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Events – Upcoming & Past Remembrances

My program topics include writing fundamentals, Texas Longhorns, cattle driving era, Kansas Cowtowns, writing life, or ranch life. Any age group or crowd size. Honorariums vary.

September 26-27, New Frontiers in Writing Conference. 4:00 pm on Sunday, let’s talk about “Author Events: GET YOUR FACE OUT THERE!” How to make connections, how to plan a talk, all the things you can do to meet readers. Texas High Plains Writers sponsored conference in Amarillo. This weekend will have a HUGE impact on your writing life and author business! Jane Friedman and Taylor Moore are scheduled to keynote. Space is limited. Click HERE to register now.

October 4th thru 11th, Texas Hill Country Book Tour with Manuela Schneider! Thanks to Blue Cottage Literary for handling publicity.

October: Author Talks in Comfort and Seguin

See the schedule below. Manuela will talk about the Germany they left behind and I will talk about the real Texas-German immigrants who inspired our book.

October 17-18, Women Writing the West Virtual Conference. For more info click link here: https://www.womenwritingthewest.org/conference/

Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Claremore, Oklahoma

November 1, Will Rogers Medallion Awards, Hard Rock Hotel in Tulsa, OK. My history-cookbook, END OF THE TRAIL EATS, has been honored as a 2025 finalist. Looking forward to a meet & greet reception at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore. The Will Rogers Medallion Award was originally created to recognize quality works of cowboy poetry that honored the Will Rogers heritage, but has expanded to include other works of Western literature and film.

I have always regretted that I didn’t live about thirty or forty years earlier, and in the same old country – the Indian Territory. I would have liked to have gotten there ahead of … the barbed wire fence.

Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Finalist! END OF THE TRAIL EATS covers the history and food of CowTown, where Texas Longhorns and Kansas hospitality met to feed a nation. Click HERE to order your copy today.

November 8, Books on the Bosque for Writers & Readers, Bosque Arts Center, Clifton, Texas. I will be talking about “Writing the West”, “Writing Compelling Characters”, and a few writing exercises to end the session. Should be a fun day and I look forward to meeting everyone!

November 8 in Clifton, Texas

Wednesday, November 12th at 2:00 PM, Dimmitt Book Club at the Rhoades Memorial Library in Dimmitt, Texas.

Wednesday, November 19th, Stratford Jr. High, “Write Stuff”

December 10, Leadership Borger on “American Energy”. Our future depends on all forms of energy, which I will discuss, as well a quick overview of the history of Oil & Gas Exploration in the Texas Panhandle. Everyone will receive a complimentary copy of my book, OIL PEOPLE.

“Writing Collaboration” A super fun Panel at Western Writers of America Conference. l to r: Johnny Boggs, Richard Prosch, Micki Fuhrman, Natalie Bright, Denise F. McAllister, and Paul Bishop

Do you need a program for your group, book club or classroom?

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Podcast Interview!

Give a listen to a Podcast Interview with Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell! LA Talk Radio’s Rendezvous with a Writer. I’ll be talking about Texas Longhorns and Kansas Cowtowns, just in time for you to order my latest book END OF THE TRAIL EATS on Cyber Monday!

These two are such cuties! I’m standing between Jim and Bobbie Jean Bell with the Podcast Rendezvous with a Writer, Western Writers of America Banquet in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Shop OutWest! Also when you have a minute, check out Jim and Bobbi Jean Bell’s online shop OutWest for unique home décor, apparel, and accessories that celebrate the Western lifestyle.

Exciting NEWS: My cookbook won Gold!

2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award

Don and Shirley Creacy with the Wild Cow Ranch Chuck Wagon Cooking Team, Fritch, Texas, helped me so much on KEEP ‘EM FULL. Not only sharing recipes, but cooking knowledge and fact checking the book manuscript. I was thrilled to have them standing next to me at the WRMA Awards Ceremony in Fort Worth!
Gold Medallion Winner, Will Rogers Medallion Awards
KEEP ‘EM FULL AND KEEP ‘EM ROLLIN’ is currently out of print from TwoDot Books. The Imprint sold. Hopefully more will be available at some later date. Thanks to everyone who purchased a copy of my first history-cookbook on chuck wagon cooking and the great cattle drives.
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Clarendon Elementary, talking about cowboys food and Longhorns, and looking at reins, bridle, hat, rope, branding iron, giant coffee pots, and cowhides.
A Window on a Wider World member school!

In November 2022, the Texas High Plains Writers group awarded me with a Lifetime Membership Award! Total shock and I’m still at a loss for words to say how much I have appreciated this group over the years. Other writers will keep you inspired and on task.

A few members of Women Writing the West attended the Western Writers of America conference in Montana this past June. Back row, l to r, Cynthia Leal Massey, Randi Samuelson-Brown, Carmen Peone, Beverly Hodgins. Front row, me with Jane Little Botkin. Getting a chance to hang around these award winning, brilliant authors is my favorite thing! I look forward to seeing them again in Oklahoma City.
Western Writers of America members Jeff Bloome, Jane Little Botkin, Randi Samuelson-Brown, joined me in Pueblo, Colorado to sign books and meet readers. Had time to explore a few junk stores and we had the most amazing meal at DC’s on B Street.

Interested in an Author Talk?

 Contact me at my office 806.655.4046

eMail natalie@nataliebright.com

The above photo was a Power point for 700 on finding story ideas and fiction vs. nonfiction. Wonderful group with lots of great questions!

Flash and Christy are #1!

Congrats to Flash, your favorite rescue horse, and his owner/trainer Christy Shippy, who took a 1st place win in the horse parade at the Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas!

FLASH is the inspiration behind several of my books. 

Flash & Christie in the Cowboy Symposium parade.

Visiting Author Week at a Canyon ISD Elementary School (2019) and how fitting. It was John Erickson who told me to never give up at a THPW conference in Amarillo. He is such an inspiration for so many authors in this area.