MASTER CLASS
The Master Class is a juried-in workshop for up to ten selected participants which convenes each morning of our annual conference.
We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Master Class. Applications will close at 11:59 p.m. PT on Friday, February 28, 2025.
Applicants are selected by the Master Class instructor. This year’s Master Class is entitled “The Memory Map: Land As Memoryscape” and will be led by Byron F. Aspaas.
Master Class tuition of $875 will be required upon selection and includes breakfast and lunch all three days of the conference, as well as entry to the afternoon and evening events.
about the master class INSTRUCTOR
BYRON F. ASPAAS
Raised within the four sacred mountains of Dinétah. Aspaas’s first published work was included in Yellow Medicine Review and since then his writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Aspaas’s writing revisits the destruction of sacred land and engages his readers in a dialogue about preserving Diné culture and land. He uses imagery and persona to present explorations of language, landscape, and identity. Byron is faculty at San Juan College’s English Department and Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing Program.