http://www.robertwilder.com/news Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 26 May 2010 17:47:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Robert Wilder's essay "The Man on the Stairs" will be featured in WHAT I WOULD TELL HER: 28 DEVOTED DADS ON BRINGING UP: HOLDING ON TO AND LETTING GO OF THEIR DAUGHTERS edited by Nicki Richesin. Click here to order it online. Book comes out May 2010. See EVENTS section ... http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=97 AWP in Denver, Colorado. Thursday, April 8, 9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Rooms 102, 104 Colorado Convention Center, Street Level R102. Writing the West: The Transplanted Writer as Literary Outsider. (Summer Wood, Pam Houston, Robert Wilder, Uma Krishnaswami). Tuesday, April 20. 6:30 p.m. Esther Bone Memorial Library. Rio Rancho, NM. Author Talk. BADASS MOTHERFATHER ... http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=96 The Morning News honored Wilder and the Santa Fe Reporter by saying “they mattered in 2009″: “The paper can also boast one of the country’s most non-sequitur parenting columns, titled “Daddy Needs a Drink,” in which Daddy, also known as the preternaturally well-coiffed Rob Wilder, ponders buying a trampoline, his ... http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=95 On Friday, October 9, 2009, David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle will visit Santa Fe Preparatory School and give a reading at Collected Works Books at 6 pm. Check out the latest Daddy Needs a Drink column "The Giving Tree" in the Santa Fe Reporter. Also check out Wilder's ... http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=94 Robert Wilder will be the lunchtime speaker for the 2009 Silent Samaritans Luncheon on Wednesday, September 9 at the Sheraton Uptown. For more info on the Samaritan Counseling Center, click here. Portland (OR) peeps! Catch Wilder at Wordstock literary festival on Saturday, October 10, at 5:00 pm. Click here for more ... http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=93 Robert Wilder was the only individual awarded the inaugural Innovations in Reading Prize by the National Book Foundation. It is a huge honor by a great organization. For more info, click here. To check out "Animal House", the latest Daddy Needs a Drink Column click here. Want to spend a weekend ... http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=92 Starting Monday, December 15, Daddy Needs a Drink will be featured in the Nonfiction category of DearReader.com’s book club. Click here to sign up or just take a peek. Robert Wilder is the celebrity judge for Hallmark’s Father’s Day card contest. Click here to check it out. The Teacher Daddy Team has ... http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=91 Check out "Sucker", the new Daddy Needs a Drink column here. Stay tuned: Daddy Needs a Drink has been optioned for film production. If you are interested in MFAs for writers, check out the three-part Wilder interview in the blog "Life on the High Wire": Part I Part II Part II http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=90 Robert Wilder will be on KNME's "New Mexico In Focus" this Friday August 15 at 7pm with a rebroadcast on Sunday at 6:30 am. KNME is Channel 5 in New Mexico or click here to see the episode on line. http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=89 Tales From The Teachers' Lounge has been voted one of the best books of the year by the Santa Fe Reporter's "Best of" poll. Click here to find out who took first place (Damn you CIA Spy and your lovely hair!) Tales From the Teachers' Lounge will be available in paperback ... http://www.robertwilder.com/news/?p=88