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Online: Young Willamette Writers with Armin Tolentino
Online Portland, OR, United StatesArmin Tolentino With Young Willamette Writers and Beaverton City Library Clark County Poet Laureate Armin Tolentino joins YWW and Beaverton City Library for our April 2nd virtual meeting from 10-11 am. Armin Tolentino is the author of the poetry collection We Meant to Bring It Home Alive (Alternating Current Press). As a kid, his favorite…
YWW Epic Worlds for Epic Stories with Frank Morin
Grants Pass LibraryYoung Willamette Writers Present - Epic Worlds for Epic Stories with Frank Morin So you've got a great premise, a memorable character, a dastardly villain, or a heart-pounding conflict. Now you need to custom-build the world to make your vision shine. Whether your story takes place in Victorian England, dystopian New York, or another planet,…
Young Willlamette Writers presents Angela Yuriko Smith
Online Portland, OR, United StatesYoung Willamette Writers presents Angela Yuriko Smith Angela Yuriko Smith joins YWW and Beaverton City Library for our May 7th virtual meeting. 10:00-11:00am PT About Angela Yuriko Smith: Angela Yuriko Smith is a third-generation Uchinanchu-American and an award-winning poet, author, and publisher with over 20 years of experience in newspaper journalism. Publisher of Space &…
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…
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…
Young Willamette Writers and Matthew Bogart
Beaverton City Library 12375 SW 5th St, Beaverton, OR 97005Young Willamette Writers and Matthew Bogart Matthew Bogart joins YWW at Beaverton City Library to talk about graphic novels and the release of Incredible Doom 2. The meeting will take place both in-person and over Zoom. September 3, 2022 from 11:00am-12:00pm. Sign up for the Zoom link or come in-person at Beaverton City Library 12375…
Hybrid: Young Willamette Writers
Beaverton City Library 12375 SW 5th St, Beaverton, OR 97005Young Willamette Writers and Katherine Quevedo Katherine Quevedo on the art of speculative poetry. About Katherine Quevedo Katherine Quevedo was born and raised near Portland, Oregon, where she works as an analyst and lives with her husband and two sons. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Rhysling Award, received an honorable…
Hybrid YWW North: Worldbuilding with Brian W. Parker
Beaverton City Library 12375 SW 5th St, Beaverton, OR 97005Worldbuilding and Characters with Brian W. Parker Join us on December 3, 2022, at 11:00 AM on Zoom and in person at Beaverton City Library 12375 SW 5th St, Beaverton, OR 97005. Brian grew up in Alaska, then Mississippi, and has always been in love with storytelling in every medium. Literature, movies,…
Hybrid YWW: Plotting with Jared Agard
Beaverton City Library 12375 SW 5th St, Beaverton, OR 97005Young Willamette Writers presents Plotting and Planning with Jared Agard Jared Agard is an author/illustrator from Beaverton, OR. His first novel, Dread Watch, was released on September 1st, 2021. Dread Watch is a middle-grade novel about a boy who gets stuck in an old pocket watch with a ghost who feeds on his fear. Jared…
Hybrid YWW Portland: Writing Games with Jennifer Perrine
Beaverton City Library 12375 SW 5th St, Beaverton, OR 97005Young Willamette Writers Presents - Serious Play: Writing Games Jennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of four books of poetry: Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. Perrine’s recent poems, stories, and essays appear in The Missouri Review, Cutbank, Plant-Human Quarterly, Buckman Journal, Harpur Palate, and Cascadia: A…