Prompt: A Write Around Portland Community Workshop
Join us for a 10 week workshop devoted to generative writing and the
transformative power of writing in community. Based on the successful
Write Around Portland (http://www.writearound.org/)
model, this dynamic workshop incorporates many of our favorite
exercises designed to inspire the writing life, including free-writing;
group discussion; imagery, character, plot and poetry development; and
early-draft revision.
All proceeds from Prompt go directly toward funding Write Around
Portland workshops and programs in hospitals, prisons, schools,
treatment centers, low-income housing facilities and more.
Prompt: Meets weekly for 10 weeks
Ten Tuesdays, May 13 to July 15, 6:30-8:30pm
Powell’s City of Books, 10th and W. Burnside
$285 (Payment plans available. Includes free parking, snacks and access to the “Bowels of Powells.”)
Carolyn O'Doherty earned her MFA from the Stonecoast program at the
University of Southern Maine. She has been a Hawthorne Fellow and
taught a Worldbuilding class at the Attic. Carolyn started volunteering
with Write Around Portland in 2013 and facilitated workshops at a
residential treatment center for men and our twice monthly workshops at
HOTLIPS Pizza. She is currently working on a young adult urban fantasy
novel about kids who can freeze time.
Registration limited to 12 adults. For more information or to register, please contact Write Around Portland at 503.796.9224.
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The ABC's of Literary Journal Submission
What Submission Guidelines Don’t Tell You: An Insider’s Guide to Submitting to Literary Journals
Whether you’re just thinking about sending your work out to literary journals, or you’ve already received a handful of rejections, this class will explain how the dizzying process really works. We’ll cover targeting markets, formatting work, handling rejections, and what happens when you get accepted. After this lively class, you’ll be ready to charge the world of publishing. (Note: Not for book-length publishing)
“I attended a Liz Prato’s mini-workshop on publishing, & it was great. I walked away with reassuring statistics on how many rejections to expect as opposed to acceptances, models for cover letters, an online source for literary journals, & lots of good, practical advice.” ~ Cindy Stewart-Rinier
Register for this class
Teacher: Liz Prato
Date/Time: Saturday, April 19th, 1 - 3pm
Location: Attic Institute, 4232 SE Hawthorne
Total Fee: $50 (cash/check); $59 (Paypal).
Liz Prato's stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Subtropics, The Rumpus, Iron Horse Literary Review, Hunger Mountain, Carve, and ZYZZYVA, among others. Awards include the 2010 Minnetonka Review Editor’s Prize, 2005 Berkeley Fiction Review Sudden Fiction prize. She was appointed a 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar and has guest-edited for VoiceCatcher. She is the editor of the fiction anthology The Night, and the Rain, and the River (Forest Avenue Press, May 2014). www.lizprato.com
Liz Prato's stories and essays have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Subtropics, The Rumpus, Iron Horse Literary Review, Hunger Mountain, Carve, and ZYZZYVA, among others. Awards include the 2010 Minnetonka Review Editor’s Prize, 2005 Berkeley Fiction Review Sudden Fiction prize. She was appointed a 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Scholar and has guest-edited for VoiceCatcher. She is the editor of the fiction anthology The Night, and the Rain, and the River (Forest Avenue Press, May 2014). www.lizprato.com
The 5th Annual Terroir Creative Writing Festival
The 5th
Annual Terroir Creative Writing Festival of Yamhill County will be held
9-5, on Saturday April 19, 2014, at the Yamhill Valley Chemeketa
Community College campus in McMinnville. A full program of speakers
includes authors of fiction, poetry, and memoir, as well as a workshop
in travel writing and hands-on sessions in making letterpress broadsides
and creating a handmade book. Registration discounts for students,
seniors, and pre-registration.
Deadline for pre-registration discount is April 11. For a full schedule and a registration form, go to:
http://terroircreativewritingfestivaldotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/2014-tcwf-registration-form-2.pdf
For detailed information on presenters and their websites: http://terroircreativewritingfestival.com/visiting-authors
Among the authors presenting are Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate and widely published poet; Karen Karbo, author of fourteen award-winning novels, memoirs and works of non-fiction including the best-selling “Kick Ass Women” series; Joe Wilkins, whose books have won awards both in prose and poetry (Notes from the Journey Westward, The Mountains and the Fathers, and others); Maggie Chula (president of the Tanka Society of America and author of seven poetry collections); nonfiction author and poet Barbara Drake (Peace at Heart, Driving One Hundred); poet and Linfield College professor Lex Runciman (One Hour That Morning and four other collections); memoirist Lisa Ohlen Harris (The Fifth Season and Through the Veil); and novelist Stephen Long (There’s a Somebody). Broadside and letterpress artist Juniper White will discuss the history of the literary broadside and teach a workshop in using letterpress to print poetry broadsides. Journalist and travel author Emily Grosvenor, whose work appears in Sunset magazine, AAA magazine, newspapers, and other publications, will speak on travel writing. Marilyn Worrix, Founder and Director of the Book Arts Center of McMinnville, will conduct a two hour workshop in making your own handmade book, supplies provided.
