Willamette Writers on the River in Corvallis Presents

Creating While Aging with Priscilla Long

This meeting is online only.

Join us on Monday, March 27 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM (Zoom Room Opens at 6:20PM) for author Priscilla Long’s online presentation “Creating While Aging: How Knowledge of New Science and Role Models Can Spur us to Become More Productive, Better Writers the More We Age”. We welcome our Southern Oregon Chapter members to join us! Priscilla will explore new ways of looking at old age as a potentially dynamic, happy, and creatively productive time. Using science and inspiring stories, her talk counters the image of old age as past the peak of creativity and offers ideas for how to grow into a satisfying old age. This talk encourages creativity in those who feel the years adding up or want to get a head start on that path. The Zoom room will open at 6:00 PM for networking before the meeting. Please read Zoom Details below then register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudeivrTosEtUnUmcxRAwsuLZONxttOtRp

About Priscilla Long

Priscilla Long is a writer of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, fiction, science, and history. She has an MFA degree from the University of Washington and is a longtime independent teacher of writing. Her seventh book, Dancing with the Muse in Old Age (Coffeetown, 2022), is the basis for this presentation. She has published two poetry books, Holy Magic (MoonPath Press) and Crossing Over: Poems (University of New Mexico Press); a how-to-write book, The Writer’s Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writer’s Life; and a book of memoirist essays, Fire and Stone (University of Georgia Press). Her awards include a National Magazine Award. Ten of her essays have been honored as “notable” in various editions of the Best American Essays.

About your chapter meetings

Willamette Writers meetings are open to all writers, 18 and up. Guests are welcome to make a donation to help support the cost of the meeting (we believe in paying our speakers for their time and skills). This meeting is run by volunteers. We look forward to seeing you there!

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

Zoom Details

You have to be logged into your own personal Zoom account to attend this meeting (to create a FREE account, go to Zoom.us).

Once you are logged in to your own personal zoom account, register for the meeting in the link provided above.

On the day of the meeting, log into your Zoom account and then click the link zoom sent you in your email when you registered with the link above. If you are logged into your personal zoom account, you can also click the link above and register again if you need to. If you have not done this before, we encourage you to try logging in a half hour before the meeting begins. We had to change our meeting access because of a few inappropriate guests, but we want to continue to keep our meetings open to the public.