October 12, 2024. Founding member Page Lambert giving keynote address at the WILLA LITERARY AWARD banquet during 30th annual Women Writing the West Conference in Denver, Colorado. The WILLA Literary Awards, named in honor of Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Willa Cather, recognize the best in literature, featuring women’s or girls’ stories set in the North American West that are published each year. Women Writing the West (WWW), a nonprofit association of writers and other professionals writing and promoting the Women’s West, underwrites and presents the nationally recognized award annually at the WWW Fall Conference. Other keynote speakers include Opening Session Speakers Gayle Gresham (WWW president), Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk, and Rachel Gabel, luncheon speaker. https://www.womenwritingthewest.org/

October 9, 2024. Page Lambert in conversation with author Lynne Spriggs O’Connor at the Tattered Cover Book Store discussing O’Connor’s new Montana memoir, Elk Love. Lynne, art curator, rancher, and conservationist, worked with Page for nearly seven years on the writing of Elk Love. Join them for an intimate look at the book’s journey from vision to best-seller. Read more about Elk Love and watch the book trailer. Advance praise from author Pam Houston: “In all the love stories I love best, it is impossible to tell whether the real object of desire is the man, or the mountain he lives on, or the elk that stands on that mountain and bugles to his mate. So it is for Lynne Spriggs, who works her way into the hearts of all three with a savvy combination of curiosity, independence, and tenacity. In prose that is by turns rapturous, bawdy, hilarious, and serene, Elk Love sings a song of relationship; with the man, yes, but also with the Earth.”

December 15, 2023. Women Writing the West organization honors Founding Member Page Lambert with Lifetime Membership. “The Board recognizes the contributions made by the Founding Members in Women Writing the West becoming an internationally recognized organization of women writers and other professionals who set their work in the West and who set the standard in writing, inspiring and honoring the stories of western women.” In addition to awarding four literary awards every year, WWW also holds conferences every fall featuring respected writers, agents, publishers and other book professionals. Past locations include Albuquerque, Tulsa, Seattle and Tucson. The 2024 conference, the organization’s 30th annual, will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, Denver, Colorado.

For more information, please go to https://www.womenwritingthewest.org/conference/.

June 23, 2023: Page Lambert will be speaking at the Western Writers of America Convention in Rapid City, South Dakota, where Joseph M. Marshall III, Oglala/Sicangu Lakota writer, actor, and cultural and historical consultant, will be honored with the prestigious 2023 Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to Western Literature. Past recipients of the Owen Wister Award include W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear, Rudolfo Anaya, Louise Erdrich, Lucia St. Clair Robson, N. Scott Momaday, and other distinguished authors. WWA was founded in 1953 to promote the literature of the American West and bestow Spur Awards for distinguished writing in the Western field. For more information on the organization, go to https://westernwriters.org/about/.

October 14, 2022. Page Lambert to give keynote talk at the Ozarks Creative Writers Conference in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Ozark Creative Writers annual conference is a nonprofit organization, guided by a volunteer board of directors and officers dedicated to presenting one of the oldest and best writing conferences in the region. The conference, for emerging and accomplished writers, will be held October 13-15, 2022. OCW also focuses on opportunities for the participants to interact with editors, agents, and publishers. More Details. https://www.ozarkcreativewriters.com/

January 16, 2022 The Spa in Me, founded by Sandra Foreman, once again features “Connecting People with Nature/Connecting Writers with Words”

In October 2021, Sandra Foreman launched  The Spa in Me’s Spa, Retreat, and Venue Directory, an online directory connecting wellness seekers, wellness entrepreneurs, and event planners with spas, retreats, and outdoorsy venues. Page Lambert’s retreats are featured again this year.  “Our intent is to serve as a resource for people wanting to improve their wellbeing,” writes Sandra. “Our directory also supports spas, retreat companies, and outdoorsy wellness venues by providing a platform to promote their services and destination(s).

Photo taken by photographer Gary Caskey, JeffCo’s International Women’s Day, Celebrate Women event.

May 27, 2020. Langscape Magazine published by Terralingua features Page Lambert’s poem “Reclamation” in their Summer/Winter 2020 issue (Volume 9).

