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.
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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]
THE WHOLE TRUTH: A Reading of Memoir & Non-fiction
Featuring: Stacy Bolt, Robin Romm, Margaret Malone, Colin Farstad & Liz Scott
Saturday, September 14th @ 7:00 p.m.Writers' Dojo7518 N. Chicago
Portland, OR 97203
Five of Portland’s talented writers will be reading from recent memoir and non-fiction work. Come and listen while you kick back with your shoes off at the Writer's Dojo in St. Johns. Suggested donation to the Dojo of $2 - 5.
THE WHOLE TRUTH is funded in part by a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Stacy Bolt is the author of the memoir Breeding in Captivity, which chronicles her struggles to start a family. It was published by Globe Pequot Press in September 2013. Stacy is also a frequent contributor to the OPB radio show Live Wire and her writing has been featured in Portland Monthly and Imbibe Magazine.
Colin Farstad's writing has appeared most recently in Coal City Review and The Whistling Fire Journal. He is the editor of the short story anthology The Frozen Moment: Contemporary Writers on the Moments that Change Our Lives, released
by Publication Studios in December of 2011. Colin is a graduate from Portland State University with a B.A. in English and currently teaches with Tom Spanbauer in his weekly Dangerous Writing workshop. He is a writer and free lance editor living in Portland, Oregon where he recently finished his first novel The Four Month Summer.
Margaret Malone’s work has appeared in Oregon Humanities, The Missouri Review, Swink, Coal City Review, latimes.com and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2011 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship and a 2009 Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts. She is a co-host of the artist and literary gathering SHARE and lately has been teaching writing at the Sitka Center and as a visiting artist at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Robin Romm is the author of two books. The Mother Garden (short stories) was a finalist for the PEN USA Prize. The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of the Year according to Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The UK Observer, O Magazine, The Sun, Tin House, One Story, and many other publications. She's a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, and teaches at the lowresidency MFA program for Writers at Warren Wilson. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Liz Scott has been a psychologist in private practice for, well, forever. She is co-author of the newly released book Lies: The Truth About the Self-Deceptions That Limit Your Life and has had short stories published in numerous literary journals. She is currently in the process of wrestling with a memoir.
Saturday, September 14th @ 7:00 p.m.Writers' Dojo7518 N. Chicago
Portland, OR 97203
Five of Portland’s talented writers will be reading from recent memoir and non-fiction work. Come and listen while you kick back with your shoes off at the Writer's Dojo in St. Johns. Suggested donation to the Dojo of $2 - 5.
THE WHOLE TRUTH is funded in part by a grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council.
Stacy Bolt is the author of the memoir Breeding in Captivity, which chronicles her struggles to start a family. It was published by Globe Pequot Press in September 2013. Stacy is also a frequent contributor to the OPB radio show Live Wire and her writing has been featured in Portland Monthly and Imbibe Magazine.
Colin Farstad's writing has appeared most recently in Coal City Review and The Whistling Fire Journal. He is the editor of the short story anthology The Frozen Moment: Contemporary Writers on the Moments that Change Our Lives, released
by Publication Studios in December of 2011. Colin is a graduate from Portland State University with a B.A. in English and currently teaches with Tom Spanbauer in his weekly Dangerous Writing workshop. He is a writer and free lance editor living in Portland, Oregon where he recently finished his first novel The Four Month Summer.
Margaret Malone’s work has appeared in Oregon Humanities, The Missouri Review, Swink, Coal City Review, latimes.com and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2011 Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship and a 2009 Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts. She is a co-host of the artist and literary gathering SHARE and lately has been teaching writing at the Sitka Center and as a visiting artist at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Robin Romm is the author of two books. The Mother Garden (short stories) was a finalist for the PEN USA Prize. The Mercy Papers: A Memoir of Three Weeks was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, and a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of the Year according to Entertainment Weekly. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The UK Observer, O Magazine, The Sun, Tin House, One Story, and many other publications. She's a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, and teaches at the lowresidency MFA program for Writers at Warren Wilson. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
Liz Scott has been a psychologist in private practice for, well, forever. She is co-author of the newly released book Lies: The Truth About the Self-Deceptions That Limit Your Life and has had short stories published in numerous literary journals. She is currently in the process of wrestling with a memoir.
