Writing & Critiquing Since 1979

Books by Bearlodge Writers have been published by:

Avon ♦ Doubleday ♦ Feathermoon Press ♦ Forge/St. Martins ♦ Fulcrum ♦ Houghton Mifflin ♦ Many Kites Press ♦ Müller Rüschlikon (Switzerland) ♦ Raven Creek Press ♦ Howard W. Sams & Co. ♦ Que Corporation ♦ Osborne/McGraw-Hill ♦ Jamsa Press ♦ IDG Books ♦ Prima Publishing ♦ Pronghorn Press ♦ University of Oklahoma Press ♦ Finishing Line Press ♦

Pine Seed Press ♦

Prose and poetry by Bearlodge Writers have been published in:

Alaska Native ♦ Archaeology ♦ Art of the West ♦ Arthritis Today ♦ Bittersweet ♦ Bow Hunter ♦ Bugle ♦ Caldera ♦ Canada Rides (Canada)♦ Cats Magazine ♦ Christian Science Monitor ♦ Chrysalis ♦ Dakota ♦  Denominational magazines ♦ Discovery ♦ Every Day Fiction ♦ Every Day Poets ♦ Farm And Ranch Living ♦ Farm Journal ♦ Farm Woman News ♦ Feelings ♦ FencePost ♦ Goldmine ♦ Grit ♦ Guideposts ♦ Highlights for Children ♦ Horse of Course ♦  I Love Cats ♦ Journal of Range Management ♦ Ladybugs ♦ Library Journal ♦ Luminarios ♦ Many Voices Press ♦ Marriage Partnership ♦ Messages from the Heart ♦ My Weekly (Scotland) ♦ National Doll World ♦ National Wildlife ♦ Newsweek ♦ Norsk Ukeblad (Norway) ♦ Northern Lights ♦ Old West  ♦ Owen Wister Review ♦ Panorama ♦  Parabola ♦ Pennsylvania Magazine ♦ Reader’s Digest ♦  Reflection's Edge ♦ Science World ♦ Serendipity ♦ Sheep Industry News ♦ Shore Christmas Anthology ♦ Smithsonian ♦ Spirit and Life ♦ Standard ♦ Successful Farming ♦  Sunshine Magazine ♦ Susquehanna Life ♦ True West ♦ Westering ♦ Western Byways ♦ WWA Roundup ♦ Woman’s World ♦ Wyoming History Journal ♦ Wyoming Horizons ♦ Wyoming Hub of the Wheel ♦ Wyoming Livestock Roundup ♦ Wyoming Magazine ♦ Wyoming Woolgrower ♦ WREN (Wyo. Rural Elec. News) ♦

Works by Bearlodge Writers have appeared in anthologies including:

Black Dragon, White Dragon, Ricasso Press, 2007

Chicken Soup for the Soul, multiple titles

Cowgirl Poetry, Gibbs-Smith, 2001

Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West, Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Distant Horizons, WyoPoets, 2009

Flint-Edged Refrains, WyoPoets, 2000
Foreign Ground: travelers’ tales, Pronghorn Press, 2005

Healing Touch of Horses: True Stories of Courage, Hope, and the Transformative            Power of the Human/Equine Bond, Adams Media, 2007

Hard Ground IV, Pronghorn Press, 2003
If You Would Love Wyoming, WyoPoets, 1993

In the Shadow of the Bear Lodge, Many Kites Press, 2006
Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West, Houghton Mifflin, 1997
Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West, Ghost Road Press, 2007

Owen Wister Review, University of Wyoming, 2006, 2007

Poets of the American West, Many Voices Press, 2010    

Ranching West of the 100th Meridian: Culture, Ecology, and Economics, Island Press, 2002
Seasons of Wyoming, WyoPoets, 2002
Sky Blue, Grass Green, Northwoods Press
Stories That Shape Us, Norton, 1995
Trail Dust, Wyoming Agricultural Leadership Council, 2000
Tumblewords, University of Nevada Press, 1995
Ultimate Gardener, Heath Comunications, 2009

Visions of Wyoming, Casper Star-Tribune, 1993
Western Horse Tales, Republic of Texas Press, 1994
Whispers Down Wyoming Wind, WyoPoets, 2005
Windsingers, Wyoming Writers, Inc., 1984
Woven on the Wind: Women Write about Friendship in the Sagebrush West, Houghton Mifflin, 2001
Writing Down the River: Into the Heart of the Grand Canyon, Northland, 1998
Wyoming Journeys, WyoPoets, 1995
Wyoming Fence Lines, Wyoming Humanities Council, 2007
Wyoming Paintbrush, WyoPoets, 2007

Wyoming Prairies, Peaks, and Skies, WyoPoets, 1998

Members of Bearlodge Writers have:

• Given hundreds of workshops, readings, presentations, and signings in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, South Dakota, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada
• Given radio and television presentations, interviews, and readings throughout the Rocky Mountain area
• Been keynote speakers and panelists
• Conducted writing retreats in Wyoming, South Dakota, the southwest, and British Columbia
• Worked in the schools at all grade levels
• Juried writing competitions for Wyoming Arts Council, Young Authors, and other organizations
• Served as faculty for Wyoming Writers, Western Writers of America, Women Writing the West, and other         conferences
• Juried entries for the National Park Service, Devils Tower National Monument Residency annual competition
• Sponsored writing workshops bringing in outside writers

Awards and honors won by Bearlodge Writers include:

• Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award for Literature
• Wyoming Arts Council Literary Fellowships
• Finalist, Colorado Book Awards
• Finalist, Mountains and Plains Booksellers Non-fiction Award
• Western Writers of America Spur Award
• Finalist, Western Writers of America Spur Award
• International Reading Association and Children’s Book Council Children’s Choice Book
• Nellje Blanchan Memorial Award
• Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Award