OWC PRESENTS SPECIAL NOTICE

OWC Presents! will move to the Looking Glass Bookstore, 7983 SE 13th Avenue in the Sellwood neighborhood in May, after nearly a decade of association with Powell’s Books in Beaverton . 

Karin Anna, Looking Glass Bookstore owner, will open the store—normally closed on Mondays—the  4th Monday evening of each month, to welcome OWC members and the general public to this continuing series of writers reading and talking about different aspects of the writing craft.

Organizers of OWC Presents! are excited about the move to Looking Glass Bookstore.  The reading space is bright and ample, complete with a glass wall that faces onto a garden.  (The little red caboose entry to the store belies the spacious rooms beyond.)  And, Karin Anna and her staff are warm and eager to welcome one and all. 

Between now and the 4th Monday in May, members are encouraged to stop by the Looking Glass Bookstore, thank Karin Anna for her willingness to open the store on her night off, take a look at the reading space, peruse the book shelves and buy a book.

OWC’s parting with Powell’s Books, Beaverton , is, as they say “amicable.” Organizers are grateful for the many years of service Powell’s staff have provided and wish them continued success.

 

OWC Presents! is a series of FREE workshops for or about writers and writing. Workshops are held the 4th Monday of each month at Looking Glass Bookstore, 7983 SE 13th Ave. in the Sellwood neighborhood 

7:00 p.m.

 

Monday, May 26, 2008

DOREEN GANDY WILEY

Doreen Gandy Wiley

Gandy Wiley’s memoir Recipe From an Oyster is a collection of thematically arranged essays, enhanced by deeply felt poetry, about life in the United States after her grim experiences in WWII in the Philippines and the dramatic life-altering events that followed. Chapters about death, a near-fatal accident, being robbed at knifepoint in Mexico, bypass surgery, plus insights into a writer’s life, keep the pages turning. Doreen has had four books of poetry published, a memoir, One Hundred Candles, and a novel Fires of Survival, which won the National League of American Pen Women award for best historical novel in 1996. She actively promotes poetry and writing, locally, regionally and nationally.

Monday, June 23, 2008 

Donna Henderson, Poet

Poet Donna Henderson will discuss “What the Poem Knows.”  Henderson’s chapbook , Gazpacho, contains a sequence of poems on the final illness and death of her mother, together with watercolors by her sister Darcy V. Henderson.  Her chapbook Transparent Woman, produced on a letterpress from handset type, printed on fine paper and bound with string, was a finalist for the 1997 Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Fireweed, First Things, Room of One's Own, and other magazines. Her reviews and articles have been published in journals of spirituality, literary scholarship and social work. She has received various state, national and international recognitions, including a Pushcart Prize nomination and she has completed her first full-length collection of poems, Are You With Me Here? Her photography and mixed media artwork is regularly exhibited at the River Gallery in Independence as well as in one-woman shows around the Willamette Valley. She is a licensed clinical social worker with a private practice in pyschotherapy in Monmouth, teaches counseling at Western Oregon University and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Martha Gies

Martha Gies

How do we decide when immersion journalism best serves our subject? What is added by putting ourselves in the text? What would Nickel and Dimed have been had Ehrenreich interviewed low-income wage earners instead of going undercover and doing these jobs herself? At what point in the research or interview process do we include or exclude ourselves? Martha Gies will read from Up All Night, her portrait of 23 people who work graveyard shift, and talk about the decisions a writer makes in the course of composing a work based on interviews and research.

 

 

 

Return to Home Page