For twenty-three years the Santa Fe Writers Conference has brought writers together from across the country to devote time and attention to their art. In workshops, private conferences, readings, panels, craft talks, and informal discussions, accomplished writers share their experience with those learning or refining their writing.

Sallie will be participating in the following events on Tuesday, July 22, 2008:

• 9:00 AM - "Eliminating the Whine"
• 1:00 PM - "Telling Your Story": Panel discussion with Sallie Bingham, Julie Shigekuni, Lisa Dale Norton, Sharon Franco
• 4:15 PM - Reading & signing of Red Car: Stories

For complete conference details and current program schedule, please visit the Santa Fe Writers' Conference web site.

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The world-premiere production of A Dangerous Personality officially opened June 11 at Off-Broadway's Julia Miles Theatre following a week-long preview period.

A production of the Perry Street Theatre Company, the new work by playwright Sallie Bingham (Milk of Paradise, In the Presence) is helmed by Martin Platt and focuses on the life of the controversial Russian-born spiritualist/philosopher Helena Blavatsky.

For more information and photos, visit Playbill.

Forty-year veteran of the novel, noted feminist, and author of over ten books, Sallie Bingham returns with Red Car, a collection written in her signature style--discreet, sly prose circling taboo subjects. Her new offering is about love enjoyed, whether alone or with lovers, sensual or familial, comedic or tragic, often with a wry twist.

In these twelve stories, Bingham travels from the beaches of Normandy shortly after the second World War, to modern-day Brittany, Santa Fe, Florida, and Southern Colorado to situate her wide range of characters. Her protagonists blunder through relationships, no matter where they happen to live. But somehow we know they'll survive and be wiser for it. Bingham's new collection, with its honed aesthetic of subtlety and honesty is an adventurous read.

Red Car: Stories by Sallie Bingham
Published by Sarabande Books
$21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-932511-59-8
$15.95 (Paper) ISBN 978-1-932511-60-4

My new play, A Dangerous Personality, will be opening June 10, 2008 at the Julia Miles Theater of the Women's Project in New York.

About A Dangerous Personality

The life of Helena Peyrovna Blavatsky lends itself to the stage. A phenomenal Russian woman of the late nineteeth and early twentieth century. she knew no limits: concert pianist, revolutionary soldier, world traveler, mistress of the occult, and the creator of Theosophy, "the science of religion", as she called it, which has hundreds of thousands of followers even today. Yet during her lifetime, she was dogged by scandal, betrayed by her closest associate, poverty-stricken, ill and lonely. My play asks this question: was she simply too strong for her times? Did her eccentricities bring about her downfall? And would it be true, even today, that a woman who believed in universal brotherhood and preached the root connection of all the world's religions would also be reviled?

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