Spring/Summer 2020
Telling Our Stories: A Memoir Writing Workshop
May 18-21, 2020
Santa Fe Writers Lab
Santa Fe, NM
Click here for more info!
Old Friend From Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
With Natalie Goldberg
Madeline Island School of the Arts, August 10-14, 2020
La Pointe, WI
Click here for more info!
Fall 2018
“How to Write a College Essay that Readers Remember”
Focused Talk & Discussion with Robert Wilder
Sunday, August 26, 2018
1:00-2:30 pm
Desert Academy
Sunrise Building
7300 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505
Cost: $20.00 cash or check made out to Robert Wilder.
Bring a notebook or laptop and some initial ideas about college essay topics.
Summer 2018
–Essay Specialist, College Horizons (Native American College Access Program), June 6-16, Hawai’i Preparatory Academy, Kamuela, HI
–Faculty, Chuckanut Writers Conference, June 21-23, Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, WA
–With Natalie Goldberg, “Sit, Walk, Write” (Year-Long Intensive Program), July 25-29, Upaya Zen Center, Santa Fe, NM
–Faculty. “What’s your Story?” EE Ford Summer Teachers’ Colloquium, July 31-August 3, Santa Fe Prep, Santa Fe, NM
—College Essay Consult and Coaching by appointment. Please see contact page.
UPCOMING EVENTS 2017
Friday, September 16, 6 pm: Reading and Booksigning at Collected Works Bookstore, Santa Fe, NM. Introduction by Julia Goldberg. Portion of the proceeds to benefit the Quincy Conway Scholarship Fund.
Thursday, September 22, 6 pm: Reading and Booksigning at Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM. Introduction by Greg Martin.
Thursday, September 29, 830 pm: Reading and Booksigning at the Poison Pen Reading Series. Poison Girl Cocktail Lounge, Houston, TX.
Friday, September 30: Visit to Greenhill School, Dallas TX
Saturday, October 1, 2:30 pm: Moderator “Where Loyalties Lie” Panel, Texas Teen Book Festival, Austin, TX
Saturday, October 1: 5 pm: Reading and Book Party, Dripping Spring, TX. Email for details.
Friday, October 7: Fall Discovery Show, Mountain and Plains Booksellers Convention, Denver, CO
Friday, October 14. School Visit. Mandela International Magnet School. Santa Fe, NM
Thursday November 3-Sunday, November 6: Sanibel Island Writers Conference, Sanibel Island, FL.
Friday, November 11, 7:30 pm: Reading and Booksigning, La Sociedad Para Las Artes Reading Series, Health and Social Services Building, Rm 101A, NMSU, Las Cruces, NM
Saturday, November 12. Reading and Book Party. El Paso, TX. Email for details.
Thursday, December 1, 7 pm: Reading and Booksigning and Homecoming, Westport Library, Westport, CT. Introduction by Augusten Burroughs
Saturday, December 23, 7 pm. Reading & Book Party. Brooklyn, NY. Email for details.
Saturday, December 10, 2:30 pm: Reading and Booksigning with poet Tony Hoagland. Op. Cit. Books, Taos, NM
Wednesday February 8-Sat February 11, 2017: Leaf Storm Press Panel, AWP 2017 Annual Conference, Washington DC.
FALL 2016
So Much News!
First of all, welcome to my website revamp! They’ll be lots more news coming soon. My new novel NICKEL will be released on September 13 followed by a book launch at Collected Works in Santa Fe on Sept 16 and BookWorks in Albuquerque on September 22. More readings to follow in Houston, Denver, Washington DC, and Westport, CT. They’ll be lots of radio, online, and print publicity coming soon as well. Stay tuned!
FALL 2015
Leaf Storm Press to publish Young Adult novel by Robert Wilder
Being a teenager is hard enough without your mother in rehab, your slightly inept stepfather doing his best not to screw things up, and your closest friend struck with a mysterious, debilitating illness. An admittedly quirky teenage boy, Coy is focused on his best friend Monroe, a girl who is finally diagnosed with heavy metal poisoning from her braces. As her illness manifests physically, Monroe’s outward appearance is mirrored by the inner turmoil of Coy, her only friend. Once Monroe gets sicker and Coy gets a girlfriend from another social crowd, the balance tips and Coy has to figure out how not to give up on his friend, his family, or himself.In this stunning debut novel, veteran teacher and acclaimed author, Robert Wilder (Daddy Needs A Drink, Tales From The Teachers’ Lounge), offers readers a hilarious, heartbreaking and honest portrayal of the complicated world of being a teenager today.
“How to Write a College Essay that Readers Remember”
Focused Talk & Discussion with Robert Wilder
Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 7:00-8:30 pm
The Commons (please email robert@robertwilder.com for street address and details). Bring a notebook or laptop and some initial ideas about college essays.
ROBERT WILDER is AVAILABLE for ONE-on-ONE COLLEGE ESSAY INSTRUCTION THIS FALL 2015.
Author and teacher Robert Wilder is available for one-on-one college essay and creative writing instruction this summer. Create that vibrant personal essay before school starts or learn advanced form and technique in fiction or creative nonfiction.
Please contact robert@robertwilder.com for further information and scheduling.
SUMMER 2014
This June I’ll be returning to the EE Ford Summer Teachers’ Colloquium at Santa Fe Prep, June 16-20, followed by the amazing College Horizons at Dartmouth College June 28-July 3.
