We are pleased to announce the results of Willamette Writers Kay Snow annual writing contest The Paulann Petersen Award for Poetry Judge: Paulann Petersen First Place: “Starlings” by Danelle Lejeune of Hinesville, Georgia Second Place: “End Times: One Life” by Anne Richardson of Lake Oswego, Oregon Third Place: “Seven Mourning Doves” by Gwendolyn Morgan of Vancouver,…
All writers come to a point where it feels impossible to write another word. This happened to me with one month left before I had to turn in the manuscript for my first book. I felt overwhelmed with the idea of making the book perfect. All of it had to flow. It had to be…
Willamette Writers member Franklin Posner’s first novel, Suburban Vampire: A Tale of the Human Condition – With Vampires, has just been released in paperback and Kindle editions. The novel is an irreverent take on the vampire genre, centered around a lovable everyman who struggles with a crisis of faith as he attempts to come to…
Please join us in congratulating our Annual Award winners for 2017 and come meet them at the conference! Joining us as our Lifetime Achievement Award winner is Christopher Moore the hilariously provocative author of many fantastic novels including: Lamb, Practical Demonkeeping, Fluke and the upcoming Noir. The Philadelphia Inquirer raved, “Moore’s storytelling style is reminiscent of…
2017 Timberline Prize Awarded to Geronimo Tagatac In August 2015, Willamette Writers’s literary journal, The Timberline Review launched its first issue at the Willamette Writers Conference. To acknowledge an exceptional piece of writing from that first issue, the editors created “The Timberline Prize” and awarded it to Michigan writer Robert Vivian, for his dervish essay, Read to You.…
Willamette Writers member Jason Brick’s YA novel Wrestling Demons (not a pipe publishing) was released in print and on Kindle on June 19, 2017. This story weaves elements of Japanese folklore with martial arts, high school sports, and the general angst of being a teenager in a modern world. “Wrestling Demons” is Book 1 of the…
“Thanks to my participation in the Willamette Writers Conference several years ago, my first young adult poetry novel, The Sky Between You and Me has been published,” says Willamette Writers member Catherine Alene. Released on February 7th of this year, The Sky Between You and Me has received strong reviews from VOYA, Publisher’s Weekly, School…
Ashley McLeo says her debut novel, Prophecy of Three, has been a huge labor of love: “It all started at my uninspiring day job where I would spend hours bored to death and listening to audiobooks or podcasts. One day, I listened to A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (amazing series you must read if…
Audrey J. Cole is a registered nurse and a writer of thrillers set in Seattle. Although born and raised in the Seattle area, Audrey now lives with her husband and daughter in Port Stephens, Australia. She maintains a blog for aspiring authors and is currently writing a psychological thriller. Her debut crime thriller, The Recipient,…
The Member Promoter program is back for the 2017 Willamette Writers Conference! We invite our members (YOU!) join our conference promotion team and be honored on the Willamette Writers website. Members who wish to join the promotion team and become a member promoter should start by filling out the form below. Member promoters will then spread the word about…