Note: Check out our Terroir Facebook page for video interviews of Festival speakers talking about their art and their Terroir Festival workshops and other posts.
Deadline for pre-registration discount is April 11. For a full schedule and a registration form, go to:
http://terroircreativewritingfestivaldotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/2014-tcwf-registration-form-2.pdf
For detailed information on presenters and their websites: http://terroircreativewritingfestival.com/visiting-authors
Among the authors presenting are Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate and widely published poet; Karen Karbo, author of fourteen award-winning novels, memoirs and works of non-fiction including the best-selling “Kick Ass Women” series; Joe Wilkins, whose books have won awards both in prose and poetry (Notes from the Journey Westward, The Mountains and the Fathers, and others); Maggie Chula (president of the Tanka Society of America and author of seven poetry collections); nonfiction author and poet Barbara Drake (Peace at Heart, Driving One Hundred); poet and Linfield College professor Lex Runciman (One Hour That Morning and four other collections); memoirist Lisa Ohlen Harris (The Fifth Season and Through the Veil); and novelist Stephen Long (There’s a Somebody). Broadside and letterpress artist Juniper White will discuss the history of the literary broadside and teach a workshop in using letterpress to print poetry broadsides. Journalist and travel author Emily Grosvenor, whose work appears in Sunset magazine, AAA magazine, newspapers, and other publications, will speak on travel writing. Marilyn Worrix, Founder and Director of the Book Arts Center of McMinnville, will conduct a two hour workshop in making your own handmade book, supplies provided.
Note: Check out our Terroir Facebook page for video interviews of Festival speakers talking about their art and their Terroir Festival workshops and other posts.
Spring Classes at the Multnomah Arts Center
The
Multnomah Arts Center is located in SW Portland and offers classes in
various artistic disciplines for people of all ages through Portland
Parks and Recreation.
To register call (503) 823-3187 or visit
www.multnomahartscenter.org to get full course listings and find out more about our teachers.
Fiction—Writing What You Don’t Know with Michael Cooper
Mondays 7 - 9 pm Apr. 7 - May 19 $120 [7 classes] Michael Cooper
Advanced Memoir Writing with Rob Freedman
Tuesdays 10 am - 12:30 pm Apr. 1 - May 27 $184 [9 classes]
Writing Poetry That Pops with Donna Prinzmetal
Tuesdays 7 - 8:30 pm Apr. 1 - Jun. 3 $135 [10 classes]
Writing Personal Histories with Meg Eberle
Wednesdays 10 am - 1 pm Apr. 2 - May 28 $120 [5 classes]
Reading & Writing About Oregon with Christine Colasurdo
Wednesdays 7 - 9 pm Apr. 2 - Jun. 4 $170 [10 classes]
Writing Our Lives As Story with Nancy Linnon
Thursdays 10 am - 12 pm Apr. 3 - May 22 $136 [8 classes]
The Writer’s Toolbox with Judith Pulman
Fridays 10 - 12:30 pm Apr. 18 – Jun. 6 $164 [8 weeks]
Reading Your Work Aloud with Robert Freedman
Saturday 1 - 4 pm May 31 $28 [1 class]
Saturday 1 - 4 pm May 31 $28 [1 class]
Writers’ Boot Camp with Michael Cooper
Saturdays Apr. 12—1 - 3:30 pm; May 10 & Jun. 7—1 - 2:30 pm $48 [3 classes]
Saturdays Apr. 12—1 - 3:30 pm; May 10 & Jun. 7—1 - 2:30 pm $48 [3 classes]
MASTER WRITER'S WORKSHOP WITH LEE MONTGOMERY
MASTER WRITER'S WORKSHOP WITH AUTHOR AND EDITOR LEE MONTGOMERY
Award-winning author and longtime book and magazine editor Lee Montgomery will be offering a master class and writers workshop this fall. Beginning October 8th through December 10th, the workshop will be held on Tuesday evenings 6 to 8 pm at the University Club in downtown Portland. Enrollment is open to both fiction and nonfiction writers and limited to ten students.
Designed to combine craft lectures, individual instruction, and workshop methodologies, Montgomery employs in-class exercises to inspire new work, outside reading assignments, as well as the classic workshop format. Students will present new work at least twice during the session in addition to a private consultation with Lee during the final weeks of class. Students should expect to leave with tools to take their work to the next level as well as tips on how to submit work to the marketplace. For those students who are interested in presenting their work to a broader audience, the class will culminate with a public reading. Class Tuition is $600.
