Author Cohort

Who: Writers of all experience levels
What: Willamette Writers Author Cohort
When: November 2026
Where: Online
Cost: $100 sliding scale

Writing a novel? Working on a chapbook? Developing scenes for a screenplay? Join the Willamette Writers Author Cohort.

Whether you’re a brand-new writer or a seasoned veteran, the Author Cohort gives you structure, support, and a community of writers to work alongside throughout November.

This year, everything is online. When you sign up, you’ll choose a Tuesday or Wednesday cohort. Your cohort meets once a week, and everyone comes together on Mondays and Fridays.

Your Commitment

You don’t have to attend every meeting. But by signing up, you’re making a commitment to your writing and giving yourself a reason to keep showing up.

If you’ve been wanting to focus in, start a new project, finish a draft, or simply make more time for your writing, this is your chance.

The Weekly Schedule (Pacific Time)

Choose Tuesday or Wednesday as your regular cohort.
Mondays and Fridays are for everyone. Saturday, join us for coffee online, and Sunday, we write!

Workshops

Additional workshops support your cohort meetings! Full details below but be ready for:

November 19 | 6-7PM – Writing Well/Writing Faster with Kimberley Woodhouse

December 1 | 7-8PM Next Steps: Author Cohort

Online

Zoom links and the complete schedule will be sent by email after you sign up.

Cost

This fundraising cohort supports our free and open to the public year round programming. Sliding-scale pricing gives you a few price options based on what works best for your own budget. The full price of $100 covers the cost of the program, and choosing full price helps Willamette Writers continue offering accessible programming. If $100 isn’t the right fit for you, the $90 or $70 options are there to make the program more accessible.

Make Your Pledge

Review the schedule, choose your cohort, and sign up. Then make November the month you show up for your writing.

Workshop Details

Daryll Lynne Evans wanted to be a professional Reader when she grew up, but a third-grade spooky story (about a world without books—terrifying) made her a writer instead. A playwright turned novelist, she has written eleven plays and more short stories and novel drafts than she can count, and she holds an MFA in fiction from Purdue University. She directs Wordcrafters in Eugene, where she also teaches novel writing workshops and intensives and works one-on-one with authors developing and editing their books. She has taught and presented for Willamette Writers, South Coast Writers, and the Loose Leaf Writing Series in Indiana. She loves the Oxford comma, her three-bookshelf TBR pile, and chocolate. All chocolate. Way too much chocolate.

November 19 | 6-7PM – Writing Well/Writing Faster with Kimberley Woodhouse

Kimberley Woodhouse is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than twenty-five fiction and nonfiction books. Winner of the Carol Award, the Holt Medallion, The Reader’s Choice Award, Selah Award, and Spur Award. A popular speaker and teacher, she has shared her theme of “Joy Through Trials” with more than two million people across the country at more than two thousand events. A lover of history and research, she often gets sucked into the past and then her husband has to lure her out with chocolate. Kim and her husband of thirty years have two adult, married children. She is passionate about music and Bible study and loves the gift of story. You can connect with Kimberley at www.kimberleywoodhouse.com and at www.facebook.com/KimberleyWoodhouseAuthor.

December 1 | 7–8 PM Next Steps: Author Cohort

The cohort may be wrapping up, but your writing doesn’t have to stop here. Join us to reflect on what you’ve accomplished, set goals for your next stage, and make a practical plan to keep your project moving forward. Whether you’re drafting a novel, revising a manuscript, or developing a screenplay or chapbook, we’ll talk about ways to build writing into your routine, find continued support, and decide what comes next.

You don’t have to figure it all out at once. Let’s make a plan for what’s next.