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June Writer’s Night: Writing Sense, a Conversation with Kathryn Wilder
June 2 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Free
The Sensory Life of Language
A working awareness of the senses is at the heart of any successful creative writing endeavour. Engaging with sound, smell, taste, imagery, and touch allows language to move past abstractions and into lived and felt experiences. The senses are the instruments that guide our lives and make our writing memorable. In this conversation with Kat Wilder, we will discuss specific examples from her work of sense-based writing. Feel free to bring short samples (one sentence) of your own writing from the senses. We will share those and, time permitting, will create new sentences to take home.
Join the WCWF for this fun, interactive session with author Kat Wilder on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, from 6-7:30 p.m. at The Art Center in Grand Junction, 7th and Orchard.
Speaker Bio
In Kathryn Wilder’s The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman’s Heart, she reveals her ranching past (and more), chronicles the impact of cattle on our desert lands, and raises questions about how seventy and cattle mix. Booklist says in a starred review that Wilder is “fearless in her prose and perspective.” This has won her a Colorado Book Award, Western Heritage Award, Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, Nautilus Book Award, and more. With an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Wilder writes, cowboys, and lives among mustangs in southwestern Colorado.