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.

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.

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.

The program is free and no registration is required although space is limited. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Cindy Hudson is author of Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs (Seal Press, October 2009)

Visit her on the web at MotherDaughterBookClub.com and MotherDaughterBookClub.wordpress.com.

Learn more at: http://www.friendsofmystery.org/meeting.htm.   Further info, contact:  Elinore Rogers: ejrogers@hevanet.com, or Bill Cameron: site@friendsofmystery.org

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

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

Finish your poetry collection in 2010.  Six-month poetry manuscript intensive

In this online course for advanced poets, you will polish and finalize poems, organize a manuscript and prepare to send it out for publication in community and with the support of other poets.

Take the steps that can make your literary goals achievable
One-on-one coaching, consulting and editing services for poets and writers
Timing to be arranged on an individual basis
Partnering with a trusted and expert guide to define and then achieve your goals can help accelerate your productivity, publishing and profit.

Learn more and register: http://writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com/writing_the_life_poetic/study-with-sage/

Sage Cohen is the author of /Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry/ (Writers Digest Books, 2009) and the poetry collection /Like the Heart, the World/. Her book /The Productive Writer: Success Strategies for Writing More and Selling More/ is forthcoming from Writer’s Digest Books in 2010. Sage writes four monthly columns about the craft and business of writing and serves as Poetry Editor for /VoiceCatcher 4/. She has won first prize in the Ghost Road Press poetry contest and been awarded a Soapstone residency.

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.

Writing for the Nature Traveler   Facilitator: Lili DeBarbieri

Fee: $200
www.ibexstudios.com/workshops.htm

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

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

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*
*We’re partnering with Everybody Reads 2010 for this discussion.  Everybody Reads is a community-wide book discussion in partnership with Multnomah County Library. Everybody is invited to join u

Writing our Bellies Full Online Workshop   Facilitator: Becca Deysach

Fee: $175 before February 1, $225 thereafter. www.ibexstudios.com/workshops.htm

Downtown Camas, WA hosts "Arts & Letters" event during the March First Friday on March 5, 2010.

The downtown Camas merchants will host Clark County authors, (with preference for Camas and Washougal authors) to sign and sell their books in their shops during March First Friday. There is no fee to participate (beyond a signed copy of the author's book) and further, the merchants have generously agreed to charge no consignment fees (approximately 3% fee for credit card transactions, if this service is used).

There will be readings in the new church, Journey, for authors who would like to read from their work. There will also be a raffle of the collection of signed books donated by the authors, proceeds to benefit the nonprofit Friends of the Camas Library.

Local authors interested in attending this event are invited to send a short blurb about their book/s and themselves to either: Ron Gompertz - gompertz@yahoo.com or Blythe Ayne, Ph.D. - Blythe@1blythe.com

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

Learn more at: http://www.friendsofmystery.org/meeting.htm.   Further info, contact:  Elinore Rogers: ejrogers@hevanet.com, or Bill Cameron: site@friendsofmystery.org

Learn more at: http://www.friendsofmystery.org/meeting.htm.   Further info, contact:  Elinore Rogers: ejrogers@hevanet.com, or Bill Cameron: site@friendsofmystery.org