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Physical Address:
1855 Ski Time Square Drive
Steamboat Springs, CO 80487
(970) 879-8811
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Steamboat Springs Literary Sojourn, Oct. 2 2010
The Annual Literary Sojourn is a gathering of authors and book lovers, set in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Each year, readers from around the country gather to meet the creators of their favorite books, and to celebrate the joy and inspiration of books and reading.
ResortQuest Steamboat Vacation Rentals is proud to be the Authors Choice for Steamboat lodging at this year's event! Note: This year's event is sold out but lodging is available. We are offering guests an exclusive lodging special at the exquisite Torian Plum Condominiums, conveniently located just steps from the Literary Sojourn event at the Sheraton.
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- Please note: Tickets to the Literary Sojourn 2010 have sold out! Lodging still available.
- Doors open at 11:15am, with a brunch buffet served immediately once the audience is seated
- Author Presentations from 12:00-5:00pm, with approximately 40 minutes for each Author - elegant desserts, coffee and tea will be served during the event
- Book signings and a cash bar will immediately follow the Author Presentations
- Steamboat Literary Sojourn (Official website)
Registration for this event is available through the Bud Werner Memorial Library, Epilogue Book Company and Off the Beaten Path Bookstore or online at LiterarySojourn.org. The $75 registration fee includes brunch, beverages and dessert
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Dan Chaon's most recent release is the critically acclaimed novel Await Your Reply. Chaon is also the author of Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and You Remind Me of Me, which was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. Fitting Ends is Chaon’s award-winning collection of short stories. |
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Chris Cleave is a novelist and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. His debut novel Incendiary won a Somerset Maugham Award, was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction award,and won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs. Inspired by his childhood in West Africa and by an accidental visit to a British concentration camp, Cleave’s second novel is entitled The Other Hand in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It is entitled Little Bee in the U.S. and Canada. |
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Divakaruni writes both for adults and children and her books have been translated into 20 languages. Her novel The Mistress of Spices was on included on the San Francisco Chronicle’s list of 100 Best Books of the 20th Century. Her collection of short stories, Arranged Marriage, won an American Book Award and her work has appeared over 50 anthologies including The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and a Pushcart Prize anthology. She teaches creative writing at the University of Houston. |
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Wally Lamb’s first two novels, She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, New York Times Notable Books of the Year and featured titles of Oprah’s Book Club. Wally Lamb’s third novel, The Hour I First Believed, explored chaos theory by interfacing several generations of a fictional Connecticut family with such non fictional American events as the Civil War, the Columbine High School shootings of 1999, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. |
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Lori Lansens' books are inspired by the rural Canadian community where she spent her youth. She was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road, the story of a 70-year-old woman’s journey to save an abandoned little girl. Jacquelyn Mitchard called it “a first novel of exquisite power, honesty, and conviction.” Her follow-up novel, The Girls, was about a pair of co-joined twins, and about which Isabel Allende wrote, “I promise: you will never forget this extraordinary story…Lori Lansens’ blend of tragedy and comedy will touch you deeply.” |
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- 2010 Master of Ceremonies
NPR’s Scott Simon calls Frank Delaney, “The most eloquent man in the world.” Born in Tipperary, Ireland, Frank Delaney was an award-winning reporter for BBC television and radio before becoming a best selling novelist. A prolific author of history, biography, and fiction, the acclaimed author of the novels Ireland, Tipperary and Shannon has also written seven nonfiction books, screenplays, essays and short stories for literary collections. Delaney's book Simple Courage: a True Story of Peril on the Sea, tells the harrowing tale of a ferocious storm in the North Atlantic.
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"Literary Sojourn is the sort of weekend that helps you rediscover the echo of the written word. The mountain air, the readers, the volunteers, the sheer hospitality of the locals, and the overall sense of purpose all conspire to make it an important literary event. Seldom before have I seen a group of writers feel so at home with each other and their ideas. And never before have I seen readers open up to books in such a generous and inspiring manner."~Colum McCann
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