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Events for writers in the Pacific Northwest. Space prohibits us from providing full information, but we've tried to include all contact info sent to us.
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| OWC items have links to registration forms and an information page, if we have all the information. We include links or other methods of contact for other organizations' workshops when they are given to us. |
| DATE | TIME | LOCATION | DESCRIPTION |
| Oregon Writers Colony Listings 2010 (others listed below) | |||
| 1/31/10 | 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. | SW Portland Location | Coffee, Tea and OWC: Character Of and In Scenes. Eric Witchey ($25) |
| 2/20-21/2010 | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day | Portland Metro Area |
Oregon Writers Colony Workshop: Marjorie Reynolds, author of The Starlite Drive-in and The Civil Wars of Jonah Moran, presents “Pitch, Query and Synopsis”, a two-day course in putting your best foot forward in all three of these areas. |
| 2/22/2010 | 7:00 | Looking Glass Bookstore, 7983 SE 13th, Portland in the Sellwood Neighborhood |
OWC Presents! Bibi Gaston, author of The Loveliest Woman in America. A biography of Rosamond Pinchot. Nearly seventy years after her demise, Bibi received a box of more than 1,500 pages of Rosamond's diaries and embarked on a seven-year journey to make sense of the silence that surrounded Rosamond's death and to discover the grandmother she never knew. |
| 3/3/10 | TBA | OWC Sampler: Karen L. Azinger on Writing Fantasy | |
| 3/13/2010 | TBA | Lloyd Center |
Oregon Writers Colony Workshop: New Writers Workshop, aimed specifically at those who are new to the craft of writing. Confirmed presenters are Larry Brooks, Steve Perry, Jessica Morrell. We're still awaiting confirmation from a fourth panel member. |
| April 9-11, 2010 OWC Spring Conference will feature author Jennie Shortridge and Agent, Verna Dreisbach. | |||
| ALL OTHER LISTINGS | |||
| 1/26/10 | 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Northwest Library 2300 N.W. Thurman St. Portland, OR 97210 Phone: 503.988.5560 |
How to Start a
Mother-Daughter Book Club by Cindy Hudson, author of Book by Book: The
Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs
Age Group: Families, Grades K-5, Grades 6-8, Teens Description: This hands-on presentation will help you create your own mother-daughter book club, with activities to help you determine who to invite, where to meet, how you can run the meeting and how to choose the books. Other areas to be addressed include troubleshooting issues that arise and ways to keep your club vibrant for years.
The program is free and no registration is required although space is
limited. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. |
| 1/28/2010 | 7:00 p.m. | Terwilliger Plaza Conference Room on P3 level, 2545 Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR. (Free Parking is available at the 6th Avenue lots Between Caruthers and Sheridan Streets)Tri-Met bus #8, Jackson Park, stops just in front of the lower level entrance. |
Friends of Mystery bi-monthly meeting. Speaker to be announced Learn more at: http://www.friendsofmystery.org/meeting.htm. Further info, contact: Elinore Rogers: ejrogers@hevanet.com, or Bill Cameron: site@friendsofmystery.org |
| 1/28/10 | 7:00 p.m. | Broadway Books, 1714 NE Broadway, Portland | Come celebrate the life of William Stafford, hosted by Joanna Rose. Featuring Stevan Allred, Jane Glazer, John Morrison, and FWS Board Member Don Colburn. Contact: Roberta Dyer 503-284-1726 bookbroads@aol.com or Joanna Rose joannarose@earthlink.net |
| 1/28/10 | 7:00 p.m. |
BARNES & NOBLE CLACKAMAS TOWN CENTER 12000 SE 82nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97086 Phone: (503) 786-3464 |
The Bibliotheque Society Book Group reads and discusses a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles on the last Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to join in this fun and passionate book group discussion. Our Barnes & Noble Café will serve refreshments. New members are always welcome. Title for Discussion: Collapse by Jared Diamond |
| 1/28/10 | 7:00 p.m. | Branford P. Millar Library, Portland State University, 1875 Park Avenue (Park & Hall), Portland. | PSU hosts an evening to celebrate the life of William Stafford, featuring Michael Achterman, Marie Buckley, Michele Glazer, Wendy Noonan, Kirsten Rian, and FWS Board Member Shelley Reece. Contact: Kimberly Willson-St. Clair 503-725-4552 willsons@pdx.edu or Shelley Reece reeces@pdx.edu |
| 1/30/10 | 2:00 p.m. | Artists Repertory Theatre, SW 15th and Alder, Portland |
"The Wilde Boy" A new
play by Cynthia Whitcomb free reading at Artists Repertory Theatre
Open seating, and it's FREE! |
| 1/30/10 | 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. | Looking Glass Book Store, 7983 SE 13th Ave., Portland (new Sellwood location) | Celebrate the life of William Stafford with Robin Bagai and Willa Schneberg. Featuring Lois Baker, Sage Cohen, Robert McFarlane, Shawn Sorensen, and FWS Board Member Paulann Petersen. Contact: lookingglassbook@qwest.net or Willa Schneberg snowmntn@comcast.net |
| 1/30/10 | 2:00 p.m. | Oregon City Library, 362 Warner Milne Road, Oregon City | This event to celebrate the life of William Stafford will be part of the Oregon City Library’s 100th year celebration. Hosted by Deb Stone. Featuring Christine Delea, Jim Grabill, Cindy Williams Gutierrez, Ron Talney, Karen Weliky, and FWS Board Member Nancy Winklesky. Contact Deb Stone iwritedeb@gmail.com |
| 1/31/10 | 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. | SW Portland Location | Coffee, Tea and OWC: Seminar II: Character Of and In Scenes. Eric Witchey ($25) |
| 1/31/10 | Noon to 6:00 p.m. | Zenger Farm |
