New Territory Arts is the online home of James Bishop, Jr., author and creative writing instructor. Bishop is committed to grass roots organizing, the arts and environmental sanity.

In addition to creating screenplays and novels, Bishop is actively advancing the cause of Sedona Recycles, Keep Sedona Beautiful, public art, and Vision Sedona, the nonpartisan citizens group. His creative writing classes are ongoing at various Elderhostel locations, Northern Arizona University, Yavapai College and the Canyon Moon Theatre in the Factory Outlets in the Village of Oak Creek.

THE FUTURE ISNT WHAT IT USED TO BE Fresh from gnashing hangovers brought about by learning of the greatest robbery since the James boys robbed the Kansas City Fair in 1872 many citizens no longer regard Wall Street big shots, or their Federal counterparts, as the financial equivalent of the Red Cross. READ MORE ...

    

SEDONA AUTHOR WIN ARIZONA PRESS CLUB AWARD At the Arizona Press Club’s annual awards dinner held this year at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, local author James Bishop Jr. won first prize for environmental reporting in the statewide newspaper and magazine category. His 2,000 word article, “Tree Houses” (Phoenix Magazine/March 2003) was the first to describe how loggers, Navajos and conservationists, who rarely see eye to eye, have begun working together on the Navajo Reservation on a program called “Hogans for Hope.” Thousands of small-diameter pines that once were burned are being salvaged and milled into logs near Cameron, Arizona for hogans to meet the Navajo Nation’s need for 50,000 new dwellings. Awards judge Frank Allen, a former Wall Street Journal features editor, called Bishop’s story “gentle, memorable, counter-intuitive” and added that “His account is an insightful example of how persistent cooperation among groups long presumed to be rivals can overcome stubborn economic and cultural obstacles, thus yielding a durable benefit for whole communities. Across the American West, such object lessons aren’t yet widely understood in large part because the West’s journalists so often neglect them.” Click here for "Tree Houses"

"My object in living is to unite my avocation and my vocation."
Robert Frost from "Two Tramps in Mudtime"