Write with Shelley
Shelley Read is an international bestselling author and a beloved, award-winning instructor with nearly thirty years of university-level teaching experience. A workshop with Shelley is sure to inspire your best writing and nurture your writer’s soul.
Upcoming Workshops
Please go to www.mtnwords.org for full workshop schedule
Mountain Words Festival 2025, May 23-25
Springdale, Utah
Voices for the West
February 21st - 23rd, 2025
Please join Shelley & an extraordinary community of writers on the edge of beautiful Zion National Park!
For application, tuition, and more information please go to:
Recent Workshops:
Zibby Class: Writing Place-Based Narratives
September 26, 2023
Interactive Zoom Seminar 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (EST)
From Zibby Classes: “Shelley Read's debut novel Go As a River is being celebrated around the world as ‘a love song to Colorado.’ A strong sense of place can anchor and enrich writing craft, elevating setting to an essential part of the story. But how can writers best collect and express the most essential details of place? Join author and master teacher Shelley Read in this two-hour workshop that explores perception, landscape, belonging, and the many ways that place shapes narrative and narrative shapes place. Writers will come away with new techniques and a clearer sense of the role of place in your own experience and in your stories.”
Mountain Words Festival 2024
3-4pm | Panel: Behind the Cinderella Story: What Success Looks Like from the Inside
From strivey hustle to making and maintaining success, award-winning writers discuss their paths and the many twists their authorial arcs have taken. With Shelley Read, Claire Boyles, Olivia Chadha, and Anne Hillerman. Chaired by Manuel Aragon.
Location: King Community Room
Price: Free
10 -11am | Workshop: Place, Perception, and Process
Learn the many ways that intimate knowledge of place can meaningfully enhance your narrative and, yes, your life. In this interactive discussion, best-selling novelist Shelley Read will share her thoughts on the joys of authentic, intentional place-based writing, how to achieve it, and what she has discovered about why readers so broadly and genuinely crave it.
Location: King Community Room
Price: $40 | Purchase Here