About Volume 9: All around the planet, Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike are rebelling against the biocultural diversity extinction — the loss of diversity in nature and culture. Terralingua wanted to find out just how individuals and communities are taking conscious, powerful action to counter this threat. The editors reached out to Page about contributing to the Summer/Winter 2020 issue.

“I began noticing examples of unusual interactions between animals and humans,” writes Lambert about her poem,  “other  places where worlds collided in ways that threatened species and diversity. The poem ‘Reclamation’ attempts to bring to the reader’s attention these places of intersection and asks the reader to pause and consider how the dominance of one culture over another (human culture over nature), creates an imbalance that might eventually threaten our very existence.”

CLICK HERE to read the poem, view more photos, and read about the inspiration that fueled the writing.

March 2020. Page Lambert’s poetry collection, Heart to the Ground, chosen as a finalist in Kallisto Gaia Press’s Contemporary Poetry Chapbook Prize competition.

The poem “Alone at Pranzo’s” (selected by Kallisto Gaia Press from Lambert’s collection Heart to the Ground) was published in the summer issue of the press’s literary journal, The Ocotillo Review.

The collection was a finalist for the 2020 Contemporary Poetry Chapbook Prize competition. READ ABOUT KALLISTO.

November, 2019. The Write Life features Page Lambert’s “Autumn Retreat in the Berkshires” as one of the top writing retreats of 2020.

Let autumn in New England be your muse on this retreat with Page Lambert. From October 4-8, 2020, you’ll stay at a historic inn, participating in group writing sessions and individual manuscript consultations — and drenching your creativity in the beautiful fall colors. Alternatively, check out Lambert’s 13-day women’s retreat in Peru in late April ($4,200). Lambert has a lengthy page of testimonials on her website. In one, Paula Hagar said Lambert was “the most awesome writing teacher I’ve ever studied with.” In another, Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus called the Peru trip “one of the most inspirational, spiritual and transcendent experiences of my life.” READ MORE.

July, 2019. Page Lambert is featured on Feathered Ink, as an influential female author.

Page Lambert, author of the memoir In Search of Kinship, and the historical novel Shifting Stars, is an advisor for the Rocky Mountain Land Library and a member of the International League of Conservation Writers. She has been writing about the western landscape and leading creative retreats for twenty-two years.

Forthcoming works include essays and poems in WAVES: A Confluence of Women’s Voices (Room of Her Own Foundation, 2019). A recipient of two Literary Fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council, Page designs and teaches graduate writing courses for the University of Denver’s Professional Creative Writing Master’s Program. She writes the popular blog All Things Literary/All Things Natural from her mountain home west of Denver, Colorado.

Her upcoming adventures include the 2019 “Wyoming Literature & Landscape of the Horse Retreat,” the 2019 Utah “River Writing & Sculpting Journey” on the Colorado River, the 2019 “Santa Fe & Taos Sojourn: Sacred Lands, Sacred Words, Sacred Art, and the 2020 “Peru: Weaving Words & Women” retreat through the Sacred Valley and the ruins of Machu Picchu. 

June, 2019. Casper Star Tribune features 45th annual Wyoming Writers, Inc. Conference.  

The Wyoming Writers, Inc., 45th Annual Writers Conference features keynote speaker novelist and short story writer Brad Watson, as well as sessions with Page Lambert, who was featured in Oprah’s O magazine for one of her retreats, and ️National Poetry Slam champion & TED Talk presenter Jovan Mays, novelists Tasha Alexander and Andrew Grant and nonfiction author. The conference offers opportunities to learn about writing and publishing, be critiqued by peers and professionals, pitch stories to agents and editors and read work at an open mic. The conference is June 7-9 in Laramie, Wyoming. 

May, 2019. The Light Shines from the West wins national award. The Independent Press announces their 2019 book awards. Congratulations to Fulcrum Publishing, Bob Baron, Page Lambert, and the other contributing authors for winning the History/United States award category. “The history of a nation gives context to personal family stories, lending credence to oral histories and deeply rooted folklore,” writes Page Lambert in her chapter, “The rural American West.”

October 2018. Marcia Meier, Renata Golden, and Page Lambert spoke about and signed their new book, Unmasked: Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty at the Boulder Bookstore. This collection of essays and poetry is meant to bring sex after fifty for women into the open, to proclaim that it is important, it is natural and healthy and, for some women, it is absolutely necessary. Unmasked will surprise, inform, and encourage all women of a certain age to (re)discover their sexuality. Learn more.

