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
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.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
More than Marriage Nonfiction Anthology
Ooligan Press seeks creative nonfiction and personal essays from LGBTQ writers of the Pacific Northwest for the anthology More than Marriage (working title). The anthology will add fresh voices to an ongoing conversation about queer equality, with the understanding that the national focus on gay marriage may not answer the most pressing concerns for many members of the community. These include, but are not limited to, experiences with healthcare and employment, definitions of family and partnerships that extend beyond the nuclear or monogamous traditions, definitions of home, explorations of visibility, of equality, and more. What is important to you? We seek diverse perspectives and strongly encourage trans* writers, writers of color, rural and working class writers to submit.
Authors should identify as LGBTQ. Submissions should have some relationship to the Pacific Northwest. Authors may submit works of no more than 5,000 words each to https://ooliganpress.
Deadline to submit is November 15, 2013.
About the Press:
Ooligan Press is a general trade publisher rooted in the rich literary tradition of the Pacific Northwest. From this wealth of culture, Ooligan Press aspires to discover works that reflect the values and attitudes that inspire so many to call the Northwest their home. We recognize the importance of diversity, particularly within the publishing industry, and are committed to building a literary community that includes traditionally underrepresented voices; therefore, we are interested in works originating from, or focusing on, marginalized communities of the Pacific Northwest.
About the Editor:
Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour, a finalist for the 2013 Oregon Book Award, the Lambda Literary Debut Fiction Award, and the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award. He is winner of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, and the recipient of a 2013 project grant from the Regional Arts & Culture Council. Carter has taught creative writing classes for the Attic Institute, Hugo House, and Gotham Writers’ Workshop. He is currently visiting faculty for West Virginia Wesleyan's Low Res MFA Program. Carter lives in Portland, Oregon.
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
ATTIC ATHENEUM FACULTY TO READ AT BROADWAY BOOKS
7 pm on Thursday September 5 at 7 pm.
In celebration of the Attic Institute’s Atheneum Master Writing Program and its incoming class of Atheneum Fellows, the faculty from this groundbreaking program will read from their work.
The Atheneum Master Writing Program is an annual certificate program that melds independent study under close faculty supervision, student receptions, public readings, and other special events created around good writing and dialog within the literary community. The program is designed to advance student’s writing and seed literary life in the city of Portland. Atheneum Fellows form a unique community of literary artists and citizens.
Scheduled to read at this event are writers and faculty members David Biespiel, Karen Karbo, Lee Montgomery, Wendy Willis, Merridawn Duckler, and Greg Robillard.
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.
PDX Women's Writers Retreat At Silver Falls
2013 Silver Falls RetreatNovember 1 - 3
with Sidra & Dawn at
Silver Falls Conference Center
This retreat, in the enchanted
forest of Silver Falls, offers the opportunity to renew your connection with your body, your heart, your creativity, and the Earth.
In an atmosphere of acceptance and support, we'll use writing, yoga, meditation, collage, movement, silence, ritual and time in nature to regenerate our vitality and creativity, reconnect with our authentic self, release old stories that no longer serve us and renew our visions and dreams. Enjoy delicious means prepared for you and a comfortable cabin tucked away in the magical forest of Silver Falls. There will also be time to explore the natural wonders of this unique state park. All women are welcome - no previous writing experience needed. 10 participants max. |
Details:
*Cost is $420 for a shared cabin and $470 for a single (a very limited amount of single cabins available) *$150 deposit holds your spot; balance is due 2 weeks before the retreat; deposit is refundable minus a $35 processing fee with at least 2 weeks cancellation notice. *The retreat begins with dinner Friday evening, and ends on Sunday afternoon. Contact Sidra for more info or to register: sidra@pdxwomenwriters.com or 503-317-5148 |
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]
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY MFA PROGRAM READING SERIES
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN WRITING PROGRAM PRESENTS ANNUAL READING SERIES ON FOREST GROVE CAMPUS: JUNE 21-28
The Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing program will once again host readings by some of America’s finest writers during its 10-day residency on the Forest Grove campus.
Free and open to the public, the evening readings take place at 7:30 p.m. from Friday, June 21, through Friday, June 28, in the Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center which is also the location for the day readings. Taylor-Meade is located on campus at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Cedar Street in Forest Grove.
