Imagination on Board

Besides Snap Me A Future,and A Mouth Full of Shell, and The Cook’s Tale in the anthology, Insomniac Tales by Chaucer’s Women, from dlsijpress.com Gotsch has written three short plays: A Peck of Dirt, Or Are You Cinderella?, and New Delight.

Her one-act play Or Are You Cinderella?, won third place in the San Juan College Biannual One-Act Play Writing Contest in Farmington, New Mexico. New Delight. was presented in New York’s Soho District by the Saturday Players, as part of The Farmington Armada, gathered by Charles Pike.

She writes an arts column for the monthly Cortez, Colorado paper The Four Corners Free Press, and contributes regularly to Southwest Colorado Arts Perspective.
When she isn’t writing, she’s at KSJE, Public Radio for the Four Corners serving as Program Director, host of the award-winning morning classical music show, Roving with the Arts, or producer of a segment for authors called Write On Four Corners. She also produces award-winning arts documentaries and arts interviews.
In August, 2009, she will bring out a youth novel, Belle’s Star, illustrated by nationally known artist John Cogan. The story empowers children to make good life choices and teaches them pet care.

“My granddaughters love animal stories. I look for children’s literature that’s written well. Belle’s Star will please us all.” ~ Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of Tracings, a chapbook of poetry www.carolynhoward-johnson.com

Awards
2007 Second Place Special Programming Radio Documentary National Federation of Press Women for Miracle in the Desert: The Story of the Santa Fe Opera
2007 Communicator of Achievement New Mexico Press Women
2004 First Place Photography Alpine Artists Holiday Show, Ouray, Colorado

Announcements

Connie Gotsch has started a Blog at www.conniegotsch.blogspot.com It features information for writers and information about her guests on her KSJE-FM Radio show, Write On Four Corners. www.ksje.com Check out both.

Connie Gotsch’s arts column appears regularly in the Four Corners Free Press and occasionally in the Durango Herald To catch her articles in the Herald go to www.durangoherald.com She also write for Southwest Colorado Arts Perspective. Catch those articles by googling the magazine.

Appearances

Connie Gotsch will attend The New Mexico Press Women’s Annual Conference in Santa Fe.