Lee Montgomery is the author of The Things Between Us, A Memoir (Free Press, August 2006), Whose World Is This? Stories (University of Iowa Press, September 2007), and Searching for Emily: Illustrated (Nothing Moments Press, October 2007). The Things Between Us received the 2007 Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction and Whose World Is This? received the 2007 John Simmons Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Award in Fiction in 2008. Montgomery received her MFA from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Her work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times magazine, Glimmer Train, Black Clock, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Tin House, Story Magazine, Alaska Quarterly, the Santa Monica Review and the Antioch Review, among many others.
Montgomery is the editor of numerous anthologies and books for Tin House, Viking, University of Iowa Press, and Penguin. She was the fiction editor of the Iowa Review, the editor of the Santa Monica Review, and senior editor of Dove Books. Montgomery spent ten years at Tin House, as the executive editor for Tin House magazine, the founding executive director of the Tin House Writer's Workshop, and as the editorial director and associate publisher of Tin House Books. She is presently a fellow at The Attic's Athenaeum in Portland.
Montgomery has worked with many debut as well as established authors including Denis Johnson, Deborah Eisenberg, Wallace Shawn, Maggie Nelson, Jayne Anne Phillips, Antonya Nelson, Ron Carlson, Marilynne Robinson, Jim Krusoe, Mary Otis, David Foster Wallace, Robert Coover, William Gass, John Barth, Aimee Bender, and Kathy Acker, among others.
Please call (503-539-1458) or email Lee at LeeBMontgomery@gmail.com for more information or to register. www.leemontgomerywriter.com
Kickstart Your Writing!
Writing class starts Sept. 18
Whether you’re working on a novel or interested in short stories, memoir, essays, articles or other forms of fiction or nonfiction, the Kickstart Your Writing class offers a supportive environment in which you can work on specific writing projects. Students set weekly goals; read their work aloud; and receive positive, helpful feedback from the instructor and other students.
The class runs Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.
September 18-November 20.
The class is held in the Hollywood district of Northeast Portland. The exact location is provided upon publication.
Cost is $200 for the 10-week class.
To register, mail payment to Nancy Woods, P.O. Box 18032, Portland, OR 97218.
To pay by credit card call (503) 288-2469.
For more information: wordpics@aracnet.com, nancy-woods.com, (503) 288-2469.
Whether you’re working on a novel or interested in short stories, memoir, essays, articles or other forms of fiction or nonfiction, the Kickstart Your Writing class offers a supportive environment in which you can work on specific writing projects. Students set weekly goals; read their work aloud; and receive positive, helpful feedback from the instructor and other students.
The class runs Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.
September 18-November 20.
The class is held in the Hollywood district of Northeast Portland. The exact location is provided upon publication.
Cost is $200 for the 10-week class.
To register, mail payment to Nancy Woods, P.O. Box 18032, Portland, OR 97218.
To pay by credit card call (503) 288-2469.
For more information: wordpics@aracnet.com, nancy-woods.com, (503) 288-2469.
Summer Literary Arts at MAC
Summer 2013 Focus Your Writing Series at MAC
To register for classes, call the Arts Center at (503) 823-3187 or visit www.multnomahartscenter.org.
Classes start soon; don’t miss out!
WRITING THE TEN-MINUTE PLAY with M. Thomas Cooper
Discover the art of playwriting and create a ten-minute play from scratch. Experiment with various forms of theater—if you can imagine it, you can put it on the stage! See how your words look dramatized. Explore topics such as characterization, plot, dialogue, and more, through in-class exercises. Come out of the course with confidence and a finished script.
401619 Sat. 1:00 - 3:00 pm Jun. 22 - Jul. 20 $80 [5 classes]
WRITE FOR A CHANGE—IN YOURSELF with Amy Minato
By digging deep, seasoned writers transform themselves through the writing process. Reconcile your inner values and external realities through directed writings that address what makes you thrive and what makes you wither. Then use writing as a tool for personal growth while learning techniques to enhance your writing style.
401674 Sat. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Jun. 29 $16 [1 class]
WRITE FOR A CHANGE—IN SOCIETY with Amy Minato
Society influences our lives, yet personal testimonies inspire social movements. Use a story familiar to you as an example to alert or inspire. Together, tease apart the personal and political in order to explore ways to effectively reweave them. Practice combining research with story to build a case for a cause.
403046 Sat. 1:00 - 3:00 pm Jun. 29 $16 [1 class]
WRITING FOR WELLNESS with Nancy Linnon
Reduce stress. Sleep better. Feel more relaxed. The practice of writing can help you achieve all of this and more. Research shows that writing improves immune function and overall well-being. Learn how to integrate the practice of writing into your days so that life feels richer and less fragmented. No positive feelings about writing required!
