Monthly Archives: August 2013

2012 FiLMLaB A Winner at OIFF

by Ruth Witteried If you follow FiLMLaB or Willamette Writers on Facebook, then you already know that our 2012 FiLMLaB short, Alis Volat Propriis (written by Haley Isleib) was accepted into the Oregon Independent Film Festival in Portland and Eugene. To add to that good news, we found out last week that it wasn’t just…

Summer Delivers

This summer we delivered over 1000 books to Campfire Columbia in preparation for their fall programs.  But when we heard that they were running summer programs we offered an additional two hundred books on the spot which they were delighted to receive.  They promptly put them to good use and kids started receiving books within…

Free Literary Events at Eugene Public Library, September 2013

All events are free and open to the public. More information: 541-682-5450 or www.eugene-or.gov/library Novelist David Hascall Thursday, September 12, 6 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th & Olive Eugene author David Hascall will read from his historical novel, The Longest Wooden Railroad: A Season of Embers. Set in 1929, it shows how a tiny…

A Winner Weighs In On FiLMLaB

A Winner Weighs in on FiLMLaB by Barbara Thomas First, I’d like to thank Ruth Witteried for the opportunity to blog about my conference experience. It’s a second draft, so to speak, of all the not-terribly-eloquent things I said during the Willamette Writers Conference. Throughout the weekend I was asked “How does it feel to watch…

A FiLMLaB Inspiration

by Ruth Witteried     The second annual FiLMLaB short, Inspiration, made its debut last Friday night at the Willamette Writers Conference. Scheduled from 7-9 pm, I spent most of the hours preceding it worrying whether author Barbara Thomas would actually arrive in time for her own premier! Flying in from Dallas that afternoon, with…