Writer in Residence Samyak Shertok! Can't wait for the next event (Sept. 17 at Hooch in Aspen at 5:30 p.m.) featuring author J.C. Hallman!

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  3. Aug 21

    "My parents decided that in the village our education would be limited & they really wanted us to be someone other then [a] farmer or [a] shopkeeper. Basically [they] wanted us to be better than themselves..." - Samyak Shertok, Nepali poet and August Writer in Residence.

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    Aug 19

    Growing up in Nepal, Samyak Shertok never imagined that poetry could be a vocation. The Words writer in residence discusses his poetic journey.

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  5. Aug 19

    Join us TOMORROW at Hooch at 5:30 p.m. for a FREE community event featuring Writer in Residence Nepali poet Samyak Shertok who will read and discuss his work with poet and Aspen Words Program Coordinator Ellie Scott

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  6. Aug 19

    "Poetry is to understand myself & my feelings & once I come to a place of understanding, a sense of arrival or grounding, my hope is the reader will also find something." Great piece about WIR & poet Samyak Shertok by Catherine Lutz in

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    Aug 16

    “I think, for me, my work is about understanding my feelings, first and foremost,. via

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  8. Aug 15

    Participants of 1619 Project include 1994 Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Academy Award winning film director , 2018 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist & more...

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  9. Aug 15

    "The 1619 Project is a major initiative from observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery." As part of the project 16 writers "bring consequential moments in African-American history to life" through poetry & prose.

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    Aug 13

    "It wasn’t until the 1970s that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Tennessee law that required women to assume their husband’s last name before registering to vote." -

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  11. Aug 9

    Wishing all a happy , we are in good company!

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  12. Aug 9

    Wishing all a happy , we are in good company!

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    Aug 9

    This , goes behind why we read and what brings us back to the bookshelf when we have countless other ways to entertain ourselves.

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  14. Jul 31

    "Luis Alberto Urrea [said] music was key to the writing of 'The House of Broken Angels' ... so [he made a] mixtape to accompany the book." - Winter Words alumnus Luis Alberto Urrea selects a song to match every main character in his novel for

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  15. Jul 31

    Happy to Richard Russo whose novel "Chances Are..." launched this week! In honor of this we wanted to throw it back to a Summer Words 2015 panel where Russo discusses writing about the things we most take for granted - place & culture

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  16. Jul 30

    Our 2020 judges include fiction writer & essayist , Director of the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries , American poet & memoirist , local Aspenite Helen Obermeyer, as well as Puerto Rican memoirist & novelist

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  17. Jul 30

    DEADLINE: Friday (8/2) is the last day for publishers to nominate 2019 works of fiction for the which recognizes pieces that address vital contemporary issues. Our shelves are fillin' up, but we're excited to see what else might roll in!

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  18. Jul 24

    Congratulations to AW Writer in Residence alum Chigozie Obioma on making the longlist with“An Orchestra of Minorities.” He worked on the novel, which was dubbed an “historical treasure” by the Boston Globe, while in Aspen!

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    Jul 24

    Many congratulations to An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma for making the longlist.

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