Winner of Pulitzer to read in Taos

Gail Caldwell, who received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for criticism, is the keynote reader at the upcoming Taos Summer Writers’ Conference.

Caldwell’s free public reading at 8 p.m. July 10, is in the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center, 1508 Paseo del Pueblo Sur.

Caldwell also wrote the memoir “Let’s Take the Long Way Home,” which is about her friendship with author Caroline Knapp.

The conference will offer weeklong workshops (July 10-15) on such topics as the novel, yoga and writing, screenwriting, short-story writing and poetry. Weekend workshops (July 16 and 17) are on poetry, memoir writing, the novel, short story and writing about place.

Bobby and Lee Byrd of Cinco Puntos Press are among the publishing consultants attending the conference.

Conference faculty includes Robert Boswell, Jared Bush, Denise Chávez, John Dufresne, Cristina García, Gregory Martin, Antonya Nelson and Luci Tapahonso.

There is a series of public faculty readings – at 5:30 p.m. July 11-14, and 7 p.m. July 16 – at the Sagebrush Inn and an open mike at 8 p.m. July 14 in the Sagebrush Cantina.

For more information and to register visit www.unm.edu/Ëœtaosconf

SOUTHWEST WRITERS EVENT: Screenwriter/teacher Rick Reichman discusses mastering the first few pages of your work from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, July 2 at New Life Presbyterian Church, 5540 Eubank NE. Free and open to the public.

AT BOOKWORKS: Author Stan Biderman writes that he’s attracted to the geographical edges of human existence, whether it’s a three-home village in Candelaria, Texas, or outposts in Alaska. In his new book, “Bullet Trains to Yaks,” Biderman writes about his adventures in China and Tibet, with Kathryn Minette supplying the photographs. The couple will give a slide-show presentation of their travels glimpsing art, politics and culture of China and Tibet at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 2, at Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande NW.

Biderman and Minette live in Santa Fe.

A CONTEMPORARY MYSTERY: Albert Noyer of Sandia Park talks about his new novel, “The Ghosts of Glorieta, A Fr. Jake Mystery,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, at a meeting of Cloak and Dagger, the Albuquerque chapter of Sisters in Crime.

The protagonist is the Rev. Casimir “Fr. Jake” Jakubowski, who has just reached retirement age but wants to continue his ministry. He’s offered a “sabbatical year” in the fictional New Mexico village of Providencia. When its reclusive pastor, Jesús Mora, is murdered, it triggers a number of deadly discoveries that will engulf Fr. Jake as well as the parish finance officer, a sadistic deacon, an old curandera, two communes as well as Civil War re-enactors.

Noyer wrote a series of historical mysteries set in the 5th century A.D. The Cloak and Dagger meeting, which is free, is at the James Joseph Dwyer Memorial Police Station, 12700 Montgomery NE.

IN OLD TOWN: J.P. Hudson signs his novel “Kidnappers’ Moon” from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, July 2, at Treasure House Books & Gifts, 2012 South Plaza NW.

IN SANTA FE: Poets Bob Johnston of Las Vegas, N.M., and Christine Sherwood of Taos read from their work at 3 p.m. today at Collected Works, 202 Galisteo. Johnston reads from his poetry collection “At the Rim” and Sherwood from her book “Help Me Remember Who I Am,” which contains poems that grew out of reflections during her recovery from cancer.