In July, I’ll be in Taos at the Taos Summer Writers Conference.
Ohio Edit
Check out two pieces on my new favorite online journal, Ohio Edit.
Excerpt from my novel, Nickel.
February 2014
Check out my gig as guest columnist for Dear Life.
August 2013
“How to Write a College Essay that Readers Remember”
Focused Talk & Discussion with Robert Wilder
Monday, August 26
7:00-8:30 pm
The Commons (please email robert@robertwilder.com for street address)
Cost: $20.00 cash or check made out to Robert Wilder
Bring a notebook or laptop and some initial ideas about college essays.
ROBERT WILDER is AVAILABLE for ONE-on-ONE COLLEGE ESSAY INSTRUCTION THIS FALL 2013.
Author and teacher Robert Wilder is available for one-on-one college essay and creative writing instruction this summer. Create that vibrant personal essay before school starts or learn advanced form and technique in fiction or creative nonfiction.
Please contact robert@robertwilder.com for further information and scheduling.
May 2013
This June I’ll be teaching at the EE Ford Summer Teachers’ Colloquium at Santa Fe Prep followed by College Horizons.
In July, I’ll be teaching with the amazing faculty at the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference.
DADDY gets a nice nod in SAGE magazine.
I’m still excited about my project, Letter America. Comedic letter postings each week for a year. Check it out on this site Letter America or in the Santa Fe Reporter.
October 2012
I’m really excited about my new project, Letter America. Comedic letter postings each week for a year. Check it out on this site http://www.letteramerica.com/ or in the Santa Fe Reporter http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/. I’m still doing my monthly column for SFR, including my last which generated a lot of hate mail. I know. Happy fall?
January 2012
Happy new year, yo. In addition to my monthly column at the Santa Fe Reporter (http://bit.ly/wTPyPq), my weekly Daddy Needs A Drink Minute on KBAC FM (http://www.santafe.com/kbac) and other wily pursuits, here are some upcoming events where I’ll face the music:
March 11, 2012 Tucson Festival of Books (http://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/)
July 15-20 2012 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference (http://www.unm.edu/~taosconf/)
Welcome to My Revamped Website (September 2011)
It’s been a while I know. Hope all is well-ish with you and yours. Thanks to Garret at Array, the site is much cleaner and has no STDs as far as we know. As for me, True Believers, I am still writing my column at the Santa Fe Reporter, writing articles (last one was in Plum Hamptons), working on a novel, being chatty on The Big Show With Honey Harris and the Madeleine Brand Show, teaching teenagers about books and stuff, and driving my cargoyles around.
More news to come about book festivals, green chile, my son London’s new postcards and whatever else flies into my windshield.
December News
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 just updated where Wilder will be teaching this spring & summer. Click here to see if he’s close to you & your brood.
Wilder’s latest Daddy Needs a Drink column “Straight Talker” can be viewed here and his interview with MesoAmerican Super Scholar David Carrasco can be viewed here.
Finally, for those of you living in the 505, London Wilder’s new Ghostrider postcard can be purchased at True Believers. Click here for directions.
Sucker
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”:
Wilder TV
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.
Tales About Tales
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 on August 26, just in time for that Back to School Gifty. No better way to grease the pole than to give your teacher this book! Click here to buy now!
The latest Daddy Needs a Drink column is out! Click here to read all about it.
Happy Summer!
Big News: Tales From The Teachers’ Lounge has just been optioned for sitcom adaptation! Stay tuned for details.
Click here to read “Culture Clash”, the latest Daddy Needs a Drink column in the Santa Fe Reporter.
Are you listening? The Daddy Needs a Drink Minute broadcasts on Tuesdays and Thursdays on The Big Show With Honey Harris on KBAC FM.
EVENTS
Wilder TV
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.
Teacher Teacher
Finally, Robert Wilder will be teaching in Taos, New Mexico, in the summer and Sedona, Arizona, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the fall. Click here to find out more.
Events in May
May 22-25 Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
From Junior Varsity Soccer to Literary, Uh, Stardom: Writers Steve Almond ’88 and Rob Wilder ’88
An informal discussion about the not-so-incredibly glamorous literary life, led by two extremely irresponsible humorists who also happen to have been JV soccer teammates at Wesleyan. Aspiring writers, new mothers and fathers, and anyone with a sense of humor are encouraged to attend.
Introduction: Anne Greene, adjunct professor of English and director of writing programs, a 2006 recipient of the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and director of the Wesleyan Writers Conference
Presenters: Steve Almond ’88, author of five books, including My Life in Heavy Metal and, most recently, the essay collection Not that You Asked, lives outside Boston with his wife and baby daughter Josephine; Rob Wilder ’88, author of the essay collections, Daddy Needs a Drink and Tales from the Teachers’ Lounge, who has written for Newsweek, Details, and Parenting, is raising two kids with his wife, while working as a high-school English teacher in Santa Fe.
May 28 11:00 am Silver Creek Alternative School, Sun Valley, Idaho
Robert Wilder will be the commencement speaker for the 15th graduating class. Wilder was invited by his inspirational 5th grade teacher, Barge Levy.
Wilder in Houston
Come hear Robert Wilder live at the Poison Pen Reading Series on Feb 28th at the Poison Girl Bar in Houston Texas.
Wilder Teaches
Click here to find out the next time you can study with Robert Wilder. Workshops in December and June!