401618 Sat. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Jul. 13 $48 [1 classes]
MY DAY AT THE LIBRARY with Nate Orton & James Yeary
See the library as a book of its own: read from its resources of fiction, fact, art, and music; take the people and pages that surround you as sources; and respond through writing and artwork. Spend a day in the main branch of the Multnomah County Library downtown and be guided through models, examples, and exercises. The second week, make a Xeroxed zine comprising writings, drawings, and photographs from the excursion. Honor the computer-less tradition of zines by making this limited edition book with scissors, glue, and a photocopier.
403007 Sun. Jun. 23 12:00 - 4:00 pm & Jun. 30 12:00 - 3:00 pm $63 [2 classes]
WRITING EXPERIMENTS with James Yeary
Use this workshop as a playground to turn your work on its head, inside out, and into something entirely different. Engage in games, conduct experiments, and impose rules to create works you never expected. The results will be fun, silly, absurd, and exceptional. One hundred years of experimental writing techniques will be discussed and/or implemented, and maybe we’ll come up with some of our own.
401616 Tu. 7:00 - 9:00 pm Jul. 9 - 23 $48 [3 classes]
WRITING THROUGH LOSS with Judith Pulman
By exploring the tradition of expressing grief through ordered language, anyone can utilize rituals that promote understanding, acceptance, and eventual healing in the face of great difficulties. Survey stories and poems that take loss as their subject and sketch out pieces of your own. In the classroom’s safe space, give voice to the complexities of grief and in so doing, you might uncover what gives you life.
401673 Th. 7:00 - 9:00 pm Jul. 18 - Aug. 8 $64 [4 classes]
To register for classes, call the Arts Center at (503) 823-3187 or visit www.multnomahartscenter.org.
Classes start soon; don’t miss out!
WRITING THE TEN-MINUTE PLAY with M. Thomas Cooper
Discover the art of playwriting and create a ten-minute play from scratch. Experiment with various forms of theater—if you can imagine it, you can put it on the stage! See how your words look dramatized. Explore topics such as characterization, plot, dialogue, and more, through in-class exercises. Come out of the course with confidence and a finished script.
401619 Sat. 1:00 - 3:00 pm Jun. 22 - Jul. 20 $80 [5 classes]
WRITE FOR A CHANGE—IN YOURSELF with Amy Minato
By digging deep, seasoned writers transform themselves through the writing process. Reconcile your inner values and external realities through directed writings that address what makes you thrive and what makes you wither. Then use writing as a tool for personal growth while learning techniques to enhance your writing style.
401674 Sat. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Jun. 29 $16 [1 class]
WRITE FOR A CHANGE—IN SOCIETY with Amy Minato
Society influences our lives, yet personal testimonies inspire social movements. Use a story familiar to you as an example to alert or inspire. Together, tease apart the personal and political in order to explore ways to effectively reweave them. Practice combining research with story to build a case for a cause.
403046 Sat. 1:00 - 3:00 pm Jun. 29 $16 [1 class]
WRITING FOR WELLNESS with Nancy Linnon
Reduce stress. Sleep better. Feel more relaxed. The practice of writing can help you achieve all of this and more. Research shows that writing improves immune function and overall well-being. Learn how to integrate the practice of writing into your days so that life feels richer and less fragmented. No positive feelings about writing required!
401618 Sat. 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Jul. 13 $48 [1 classes]
MY DAY AT THE LIBRARY with Nate Orton & James Yeary
See the library as a book of its own: read from its resources of fiction, fact, art, and music; take the people and pages that surround you as sources; and respond through writing and artwork. Spend a day in the main branch of the Multnomah County Library downtown and be guided through models, examples, and exercises. The second week, make a Xeroxed zine comprising writings, drawings, and photographs from the excursion. Honor the computer-less tradition of zines by making this limited edition book with scissors, glue, and a photocopier.
403007 Sun. Jun. 23 12:00 - 4:00 pm & Jun. 30 12:00 - 3:00 pm $63 [2 classes]
WRITING EXPERIMENTS with James Yeary
Use this workshop as a playground to turn your work on its head, inside out, and into something entirely different. Engage in games, conduct experiments, and impose rules to create works you never expected. The results will be fun, silly, absurd, and exceptional. One hundred years of experimental writing techniques will be discussed and/or implemented, and maybe we’ll come up with some of our own.
401616 Tu. 7:00 - 9:00 pm Jul. 9 - 23 $48 [3 classes]
WRITING THROUGH LOSS with Judith Pulman
By exploring the tradition of expressing grief through ordered language, anyone can utilize rituals that promote understanding, acceptance, and eventual healing in the face of great difficulties. Survey stories and poems that take loss as their subject and sketch out pieces of your own. In the classroom’s safe space, give voice to the complexities of grief and in so doing, you might uncover what gives you life.