Pen and Hearth: A bread-baking and creative writing workshop. Facilitator: Becca Deysach Fee: $75 before December 20, $90 thereafter. Includes ingredients for a loaf of organic bread per person. www.ibexstudios.com/workshops.htm |
| 1/31/10 | 2:00 p.m. | Multnomah Central Library, US Bank Room, 801 SW 10th Ave., Portland. | Celebrate the life of William Stafford with FWS Emeritus Board Member Joseph Soldati. Featuring Joel Berning, Kate Gray, Carlos Reyes, Penelope Scambly Schott, and FWS Board member Tim Barnes. Joel Berning, a third-year Master of Divinity student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, will present "William Stafford as a Minister." Contact: Joseph Soldati jasole@comcast.net |
| 1/31/10 | 2:00 p.m. | Hillsboro Main Library, 2850 NE Brookwood Parkway, Hillsboro | Mark Thalman hosts an afternoon to celebrate the life of William Stafford. Featuring Marie Buckley, Barbara Drake, Ellen Hart, Holly Springfield, and FWS Emeritus Board Member Sue Einowski. Contact: Hillary Garrett hillaryg@ci.hillsboro.or.us. 503-615-6500 or Mark Thalman mark@markthalman.com |
| 2/1/10 thru 7/31/10 | On-line Class | On-line Class |
2010 classes with Sage Cohen
Write, publish and live the life you've always wanted. Live and
write a poetic life.
Finish your poetry collection in 2010. Six-month
poetry manuscript intensive Learn more and register:
http://writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com/writing_the_life_poetic/study-with-sage/ |
| 2/2/10 | 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. | Newport Public Library |
Fiction Workshop with Naseem Rakha. Willamette Writers Coast Branch continues its free Writers-on-Writing workshops with Naseem Rakha. Known for her voice as an award-winning journalist on National Public Radio, Ms. Rakha will be leading a workshop on writing fiction following the resounding success of her debut novel, The Crying Tree which was nominated for an Oregon Book Award and recently won one of five Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Awards.The Writers-on-Writing series is also sponsored by the Newport Public Library and the Sylvia Beach Hotel. Contacts: Kelly Kittel, 961-6728, kellykittel@gmail.com; Dorothy Blackcrow Mack, 765-2383, dmack@centurytel.net; www.willamettewriters.com. |
| 2/3/10 thru 3/10/10 | On-line | On-line |
Writing for the Nature Traveler Facilitator: Lili DeBarbieri Fee: $200 |
| 2/3/10 | Blackbird Wine Shop, 4323 NE Fremont, 7-9pm. |
Oregon Literary Review co-hosts First Wednesdays, a series of readings, performances and wine-tasting. This show is 21 and over. Contact Julie Mae Madsen at maemadsen@gmail.com for more information. The readers for February 3 are Ana Callan, Alissa Nielsen, Lauren Schmidt, Bennett Huffman |
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| 2/11/10 | 4:00 p.m. | Dudley's Bookshop Cafe at 135 Minnesota Ave. in downtown Bend. | The Nature of Words (NOW), Central Oregon's premier literary organization, grand opening of The Storefront Project, a creative writing workshop and tutoring site for middle- and high-schoolers Students can enroll in a four-workshop series on a drop-in basis at no charge. Taking a page from David Eggers' 826 Valencia concept in San Francisco, which is now in urban centers nationwide, NOW's Storefront Project will offer its workshops and one-on-one tutoring on Mondays and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., with special programs offered on Saturday. In addition, field trips can be arranged whereby classrooms visit The Storefront during school hours for creative writing instruction. |
| 2/11/10 | 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. | 2021 SE Clinton |
Leave the Flowers Be: Be a Love Poet. Facilitator: Claudia F. Savage Fee: $30, includes fine, handcrafted cards, art materials, and instruction www.ibexstudios.com/workshops.htm |
| 2/12/10 | 2:00 p.m. | Cannon Beach Library, 131 Hemlock St., Cannon Beach. | Jess Walter, whose satiric "Financial Lives of the Poets" was Time magazine's second favorite novel of 2009 will speak. His book about a man whose business news blog in blank verse is a financial disaster has been reviewed as "a superb farce" on National Public Radio, "darkly funny, surprisingly tender" in the Los Angeles Times and as "blazing satire" by Publisher's Weekly. The library and the Cannon Beach Book Co. sponsor the free Northwest Authors series on the second Saturday of each month.In March the speaker will be Tod Davies, who will talk about her diary of cooking with what you've got, "Jam Today." Gregg Olsen, journalist and investigative crime author of “Heart of Ice” and “Victim Six,' will be the April speaker. One of Oregon's best known writers, Ursula Le Guin, is scheduled for May. |
| 2/20 & 2/21/10 | Daytime | TBA | Oregon Writers Colony Workshop: Marjorie Reynolds, author of The Starlite Drive-in and The Civil Wars of Jonah Moran, presents “Pitch, Query and Synopsis”, a two-day course in putting your best foot forward in all three of these areas. |
| 2/22/10 | 7:00 p.m. | Looking Glass Bookstore, 7983 SE 13th, Portland in the Sellwood Neighborhood | OWC Presents! Bibi Gaston, author of The Loveliest Woman in America. A biography of Rosamond Pinchot. Nearly seventy years after her demise, Bibi received a box of more than 1,500 pages of Rosamond's diaries and embarked on a seven-year journey to make sense of the silence that surrounded Rosamond's death and to discover the grandmother she never knew. |
| 2/25/10 | 7:00 p.m. |
BARNES & NOBLE CLACKAMAS TOWN CENTER 12000 SE 82nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97086 Phone: (503) 786-3464 |
The Bibliotheque Society Book Group reads and discusses a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles on the last Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to join in this fun and passionate book group discussion. Our Barnes & Noble Café will serve refreshments. New members are always welcome.