July 2018. Memoir Magazine selects “Deerstalking: Contemplating an Old Tradition by Page Lambert as a finalist in their #GUNS AND PEOPLE essay contest. “That’s his heart,” they said, needing no answer. It was warm in my hands, the pulsating memory still strong. I had never seen blood so red, not even my own.”

Read the essay and other selections here.

April 2018. Fulcrum Publishes releases The Light Shines from the West: A Western Perspective on the growth of America. Page Lambert writes, “When Bob Baron, who founded Fulcrum Publishing more than thirty years ago, asked me to write a chapter on the rural American West for Fulcrum’s new book, The Light Shines from the West, I knew that I wanted to start with the New Madrid Earthquakes… I felt an intimate connection with the New Madrid Earthquakes not just because of family history, but because of novel-writing history. What cultural upheaval, I had wondered, would cause my protagonist’s Cherokee ancestors to leave their village near the canebrake swampland of the Mississippi River? What made them head west into the setting sun, and into the heartland of the novel I was writing?” Read more.

February, 2017. News from Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. ARE YOU WRITING ABOUT THE AMERICAN WEST? Forthcoming March 2018 from Fulcrum Publishing, The Light Shines from the West, is a highly anticipated book about the complex history of America’s westward development from 1820 to 2020. This promises to be a valuable reference book for anyone researching the West. Included in the book is a chapter on “The Rural West” written by RMFW member Page Lambert.

November, 2017. Susan Shain and The Write Life feature “On the River of Discovery” as one of the top, incredible writing retreats of 2018. “Let life on the Green River inspire your writing on this women’s retreat, which takes place August 27 to September 1, 2018. You’ll spend six days floating through Utah’s majestic canyons, going on guided hikes and writing under the guidance of Page Lambert and featured guest artist Roxanne Swentzell — all while sleeping under the stars each night.” 

October 2017:Writing Wyoming: Words, Wind and Everything Else Wyoming, explores writing through fear. “Not long ago, I found myself in an email conversation with Page Lambert, author of In Search of Kinship and Shifting Stars. I confessed how I struggle to write through fear. No matter how many times I may hear the virtues of “shitty first drafts,” I worry that my writing will not be good enough. Here’s what Page had to say….”  Read more

April 29, 2017: The Auditorium at Where the Books Go: Bringing Together the Literary, Performing, and Visual Arts. Mad Blood joins with Evergreen Bookstore to bring artists and writers to this local venue. On April 29th, National Book Award Winner Aaron Abeyta, and storyteller and essayist Page Lambert, will be performing. Professor Abeyta, the author of four collections of poetry and one novel, was awarded a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship for poetry, and was recently named a 2017 Governor’s Leadership Award recipient. Page Lambert has been awarded two literary fellowships from the Wyoming Arts Council (in prose and poetry), and designs and teaches graduate creative writing courses for the University of Denver/University College. The event starts at 7:00 pm ($10 recommended donation).

January, 2017. Susan Shain and The Write Life feature the “Literature & Landscape of the Horse Retreat” as one of the top “31 incredible Writing Retreats to Attend in 2017.” The 2017 event is sold out, click HERE to learn more about this 6-day, Wyoming horseback writing retreat, a unique adventure for anyone who yearns for nature, longs to reconnect with horses, and hungers for creative inspiration in an authentic western ranch setting.

Summer/Fall 2016. Sojourns: Landscapes for the People (official publication of the Peaks, Plateaus & Canyons Association) celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the National Park Service in this centennial issue. The editors reached out to Page Lambert and asked her to craft an essay. “Mother Tongue, Heartbeat of the Land” was the result. “I’ve been reading nature writers for most of my 93 years on the planet but the first seven paragraphs of your Mother Tongue essay in the current Sojourns is the most profoundly moving bit of writing I have ever read……” Marcel Rodriguez, Utah.

February, 2016. NEA’s United States of Arts. People from across the country share their stories about how the arts are important to them. Since the beginning of 2015, the National Endowment for the Arts has been gathering stories from the general public and grantees, elected officials and agency directors, artists and art lovers across the country about the importance of art in their lives and their communities. You can find the stories in text, audio, or video formats. 

