2017 Timberline Prize Awarded to Geronimo Tagatac In August 2015, Willamette Writers’s literary journal, The Timberline Review launched its first issue at the Willamette Writers Conference. To acknowledge an exceptional piece of writing from that first issue, the editors created “The Timberline Prize” and awarded it to Michigan writer Robert Vivian, for his dervish essay, Read to You.…
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Hone Your Craft: The 2017 Conference Offers Opportunity for Advanced & Beginning Writers
As we’ve mentioned before, our schedule of educational programming includes 9 tracks of themed content from across the spectrum of what writers need to know and want to celebrate. Our Genre offerings for this year take up two of those tracks: one for beginners and novices, the other for intermediate and professional writers. And the…
2017 Conference Track Focus: Children’s, Middle Grade, and Young Adult
Books for children, middle grade, and young adults have been some of the fastest growing publishing markets of the past several years — so much so that high-power authors for adults like James Patterson, Tom Clancy, and Robert B. Parker have added their own work to the genres. It’s an exciting time in this corner…
Happy New Year! #2017
From all of us at Willamette Writers: Have a Wonderful Weekend!
Willamette Writers at Wordstocks 2016: Books and Authors
Willamette Writers will be at Wordstock: Portland’s Book Festival on Saturday, November 5th. We will be in booth #17 and this year we invited some Willamette Writers members to join us. Here’s an almost complete list! Author: Sherry Smith The Wolf and the Shield Ever since Kieran’s father’s death, he’s tried to take care of his mother and little brother.…
A Woman’s Place At Canby Film Fest
We’re heading to Wordstock Again
On Saturday, November 5th, Willamette Writers will be at Wordstock, Portland’s Book Festival, presented by Literary Arts. This year at our booth we’ll host about 20 Willamette Writers members who will be selling their books and representing our wonderful community. The response to the invitation to join us at Wordstock was overwhelming. We are glad to be able to offer opportunities that our members…
Join FiLMLaB At Canby Film Fest!
Do you ever wonder what our FiLMLaB alums have been up to, the writers, directors and actors? Well, one of them, 2014 winning writer Jon Dragt, has been busy in Canby, Oregon, volunteering on the board of directors for the Canby Public Library Foundation. A Willamette Writers member, Jon is helping to organize programs for…