Author Events

Do you need a program for your group, book club or classroom? Click on the CONTACT button at the top of this page, and let’s get your group added to the calendar!
Topics include fundamentals of writing, becoming an Indie Author, Texas Longhorns, cattle driving era, Kansas Cowtown, and American Energy.


Wednesday, February 19th, Leadership Borger, Borger, Texas. Sanford Ranch will host a panel to discuss the ranching industry in the Texas Panhandle with Casey Bright, Sanford Ranch Foreman; Carson Womble, Superior Livestock; Varla Wilcox, Hi-Pro Feeds
Thursday, March 6th, Bushland Jr. High School. Topic: Texas Longhorns and the Great Cattle Drives
Saturday, March 15th, History Symposium, Fort Wallace Museum, Highway 40, Wallace, Kansas.
Thursday, March 27, Clarendon Elementary, Fourth Grade. Let’s Write!
Saturday, March 29, The Chisholm Museum, Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Annual Chuck Wagon Gathering. I will have books for sale! FREE admission. Activities include live music, cooking demonstrations and food samples, gunfights, Wild West Show performers, and more. https://www.thechisholm.org/programs.html

April 11-12, West Texas Ranch Rodeo, Amarillo National Center. Please stop by the our booth. Western historian and Colorado author Randi Samuelson-Brown will be joining me. We can personalize a book for you just in time for Mother’s Day!

Saturday, May 10th, Caprock Writers & Illustrators, Lubbock. I’m speaking about “Writing the West & Finding Your Lane.” What are the elements of the western genre that appeals to so many generations?
May 11th Mother’s Day – buy your mother a book!
Thursday, July 24th, Women in Business Conference, Borger, Texas. I’ll be speaking about writing your family history or a memoir. This talk is for nonwriters who want to preserve their family stories. I promise, YOU can do this! I will share tips for organizing your research, mental exercises to get those memories flowing, and writing tips.
Saturday, August 23, “A Novel Cause”, Lubbock Literacy Book Festival, Overton Hotel, Lubbock, Texas.
Friday-Saturday, September 5-6, History Exposition and Outdoor Education Days, Fort Wallace Museum in Wallace, Kansas.
September 26-27, New Frontiers in Writing Conference. Texas High Plains Writers sponsored conference in Amarillo. This is going to be HUGE. Jane Friedman and Craig Johnson are scheduled to keynote.

Bye Bye 2024
December 11, Leadership Borger. Our future depends on all forms of energy, which I will discuss, as well as the history of Oil & Gas Exploration in the Texas Panhandle. Everyone will receive a copy of my book, OIL PEOPLE. You can Click here to read the eBook now. If you need a program which includes copies of the book for your group or classroom, go to the CONTACT tab above and send me an email. (Leadership Borger is Sponsored by Chevron Phillips Chemical Company & Borger, Inc.)
December 6-8, Christmas at Old Fort Concho, Barrack #2, in San Angelo, Texas. Super excited to have been selected for this event. I’m sharing a booth with Janie Little Botkin and she’ll have her latest best-seller, THE PINK DRESS, A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen.

PODCAST, Thursday, November 28th 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! I finally met the Bells this year at the WWA convention in Tulsa and I felt like we’d been friends forever. They are so fun. Please tune in to their show to hear interviews from some of the top western authors of today.

https://www.latalkradio.com/content/rendezvous-writer
Also when you have a minute, check out their online shop OutWest for unique home décor, apparel, and accessories that celebrate the Western lifestyle.

Tuesday, November 19th, Panhandle Producers and Royalty Owners Board, Amarillo, Texas. Educating area youth about the American Energy industry.
Wednesday, November 13th, Panhandle Elementary, 3rd Grade – Write Stuff – WOWW program.


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.
We celebrated in Roaring 20s Style the 100th Birthday of Panhandle Pen Women / now Texas High Plains Writers. This group has been encouraging writers of all genres and meeting together since 1920! We celebrated 100 +2 in downtown Amarillo at The Barfield in the basement speakeasy Paramount Club.

Exciting NEWS: My cookbook won Gold!

2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award

What a fun weekend! In October, the Award Ceremony and Banquet, was held at Cooper’s BBQ, Fort Worth Stockyards. KEEP ‘EM FULL AND KEEP ‘EM ROLLIN’: The Great American Chuck Wagon Cookbook, has been recognized as a finalist for 2022 and received a first place Gold Medallion!


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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.
