Lisa Densmore: Book and magazine writer, television producer, photographer and Emmy-award winner. Densmore, from New Hampshire, has contributed hundreds of diverse articles for many publications, from Wyoming Wildlife to Backpacker. And she has taught numerous seminars and workshops, to better communicate her rich knowledge. This multi-talented, award-winning author will engage her students in the writing craft needed for creating various types of text-photo packages.
Holly Endersby: Idaho's Holly Endersby has a wide array of writing experience. An avid horsewoman, hunter, and angler, Endersby's course focuses on writing for an array of markets, challenging students to expand their writing skills for broader sales opportunities. Holly will also tackle the daunting query letter.
Ted Gup heads Emerson College's journalism department. A Washington Post, Time Magazine investigative reporter, Gup is a Bob Woodward protégé. He has sold to Smithsonian, Salon and wrote a New York Times best-selling book on the CIA titled Wall of Honor. An excellent, inspirational communicator and educator, he's also a passionate fly-fisherman.
Alan Liere, of Spokane, Washington, is an award-winning back-page columnist for half-dozen national magazines. He also contributes weekly columns to two newspapers. He graduated twice from Eastern Washington University - once with a BA in Education and again with an MFA in non-fiction writing. After teaching school for 30 years, Liere retired to his country home where he just finished his fourth book, a collection of outdoor humor. He is a member of Northwest Outdoor Writers' Association and the Outdoor Writers Association of America.
Visiting Faculty
Pat McManus: For many living and growing up in the outdoors, the name Pat McManus represents the outdoors in all of its glorious humor. Born in Sandpoint, Idaho, in 1933, McManus credits high school teacher Paul Croy for awakening his writing spirit within. He joined Eastern Washington State College (now University) in 1959 as a journalism and English instructor, while at the same time working as a radio station news anchor. McManus wrote for Field & Stream and Outdoor Life for more than 40 years and his enduring humor abounds.
Bill Schneider grew up in eastern South Dakota, and during college in the mid-1960s, he spent summers working on the trail crew in Glacier National Park. He spent the 1970s publishing the Montana Outdoors magazine for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks and freelancing for outdoor magazines. In 1979, Bill co-founded Falcon Publishing and served as president and publisher for 20 years, helping to grow Falcon into the premier publisher of outdoor recreation guidebooks. Bill has written 19 books and hundreds of magazine articles on wildlife, outdoor recreation, and environmental issues. For 12 years, he also taught classes on bicycling, backpacking, zero-impact camping, and hiking in bear country for the Yellowstone Institute. Bill currently lives in Helena, Montana.
Workshop Founder
Joel Vance spent 22 years as an award-winning news and magazine writer for the Missouri Department of Conservation and has been fulltime freelance for 19 years, with two regular magazine columns as well as many articles. He has published seven print books, one book-on-tape. He has been awarded all three of the top honors given by the Outdoor Writers Association of America—Excellence in Craft; its conservation writing honor, the Jade of Chiefs for conservation communication; and the J. Ham Brown Award for service to the organization, the most prestigious OWAA honor. He is one of only three members in the history of the organization to be so honored. He also has been honored with the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers Excellence in Craft award. Vance is a past president, two time board member and board chairman of OWAA, and was the group’s official historian for six years. He has won numerous writing contests over the years and has been featured in many magazines outside the outdoors field.