Literary Arts Classes at MAC!
Fall 2013 Literary Arts Classes and Workshops
Multnomah Arts Center
To register for classes, call (503) 823-3187 or visit www.multnomahartscenter.
Memoir Writing with Rob Freedman
Tuesdays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 8 – December 03 $184 [9 weeks]
The Writer Within with Nancy Linnon
Tuesdays, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
October 8 - November 26 $136 [8 weeks]
Writing Poetry with Donna Prinzmetal
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
October 1 - December 3 $135 [10 weeks]
Writing Personal Histories with Meg Ainsworth Eberle
Wednesdays, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 2 - December 4 $102 [5 weeks]
Memoir Writing with Kate Carroll deGutes
Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
October 9 - December 4 (no class November 20) $154 [9 weeks]
Getting Beyond “I Like It”: Revision Workshop with Judith Pulman
Fridays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 25 - December 6 (no class November 29) $110 [6 weeks]
The Playwright’s Toolbox with Michael Thomas Cooper
Saturdays 1:00 - 3:00 pm
October 5 - November 16 $120 [7 weeks]
Saturday One-day Workshops
Writing Experiments with James Yeary
Saturday, October 5 10:00 am - 4:00 pm $48
Writing from Archetypes with Lyssa Tall Anolik
Saturday, October 19 10:00 am - 4:00 pm $48
Write for a Change in Yourself with Amy Minato
Saturday, November 2 10:00 am - 1:00 pm $25
Being Your Own Publisher with Vinnie Kinsella
Saturday, November 9, 1:00 - 3:00 pm $30
Memoir Writing with Rob Freedman
Tuesdays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 8 – December 03 $184 [9 weeks]
The Writer Within with Nancy Linnon
Tuesdays, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
October 8 - November 26 $136 [8 weeks]
Writing Poetry with Donna Prinzmetal
Tuesdays, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
October 1 - December 3 $135 [10 weeks]
Writing Personal Histories with Meg Ainsworth Eberle
Wednesdays, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 2 - December 4 $102 [5 weeks]
Memoir Writing with Kate Carroll deGutes
Wednesdays 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
October 9 - December 4 (no class November 20) $154 [9 weeks]
Getting Beyond “I Like It”: Revision Workshop with Judith Pulman
Fridays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
October 25 - December 6 (no class November 29) $110 [6 weeks]
The Playwright’s Toolbox with Michael Thomas Cooper
Saturdays 1:00 - 3:00 pm
October 5 - November 16 $120 [7 weeks]
Saturday One-day Workshops
Writing Experiments with James Yeary
Saturday, October 5 10:00 am - 4:00 pm $48
Writing from Archetypes with Lyssa Tall Anolik
Saturday, October 19 10:00 am - 4:00 pm $48
Write for a Change in Yourself with Amy Minato
Saturday, November 2 10:00 am - 1:00 pm $25
Being Your Own Publisher with Vinnie Kinsella
Saturday, November 9, 1:00 - 3:00 pm $30
VoiceCatcher Contributors Read at Rain or Shine Coffee House
Join poets Stella Jeng
Guillory, Pattie Palmer-Baker, Marjorie Power, Cindy Stewart-Rinier and
Wendy Thompson along with memoirist Anne Gudger
Wen: Thursday, September 19, 2013. 6:30-8:30 pm
Where: Rain or Shine Coffee House, 5941 SE Division St.,Portland, OR 97206
Tonia Twigger McConnell, whose photographs are on display this month at Rain or Shine, will also discuss her photography.
Wen: Thursday, September 19, 2013. 6:30-8:30 pm
Where: Rain or Shine Coffee House, 5941 SE Division St.,Portland, OR 97206
Tonia Twigger McConnell, whose photographs are on display this month at Rain or Shine, will also discuss her photography.
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.
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.
Brian Doyle & Robin Cody Reading
Tuesday, November 20th
at 7 pm. Writers Brian Doyle and Robin Cody will be at Broadway Books to
read from recently published work.
