Kay Kenyon has spent the last few years writing a four book epic sci-fantasy series, The Entire and the Rose. The series is the story of a man’s odyssey in search of his family through a tunnel universe with a river of fire for a sky. The first books, Bright of the Sky and A World Too Near received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly. SFSite called the milieu “One of the most imaginative creations in recent science fiction history.” Audio editions are available at Audible.com. The third book, City Without End, came out in February. Her shorter work has recently appeared in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction-2 and Fast Forward 2. At www.kaykenyon.com you can sign up for her e-newsletter on writing fiction. She lives in Wenatchee, WA and chairs the Writer on the River Conference there in May www.writeontheriver.org.

Perry P. Perkins and I am the author of two Christian mystery novels, and a contributor to several Chicken Soup anthologies. I was born and raised in Oregon and currently live in Wilsonville.

Steve Perry

Caregiver Blog

Nothing funny about caregiving?  Then you haven’t checked out MsDale’s Caregiver Blog (how I survived care-giving and lived to write about it).  Dale L. Baker, caregiver for her husband the last five years of his life, shares problem-solving episodes of how she coped day-to-day with sleep deprivation, nursing home horrors, nausea, constipation, just to name a few.  If you are a caregiver you’ll enjoy the humor as well as the hands-on tips.  If you aren’t a caregiver, you’ll laugh anyway, giving thanks that it hasn’t happened to you, yet. The website: www.msdale.wordpress.com

Larry Brooks

Kim Majors

MUSINGS OF A PACIFIC NORTHWEST WRITER:
Essays and poems from an African American woman writer living among the Douglas firs. Think of the TV show "Northern Exposure" or "Men in Trees." You get the picture. Small town living adventures! http://blogs.myspace.com/kimajor

Minnette Meador

Minette has a blog where she posts information about her writing. http://www.minnettemeador.blogspot.com/

Chris Mulligan

Paperfort

Literary Arts now offers a Blog with news about Oregon authors. The address is http://paperfort.blogspot.com/ Paper Fort will focus on Oregon's literary community. Feel free to email Susan Denning at susan@literary-arts.org if you'd like to suggest a link.

Steve Perry

http://www.themanwhonevermissed.blogspot.com/

We are www.SpeakWithoutInterruption.com - a new blog, and we are contacting you to invite writers to participate in our new site as contributors.  The original concept for our blog came from the frustration we felt – while watching, or listening, to TV and radio shows where guests/hosts could not finish their conversations because others kept interrupting them.  We now have expanded our concept to include anyone who would like to "Speak Without Interruption". We have a tab on our site www.speakwithoutinterruption.com  entitled "The Writer's Corner" – our invitation is listed there along with our personal invitation today.  Our theory is to give both amateur, and professional, writers a forum to share their views and thoughts.  If anyone is interested they can e-mail SpeakWithoutInterruption@gmail.com  and provide us with an idea of the type of topics they would like to write about and post.  Once participation is approved then we will send a User Name and Password so the party can post articles as they desire. 

Bob Grant, President, SpeakWithoutInterruption.com.  www.speakwithoutinterruption.com speakwithoutinterruption@gmail.com

Portland Writers Examiner

Karen Gilb is an avid reader, writer, and former bookseller in Portland/Vancouver. If you're a writer with news to share, please drop her a line here.
www.examiner.com/x-9429-Portland-Writers-Examiner

Information links on Author Service Publishers or Print on Demand Publishers.

Author Service Publishers or Print-on-demand Publishers Information links.  Do your homework!!
A helpful article can be found at the following URL:
http://www.googobits.com/articles/291-how-to-choose-a-print-on-demand-publhiser.html
Another good website is: http://www.sfwa.org/beware/printondemand.html
These sites have a number of links that give you a great deal of information that can be useful to you.

This is from an article written by Dick Lutz.  The full article can be found at: http://www.willamettewriters.com/1/publisher.php

New Hampshire authors Rick DeCost and Bob Griffin are proud to announce the launch of their publishing company and its online presence.

Absent Willow Publishing LLC is an independent book publisher that will provide its readers with high quality stories of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Its online efforts include The Absent Willow Review. The Absent Willow Review plans to publish fictional stories in the horror, fantasy, and science fiction genre while allowing its readers access to the magazine anywhere in the world. Additionally, the Absent Willow Review will publish paperback anthologies from their collected works. Were huge fans of the genres we publish, remarked Griffin. We started this company to find greats works of fiction and to locate the next generation of great writers. With its online magazine spotlighting new works and its print publications soon to be available through Amazon.com and other retailers, the Company is planning to renew interest in short works of fiction. For new and established authors of short fiction in the horror or fantasy vein, the market is light, DeCost added. We are hoping to change that. Absent Willow Publishing LLC is located in Rochester,

If anybody in your organization is interested in submitting their works of fiction please visit us at www.absentwillowreview.com.  

