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William X. Adams is proud to present his newest Novel, Polters, a story of Love and Death. Clay is devastated by the recent murder of Lane as he crosses the Willamette River at midnight to Bardonia where the recently deceased, called Polters, congregate. Their way forward has been blocked by a reactionary gang. As he searches…
You Don’t Say: Stories, Poems & a Few Surprises is the latest book by award-winning author Steve Theme. When asked to speak bout the book, Steve responded that “Hodgepodge is a real word. Yet it still doesn’t seem dignified enough to belong in a dictionary. However, this book is a hodgepodge of nonfiction, fiction, poetry,…
Our friends at the Clackamas County Arts Alliance Literary Arts Committee invite you to submit your work to their 2023 Writing Contest. Here are the full details: $250 will be awarded to first place winners in 4 genres: short stories, essays, poetry, and plays. Runner up winners will receive a cash prize of $100. First…
Eugene local Dr. M Jackson is a National Geographic Society Explorer, TED Fellow, and three-time U.S. Fulbright Scholar. Jackson is the author of the award-winning science books The Secret Lives of Glaciers (2019) and While Glaciers Slept (2015). Jackson’s debut novel, The Ice Sings Back (February 20, 2023) is based in Lane County, Oregon, and…
Julie Mathison’s book BELIEVE won the 2022 Best Book Award for Children’s Fiction from American Book Fest. BELIEVE had also won the Eric Hoffer Book Award for Best Middle Reader and First Horizon Award for Debut Books in 2020. Mathison’s third novel, ELENA THE BRAVE, a YA fantasy based on Russian folklore, has also been…
Written by Shiela Pardee Bob Gallup has always written to express himself, but he has only recently ventured into fiction writing. His science fiction short story began with an idea about a point in time. Now Bob is contemplating what comes next, expanding his original idea to write beyond the ending of the story. He…
In a departure from her cozy mystery series, Mollie Hunt announces the publication of her new COVID memoir, There’s a Cat Hair in My Mask – How Cats Helped Me through Unprecedented Times. In her words, “This is my story, a tale of a plague and politics, of depression and inspiration, but mostly of cats.”…
By B. Zelkovich Maya Bairey is a native Pacific Northwest author. Her skill has been honed for three decades, culminating in her debut novel, Painting Celia. Maya’s stories draw from her lived experiences of multi-cultural family, LGBTQ+ identity, and street art activism. Underlying themes of trauma, expression, and families of choice are told with poetic…
By Eliza Drummond Jeanne Anderson (M.Sc. Sp. Ed.) continues to write young adult novels for her eighteen grandchildren. She enjoys trying to fit together all the pieces of the puzzle that are the different characters her grandkids want to play: a dinosaur trainer and an evil villain; Princess Tilly, who may end up getting a…
By Maya Bairey B. Zelkovich has stories to tell. People show up in her head, and then it gets weird. The last Willamette Writers Cohort, her third, gave B. the time and structure that gets those people onto the page. She came out of it with nearly 40,000 words of a period horror novel, exploring…
