Celebrations

2025 Celebrations

Jackson Hole Writers celebrates the love of writing with special events that invite participants to work closely with inspiring writers to generate new writing that might surprise, motivate and energize your creative practice.

We see these celebrations as focusing on a core component of the writing process. If our conference emphasizes the skills and steps necessary to pursue publication, and our craft classes and critique groups help writers build skills and find community in the writer’s life, our celebrations focus on the joy and passion we experience as writers when making new work. The writing process can be challenging. Our celebrations honor that it can also be FUN!

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Join acclaimed poet, Spencer Reece, for a lyrical investigation of the Kelly Parcel and the effort to protect it.

Only SIX spots available.

This is an extraordinary opportunity to work with an award-winning poet and author eager to explore how lyrical language can play a role in the protection and celebration of wild places. Over the course of three days, we will:

Experience the Kelly Parcel, learn about its history and the successful effort to conserve it, and write about our experience with Spencer Reece’s guidance.
Research and write lyrically, support writing with research, and expand knowledge with conversations with some of the major players in the effort to save the Kelly Parcel.
Move lyrical writing forward toward finished and shareable pieces with close attention and guidance from Spencer Reece, and discuss opportunities for writing to be part of the conservation conversation.

Session commitments:

October 13th, 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the Kelly Parcel
October 14th, 9:00-11:00 and 1:00-3:00 p.m. at Center for the Arts
October 15th, 9:00-11:00 at Center for the Arts

Cost:

This special experience is intended, thanks to Spencer’s generosity, to be a fundraiser for Jackson Hole Writers. Suggested donation is $250, but you can increase or decrease your contribution at checkout.

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Read the K-5th Grade Edition

Read the 6th-12th Grade Edition

A Special Collaboration

In the spring of 2025, we partnered with the student editors of Jackson Hole High School’s literary magazine, Spark, to produce digital and print copies of two special editions to celebrate student writers from Teton County who were winners or honorable mentions at the local and/or state level of the Young Authors contest.

This project was funded by a grant from the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole.

Previous Celebrations

JH Writers

P.O. Box 3871
Jackson, WY 83001

307-200-5858