sylvia beach

Christopher Vogler is a motion picture producer, a story consultant to major movie companies, and the author of The Writer's Journey. From 1994 to 1999 he was a development executive at Fox 2000 Pictures. Prior to that he was a staff story consultant for the Walt Disney Company. He continues to consult for major companies, including Warner Bros. Feature Animation, Walt Disney Imagineering and IBM.
           Chris studied film-making at the USC School of Cinema, where he encountered the ideas of mythologist Joseph Campbell who had a profound effect on him and a whole generation of movie-makers, including George Lucas.
          Chris developed Campbell 's concept of The Hero's Journey into a structure guide for writers. It began as a legendary seven-page memo that he wrote for his own amusement while working at Disney in the mid-1980s. It soon became required reading for young executives in Hollywood .
          Chris is also known as a teacher and lecturer, beginning with the UCLA Extension Writers Program and then developing workshops that he has presented all over the U.S. and around the world. He is now a member of the faculty at the USC Animation Department in the School of Cinema-Television.

Place

For 26 years, the Sylvia Beach Hotel has been home to the Oregon Writers Colony Spring Conference. We arrived the second week they were open, and have not missed a year since. The Sylvia Beach Hotel and Oregon Writers Colony Spring Conference have grown up together.

Many attendees return year after year, not only for the quality presentations, but ambiance of the Sylvia Beach Hotel. Whether they sit with an editor at breakfast, lunch or dinner, chat with a published writer/teacher over wine in the library, or join a fellow writer who has already been published for a brisk walk on the beach, the limited number of only 50 people guarantees each attendee the opportunity for meaningful, instructive one-on-one conversations.

Click on the picture of Sylvia Beach Hotel for more information on the hotel

The opening event on Friday evening is a wine and cheese get-acquainted reception. You'll also have an opportunity to view all the rooms in the hotel before 7:00 p.m.

We offer a critique group up in the library in the late evenings, so be prepared to read a few pages of your work. The mystique of Sylvia Beach will seduce you as we take over the hotel for the weekend and live vicariously in the rooms of Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Agatha Christie, etc.

2008 FEES AND REGISTRATION

REGISTRATION FORM--SPRING CONFERENCE 2008

Please print out and mail this form with payment in full to: OWC Spring Conference, P.O. Box 15200, Portland OR 97293

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PLEASE INDICATE THE TYPE OF ACCOMMODATION YOU ARE PAYING FOR BY CIRCLING IT

TYPE OF ACCOMMODATION

Per MEMBER

Per NONMEMBER

Dorm, 3rd floor, share bath in hall

$235

$270

Share room, share bed

$270

$305

Share room, separate beds

$310

$345

Private room (only five available) FULL

~~$385 FULL~~

~~$420 FULL~~

Three to a room: share bed, MUST register together

$250

$285

Private room with non-participating partner

$500 per both

$535 per both

NOTE: NON MEMBER PRICES INCLUDE A ONE YEAR MEMBERSHIP IN OWC

Please pay in full by credit card or check. Make checks payable to Oregon Writers Colony

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations must be received no later than seven days in advance and are subject to a $35 cancellation fee. Cancellations received after seven days are non-refundable.

Sending in your registration form indicates that you have read and understand our cancellation policy