This event is a rare opportunity to hear some of the best writers of contemporary American literature read on successive evenings. Featured authors include fiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, a National Book Award finalist; and poet Kwame Dawes, Emmy Award winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
EVENING READING SCHEDULE – 7:30 p.m.6/21 Kwame Dawes, Mary Helen Stefaniak & Kellie Wells
6/22 Jack Driscoll, Pam Houston & David St. John
6/23 Ellen Bass, Craig Lesley & David Long
6/24 Mike Magnuson, Joseph Millar & Christine Sneed
6/26 Marvin Bell, Bonnie Jo Campbell & Scott Korb
6/27 Sandra Alcosser, Carolyn Coman & Claire Davis
6/28 Debra Gwartney, Anna Journey & Dorianne Laux
DAYTIME READING SCHEDULE – 1:30 p.m.6/25 Frank Gaspar & Laura Pritchett
6/28 Steve Amick & Laura Hendrie
The Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Writing program will once again host readings by some of America’s finest writers during its 10-day residency on the Forest Grove campus.
Free and open to the public, the evening readings take place at 7:30 p.m. from Friday, June 21, through Friday, June 28, in the Taylor-Meade Performing Arts Center which is also the location for the day readings. Taylor-Meade is located on campus at the corner of Pacific Avenue and Cedar Street in Forest Grove.
This event is a rare opportunity to hear some of the best writers of contemporary American literature read on successive evenings. Featured authors include fiction writer Bonnie Jo Campbell, a National Book Award finalist; and poet Kwame Dawes, Emmy Award winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
EVENING READING SCHEDULE – 7:30 p.m.6/21 Kwame Dawes, Mary Helen Stefaniak & Kellie Wells
6/22 Jack Driscoll, Pam Houston & David St. John
6/23 Ellen Bass, Craig Lesley & David Long
6/24 Mike Magnuson, Joseph Millar & Christine Sneed
6/26 Marvin Bell, Bonnie Jo Campbell & Scott Korb
6/27 Sandra Alcosser, Carolyn Coman & Claire Davis
6/28 Debra Gwartney, Anna Journey & Dorianne Laux
DAYTIME READING SCHEDULE – 1:30 p.m.6/25 Frank Gaspar & Laura Pritchett
6/28 Steve Amick & Laura Hendrie
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]
Loggernaut with Lenox, Ponteri and Martone
We're excited about our next reading, Wednesday, April 10th, at 7:30pm at
Ristretto Roasters (3808 N. Williams Ave, Portland, OR):
JAY PONTERI, STEPHANIE LENOX, and from Alabama, MICHAEL MARTONE!
The prompt for the reading is TRIP.
We hope you can make it!
-Loggernaut
http://www.loggernaut.org/readings
https://www.facebook.com/events/227532257388887/
~~~
STEPHANIE LENOX is the author of the poetry collection Congress of Strange
People (Airlie Press) and the chapbook The Heart That Lies Outside the
Body. Her work has appeared widely in journals and she's received
fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Oregon Arts
Commission. She teaches poetry at Willamette University and edits the
online literary journal Blood Orange Review. She lives in Salem with her
family.
MICHAEL MARTONE's most recent books are Four for a Quarter, Not Normal,
Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover, a collection of essays called
Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, and Double-wide,
his collected early stories. Michael Martone, a memoir in contributor's
notes, Unconventions, Writing on Writing, and Rules of Thumb, edited with
Susan Neville, were all published recently, too. He is also the author of
The Blue Guide to Indiana and Alive and Dead in Indiana. Martone is
currently a professor at the University of Alabama and a faculty member of
the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
JAY PONTERI is the author of the newly published memoir Wedlocked
(Hawthorne Books 2013). He directs the undergraduate creative writing
program at Marylhurst University and Show: Tell, The Workshop for Teen
Writers & Artists. He is the founding editor of both the online literary
magazine M Review and HABIT Books. His work has appeared in Tin House,
Puerto Del Sol, and Seattle Review; "Listen to This," was chosen as a
Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2010. He has interviewed Jim
Shepard, David Shields, and David Means for Loggernaut. Ponteri lives in
Portland with his family.
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
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
VoiceCatcher Reading
VoiceCatcher: Readings
When: Sat, Mar 23, 2013; 1:00 to 3:00- Melanie Green
- Tricia Knoll
- Sally Lehman
- Donna Prinzmetal
- Kristin Roedell
- Kelly Running
- Penelope Scambly Schott
- Leah Stenson
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