Monthly Meetings
Screenwriters’ Happy Hour: Setting Goals for 2024
Online Portland, OR, United StatesJanuary…the start of a new year and the best time to set your writing goals for 2024. Join your FilmLab Screenwriting Chapter Chairs Grant Rosenberg, Kathleen Caprario-Ulrich and Tara Watson as we review the status of everyone’s current screenwriting projects and share our targets for the next twelve months. We will reserve time at the…
Online YWW: Puppets with Adam Bolivar
Young Willamette Writers Presents Poetry & Puppets with Adam Bolivar ONLINE ONLY: This meeting has been moved to online only due to inclement weather. Our next YWW meeting will be on Saturday, January 13, 11 am -12 pm PST, online only. Poet, writer, and puppeteer Adam Bolivar joins us to talk about his work. This…
Online Eugene: Achieve Your Writing Goals
Downtown Eugene Public Library 100 W 10th Ave, Eugene, ORAchieve Your Writing Goals this Year with Eugene Willamette Writers UPDATE: Due to weather, this meeting will be online only It's a new year! What better time to sit down and make a plan. Join us on January 16th at 6PM online, to set your writing goals this year! We will work on SMART goals: Specific,…
Southern Oregon: All About Editors with Joe Hall, JH Editing
Grants Pass LibrarySouthern Oregon Chapter of Willamette Writers Presents All About Editors with Joe Hall, JH Editing Join us in person and online at the Josephine County Library, Grants Pass Branch, January 20, 2024, 1-2:30 PM for freelance editor Joe Hall's presentation and discussion on how to determine which type of editor a writer might need for…
Coast: Haiku with Michael Dylan Welch
Coast Chapter Presents Haiku Targets Beyond 5-7-5 with Michael Dylan Welch This meeting is online only. What do you shoot for when you write haiku? How can its strategies help your longer poetry or fiction? This presentation by Michael Dylan Welch explores the targets to aim for and why 5-7-5 is not necessarily one of…
Corvallis Chapter: Literary Open Mic
Willamette Writers on the River Presents Literary Open Mic This meeting is online only. Sign-up opens at 6:15 p.m. Free, and open to the public. Sign-ups are first come, first served. Each person has 5 minutes (approx. 750 words for prose), which includes any set-up or side conversations with the audience. The number of…
Hybrid YWW: Waka Brown
Young Willamette Writers Presents Children's Author Waka Brown HYBRID: In-person and online PLACE: Beaverton City Library, 12375 SW 5th Street, Beaverton, OR 97005 Our next YWW meeting will be February 3rd, 2024, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. (PST) with Children's author Waka Brown. To receive the Zoom Link, join our email at: http://eepurl.com/hRubBf. A registration link will be sent…
Salem: First Pages
Salem Public Library 585 Liberty St SE, Salem, OR, United StatesDoes your first page have a hook that will catch the eye of your reader or an agent? Your community can help! This meeting is in-person only. Want to make your first pages shine? Join us for this interactive workshop at 11:30 AM (doors open at 11:15AM) on Saturday, February 3rd at the Salem…
Portland: Five phases of writing with Abigail Raeke
1336 NW Flanders Portland, ORThe Portland Chapter of Willamette Writers Presents Five phases of writing with Abigail Raeke HYBRID: In-person and online Where: 1336 NW Flanders, Portland, OR 97209, or Register for the meeting here. On the day of the meeting, a Zoom link will be sent to your email. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86420294001?pwd=ZTl2VzkvVTNmK0ZhN29lWUwxcFZNdz09 Join the Portland Chapter on Feb.6th @…
Online Hillsboro: Resistance and Existence Narratives with Rivera Sun
Breathing Space: Writing Narratives Carve Out Sanctuaries of Existence & Resistance This meeting is online only. Join Author/Activist Rivera Sun on February 13 at 6:15PM (Zoom room opens at 6PM), online only, for a conversation about how writers carve out space for existence, creating story-based sanctuaries that can heal, liberate, and empower. From LGBTQ2S+ to…