December 22, 2015. Susan Shain and The Write Life feature Page Lambert’s Peru, Weaving Words & Women Retreat with True Nature Journeys as one of the top “25 incredible Writing Retreats to Attend in 2016.” Click HERE to learn more about this 12-day Sept/Oct retreat to Peru’s Sacred Valley and one of the Seven Wonders of the World, Machu Picchu.

September 3, 2015. The Denver Post features Lambert as lead story in Lifestyles section: “Women writers connect with nature on river trips in the West” (by reporter Colleen O’Connor). “Page Lambert’s first raft trip through the Grand Canyon changed her life. Even the danger didn’t stop her. At the Lava Falls Rapid, considered the biggest and most scary, her raft shot into the air, and she plunged deep into the murky water. She surfaced, gasping for air, but the waves dragged her back down. Still, she persevered, and that night, ‘elated and grateful,’ she bonded with the crew over margaritas and steak.” Photo by Denver Post photographer Cyrus McCrimmon. Read Feature.

April 11, 2015. Page Lambert awarded First Place in Colorado’s “Writers Studio Literary Festival” competition for an excerpt from her novel All the Water Yet to Come (a work-in-progress). The award includes a cash prize, publication in Progenitor Art and Literary Journal, and automatic nomination for a Pushcart Prize. Judge’s comments: “These are novel chapters and rich in detail, fascinating elements of story. The language is lush enough at the beginning to propel a reader to continue. It is a strangely multicultural mix of interesting language, breath, and an understanding of what a story needs to be, complete with image, feeling, and organized labor. The small section here makes a reader want the entire book.” (Final Judge, Fiction, Linda Hogan)

February 24, 2015. Registration opens for Summer Fishtrap: A Gathering of Writers, a week of writing workshops, panel discussions, and evening readings for aspiring and established writers. Includes time to relax, write, hike, and fish. The 2015 gathering, Hidden from History: Stories We Haven’t Heard, Stories We Haven’t Told, features keynote speaker Timothy Egan and closing speaker Winona LaDuke. Page Lambert will be presenting the week-long workshop, “Deep Mapping the Narrative of Our Lives.”

“The secrets of a village can be read in the tombstones.  Entire cultures keep secrets. Midwives sometimes bury the truth. Mothers keep secrets, and fathers, and the nice teacher from third grade. Even the dog doesn’t tell where he buries his bones. We all have secrets, and hidden treasures—bones that give structure to our life story, waiting to be fleshed out, imbued with heart.”

July 6-12th, 2015, Wallowa Lake and Retreat Center, Oregon.

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September 13, 2014. Platinum Expressions hosted Page Lambert at the base of beautiful Mount Sopris for a one-day seminar, TRACKS: How Stories Give Shape to Our Lives. “Nature, the original storyteller,” Page reminded the group, “has been leaving tracks, telling stories, since time immemorial. Why should telling our stories be any different?” Platinum Expressions, a creative women’s group in Carbondale, Colorado started by Shari Nova, has monthly events designed to inspire and invigorate women from all walks of life, but who have reached those wiser years of life. Click on Page’s Workshops & Speaking link to learn more about the topics Page enjoys speaking on.

June 27, 2014. Page Lambert speaks June 27th during NOMAD, UNTITLED #68, the Denver Art Museum’s “Final Fridays” summer event. Join Page Lambert in front of Roxanne Swentzell’s monumental sculpture Mud Woman Rolls On (3rd floor, Denver Art Museum, North Building) as Page unearths the story of how her epic ode to Denver “The Whisper of the Land” came to be ensconced in the heart of Mud Woman. She’ll be speaking for about 20 minutes at 7:45pm, and again at 8:45pm. The museum will be giving away a scrolled gift-version of the poem.

July 12, 2013. The Bloomsbury Review features Laura Pritchett and Page Lambert in Conversation. The West is defined, in large part, by the natural world—there is simply too much open space to be ignored, either in life or in literature. With that come the trials of living in a world imbued with the forces of the environment—wildfire, for example. As Page Lambert and Laura Pritchett put together this conversation, Laura was being evacuated and the plumes of smoke from the high Park fire were dropping ash onto Page’s mountain home. It’s no wonder, then, that these two authors both focus on the role of place, but in ways that defy “nature-writing” stereotypes and may surprise you. The Bloomsbury Review is now in its fourth decade of lively writing about great authors, books, and publishers that fly under the radar of mainstream book-review media. Subscribe to The Bloomsbury Review. Download PDF – “Place Lives & Breathes: Page Lambert & Laura Pritchett in Conversation.”