401673 Th. 7:00 - 9:00 pm Jul. 18 - Aug. 8 $64 [4 classes]
Literary Arts Classes at Multnomah Arts Center
Don't miss these three upcoming Literary Arts workshops at the Multnomah Arts Center!
Space available in Revision--Getting Beyond I Like It, starting either May 6 or May 17th; in Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography on the weekend
of May3 and 4; and on June 1 for Reading in the Rain--Performing Your Prose or Poetry.
MAC, located in SW
Portland, is a part of Portland Parks and Recreation. Literary Arts
classes are available to all levels of students and scholarships are
available based on income. Please call (503) 823-3187
to register.
Revision—Getting Beyond “I Like It” with Judith Pulman
Does the diction in your poem match its
tone? Need help expunging clichés from your memoir? Does the meaning of
your short story show? Discover tools, tricks, and secrets to polish any
piece of writing while learning how to
offer peers supportive, constructive feedback. Literary journals and
other less obvious venues for getting your work out there will be
explored.
Poetry 395924 Mon. 7 - 9 pm May 6 - Jun. 3 $64 [4 classes]
Prose 396734 Fri. 10 am - 12 pm May 17 - Jun. 7 $64 [4 classes]
Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography with Nancy Linnon
Take a weekend to explore indelible
moments—those that connect you to the mysterious, the numinous, and the
un-nameable (or whatever name you use). Use exercises and readings as a
springboard to re-inhabit and record spiritual
experiences, whether dramatic or ordinary. Write your life using a lens
that reveals patterns, meaning, and surprise. All levels.
400055 Fri. 6:30 - 9:00 pm & Sat. 10:00 am – 4 pm
May 3 & 4 $82 [2 classes]
May 3 & 4 $82 [2 classes]
Reading in the Rain—Performing Your Prose or Poetry with Dan Raphael
Do you wish that you could read your work
with less fear and mumbling, more energy and applause? The words you
write can show you how to say them. Develop strategies for performing
your work, consider ways to use your “outside”
voice, engage the audience, and project in a variety of environments.
Read both poetry and prose, discussing how these formal differences can
affect a performance. Bring a page of someone else’s work, a page or two of your own, and a pencil.
397655 Sat. 1:00 – 3:30 pm
Jun. 1 $15 [1 class]
Jun. 1 $15 [1 class]
PDX Writers Day Long Retreat
SUMMER WRITING RETREAT
What could
be better than an entire day in June devoted to your writing?
Join us in
the lovely study at McMenamin's Edgefield Hotel. We'll spend half the
day writing to prompts and offering one another feedback. There will
opportunity in the afternoon for extended writing sessions to deepen
your story and then share your day's accomplishments.
Stay if you like:
we'll head out at 5pm for happy hour at one of the many bars on site!
Facilitated by Jennifer Springsteen
- Saturday, June 29, 2013
- Time: Arrive at 8:30 for coffee and continental breakfast. Workshop is from 9am-5:00pm.
- Optional informal gathering after.
- Location: Edgefield Hotel (call early to reserve an overnight room)
- Cost: $100--includes breakfast, lunch, snacks and non alcoholic beverages ($100 for cash/check and $103 for paypal/credit)
- Register for this workshop
Deep Editing
We love it. We hate it. Without it, a story is doomed. This interactive workshop will walk you through a specific process for deep editing of paragraphs, sentences and words. We will cut and paste and move and chip away at our work until it is powerful. Please bring 3-5 pages of a completed scene from your short story, novel, or memoir.
Facilitated by: Kim Taylor*
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Saturday, March 30
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Time: 10am-12:30pm
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Location: SW Portland
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Cost: $45 cash/check and $48 paypal/credit
* Kim is a historical fiction author. Her current mission is to write carefully researched historical novels that bring gay women's stories out of the shadows of history. Her novels include Bowery Girl, a NYPL Best Reads for Teens; Cissy Funk, a Willa Cather award-winner; and Side Dish. Her current work-in-progress, Under the Pale Moon, is set in post-World War II Monterey, California. It explores the relationship of a married woman breaking the bonds of conformity, and a combat nurse struggling with PTSD and haunted by the ghosts of war. Visit her website at www.outoftheshadowsofhistory.com.
