Advance Manuscript Critique Registration is now open! This year, we have veteran authors, well-trained editors, and professional agents available to critique your manuscript. Each year, our Advance Manuscript Critiques sell out quickly, as attendees know it’s the best way to get the feedback that you need. Full details for each professional are available here. How…
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Advanced Manuscript Critique at Willamette Writers Conference 2016
Anne Dean started writing her historical fiction novel about six years ago. But she had a problem: I didn’t know diddly-squat about fiction. But I did know that I needed to work on my story. So, I started going to these conferences, and looking at the resources that were there.” One of the best resources…
Spring Fling for Willamette Writers at Attic Institute
If you’ve been looking for a great excuse, I mean, opportunity to delve deeply into your writing and prepare for the Willamette Writer’s Conference under the watchful eye of a fabulous teacher, look no further. The Attic Institute, at 40th & Hawthorne, offers workshops in many literary genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and essay, led by…
FiLMLaB Premier
FiLMLab’s Script-to-Screen Contest awards its winners with the production of their script into shorts with the aid of professional directors and actors. With the deadline for the contest coming tonight (Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 11:59 p.m. PT) we’re getting excited about the winner’s premier at the Annual Willamette Writers Conference. The past few years have blown us…
Returning Faculty Stories Part Two
continuation of Returning Faculty Stories Part One Long time Willamette Writers member Anthony St. Clair has attended our conferences for years. In fact, I first met Anthony at the 2010 Willamette Writers Conference. He has many favorite returning faculty, and was kind enough to tell me about four of them: Susan DeFrieitas, William Hertling, Luke…
Jane Friedman Keynote on Friday – Willamette Writers 2016
Jane Friedman, the Willamette Writers Conference 2016 opening keynote speaker on Friday, has made a career helping authors navigate the dramatic changes publishing has undergone.
Fonda Lee on Winning a 2015 Annual Award
Letters Out For Judging
As a brief update in the Letters About Literature program, we received nearly 100 letters back from the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. They’ve been cataloged, redacted, and are officially out for judging! That should be completed within the first couple of weeks of April. We’ll have our list of semi-finalists…
Randall Jahnson To Direct 2016 FiLMLaB
Are you ready to join the grand experiment?We are nearly at the end of our submission period. 2016 FiLMLaB kicked off during the first week of January and will close in the last week of March. March 26th, to be precise. March 26th, at midnight to be even more precise. And even though all the…
Can You Help this PSU Research Project on Gender and Developmental Editing?
Are you a published author? Would you mind sharing developmental letters with researchers at PSU? If so, read on, and thank you on behalf of the grad students at PSU! The Masters in Book Publishing program at PSU is looking to study editorial letters and would like authors to consider sharing theirs with the students…