May 17, 2013.  Huffington Post 50 Fiction series features Lambert’s short story “The Widow of Loreto.”  Last April, Huff/Post’s 50 editor Rita Wilson announced that they were seeking short-story submissions  from their readers. “We believe storytelling is a powerful art form and tool for self-expression, and we have a feeling there’s a lot of hidden writing talent among our audience just waiting to be discovered.” Page’s story “The Widow of Loreto” is excerpted from her novel-in-progress The Exquisite Passion. Read story.

May 7, 2013. Colorado Authors’ League “BLOG OF THE YEAR AWARD” goes to Page Lambert’s blog All Things Literary. All Things Natural. The judges’ comments included this: “The author picks topics that would interest any serious reader or author and melds them with her own well-written analyses and thoughts. And it’s sprinkled with images that complement the writing.” Author Peter Heller headlined this year’s annual Spring Banquet. Read more.

April 27, 2013. Great Books for Horse Lovers features the Literature & Landscape of the Horse Retreat, and Lambert’s essay “The X-Chromosome: Tracing the Heart of Your Story.” Since the first wild herd galloped over the horizon, since the first brave and trusting muzzle reached out to touch a human hand, people have told stories about extraordinary horses. This week’s guest blog post is by Page Lambert. Read more.

April 3, 2013. Red Room: Where The Writers Are features Page Lambert and blogging about nature in the Red Letter. “I was talking to Red Room author Page Lambert recently about her memoir of moving with her family out of the city to a difficult but more meaningful life on a Wyoming ranch, and the outdoor-based writing retreats she runs as a result,” said senior editor Huntington Smith.Read more.

March 17, 2013. Page Lambert and Cara Lopez Lee present Sunday Salon for the Denver Women’s Press Club.

Cara Lopez Lee, author of They Only Eat Their Husbands: Alaskan Love, World Travel, and the Power of Running Away, joins up with author Page Lambert from 3:00p.m. to 5:00p.m., Sunday March 17th for The Memoir Mansion: Truth Dwells in Many Rooms. It’s easy to wander from room to room when writing memoir, from fact in the family room, to memory in the nursery, to fiction in the kitchen. But a building full of random rooms does not a house make, and yes, some stories should be kept in the attic. Join this “off the wall” salon with two accomplished memoirists. Details at Denver Women’s Press Club or contact Page.

November 11, 2012. Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Diaz, recent recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, gives talk at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers.

“These are holy moments, a sacred communion,” Junot Diaz said, referring to the brief time he was about to spend with dozens of people crowded into the lower-level grotto of the Lighthouse Writers historic Denver brownstone. “Trust is essential in the teaching process.” Impressed by Diaz’s genius, Page was equally impressed with his authenticity. Contact Page if you would like a copy of her notes from his talk. Photo by Keith Hood.

Through education and creative writing, Writing for Peace seeks to cultivate the empathy that allows minds to open to new cultural views, to value the differences as well as the hopes and dreams that unite all of humanity. Essay excerpt: “In 1905, Picasso arrived in Paris, Albert Einstein formulated the Theory of Relativity, Germany and Russia signed the Treaty of Bjorko, and during the spring equinox of that same year, Jules Verne – author of Around the World in 80 Days – died at the age of seventy-seven. Seventy-two years later, also on the spring equinox, my father would die at the age of seventy-nine.” Read complete essay.

Susan Tweit gives keynote on “Writing with Heart,” Anne Hillerman speaks on what she learned about “Women and the West from Tony Hillerman, Lambert presents “The Yearning Factor” workshop, Laurie Wagner Buyer and Dawn Wink present “Will This Book Ever be Published,” and more.

May 8, 2012. Colorado Authors League Literary Award Winners announced at Annual Banquet.