Brian Doyle, the author of the bestselling novel Mink River, a novel published in 2010 by Oregon State University Press, has most recently had another novel published by Corby Books in Notre Dame, Indiana. It tells the story of a man who lost his foot in a war and decides many years later to find it. “It was a good foot, and we parted so hurriedly I never had a chance to really think about it as a foot, so off I went…” So begins this lean little novel – it is at once a quest, a wandering, and a contemplation of the immense foolishness of war.
Robin Cody has written several books. This November Oregon State University is reissuing his memoir, Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River. This is the story of his 82-day solo canoe trip in 1990 down the Columbia River from its source in Canada to its mouth in Astoria. From the prologue: “The story is the Columbia River, not the canoe and me, but I’ve learned that friends can’t hear me tell about the river until they know why I was out there. This is not an adventure story, though some adventure was unavoidable, and I didn’t set out to find myself if I could help it. Nor did I launch the trip with a large point to prove. It was a voyage of discovery, and its telling is the uncovering of surprise on a river I thought I knew…”. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Broadway Books is located at 1714 NE Broadway, Portland. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Roberta Dyer or Sally McPherson at (503) 284-1726 or bookbroads@qwestoffice.net. You may also visit our website: www.broadwaybooks.net.
Brian Doyle, the author of the bestselling novel Mink River, a novel published in 2010 by Oregon State University Press, has most recently had another novel published by Corby Books in Notre Dame, Indiana. It tells the story of a man who lost his foot in a war and decides many years later to find it. “It was a good foot, and we parted so hurriedly I never had a chance to really think about it as a foot, so off I went…” So begins this lean little novel – it is at once a quest, a wandering, and a contemplation of the immense foolishness of war.
Robin Cody has written several books. This November Oregon State University is reissuing his memoir, Voyage of a Summer Sun: Canoeing the Columbia River. This is the story of his 82-day solo canoe trip in 1990 down the Columbia River from its source in Canada to its mouth in Astoria. From the prologue: “The story is the Columbia River, not the canoe and me, but I’ve learned that friends can’t hear me tell about the river until they know why I was out there. This is not an adventure story, though some adventure was unavoidable, and I didn’t set out to find myself if I could help it. Nor did I launch the trip with a large point to prove. It was a voyage of discovery, and its telling is the uncovering of surprise on a river I thought I knew…”. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Broadway Books is located at 1714 NE Broadway, Portland. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Roberta Dyer or Sally McPherson at (503) 284-1726 or bookbroads@qwestoffice.net. You may also visit our website: www.broadwaybooks.net.
Creative Memoir Workshop
with Dawn Thompson, Portland Women Writers
Dates: 7 Thursday evenings, February 23 – April 12, skipping March 29
Time: 6:45pm-9:00pm
Cost: $150.00
Location: SE Portland (Westmoreland)
"Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life."
- Ellen Bass
The deepest and richest source for your writing is your own life. The story of your life is tremendous. It is full of joy and pain, loss and beauty. It is a story of love, and it is a story of the challenges of becoming fully human. Your story contains details and characters no one could possibly make up. In this workshop you'll have the opportunity to focus on a memoir theme that calls to you. We'll approach this theme from different angles so that you leave the workshop with a rich body of work. We'll practice the art of telling a story how we remember it - sticking to the truth while acknowledging that memory is a creative act that also requires our current perspective and imagination. When we write our true stories we gain insight and understanding. Writing our stories liberates us. Sharing them with others is a gift to the world.
No writing experience necessary.
To register or for more information, contact Dawn at: dawn@pdxwomenwriters.com
For more information visit: www.pdxwomenwriters.com
Indigo Workshops
Please join us Saturday, November 12 for an exploration of the meaning of mythology and legacy for writers.
Saturday, November 12
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Personal Mythology in Fiction and Nonfiction with Susan DeFreitas
Among the many anecdotes that make up our personal histories, some stories stand out—stories that exemplify who we are, how we’ve come to know ourselves, and what we value as people. In this creative writing workshop, we’ll explore the power of these stories as source material in both nonfiction/memoir and fiction, drawing on the deep well of our personal mythologies in creating resonant prose.