Rick Decost & Bob Griffin Absent Willow Publishing LLC PO Box 66 Rochester, NH 03866

For those of you who don't know me, I’m the founder of a new, innovative literacy program called Boys Read.   Boys Read’s mission is to transform boys into lifelong readers.   We’re an organization of parents, educators, librarians, mentors, authors, and booksellers.  A core objective of Boys Read is to establish Reading Tribes.  Tribes are informal reading circles for pleasure and non-deterministic learning.  They’re very similar to book clubs.  Tribes are a great opportunity to bond with boys.  A Tribe Leader acts as a mentor and facilitator for the Tribe.    Parents, teachers, librarians, booksellers, coaches, and other community outreach programs and services organize Tribes.   Our website features many extraordinary authors who have published numerous compelling and gripping novels that boys love.   Please consider adding a link from your website to http://www.boysread.org.

The website features and reviews popular e-books and media on various topics: Work at Home, Business Tools, Computer, Music, Health, Fitness, Family and Society.

Engaging Media

Should you wish to submit poems for consideration to the magazine this fall, please mail them according to our guidelines to the magazine's soon-to-be new home at: Poetry Northwest, c/o Kevin Craft, Everett Community College, 2000 Tower Street, Everett, WA 98201. Plans are in the works for the magazine to accept online submissions only in the near future. To keep up with that development, please check the website, http://poetrynw.org, during the next few weeks.

ScribeShare

What Scribe Share consist of is a site that is specifically geared toward writers, no matter what genre or skill level they may be.  The development of Scribe Share was proposed to help writers, of all kinds, develop their own pieces of literature, and provides many features that allow just that. 

Some of the Features of Scribe Share are as follows:

- A user profile and online Writer's Journal that minimizes writer's block by allowing you to organize your thoughts and ideas before you start writing the actual piece.

- You can connect with Writer's from all over the world, strengthening your Writer's Network and making new friends.

- You are able to give and receive feedback on works from other members of Scribe Share.

- You have the ability to develop pieces with other co-authors if you so choose.  With that, you have the ability to control what your co-authors can and cannot do if you can the Scribe Master (more about Scribe Masters on the site).

              *This feature is especially useful for professors and instructors who may want to use the site to construct a class project or other class assignments to make things more fun and interesting for their students.

- There is also a discussion room available for authors and co-authors to plan out their pieces to help diminish confusion on the development of the piece.

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Ashland Writers monthly meetings, last Monday of each month, 6:30-8 PM, Gresham Room, Ashland Public Library.  For more info:  Sharon McCann, 541-488-0409 or e-mail mccann@mind.net .

Astoria Monday Mike for Spoken Word--features readers and open mike, second Monday of each month, 7:30 PM, River Coffee House & Theater, 230 W. Marine Drive, Astoria, OR.  For more info:  Florence Sage, 503-325-4872 or e-mail  sages@pacifier.com.

Attic Writers' Workshop celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2009. Our address is: http://www.atticwritersworkshop.com

Friends of Mystery is a non-profit literary educational organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon. For the past 20 years we have presented lectures, organized conferences, published a newsletter, and sponsored reading groups. Our purpose is to promote educational study in all realms of mystery. Our members are interested in fictional literature, details of true crime detection, the process by which solutions are achieved, and many other aspects of knowledge that are subsumed under the term "mystery." Dues are $20/year. Information: Jay Margulies, Friends of Mystery: 503-241-0759; PO Box 8251, Portland, OR 97207. Please note our new email address: info@friendsofmystery.org. And check out our website at www.friendsofmystery.org

Manzanita Writers Series

The Manzanita Writers' Series aims to foster the local writing community,  promote literacy and writing programs, and bring well-known authors to the area. 

A program of the Hoffman center, the Manzanita Writers' Series features a regional published author each month, followed by an Open Mic session in which nine writers may read five minutes of their original work.  See www.hoffmancentermanzanita.org/manzanitawriters.

Now entering its sixth year of operation, the mission of The Nature of Words is to foster an appreciation of the literary arts and humanities in the High Desert region of the Northwest through community interaction with acclaimed authors, and through creative writing programs for high school and college-age students in the region. For more information, visit www.thenatureofwords.org, call 541.330.4381 or 541.480.3933 or email info@thenatureofwords.org.