Page Lambert received the Best Adult Essay of the Year Award from the Colorado Authors’ League for “A Shape-Shifting Land” (published in West of 98: Living and Writing the American West, University of Texas Press, 2011). The judges commented that the essay “…has a seductive, languid rhythm that draws the reader into a realm of beautiful imagery.” You may download the essay from the BOOK page on her website. Featured in the photo are CAL Award Winners, (l-r) Page Lambert, Caroline Dow, J.B. Winsor, Joy Overbeck and Sandy Welchel. Not shown: Kathleen T. Pelley, Constance E. Boyle, and Kathy and Ron Hendricks. Complete information on the other winners.

April 9, 2012. Janet Rodgers, FORBES travel writer, features LITERATURE & LANDSCAPE OF THE HORSE retreat led by Page Lambert and Sheri Griffith.

A Week On An Authentic Wyoming Ranch – Reading, Writing and Riding. Hankerin’ for a creative, outdoor adventure this summer right here in the U.S.? The historic landmark Vee Bar Guest Ranch in Wyoming (2 ½ hours from Denver) beckons. Authentic ranch is framed by the Snowy Range Mountains, pasturelands with real cattle, and cabins dotting the shore along the Little Laramie River. Open to those at any level of writing and riding skills, Page Lambert, award-winning author and writing coach, and Sheri Griffith, legendary sportswoman/ adventurer, invite you for one unique week, June 2 – June 7, 2012. “Through the Eyes of the Horse – Literature & Landscape of the Horse Retreat” will surely rekindle even the most dormant of creative fires. Learn what horsemanship can teach us about our own natural instincts instead of relying only on the intellect. Read more.

Writing for Peace, a Colorado nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating cultural empathy through education and creative writing, welcomes Page Lambert, Jennifer Davis, Veronica Golos, Sam Hamell, and Vicki Lindner, to our Advisory Panel. “Page is an extraordinary writer, educator, coach and activist, and we are thrilled to have her on board.” Co-founder, Carmel Mawle. Learn more about the Advisory Panel, Writing for Peace Mission, Young Writers Contest, and starting a Writing for Peace Youth Club.

November 15, 2011. Feminist Luncheon, Denver, Colorado.

Hosted by Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame 2010 inductee Elinor Miller Greenberg, Ed.D. Page spoke at this monthly gathering of highly educated and politically involved women and found them to be “very moved” by the stories she shared, many of which were not hers but written by authors who have contributed valuable but perhaps not as well known works, such as In Place: Stories of Landscape & Identity from the American West, written by folklorist Barbara Allen Bogart and published by High Plains Press. Luncheon host Elinor Greenberg is an educational innovator, theorist, and writer who impacts education, civil rights, and women’s rights locally, nationally, and internationally.

November 7, 2011. WEST OF 98: Living and Writing the New American West– book signing and panel discussion presented by The Rocky Mountain Land Series and The Tattered Cover Bookstore. Denver, Colorado.

On Monday, November 7th at 7:30 pm, the co-editor of the new anthology WEST OF 98, Russell Rowland, will be joined by contributors Page Lambert, Stephen Graham Jones, and Laura Pritchett for a reading and discussion at Denver’s LoDo Tattered Cover (1628 16th Street). The essays and poetry in WEST OF 98 explore what it means to be a westerner today and how they see the Western identity evolving. List of contributors reads like a “Who’s Who” and includes writers from every state West of the Mississippi, including Larry McMurtry, Louise Erdrich, William Kittredge, Maxine Hong Kingston, Barry Lopez, Ursula Le Guin, Page Stegner, Ron Carlson, Rick Bass, and more. ALONE IN THE WEST? Read more about the essays by Laura Pritchett, Kim Barnes, and Page Lambert at http://pagelambert.blogspot.com/.

September 24, 2011. Page Lambert to present “Finding Your NATURAL Voice—Yes, You Are a Part of Nature!” an emersion workshop during CampExperience’s weekend retreat at Copper Mountain Resort.