Building an Author’s Legacy with Ali McCart
It’s natural to want to build a legacy with your work as a writer. The less intuitive part is how to go about doing it. In this workshop, we’ll extend the exploration of your personal mythologies to include the legacies you’ve already (probably unwittingly) created. Then we’ll incorporate all those into a marketing plan that helps you build a supportive fan base, a solid author platform, and a successful profit margin. The rest of the legacy just has to unfold. Writers at any stage in their process will find this workshop helpful.
Indigo proudly offers monthly workshop double features—the first to coach your craft, the second to boost your writing as a business—that combine into three insightful hours for only $50. Preregistration is required. Learn more and register at www.indigoediting.com.
Saturday, November 12
10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Personal Mythology in Fiction and Nonfiction with Susan DeFreitas
Among the many anecdotes that make up our personal histories, some stories stand out—stories that exemplify who we are, how we’ve come to know ourselves, and what we value as people. In this creative writing workshop, we’ll explore the power of these stories as source material in both nonfiction/memoir and fiction, drawing on the deep well of our personal mythologies in creating resonant prose.
Building an Author’s Legacy with Ali McCart
It’s natural to want to build a legacy with your work as a writer. The less intuitive part is how to go about doing it. In this workshop, we’ll extend the exploration of your personal mythologies to include the legacies you’ve already (probably unwittingly) created. Then we’ll incorporate all those into a marketing plan that helps you build a supportive fan base, a solid author platform, and a successful profit margin. The rest of the legacy just has to unfold. Writers at any stage in their process will find this workshop helpful.
Indigo proudly offers monthly workshop double features—the first to coach your craft, the second to boost your writing as a business—that combine into three insightful hours for only $50. Preregistration is required. Learn more and register at www.indigoediting.com.
Time to Write Workshop
Each session uses unique assignments to help you discover and develop your voice as well as create new material. Unlike a critique workshop, we’ll focus on the process, not the result, so that you’ll have many new pieces to pursue and revise. You'll also learn a variety of tips and techniques that will enable you to create writing time and space in your own life after the class is complete.
work
Teacher: Dave Jarecki
Teacher: Dave Jarecki
Time: Saturdays, October 22 - November 19
Location: Attic Institute, 4232 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Loggernaut Reading Series
The Loggernaut Reading Series presents "Shade," featuring readings by:
Matty Byloos
Kerry Cohen
Amy Martin
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
7:30 pm
at Ristretto Roasters
3808 N. Williams Ave
Portland, OR 97227
Matty Byloos's first collection of short stories, Don't Smell the Floss, was published in 2009 by Write Bloody Books. His work has been published or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Everyday Genius, Housefire, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, We Who Are About to Die, Orion Magazine, and The Portland Review. He is the editor and publisher of Smalldoggies Magazine, and co-hosts (with Carrie Seitzinger) the Smalldoggies Reading Series in Portland. His first novel, It Has Always Been the End, will be released on Housefire Publishing in early 2012.
Amy Martin, the author of Symphony City (McSweeney's Books 2011), spent the first part of her career designing magazines and newspapers, including The Advocate, The Detroit Free Press, and The Los Angeles Times. She has since created work for 826LA, The San Francisco Panorama, Public Option Please, The New York Times, Foreign Policy Magazine, Knock Knock, Death Cab for Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, and Band of Horses. Her posters have been shown at Manifest Hope, Re:Form School, and the 2010 California Design Biennial. She lives in Portland.
Matty Byloos
Kerry Cohen
Amy Martin
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
7:30 pm
at Ristretto Roasters
3808 N. Williams Ave
Portland, OR 97227
Matty Byloos's first collection of short stories, Don't Smell the Floss, was published in 2009 by Write Bloody Books. His work has been published or is forthcoming in numerous publications, including Everyday Genius, Housefire, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, We Who Are About to Die, Orion Magazine, and The Portland Review. He is the editor and publisher of Smalldoggies Magazine, and co-hosts (with Carrie Seitzinger) the Smalldoggies Reading Series in Portland. His first novel, It Has Always Been the End, will be released on Housefire Publishing in early 2012.
Kerry Cohen is the author of six books, including Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity; Seeing Ezra: A Mother's Story of Autism, Unconditional Love, and the Meaning of Normal; and Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity.
