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Our Email Newsletter, WW Dispatch, includes news about our members’ writing and events. The Dispatch mailing list reaches over 4,000 subscribers and comes out 3-5 times a month.

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Member News: Author Event – Lucy’s Blooms

Dawn Prochovnic just completed her first virtual book launch event for her latest picture book, Lucy’s Blooms, a multigenerational story about a young girl who learns from her grandmother about the enduring nature of love, the strength in rejecting labels, and the wisdom in standing with those who are different. The event is now available…

Member News: New Release – Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone

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Beatriz Dujovne’s new book, Don’t Be Sad When I’m Gone: A Memoir of Loss and Healing in Buenos Aires, was recently released. About the Author: Dr. Dujovne was born and raised in Buenos Aires, and has lived most of her adult life in the American Midwest and the Pacific Northwest. She received a license in…

Member News: New Release — The Ryzhkov Vendetta

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The Ryzhkov Vendetta, an espionage suspense thriller by Barry L. Becker. Alexander Leonidovich Ryzhkov, a Russian oligarch and former general in the Russian Military Directorate (GRU), runs a covert operation in the Middle East, supplying a Saudi terrorist with four Russian nuclear suitcase bombs and a list of two American cities to target. A CIA…

Member News: Patricia Anderson Flash Fiction Publication

Publication, The Awakening of the Empath, by Patricia Anderson

“The Awakening of the Empath,” a story by re-emerging writer Patricia Anderson, was published at Altered Reality magazine. From the author: “This story began as a response to attending a baby’s funeral. I needed to express a crush of dark feelings. Eventually it reoriented from creative nonfiction to fiction. Initial response to my query letter…

Member News: New Release – Fresh Brewed Murder

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The first installment of Emmeline Duncan’s Ground Rules Mystery Series, Fresh Brewed Murder, came out on March 30th, 2021, from Kensington. Fresh Brewed Murder is set at an inner-Portland food cart pod under threat of gentrification, and a killer is brewing up a world of trouble. Publisher’s Weekly said the novel is a “strong debut…

Member News: Eugene Editor wins Literary Legacy Award

Oregon Book Awards Advisory Committee and the Board of Directors of Literary Arts selected Eugene editor Elizabeth Lyon as the 2021 recipient of the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award “in recognition of significant contributions that have enriched Oregon’s literary community.” Find out more

Member News: Anne Hillerman visits PNW book show

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Anne Hillerman, an international best-selling author, will be a guest (5/1-6/30) on “Just Read It,” the YouTube series that features PNW writers with host Caroline Miller. Hillerman explains why she stepped into her father’s moccasins to continue the Tony Hillerman series featuring Navajo sleuths Jim Chee, and Joe Leaphorn as they patrol the Four Corners…

Member News: Tallulah Wins 2021 Audience Award

Tallulah film award, Cristina White

Written and directed by Cristina White, the film Tallulah is the Winner of the 2021 Local Film Audience Award at the 10th Annual McMinnville Short Film Festival. Produced by Corvallis Film Lab, Tallulah is about a prim Victorian woman and her shy fiancé. Their courtship is upended by a Puck-like provocateur with a real-estate romance…

Member News: New Release— Denied

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Denied — Releases May 11, 2021, the second book in the Lefty nominated Kelly Pruett Mystery Series. Despite her injuries, PI Kelly Pruett is eager to get back to work. So when a mommy-to-be hires her to locate her estranged dad, Kelly is thankful for the straightforward missing-persons case. But as she rummages through his…