Local Creative Writing Anthology Earns
Powell’s City of Books Pearl Room Debut
PORTLAND, OREGON--An event celebrating Brave on the Page: Oregon Writers on Craft and the Creative Life
will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, at Powell’s City of Books on
Burnside, 1005 W. Burnside St., Portland.
The Powell’s Pearl Room event will feature ten of the
book’s forty-two Oregon authors. Gina Ochsner, Kate Gray, Robert Hill, Gigi
Little and Laura Stanfill will read their flash essays from Brave on the Page. Following the
readings, Joanna Rose will moderate a panel discussion on the creative process
featuring Kristy Athens, Jon Bell, Scott Sparling and Yuvi Zalkow, all four of
whom are interviewed in the book.
Brave on the Page,
a homegrown writing reference book edited by Laura Stanfill, was released this
fall by Portland-based Forest Avenue Press. It was named the Powell’s On Oregon Blog “Book of the Year” for
2012, Powell’s Hawthorne recommended it as a staff pick and a four-star review
is forthcoming from The Portland Book
Review.
“The author interviews
include advice to aspiring writers, behind-the-scene book tour anecdotes, and thoughts
on rejections and the research process,” Stanfill said. “The short essays respond
to a question word prompt—such as who or why—in relation to writing. They
include an examination of where characters come from, hilarious real-life
dialogue lines, tips on avoiding distractions and an homage to Lamy pens and
Dixon Ticonderoga pencils. All the authors, some well known and others
less so, have been bravely facing the blank page for years.”
Forest Avenue
Press uses the Espresso Book Machine at Powell’s as its printer and primary
distributor. In addition to being available made to order at any of the eighty
Espresso Book Machines around the world, Brave
on the Page, $14, 200 pages, is available in Portland at Annie Bloom’s,
Broadway Books, Powell’s City of Books and Powell’s on Hawthorne. It’s
available online at ondemandbooks.com and powell’s.com.
For more information, see forestavenuepress.com, or contact editor Laura Stanfill at laurastanfill@hotmail.com.
