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Fall 2006

Contributor Diane Peavey (WOVEN: “Coming Home” and CWC: “Watch Where You Step”) has revised and expanded her essay "Watch Where You Step," originally published in Crazy Woman Creek, for a new collection. Home Land: Writings on a West That Works is edited by Laura Pritchett, Rick Knight and Jeff Lee; Teresa Jordan provided the new collection's introduction. The book will be published in January 2007 through a partnership by The Rocky Mountain Land Library and Johnson Books.

Other Windbooks contributors whose work will appear in Home Land include Page Lambert (LITW: “Redy’s Foal,” WOVEN: “Backbeat,” and CWC: “One Word at a Time”) and Julene Bair (LITW: “A Guy Could” and WOVEN: “At Forty-five”). Other well-known Western writers in the collection include Rick Bass, Paul Zarzyski, Kim Stafford, Wallace McRae, James Galvin and Drum Hadley.




Winter 2005/2006

"Wyoming Library Roundup" magazine published a nice story about the Wind Anthologies in their winter 2006 issue. A copy was sent to anthology contributors. If you didn't receive a copy we may not have your current address. Send us an e-mail or see the Wyoming State Library website by clicking on the link in the right-hand column.







The Anthologies

Crazy Woman Creek
Women west of the Mississippi River write of the ways women shape and sustain their communities.
Click on the highlighted anthology titles to learn more about these books.
Leaning into the Wind
Western women write their real-life stories of living and working on the Great Plains.
Woven on the Wind
True-life stories and poems by western women about family members, friends, and enemies.



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