Come celebrate storytelling, creativity and literary exploration at the 2025 Story Catcher Festival, which will be held at Western Colorado University April 9 to 10.
The festival, sponsored by the Mari Sandoz Society and Western, brings together an incredible lineup of workshops, readings, and discussions designed to find the stories in all of us and ignite the creativity we need to tell them. This year’s event will feature a special keynote address by Joy Harjo.
Harjo served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022, won the Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Frost Medal, Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry and was recently honored with a National Humanities Medal.
Leading up to the keynote event on April 10 at 7 p.m. in the Kincaid Concert Hall, attendees will be treated to two days of discussions with a remarkable group of literary voices, including the eminent poets Pam Uschuk and William Pitt Root, and Western’s own CMarie Fuhrman, Candace Nadon and Byron Aspaas.
All events are free and open to the public. For the complete schedule and a link to a live stream of the festival, visit western.edu/story-catcher-festival.
Thursday April 10 - Keynote with Joy Harjo
7 to 9 p.m. Quigley/Kincaid Concert Hall
- An Evening With Joy Harjo
- Introduction by Pam Uschuk
- Moderated discussion with CMarie Fuhrman
- Book signing to follow