The Nature of Words (NOW), Central Oregon's premier literary organization, will launch 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. Workshops will be theme-based to help inspire young writers, and limited to 15 students. The theme for the winter term is "Outside Looking In". It is the goal of The Nature of Words to make creative writing cool, to make the Storefront Project a desired place to see and be seen. Clear rules will be established. Young students will come to work, not to hang out. Volunteers and/or paid author instructors and staff will be on hand to lead the workshops or conduct the one-on-one sessions using the NOW Creative-Writing-in-the-Schools curriculum as a guide. The Storefront Project is coordinated by Margaret Heater, vice-president of he Nature of Words Board of Directors.

Ellen Waterston, Executive Director of The Nature of Words, said, "The Storefront Project is an exciting extension of our Creative-Writing-in-the-Schools program, since it will bring creative writing opportunities to students who might not otherwise have access to the school-based workshops. The Board of Directors is dedicated to extending NOW's reach to a wider spectrum of young writers."  

Students can get to the Storefront at Dudley's via the City of Bend's bus transit system, making it readily accessible for students not living close to downtown. The Nature of Words expects to attract 7th through 12th grade students enrolled in traditional and non-traditional educational settings, with a shared interest in improving their creative writing and language arts skills. 

NOW's Creative-Writing-in-the-Schools Program provided classroom-based creative writing classes to 10 area schools and educational programs in 2009. Classes are currently scheduled to launch in several Central Oregon locations in 2010, including Crook County High School, Paulina, Sisters Middle School and Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras. Other locations are in the works.

In conjunction with The Storefront Project, NOW has published The Teachers' Guide to NOW, a resource to help teachers use NOW's programs to inspire their students. Those programs include an annual literary festival held the first week of November, and the Rising Star Creative Writing Competition, now accepting submissions, which recognizes young writers ages 15-25 for excellence in fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry and nature essays. Deadline for submissions is May 10, 2010. Teachers who have not received a copy of The Teachers' Guide to NOW can request a copy by calling The Nature of Words at 541.330.4381 or emailing info@thenatureofwords.org.

We have launched a test site with half a dozen or so entries for you to peruse.  Please take a look at the site and let us know what you think and whether or not you'd be interested in contributing an article about yourself or any other poet(s), presses, publications or periodicals.  The success of this database will rely heavily on articles generated by our contributors.  If you have any questions or would like to submit an article or articles please send an email to jsgaulke@hotmail.com.  If you'd like to attach your article(s) as a word document feel free.  We will send you a link to the article we generate from the information you send before it is formally posted and listed in the index.  We look foreword to your input and contributions.

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Portland State University offers the city’s only residency MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry).  Students in the program work closely with published writers and cohorts in a close, supportive, and rigorous community. In addition, PSU offers introductory through advanced undergraduate fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writing classes. With its strong faculty, flexible scheduling, affordability, and close ties to Portland’s vibrant literary scene, the MFA at PSU is a fine opportunity for committed writers from diverse backgrounds to pursue their art. Contact: Michele Glazer, Director, MFA, Department of English Portland State University, PO Box 751 Portland, OR 97207. Or, glazer@pdx.edu

Welcome to the Portland Women Writers community. We offer creative writing workshops for women and publish the VoiceCatcher Anthology.  See our website www.pdxwomenwriters.com  to find out more about who we are and about upcoming opportunities to write with us!

Women Writing the West

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Writers on the Edge, Inc.

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Sponsored by a nonprofit interdisciplinary arts organization. Committed to fostering creativity, provoking experimentation and stimulating a deeper appreciation for the environment. The 90-acre site on the shore of Blue Lake surrounded by the Deschutes National Forest and located 17 miles west of Sisters, OR. Includes five A-frame cottages equipped with sleeping loft, kitchenette, bathroom and live-work areas. Applicants from all disciplines required to submit examples of work created within past three years. 2002 residency dates: January-May 31. There are now two application deadlines: July 15th for residencies September 15th thru Feburary 1st, & Dec 15th for residencies February 15th thru June 15th. For more info: Miriam Feuerle, Director of Adult Programs, Caldera, 224 NW 13th Ave. Portland, OR 97209, 503-937-7563 or e-mail miriam.feuerle@wk.com . Member of Alliance of Artists' Communities, Website: www.artistcommunities.org .

Awards in fiction, literary nonfiction, poetry, young readers and drama. For 2002 applications, send legal-sized SASE to: OLF Applications, Literary Arts, Inc., 219 NW 12th Ave., #201, Portland, OR 97209 or download application on website. For more info: 503-203-2271 or e-mail la@literary-arts . Website: www.literary-arts.org .

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