Title for Discussion: The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson* |
| 3/3/10 | TBA | OWC Sampler: Karen L. Azinger on Writing Fantasy | |
| 3/4/10 to 4/15/10 | On-line | On-line |
Writing our Bellies Full Online Workshop Facilitator: Becca Deysach Fee: $175 before February 1, $225 thereafter. www.ibexstudios.com/workshops.htm |
| 3/5/10 | TBA | Various Locations |
Downtown Camas, WA hosts
"Arts & Letters" event during the March First Friday on March 5, 2010.
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| 3/12-14/2010 | 3:00 p.m. Friday to 2:00 p.m. Sunday | Oceanside, Oregon (near Tillamook) |
Writing out the Storm: A women's writing retreat on the coast. Facilitator: Becca Deysach Fee: $180 by December 20, $200 thereafter. Please send a $50 nonrefundable deposit to hold your place. Deposit will be applied to your tuition fee. www.ibexstudios.com/workshops.htm |
| 3/13/2010 | TBA | Lloyd Center | New Writers Workshop, aimed specifically at those who are new to the craft of writing, but good information for all writers. Confirmed presenters are Larry Brooks, Ed Goldberg, Steve Perry, and Jessica Morrell. Info |
| 3/25/2010 | 7:00 p.m. | Terwilliger Plaza Conference Room on P3 level, 2545 Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR. (Free Parking is available at the 6th Avenue lots Between Caruthers and Sheridan Streets)Tri-Met bus #8, Jackson Park, stops just in front of the lower level entrance. |
Friends of Mystery presents: Phil Margolin will
accept the 2009 Spotted Owl Award and will be joined by Robert Dugoni to
discuss writing legal thrillers. Learn more at: http://www.friendsofmystery.org/meeting.htm. Further info, contact: Elinore Rogers: ejrogers@hevanet.com, or Bill Cameron: site@friendsofmystery.org |
| 5/7-9/2010 | All Day | Hallmark Inn and Resort, Newport, Oregon | Northwest Poet's Concord Look for Northwest Poets’ Concord on Facebook for updates and information. |
| 5/27/2010 | 7:00 p.m. | Terwilliger Plaza Conference Room on P3 level, 2545 Terwilliger Blvd, Portland, OR. (Free Parking is available at the 6th Avenue lots Between Caruthers and Sheridan Streets)Tri-Met bus #8, Jackson Park, stops just in front of the lower level entrance. |
Friends of Mystery presents: Fresh Blood, a panel of
up-and-coming authors hosted by best-selling Portlander Chelsea Cain. Learn more at: http://www.friendsofmystery.org/meeting.htm. Further info, contact: Elinore Rogers: ejrogers@hevanet.com, or Bill Cameron: site@friendsofmystery.org |
| 2010 Writers Conferences Scheduled in the West (that we know about). | |||
| 3/11-14/2010 | All Day | OMNI Hotel, Los Angeles | Left Coast Crime www.leftcoastcrime.org/2010 |
| 4/9-11/2010 | All Day | Sylvia Beach Hotel, Newport, Oregon | Oregon Writer's Colony 23rd Annual Spring Conference |
| 8/6-8/2010 | All Day | Sheraton Hotel-Airport, Portland | Willamette Writers Annual Conference |
| 10/14-17/2010 | All Day | San Francisco | 2010 Bouchercon www.bcon2010.com |
| 10/28-31/2010 | All Day | Hilton Hotel, Portland | AGM Jane Austen Society of North America www.jasna.org/agms/portland.com |
| 11/3-11/72010 | All Day | Bend, Oregon | The Nature of Words Conference |
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