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…
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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…
Report From the Board – February 2016
Report From the Board – February 2016 The Board of Directors of Willamette Writers holds board meetings every last Tuesday of the month (no meeting in December). At those meetings we discuss the programs and goals of Willamette Writers and how the organization can serve our members better. The board believes Willamette Writers needs to…
Newbery Award winner Karen Cushman interviewed on Authors Road
Welcome to Authors Road: Karen Cushman, Historical Young Adult Fiction http://www.authorsroad.com/KarenCushman.html We are pleased to share this new interview with you because it is with someone very special: Karen Cushman, a young adult writer who won a Newbery Award and a Newbery Honor, as well as many other awards in her long and brilliant career.…
Authors Road Interviews Carola Dunn
Welcome to Authors Road: Carola Dunn, Mystery, Regency Romance – “Carola Dunn: Mystery, Regency Romance” http://www.authorsroad.com/CarolaDunn.html “One thing I enjoy is exploring why a nice person would commit murder.” Our first interview after leaving Portland was with Carola Dunn, author of the popular Daisy Dalrymple cozy mystery series. She is English by birth, and although…
Authors Road interviews Laurie R. King
Welcome to Authors Road: Laurie R. King – Mystery, Crime, Novels – “” http://www.authorsroad.com/LaurieR_King.html