A Novel Supplements the Bare Facts By F.A. Loomis When I was growing up on our ranch in Valley County during the 1950s, trapping ground squirrels was encouraged, because the rodents ruined irrigation water ditch banks. While I
Is Eco-Tourism Even a Thing? By Ron McFarland Last July, my wife Georgia and I drove up from Moscow to Sandpoint for a reading by two authors whose new books concern tragedies at sea. One is by Sarah
The Making of a Novel By Christi Nogle In June, Boise writer Christi Nogle won the Bram Stoker Award™ for Superior Achievement in a First Novel presented by the Horror Writers Association for her book, Beulah, which is
Talk about Romance By Angela Ruth Strong Photos Courtesy of Angela Ruth Strong Twelve years ago, I thought my then-boyfriend Jim and I were going to a movie to set up a couple of our friends on a
In a Beleaguered League of Writers By Amy McClellan Photos Courtesy of Idaho Writers’ League In 2016, the once-mighty Idaho Falls chapter of the Idaho Writers’ League (IWL) vanished. It happened so abruptly that some members were stunned
IDAHO magazine’s 2020 Fiction Contest Winners have been chosen. All the victors will receive IDAHO magazine’s Tensegrity Award, a beautiful and intricate handmade structure of sticks and string held together through tension and compression, without the need for glue
His Manuscript Brought to Light By Alessandro Meregaglia An unpublished manuscript titled the Boise Guide, written under the aegis of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) by renowned Idaho author Vardis Fisher, sat in a box in Washington, D.C.
Every Autograph Tells a Story By Ron McFarland So, now that I’ve retired and the University of Idaho has “emeritized” me, what am I to do with 142 autographed books ranging in nature from sometimes opaque poetry to
