Soulstice Publishing

10/08/2024

Check out one of the dozens of emotional stories from the just-released “Summer Camp for Big Kids” with Sarah Barber’s TRR experience with teammate Cody Sohn. Perfect inspiration and joy to get you ready for TRR this week.

The following Rocky Mountain High piece was written by trail runner Sarah Barber and is excerpted with permission from the book, Summer Camp for Big Kids.

08/08/2024

Soulstice author Abdi Abdirahman (right) is in Paris with Mo Farah (left) to cheer on their friend and training partner Bashir Abdi in the marathon. Mo Farah competed in two Olympics, while this is the third Olympics for Bashir, who represents Belgium. Abdi, of course, has represented the US in five Olympic Games. We'll be cheering, too, for these three friends with Somali roots, dedication to running, and evident joie de vivre!

07/08/2024

The latest release from Soulstice Publishing is here! Check out “Summer Camp for Big Kids” and get excited about that Rocky Mountain runner’s high.

https://soulsticepublishing.com/2024/08/07/summer-camp-for-big-kids-kicks-off-soulstices-i-heart-racing-series/

The I Heart Racing series has launched with the publication of Summer Camp for Big Kids: TransRockies Run, now available as that beloved stage race gets underway August 12. Billed as “tales of triumph, hope, and friendship from the mountains of Colorado,” the book presents stories of more than t...

05/08/2024

Anybody out there presenting at the Santa Fe Indian Market August 17-18? We're looking for someone who would like to carry "Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty" at their table. https://swaia.org/2024-events/

We have packed our 102nd Santa Fe Indian Market with a full and exciting schedule! See below for our full list of events. Tickets to our marquee events are now on sale and are sure to sell out fast! 

04/08/2024

Lumberjacks who ran up the mountain and won trophies and medals for NAU are now running in Paris.

The who, what, when for Paris 2024!

Cheer on all our alums on NBCOlympics.com or Peacock beginning tomorrow morning!

29/07/2024

Award-winning Soulstice author Julie Morrison Writer collaborated with her friend, the wonderful Lisa Schnebly Heidinger, on a series of artistic road trips to iconic Arizona locations over the past few years. Our friends at the The University of Arizona Press are turning their poems, stories, and photos into a book to be published in 2025 that no Arizonan should be without!

Coming in 2025! Final edits happening now.
So excited!!

25/07/2024

Journalist Kevin Baxter of the LA Times quotes Soulstice author Matt Baxter in this in-depth look at Flagstaff Olympic training. Baxter says, “For a distance runner, there’s no place in the world like Flagstaff." So true! Read all about it in Matt's book (co-authored with Coach Ron Mann), "Running Up the Mountain: Northern Arizona Altitude, Lumberjack Attitude, and the Making of a Distance Dynasty."

https://soulsticepublishing.com/product/jacksxc-book/

The geography of Flagstaff, Ariz., makes it a mecca for distance runners. It also could makes it an attractive training ground ahead of the 2028 Olympics.

27/06/2024

22/06/2024

We're looking forward to the upcoming presentation by Sarah Hendricks (chapter 20 in "Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty") at the Museum of Indigenous People in Prescott!

01/06/2024

Soulstice is excited to help support the first Beethoven 5k this morning at Fort Tuthill. Grateful to have the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra in our mountain town! #

26/05/2024

Come celebrate Beethoven and the summer running season this Saturday, June 1, with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra's Beethoven 5K. Soulstice running books to the first 50 registrants! And if you're not running or walking, volunteers are needed.

https://www.flagstaffsymphony.org/beethoven-5k-run

23/04/2024

When a horsewoman wins a blue ribbon, it's cause for celebration. When that horsewoman is a Soulstice author, we jump for joy. Congratulations, Julie Morrison!

The Journey Grand Prize for Memoir- I know the journey should be enough in itself, especially touched by those on it, then more especially capped by publishers who felt its story could be a book, and it was- is- more than enough- and - I also love a beautiful ribbon!

14/04/2024

Thanks to everyone who decided to Book It! at the Northern Arizona Book Festival this morning. Running, reading, socializing…that’s a spring day in Flagstaff! Thrilled to be a part of the event.

13/04/2024

Ingenuity! Leave it to the author of a ranch memoir (Barbed) to figure out how to get a sign to stay up on a windy day. Great job, Julie Morrison Writer. Thank you, Northern Arizona Book Festival for holding this celebration of books.

11/04/2024

Get inspired and shape your own luck with Soulstice author Julie Morrison at our table in Heritage Square this Saturday afternoon!

Ready to make your own luck?! First ten Barbed buyers get free rein with horseshoe and paint markers! This Saturday, April 13, Northern AZ Book Festival, Heritage Square, Soulstice Publishing Table, 1:30-3:30pm

03/04/2024

This Go Be More podcast with five-time Olympian and Soulstice author Abdi Abdirahman is well worth another listen now that Abdi is being inducted into the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame!

To celebrate that achievement, we're offering "Abdi's World" at a special sale price of $9.95 all this month, only from our website. But first, go have a listen:

We speak with 5-time Olympian Abdi Abdirahman about his amazing journey, from his improbable start in running to his chances for 2024.

31/03/2024

We're partnering with Kathy Eckles Ho**er, Author and photographer David Young-Wolff to celebrate in photos and words from "Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty."

"My grandmother would get us up really early, like four-thirty or five. She had us run as far as we could, and then we would come back and do chores. If a little lamb needed to be fed, we would make its bottle and feed it. We would take the sheep out of the corral and herd them. We had fun during those times. My other cousins would come over, and we would play and have a good time. Sometimes we would ride horses. If it rained, we would play in the mud; it was really fun then. In the evening we would bring the sheep back.
“My grandmother would always cook outside. She would make the dough for fry bread and bake the potatoes in the fire. After we would eat, we would do the dishes. She would share her evening time by telling us stories. While she told us the stories, we would watch her brush her hair. Next we would wash up. Then we would go to sleep under the shade house on sheepskin or goatskin. It was comfortable so we never complained about sleeping on it." ~Laura Lee Yazzie
The Yazzie family is featured in Chapter 16 of "Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty." Photo (c) David Young-Wolff

30/03/2024

We're partnering with Kathy Eckles Ho**er, Author and photographer David Young-Wolff to celebrate in photos and words from "Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty."

"My mom tells me that when she was young, she spent most of her time herding sheep, but she also had an area which was her playground. Her toys were sticks used to make horses, and rocks shaped like babies made into pretend dolls. Sometimes my mom would just tie a scarf around a rock and carry it around like it was her baby.
"Other times my mom and her cousin would pretend to make a cake, like they were having a kinaaldá. They would use soil to make the cake. Looking for yellowcolored rocks, they would use them as corn. They would pretend to grind the corn to make
pudding for the kinaaldá." ~Maye Zee, translating for her mother, Rebecca N. Zee
The Zee family tells their story in Chapter 6 of "Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty." Photo (c) David Young-Wolff

27/03/2024

We're partnering with Kathy Eckles Ho**er, Author and David Young-Wolff to celebrate in photos and words from "Voices of Navajo Mothers and Daughters: Portraits of Beauty."

"At seventy-eight, my mom, Sylvia, still weaves, herds sheep, shears them, relocates the corral every time it gets dirty by reusing things like mattress springs and parts of cars for the sides of her corral."
Sarah Hendricks

Read the words of Sarah Hendricks and more than 60 other women in 21 families in this award-winning book that celebrates Navajo culture.