Scott Nadelson & Lidia Yuknavitch at The Press Club
Please join Mountain Writers Series the third Wednesday of each month for literary readings at SE Portland’s most literate wine café, The Press Club, at 2621 S.E. Clinton.
Wednesday, September 21, 7:30 PM
Scott Nadelson & Lidia Yuknavitch
Scott Nadelson is author of three story collections: Aftermath (Hawthorne Books, 2011); The Cantor’s Daughter, winner of the Samuel Goldberg & Sons Fiction Prize for Emerging Jewish Writers and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize; and Saving Stanley: The Brickman Stories, winner of the Oregon Book Award for short fiction and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. Nadelson teaches creative writing at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.
Lidia Yuknavitch is the author of the memoir The Chronology of Water and a forthcoming novel, The Small Backs of Children, both from Hawthorne Books. She has three previous collections of short stories, Her Other Mouths, Liberty's Excess, and Real to Reel. Her stories and creative nonfiction appear widely in literary journals and anthologies. She is the recipient of awards from Literary Arts, Poets and Writers, and the Oregon Arts Council. She teaches writing, literature and women's studies at Mt. Hood Community College; she lives in Portland with her writer/filmmaker husband Andy Mingo and their renaissance man son, Miles. Her other love, is water.
Weekly Writing Practice (Time to Write!)
Portland Women Writers, Traci Schatz
8 Tuesday Mornings, September 13-November 1
10:00am-12:30pm, $160.00
Location: NE Portland
Many of us hold the dream of writing. We sense that there are stories living inside of us that need to be told, but in our busy lives, we have not been able to create the time, space or circumstances to explore this.
This fall, write in a community of others with a weekly practice group. In this group, we will use fiction, memoir and poetry
Participants will also have the opportunity to receive feedback from the group on works-in-progress.
Come join us and see where your writing takes you! No previous writing experience necessary.
To register contact Traci: traci@pdxwomenwriters.
8 Tuesday Mornings, September 13-November 1
10:00am-12:30pm, $160.00
Location: NE Portland
Many of us hold the dream of writing. We sense that there are stories living inside of us that need to be told, but in our busy lives, we have not been able to create the time, space or circumstances to explore this.
This fall, write in a community of others with a weekly practice group. In this group, we will use fiction, memoir and poetry
Participants will also have the opportunity to receive feedback from the group on works-in-progress.
Come join us and see where your writing takes you! No previous writing experience necessary.
To register contact Traci: traci@pdxwomenwriters.
The Memoir Master Class Series with NY Times Bestselling memoir writer, Jennifer Lauck
Monday nights, Sept. 12 to Nov. 14, from 5:30 – 9:00 p.m. in Portland.
Develop skill in the area of scene, point of view, arc, plot, dialogue, setting and detail infusion. Writers also learn about the effective navigation of reflective writing and how to explore memory without being confined or limited. While this is a class geared toward the memoir writer, fiction writers are welcome too. Prompts, teaching, workshopping.
Cost: $350.00 for the non-reader (space available, advance conversation required)
$500.00 for the work shopped student (three spots available and you must be pre-approved).
Write to Jennifer for more details at jclauck@gmail.com
Literary Death Match!
Literary Death Match is (finally) speeding back Portland-ward for a gorgeous literary and comedy trainwreck with some of the city's finest minds. Be there to share in the PDX brilliance!
Featuring Live Wire's genius poet Scott Poole (The Sliding Door), pond-hopping journalist Fiona McCann, hilarious novelist G. Xavier Robillard (Captain Freedom: A Superhero's Quest for Truth, Justice and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves), and saucy mistress of memoir Cheryl Strayed (Wild)!
Three unflappable judges control fate: From Future Tense Books, Kevin Sampsell (A Common Pornography), punk rock icon Rozz Rezabek, and Live Wire! Radio's goddess of hilarity Courtenay Hameister.
Hosted by LDM West Coast's executive producer Alia Volz.
Where: Disjecta, 8371 N Interstate Avenue, Portland (map)
When: Doors at 7, Show at 8:05 (sharp); afterdrinks after.
Cost: $6 advance; $10 at the door
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