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OWC PRESENTS SPECIAL NOTICE OWC Presents! will move to the Looking Glass Bookstore, 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, |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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