Always Beginning: A Poetry Writing Workshop
Poets, if you’re finding it hard to be inspired to write or miss the company of fellow poets, join us Monday evenings at TaborSpace for two hours dedicated to discussing poetry and sharing work. I’ll provide a model poem and prompt before each session, and we’ll spend the first half hour of each workshop focusing on a particular aspect of craft. We’ll then devote the rest of the workshop to a discussion of participants’ poems. Close reading will be the primary tool for learning various aspects of craft, so its practice will be emphasized in all aspects of the workshop, from discussion of suggested poems to response to one another’s work. Within this supportive setting, students can expect to be respectfully challenged to grow as readers and as writers. This workshop is for the beginning poet as well as for the more experienced writer who knows the value of revisiting the fundamentals. All levels are welcome.
Meets: 7:00-9:00 PM, Mondays, April 1 – May 20, 2013
Cost: $185 [Eight two-hour sessions.]
Location: Classroom at TaborSpace (map), 5441 SE Belmont St,
Portland, OR 97215
Register now!
Cindy
Stewart-Rinier’s poems have appeared in Calyx, The Smoking Poet, Crab
Creek Review and Ascent, among others. She received her MFA in Creative
Writing from Pacific Lutheran University in 2012. Her work has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize, selected for the Crab Creek Review 2011
Editor’s Prize, and was awarded first place in the Portland Pen Women
Poetry Contest. She has taught creative writing at all levels, from
elementary and middle school to adult students. A board member of the
Mountain Writers Series, she lives and works in Portland, Oregon.Short Stories with Liz Prato
A good short story excites and satisfies its readers, keeping them
engaged long after the last word. In this craft-oriented workshop, we'll
critique your short fiction in progress, and give close readings to
work by modern masters of the form. Whether you're a novelist,
memoirist, journalist or good ole' short story scribe, this class will
make you a better writer by strengthening your understanding of
character, scene, and the ever-elusive story arc. We will use the
literary story as our guide, but all genres are welcome.
Teacher: Liz Prato
Time: Fridays, 10am - 12pm, April 5 - May 10, 6 weeks
Location: Attic Institute, 4232 SE Hawthorne Boulevard
Fee: $242 (cash/check); $250 (credit card)
Register at: The Attic
About Liz: Liz Prato likes stories, real and imagined. Her
own stories and essays have appeared in nearly two dozen journals and magazines,
including Hayden's Ferry Review, ZYZZYVA, Los Angeles Review, Iron Horse
Literary Review and Hunger Mountain. She likes to learn and she likes
to teach at The Attic, Willamette Writers, Oregon Writers' Colony,
Wordstock and Indigo Editing. Want to know more? Check out www.lizprato.com
Indigo Editing: March Double Feature
We at Indigo Editing
& Publications are proud to welcome Liz Prato and Jessica Glenn as guest instructors of our
Saturday, March 16, classes. We value individual attention. Classes are
presented in a small-group format at Indigo's offices in downtown
Portland (near Powell's Burnside) to ensure participants have a close
connection with the instructor. To further that mission, we offer class
participants 15 percent off a one-hour consultation with an Indigo editor, to be scheduled within thirty days after the class.
Preregistration and payment are required at http://indigoediting.com/classes. Saturday, March 16
Narrative Nonfiction, Liz Prato of The Attic Institute
1:00–2:30 p.m., $45, or $70 if paired with the other class
This is not your high school essay! It’s lyric essay, memoir, literary journalism and creative nonfiction. Come again? Okay: Narrative nonfiction blends facts with the storytelling techniques of fiction to keep the reader engaged while discovering a new world. We’ll discuss what narrative nonfiction is, and isn’t, and will relish examples from modern masters of the form.
Book Publicity for Authors, Jessica Glenn of MindBuck Media
2:45–4:15 p.m., $45, or $70 if paired with the other class
Book publicity is different than any other type of publicity and often seems to authors like an option rather than a necessity. Before considering your book release date or even contacting agents and publishers, you will need a watertight marketing and publicity plan. Without it, statistically, you are highly unlikely to find receptive agents, publishers, and ultimately readers. You are also unlikely to sell more than 50–150 books total. In this class, Jessica Glenn will lead you through the phases of book publicity from six months before the release date to three weeks after the launch. Learn how book publicity can make the best use of bloggers; how to use radio, print, and TV to your advantage; and why and when to organize book tours. This class is best suited to authors with finished or close-to-finished manuscripts who plan to pitch, authors who already have publishers, or authors who are independently publishing but need to plan their release.
Kristin ThielSenior Editor & Director of Community Engagement Indigo Editing & PublicationsBringing new color to editing.
Phone 503-629-9216
E-mail Kristin@IndigoEditing.com
Visit website, Facebook, Twitter
Preregistration and payment are required at http://indigoediting.com/classes. Saturday, March 16
Narrative Nonfiction, Liz Prato of The Attic Institute
1:00–2:30 p.m., $45, or $70 if paired with the other class
This is not your high school essay! It’s lyric essay, memoir, literary journalism and creative nonfiction. Come again? Okay: Narrative nonfiction blends facts with the storytelling techniques of fiction to keep the reader engaged while discovering a new world. We’ll discuss what narrative nonfiction is, and isn’t, and will relish examples from modern masters of the form.
