Writing Tips and Open Mic with David Stevenson

This Meeting is In-person Only

As a writer, have you found it difficult to begin a project? Do you have things to say but don’t know where to start? How and where do you get your inspiration?

Join the Willamette Writers Coast Chapter on Saturday, November 16 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm (doors open at 1:45 pm) when Lincoln City author David Stevenson will present his craft essay he gave his MFA students: I am not a Robot: Notes from a Writing Life, at the Newport Public Library. Stevenson will talk about how he began to write and why it took so long to get “anywhere.” He will field a Q & A.
Open Mic follows the talk. Participants sign up and will have five minutes to read a work of their choice.
This presentation is part of the Coast Chapter’s new “Spotlight on Central Coast Authors” series.

About David Stevenson

David Stevenson is the author of Points of Astonishment: Alpine Stories (2022, short fiction), High Places, Sacrifices, Mysteries (2021, essays), Forty Crows (2018, a novel), Warnings Against Myself: Meditations on a Life in Climbing (2016, essays) and Letters from Chamonix, winner of the Banff Mountain Book Award for fiction in 2014.

Presently he is an encounterer of reality and forger @ Smithy of My Soul, American Alpine Journal, Book Review Editor, and Professor Emeritus at Western Illinois University. Stevenson was also Director and Professor at the University of Alaska at Anchorage of the MFA program.

About Your Chapter Meeting

Willamette Writers meetings are free and open to all writers, 18 and up. Guests are welcome to donate at https://willamettewriters.org/donations/ to help support the cost of the meetings. For information on how to become a Willamette Writers member, click here: https://willamettewriters.org/register/individual/

Wellness

Willamette Writers continue to encourage mask-wearing at our in-person, indoor meetings. If you feel sick, please stay home and join us at one of our online Chapter Meetings.

Young Writers

Young writers are encouraged to join our Young Willamette Writers meetings. Sign Up! Any high school or middle-grade writers are welcome to join us. Sign up for our email list at: http://eepurl.com/hRubBf. A registration link will be sent to our email list before our next meeting.

See you there!