Griffin Kittleson

Member News: December Tales II with LouAnn Blocker

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Vancouver Chapter Member LouAnn Blocker is pleased to announce that her short story, I’ll Fly Away, has been published alongside 36 other talented writers in this sequel anthology to 2021’s December Tales. December Tales II features a collection of thirty-seven chilling new and encore ghost stories, by both established and new authors. The perfect anthology of…

Member News: The Ways Of Water by Teresa H. Janssen

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Timberline Review Author Teresa H. Janssen is excited to share the release of her debut novel, The Ways of Water. As Josie Belle Gore, daughter of a Louisiana train engineer and Texas seamstress, journeys with her itinerant family through the deserts of the boom-and-bust American West and revolutionary Mexico, she learns that in her life,…

Member News: Spontaneous Revolutions by Liza McQuade

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Spontaneous Revolutions: Seeing America One Pedal at a Time is the story of a middle-aged couple’s spur-of-the-moment bicycle journey across the country. These two out-of-shape, inexperienced cyclists rode from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine. It took four (sometimes) grueling months. Being overweight and over 50 was one thing. They also knew next to nothing about…

Member News: Six Weeks by Michael R. Lane

Michael R. Lane is proud to announce that his newest novel, Six Weeks, is available now! The Cavanaugh Investigation Agency registered its most profitable year to date. Earnings generated by putting in a lot of overtime. C. J. Cavanaugh’s PI partner, Renita Harris, is on a well-deserved six weeks’ vacation. Not a problem. C. J.…

Willamette Writers at the Portland Book Festival

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Willamette Writers is proud to be participating in the Portland Book Festival on November 4th, 2023 with our friends at Literary Arts. The Portland Book Festival is one of our favorite events of the year — a celebration of books! Author Signing At The Willamette Writers Table The festivities begin with our author signing. Meet Willamette Writers…

Member News: New Release – Found

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This Fall 2022, what was lost is Found: Ten years after the drowning death of her daughter in the Colorado, Eleanor Clay subsists finding corpses for Bristlecone Springs PD, until the day she finds three-year-old Lizzie, living but left-for-dead in a culvert under the railroad tracks. This crime unspools to a series of brutal kidnappings…

New Release – Found

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This Fall 2022, what was lost is Found: Ten years after the drowning death of her daughter in the Colorado, Eleanor Clay subsists finding corpses for Bristlecone Springs PD, until the day she finds three-year-old Lizzie, living but left-for-dead in a culvert under the railroad tracks. This crime unspools to a series of brutal kidnappings…

Poetry and Prose in the Timberline Review

Willamette Writers calls on many fantastic authors and writers to make each year’s issue of the Timberline Review a success, and we would be swamped by the sea of submissions if it weren’t for our editors. It is fortunate, then, that we have someone as passionate about poetry as Suzy Harris. Suzy’s passion was made…

First Time at the Willamette Writers Conference

By Griffin Kittleson The Willamette Writers Conference is something we talk about internally as the biggest event of the year. It’s not hard to see why, of course. Planning started many months in advance and continued all the way up to the event itself. Some of us have been helping to bring you incredible conferences…