Book Publicity for Authors, Jessica Glenn of MindBuck Media
2:45–4:15 p.m., $45, or $70 if paired with the other class
Book publicity is different than any other type of publicity and often seems to authors like an option rather than a necessity. Before considering your book release date or even contacting agents and publishers, you will need a watertight marketing and publicity plan. Without it, statistically, you are highly unlikely to find receptive agents, publishers, and ultimately readers. You are also unlikely to sell more than 50–150 books total. In this class, Jessica Glenn will lead you through the phases of book publicity from six months before the release date to three weeks after the launch. Learn how book publicity can make the best use of bloggers; how to use radio, print, and TV to your advantage; and why and when to organize book tours. This class is best suited to authors with finished or close-to-finished manuscripts who plan to pitch, authors who already have publishers, or authors who are independently publishing but need to plan their release.
Kristin ThielSenior Editor & Director of Community Engagement Indigo Editing & PublicationsBringing new color to editing.
Phone 503-629-9216
E-mail Kristin@IndigoEditing.com
Visit website, Facebook, Twitter
Prompt: A Write Around Portland Community Workshop
Join
us for a 10 week workshop devoted to
generative writing and the transformative power of writing in
community. Based
on the successful Write Around Portland (http://www.writearound.org/) model, this dynamic workshop incorporates many of our
favorite
exercises designed to inspire the writing life, including
free-writing; group
discussion; imagery, character, plot and poetry development; and
early-draft
revision.
All
proceeds
from Prompt go directly toward funding Write Around Portland
workshops
and programs in hospitals, prisons, schools, treatment centers,
low-income
housing facilities and more.
Prompt:
Meets
weekly for 10 weeks
Ten
Tuesdays, Jan 29-Apr 2, 6:30-8:30pm
Powell’s
City of Books, 10th and W. Burnside
$285
(Payment plans available. Includes free
parking, snacks and access to the “Bowels of Powells.”)
Workshop
facilitator
Mary
Kibbe earned
a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Marylhurst University
where
she explored communication, writing, and an interdisciplinary
approach to the
formulation and re-formulation of individual identity. Mary
currently focuses
her writing time on poetry, and has studied the art of memoir,
creative
non-fiction and personal essays. She is a founding member of her
writing
critique group Broads on the Side. As a Write Around Portland
volunteer, Mary
has facilitated workshops for burn and trauma survivors, at-risk
youth, and low-income
families.
Registration
limited to 12 adults. For more
information or to register, please contact Write Around Portland
at
503.796.9224.
MANZANITA WRITING WEEKND FEBRUARY 1 TO 3, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JANUARY 8, 2013
MANZANITA WRITING WEEKND FEBRUARY 1 TO 3, 2013
Who should attend? Writers looking for uninterrupted time to write in a safe and nurturing setting. All genres welcome, including: poetry, personal essay, non-fiction, and memoir/creative non-fiction. The weekend is idea for any level of writing or stage of your project. Come for the evening, a day or the entire weekend.
Where: The Contemplative Arts Center in Manzanita, OR. Please note: overnight lodging is not available at the The Contemplative Arts Center. Lodging will be on your own. Please visit website www.bootcamp4writers.com for information on lodging options and to register.
Schedule: Friday, 2/1/13 - 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm - Introductions/writing time
Saturday, 2/2/13 - 9 am to noon - work shopping/critique of writing
1 pm to 4 pm - writing time
7 pm - TBD: Dinner together in Manzanita
Friday, 2/3/13 - 9 am to 1 pm - work shopping/critique of writing
This workshop is led by Kelly Wallace, who owns and operates the Writers Boot Camp West. She was a Hawthorne Fellow ‘12 at The Attic Institute and is a member of the Pinewood Table writer’s group led by Stevan Allred and Joanna Rose.
To register visit: http://www.bootcamp4writers.
Honoring Big Stories by Writing Brief Chapters–with Kim Stafford
Wednesday, January 16, 5-8 p.m.Lewis & Clark College, Graduate Campus
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Teachers, students, and other citizens often carry stories too big to manage, or secrets too strange to tell.
As a launch for Kim Stafford's new book 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared, this workshop will explore how “the trick of beginning” can release possible epiphanies from the silence of impossible stories.
The evening will include refreshments, writing time, readings from the book, and music. To RSVP visit go.lclark.edu/graduate/big/stories
Questions? Contact the Center for Community Engagement at 503-768-6040 or cce@lclark.edu
LEARN TO CRAFT THE PERFECT QUERY LETTER IN THREE HOURS
Join Kelly Wallace for a three-hour class for writers to
focus on honing and crafting a query letter for literary agents January 12,
2013.
