Monthly Meetings
Online: Pitch Practice with Industry Professionals at your Salem Chapter
Online Portland, OR, United StatesPractice Your Pitch with Industry Professionals At your Salem Chapter: David Poulshock, Nancy Froeschle, Clark Kohanek, and Christine Autrand Mitchell Are you thinking about pitching at the Willamette Writers Conference? Or maybe you're excited to share your work, but don't know how? Perhaps you're wondering what it's like to pitch to an industry professional? Join…
YWW Portland & YWW Southern Oregon Chapter Meeting
Young Willamette Writers are young people who love to write. Young Willamette Writers welcomes any students who are in middle or high school. Some of our YWW have entered and won contests such as the Kay Snow Writing Award and a National Scholastic Writing Award. Some have been published in magazines such as American Girl and Stone Soup. Some are taking…
Creating, Staging, and Getting Plays Produced with Kwik Jones
Online Portland, OR, United StatesKwik Jones discusses Creating, Staging, and Getting Plays Produced Playwright Kwik Jones will speak to the Portland Chapter of Willamette Writers about his process of writing, staging, and getting his work performed and produced. Kwik has been writing, directing, and producing plays for twenty-eight years. About Kwik Jones Kwik Jones developed the following plays: A Strange…
Eugene: Open Mic Night
Tsunami Books Eugene, OR, United StatesWillamette Writers Open Mic Night in Eugene Join your fellow scribes and share your words in this community-building Willamette Writers Eugene chapter Open Mic Night at Tsunami Books, on Wednesday, June 8. Sign up at 6:30 pm to share 5-7 minutes of your words. Meeting begins at 7PM. There's no judging, a thousand points for everyone…
Vancouver Chapter Meeting
Everything You Need to Know About Writing in 2022, the WW Vancouver Chapter Edition. Join Vancouver Willamette Writer co-chairs Rebekah Postupak and Tiffany Dickinson to kick off summer with a writerly bang: come and share the best and worst writing advice you’ve been given, the best and worst writing books you’ve read, the best and…
Newport: Open Mic and Networking
Newport Public Library 35 NW Nye Street, Newport, ORIn-Person at the Newport Public Library! After two years of meeting online, the WW Coast Chapter will meet in-person on Saturday, June 25th, from 2 pm to 3:30 pm at the Newport Public Library, 35 NW Nye St, in Newport, OR. Come join us as we plan programming for the upcoming 2022/2023 year, AND share…
Corvallis: Polishing Drafts with C. Lill Ahrens
Thompson Shelter, Avery Park, Corvallis, ORC. Lill Ahrens Presents - The Tighty Writey Game: Polishing as Wordplay – Seriously! This is an In-person Event. Early drafts can be wordy, but final drafts need to be polished, aka tight. But many writers avoid tightening, assuming it’s laborious, fearing it will dull the freshness, flatten the emotional impact, and destroy their voice. Not…
Online: Pitching with Grant Rosenberg
Are you getting ready to pitch your work at the Willamette Writers Conference, or want to know more about the pitch process? Join us at the Portland Chapter meeting online, July 5th at 7PM with producer and screenwriter, Grant Rosenberg. After 40 years in television, Grant knows how to pitch ideas for television. He's taken…
Writer’s Fair at the Willamette Writers Conference!
Crowne Plaza Hotel 1441 Ne 2nd Avenue, Portland, OR, United StatesAre you a writer? Come find your community at the Writer's Fair at the Willamette Writers Conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel this August 4th from 6-8PM. Free and open to the public. Meet writing organizations, ask questions, get tips, and try out new writing tools. You'll network with writers from every genre, with diverse…
2022 Willamette Writers Conference
Transform Your Writing Life August 3-7, 2022 at the 56th annual Willamette Writers Conference! Join us to find your writing community, develop your craft and expand your career -- both in-person and online this year. At the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Portland, Oregon and at your own computer screen, you'll find workshops, keynotes, critiques and…