CampExperience™ was created for successful women interested in building their lives, careers and connections. It provides busy women a reprieve from their everyday lives, and an opportunity to reconnect with themselves and their peers. Page’s two-hour workshop will explore our relationship with the natural world and how that influences our relationships with our bodies.  “We enter this world as sensate beings,” writes Page, “as natural to nature as the wind in the trees. As babies, we sink our toes into mud and bury our hands into sand, delighted by the immersion. What happens to change this? How do we turn from wild creatures into mall queens and dilettantes? What happens when we turn away from what is wild within us? What happens to our daughters when they turn away from themselves?”  Details: Finding Your Natural Voice with Page Lambert

June 8, 2011. Richard Louv, author ofLast Child in the Woods,appeared at the Denver Tattered Cover to read and sign from his new book,The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder (Algonquin Books, 2011).  Louv is founding chairman of the Children & Nature Network, an organization helping build the movement to connect today’s children and future generations to the natural world. Louv coined the term Nature-Deficit Disorder™ which has become the defining phrase of this important issue.  In this new book, Louv refers toPage Lambert (Senior Associate), as one of The New Agrarians), struggling against “those who blame small family farms and ranches for the bad conservation ethics of corporate agriculture” (see p. 272-273).  Booklist’s starred review ofThe Nature Principlepraises it for “celebrating and protecting the living world” and marking “the way to profound personal and cultural transformation.”

April 30, 2011. Page Lambert to present at the 5th Annual Writer’s Studio Spring Literary Festival

Saturday, April 30, 8:30am-3:30pm, Half Moon Arapahoe Community College Main Building, Littleton, Colorado. “In our ongoing quest to provide students and the communities southwest of downtown Denver access to the best writers in Colorado through literary events and readings, Writers Studio is happy to announce its fifth annual Spring Literary Festival.”

Festival faculty includes Page Lambert presenting the nonfiction workshop; Robert Greer the fiction workshop; Carol Guerrero-Murphy the poetry workshop; and Will Hobbs the young adult writing workshop. Virginia-resident Mary Crockett Hill, winner of the 2008 Autumn House Poetry Prize, will also be presenting. Literary Festival Details.

April 9, 2011. Page Lambert working with American Indian Artist Roxanne Swentzell at the Denver Art Museum

The Denver Art Museum will be hosting American Indian Artist Roxanne Swentzell, who is currently creating a large-scale work for their new American Indian galleries called Mud Woman Rolls On. At this teachers’ workshop, you’ll gain insight into her creative process and learn about her unique art making techniques. Special guest, author Page Lambert, will share her insights on nurturing creativity and will guide an exploration of integrating visual and language arts. Rox & Page workshop details. Download Page Lambert’s essay, “Whisper of the Land & Mud Woman Rolls On.”

Artists and writer are also welcome to register. Note: Roxanne was Page’s featured guest on Page’s River Writing & Sculpting Journeys in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Musician Consuelo Luz is Page’s featured musician for the 2011 RiverWriting & StoneSinging Journey.

Page Lambert to Judge Nonfiction Competition for the 6th Annual Arapahoe Community College Writers Studio Literary Contest Deadline to Enter: February 1, 2011.

Writers Studio runs a yearly literary contest in fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry.* All entries are read by preliminary judges. The finalists for each category are sent to outside judges. Winners in each category receive $250, plus publication in the national literary journal  Many Mountains Moving, and invitation to be our distinguished guests at our Spring Literary Festival on April 30, 2011, where they will read their winning pieces. Second place winners are also invited to attend the festival as our guests. Contest is open to ACC students, faculty and the Colorado community.

This year, the literary contest will offer a special “Colorado Community College Student Track” which is only open to registered Colorado Community College students. The winner of this multi-genre track will also receive a $75 cash prize, publication in Many Mountains Moving, and invitation to the Spring Literary Festival.

This year’s contest judges for the contest are Page Lambert (Nonfiction), Carol Guerrereo-Murphy (Poetry), and Robert Greer(Fiction). More Information

July 5, 2010. ORION MAGAZINE: The Place Where You Live features Lambert’s essay on her home in Colorado, “One Hundred Years of Living Mountain Green, Twenty Minutes from Denver.”

Mt. Vernon. I’ve been rooted to these words for fifty years. The homes in this small mountain community, nestled in a mixed ponderosa pine forest, started as summer cabins. Narrow dirt roads wind in and out of the trees, and wildlife corridors still meander between the houses. Instead of a hundred homes sitting on 10-acre plots, leaving no open space, our homes are clustered on 200 acres, leaving nearly a 1000 acres of land as communal, natural habitat. From my neighbors’ decks, you can look east over Denver to the Great Plains, or west to the peaks of the Continental Divide. Read complete essay.