Participants will learn how to:
- Craft a query letter to a literary agent
- Use social media to promote your writing
- Market your work in new and old-school way
When: Saturday, January 12, 2013 from 9 am to noon at the Attic Institute, 4232 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland.
Cost: $59
Follow-up cocktail party at the Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., in February to share their finished query letter and/or success stories. Price of admission to the cocktail party: finished query letter. Date TBD
This class is led by Kelly Wallace, who owns and operates the Writers Boot Camp West. She was a Hawthorne Fellow ‘12 at The Attic Institute and a member of the Pinewood Table writer’s group led by Stevan Allred and Joanna Rose.
To register visit: http://www.bootcamp4writers.com/register/
For more information please contact:
Kelly Wallace (p): 503.575.5104 or (e): bootcamp4writers@gmail.com
LEARN HOW TO CREATE A BLOG IN 3 HOURS
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When: Saturday, December 15, 2012 from 9 am to noon at the Attic Institute, 4232 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland.
Cost: $59
Follow-up cocktail party at the Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., in January to share their blogging success stories. Date TBD
This class is led by Kelly Wallace, who owns and operates the Writers Boot Camp West. She was a Hawthorne Fellow ‘12 at The Attic Institute and is a member of the Pinewood Table writer’s group led by Stevan Allred and Joanna Rose.
To register visit: http://www.bootcamp4writers.com/register/
BLOGGING BASICS FOR WRITERS
These days it’s all about platform, platform, platform for
new and upcoming writers. Balancing
writing, blogging and social media at the same time can be overwhelming. How do you juggle it all?
Join Kelly Wallace for a three-hour class for writers that
will teach you the first step in the platform process: how to create a
blog.
When they’re done participants will have completed a blog post, found a community of bloggers for mutual
support, know the next steps to continue
your good work.
When: Saturday, December 15, 2012 from 9 am to noon at the Attic Institute, 4232 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland.
Cost: $59
Follow-up cocktail party at the Press Club, 2621 SE Clinton St., in January to share their blogging success stories. Date TBD
This class is led by Kelly Wallace, who owns and operates the Writers Boot Camp West. She was a Hawthorne Fellow ‘12 at The Attic Institute and is a member of the Pinewood Table writer’s group led by Stevan Allred and Joanna Rose.
To register visit: http://www.bootcamp4writers.com/register/
For more information please contact:
Kelly Wallace (West Coast/Portland)
(p): 503.575.5104 or (e): bootcamp4writers@gmail.com
Indigo Editing November Classes
Two classes, one craft of fiction and one business of fiction--one great day. Register today!
Both classes are held at Indigo Editing & Publications, 917 SW Oak St. #302 Portland, OR 97205
Winning at Fiction: How to Build a Better First Page (Back by Popular Demand!)
Susan DeFreitas, Indigo Editing & Publications 10 a.m.–11:30 a.m., $45 November 10, 2012
Why should agents or editors pick your book out of that mile-high slush
pile on their desk? Why should bookstore browsers lay down the cold,
hard cash to buy your book? Answer: because your first sentence, first
paragraph, and first page are so arresting, they can’t put it down. In
this workshop, writers of prose will learn effective techniques for
winning “the war of art” on the very first page, along with some common
pitfalls to avoid before sending a work out for consideration. (Writers
should come with the first page of a book, story, or essay, and be
prepared to offer constructive feedback.)
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Every Day I'm Shuffling: Staying True to Your Art While Also Selling It on Social Media
Sarah Gilbert, Freelance Writer 11:45 a.m.–1:15 p.m., $45 November 10, 2012
You use social media. But how do you use it for good—that is, the good
of your art? This course will delve deeply into a variety of social
media tools used by course participants and discuss best practices for
using each one to manage your brand and market your work, without
selling yourself out (or selling yourself short). This is not an
intro-to-social media course; the content will assume you already use at
least a few social media platforms and wish to learn how to juggle your
social media life, your IRL, and your art.
*The Little Bear Rule of Facebook. How much is "just right"? *Toot toot! Why you should toot your own horn, and how to do it gracefully. *Getting raw, but not bloody. How to find the line between seeming real and oversharing. *To blog or not to blog? Whether or not you should keep your own space on the -ogosophere, and how often you should tend it. *Multimedia bling time! Cool ideas that have worked for me (and brainstorming about what could work for you). Be ready to discuss your writing projects and your successes—and failures—in using social media in the past. We'll try to apply our learnings directly to the workshop participant's own work. And maybe we'll do some real-time horn tooting. Preregistration and payment required: http:// |
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